Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

We all know it from Facebook: now Google’s trying for a one-up. +1 is the search engine giant’s own personal “like” button. After all, just because results are quick, doesn’t always mean they are relevant. With the +1 button, Google is aiming to improve its accuracy, according to the official Google Blog. Read the rest of this entry »

And they’re back: Andreas Degenhart, Peter Wehner, Jürgen Gerleit, Norbert Schauermann, Andreas Hauenstein – after the collapse of their social network Lokalisten, which they sold to ProSiebenSat.1 about three years ago, they are back in the net. Their new project child is called Finderia, a social directory which doesn’t solely focus on recommendations and ratings but also on the ratings from friends. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook, the social networking giant, already announced in November of last year the launch of Facebook Deals, which is the service’s answer to Groupon’s deal search. But does Facebook’s attempt at the couponing market really stand a chance against the already powerful Groupon? We think it does.
Facebook has a natural advantage to Groupon simply because just about everybody uses Facebook. Heck, even grandparents have caught on to social media. Facebook does an awful good job at putting everything in one place: photos, videos, messages, chat, and now local deals. People nowadays are looking for efficiency, and having everything that you need the internet for right on one website is quite attractive to consumers, as numbers have shown. Read the rest of this entry »

popula GmbH has developed an app which makes it possible to discover over a million events in Germany. Users not only have the ability to view current events in the vicinity using the local search option, but can also use practical features like linking up with Facebook to use the news feed or calendar feature.
openeventnetwork.de delivers the data to popula, in a partnership which began in September of last year. Hosts can upload their information for free, which in turn will be displayed on other portals like the online-offering of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeigers, the Hamburger Morgenpost or the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, as well as on popula.de. Users will also find events from popula’s ticket and content partners. Read the rest of this entry »

The micro-messaging service Twitter is now being appraised at a fat 8 to 10 billion dollars, at least in the eyes of Google and Facebook. The finance branch appraised Twitter’s worth to be around 3.7 billion dollars last December. Read the rest of this entry »

For the community giant Facebook, there is one clear goal: this year, all the focus will be on going mobile. No wonder, seeing as how 200 million of the 600 million users use the network with their cellulars.
At the Inside Mobile Apps in San Francisco, Facebook CTO Brett Taylor let the cat out of the back as he said that the company will be focusing its effort on the mobile market. “Mobile devices are inherently social,” declared Taylor on the podium. The rampant jungle of mobiles and their operating systems is probably in the sights of Zuckerberg and his people. Read the rest of this entry »

From the 23rd to the 25th of January, not only the grandees of the market showed up to the DLD (Digital Life Design) conference, sponsored by Burda publishing. Start-ups as well as investors also paid a visit in order to discuss their future plans and visions. The owners of the internet services are optimistic and agree: offline is out, online is becoming more and more mobile, and the social interactions will influence every aspect.

Three days filled to the rim with dissertations, discussions, and interviews. A lot was said, but we would like to provide a small summary of what we believe to be the most important points about the development of internet services, location based services (LBS), as well as social media: Read the rest of this entry »

According to an American study, 81 percent of the so-called “Generation Y” uses Facebook to obtain information. The amount of young people that use newspapers or television as a news source is about half as high. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft’s search engine Bing has announced a number of updates that will be going live in the next couple of weeks. In particular, the local offering from Bing Maps, the counterpart of Google Maps, will be launching some new features. Read the rest of this entry »

The US publication Time Magazine honored Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with the title of Person of the Year 2010. He has connected more than half a billion people and has expanded their social relationships, according to the publication. With the invention of a new system for information exchange, the 26 year old has revolutionized the lifestyles of countless individuals worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »