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Why Does Facebook Make It So Hard to Benefit From Its Features?

  • November 3rd, 2010 by SEM Contributor
Let me state right off that I think Facebook is one of the two social media sites on which all companies – all businesses – should be participating at this time.  (The other is Twitter.) That said, I also think Facebook is extremely difficult for ordinary people – people who don’t continually read tons of blog posts about Facebook, pay… Read more

Zenergo: Less Chatter, More Matter

  • October 27th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Zenergo is a social media promotion site which combines location based services with activity orientated networking. The aim of the site is to allow people to find and promote events based on activities they love, not only within Zenergo but across most of web 2.0 as well. Aesthetically the site is fairly minimalistic, in a good, clean way. Users can… Read more

CrowdControlHQ Makes Mass Social Media Management Easy

  • October 25th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
CrowdControlHQ have developed a mass media management system that makes keeping control over multiple social platforms easier than ever before. It works by allowing organizations to place different Facebook and Twitter accounts into consolidated work-groups, from which postings can be made without having to use the traditional web interfaces. Access to these work-groups can then be granted (with restrictions added… Read more

Facebook, Why Would You Get on My Nerves?

  • October 25th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
OK, I get it, developing usable websites is not easy and when you develop some new feature, in may overlap and even break some old one, but some Facebook bugs seem to have been created on purpose. So Facebook is all for friendships and it would consistently suggest you new friends to add: But why am I always suggested people… Read more

Facebook Live Streaming is an Unrehearsed Amateur Event

  • October 14th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Mark Zuckerburg, Facebook founder, gave a scheduled meeting to make new Facebook announcements. Although there was some speculations and rumors floating around that Facebook was going to buyout Twitter or Skype or YouTube, that proved to be unfounded. Among the announcements were the ability to download your private information and new interface on how to build groups and friends lists.… Read more

Babller.com – Making Interlingual Social Networking Easy

  • October 13th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Have you ever found yourself wishing your international friends could understand your status updates, so that people all over the world could know that your back is hurting or that you’re really drunk, no matter what language? No me neither, but apparently for some people it’s a real problem (must be why none of the big networks have installed their… Read more

Unify your Social Sites with Meevr.Com

  • October 8th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
One of the most annoying aspects of the fractured social platforms many of us make use of around the web on a daily basis, is that they are spread out all over the place. Meevr.com hopes to remove the frustration of trying to manage a large number of web 2.0 accounts, by providing a social aggregator under which all accounts… Read more

Psst…Have You Heard? Google Might Lose Their Voice at Facebook

  • October 6th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Rumor has it Internet social networking site Facebook has linked forces with video chat magnate Skype to rival recently launched Google Voice offered by Google . Google Voice allows Gmail users to make voice calls online. During the recent launch, users of the new Google Voice technology logged in around 1 million users. The swapping of Facebook and Skype accounts… Read more

Facebook Claims More User Time than Google

  • September 23rd, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Facebook, the hugely popular social networking site, can now claims the title as the number one location for the amount of total time spent on a site by Internet users.  Based on information from market research firm comScore, web users visiting Facebook spent more time on that site than any other destination while web-surfing. U.S. web users spent 41.1 million… Read more

Twitter at the Height of Fashion (Week)

  • September 22nd, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Fashion Week in NY makes national headlines each year but for 2010, it was the social networking world that blew up with news about the upcoming fashions by known designers. Twitter especially seemed to be the go-to resources for fashion-conscious followers. Marketers of all-things-fashion have set the Twitterverse on fire with the start of New York’s Fashion week. Between September… Read more