Using a technology called MIMIEO, students at Northwestern University are polling thousands of people in the days leading up to and during the February 24th ABC broadcast of the 80th Annual Academy Awards.Participants will be asked to rate each Oscar nominated movie ad, as well as rate how likely they are to go see the movie. Graduate student Rohit Bhat feels, "The technology will provide insight into measuring both the entertainment value of the ads, and the viewer's preference for going to see the movie."On Oscar night, a panel of Northwestern University graduate students will analyze the data from the polls and publish a report on the findings.The students previously conducted research during Super Bowl XLII and released a report called the EnMark Survey. The survey evaluated Super Bowl advertisements on two key dimensions: entertainment value and marketing value. The entertainment score reflected the degree to which viewers liked the advertisement. In contrast, the marketing score
EA Forms EA Blueprint, Targets Facebook GamersEA has formed EA Blueprint, a division which will make games for a special kind of casual gamers; the online social network users on Facebook. The new company is led by EALA veterans Alan Yu and Neil Young. The first batch of games will be built upon the Smarty Pants Facebook app, and will be mini games of existing EA IPs. Yep, it’s EA as usual. Related PostsWant Halo 3 Xbox 360 Elite? Use Facebook Too poor to get your Xbox 360? Use Facbook then! Goozex, an online video game trading site, today a…Atari Classics Evolved on PSPMore classics are headed to the PSP, courtesy of Atari. The company is developing Atari Classics Evo…Smash Mania Leads To Smashing Shortages Rumors have been floating around that Japan will be in a wave of Smash Bros. shortages, after the …Campus Characters Go MySpaceWii Zapper Box Shot Link - Comments - James Hyde - Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:17:13 GMT - Feed (1 subs) Business New
Round 2 was a tight competition with only 8 votes separating Kate and Sunny but 19 year old Kate was able to pull out the second straight victory for Facebook. I think it was the keg stand picture that won it for her. I know J Diggles is going to be pissed when he sees [...]
Facebook today announced the first step in a broad plan to internationalize the site with translation into Spanish. German and French versions of Facebook are expected in the coming weeks. Nearly 1,500 Spanish-speaking users on Facebook chose to be part of the effort and translated the site from English to Spanish in less than four weeks.Current users who want to view Facebook in Spanish can change their language preference from their account settings. Beginning on Monday, Feb. 11, any person who goes to http://www.facebook.com/ from a Spanish-speaking country will see the site in Spanish. Facebook currently has more than 2.8 million active users in Latin America and Spain."Over 60 percent of Facebook users are now outside of the U.S., and many live in countries where English is not the primary language," said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. "Our goal has always been to allow people to use Facebook in their native language so we built an application to enable users to par
As part of a global brand message, “Celebrate Originality,” Adidas has launched a retail and digital focused campaign that is reported to be the biggest campaign the German sportswear manufacturer has embarked on.
As part of the campaign, Adidas has debuted a social media strategy targeting YouTube and Facebook. The first of four YouTube videos [...]
Feeling annoyed by all those zombie movie sharing super pokes flooding facebook that all your dear friends find so amusing, but really annoy the crap out of you, facebook has a plan. Reeling in out of control apps based on adoption rates is a good idea, and one probably far past time for it to [...]
Alright, here we go with round 2 of MySpace vs. Facebook. J Diggles is a little pissed about his loss last week so I know he is looking to redeem himself this week. In case you forgot J Diggles is covering the girls of MySpace and I have the ladies of Facebook.
On the left we [...]
Social network marketing is a becoming a key are in internet marketing. The websites your kids use to stay connected with their friends - Facebook and Myspace - might be a key part of increasing the business you get from the web.Your probably familiar with the two social networking sites mentioned above. You may even use them yourself. But did you ever think of using these online communities as an online marketing opportunity for your business? There are cool new social networks forming everyday. One is sure to have you target audience in mind.Thousands of people use sites like Facebook and Myspace every day. How many business owners would turn down the opportunity to get in front of that size audience? Not many. But that is just the beginning. There are an ever growing number of focused social networks out there for just about any topic you can think of. Many of them allow you the ability to create a personal profile or a business profile for free. (The best kind of marketing!) Some a
I, like pretty much every man, woman, child, cat, dog and mouse in the country, am something of a Facebook addict. Sure, I can deny it - and always claim that time spent on it in the office is invaluable networking time (even when networking involves playing a rip off of Scrabble with old friends) - but there's something of a compulsive delight in spying on old acquaintances and seeing what they're up to. Then of course, there's the communities... so many improbably named Facebook groups with even more improbable numbers of members. Everything from 'The Drunken Text Message Appreciation Society' to 'A Cup of Tea Solves Everything'is represented, and more are springing up every day. Naturally my career at a freight exchange means I have an above average interest in lorries and lorry drivers, so it stands to reason that one day this would collide with my other life-sapping obsessive interest - Facebook. I began looking through the various pages, and was more than a little surprised by th
Beware! Your cool Facebook profile might be obstructing your recruitment into a reputed concern. Recruiters often visit social networking websites to peruse candidates’ suitability, according to international consultancy ‘Badenoch & Clark’. The agency, that places thousands of professional staff in jobs every year, has discovered that about 62 per cent of British executives check Facebook, MySpace or another social networking site to determine the suitability of candidates. Another survey by the networking site Viadeo reveals that one in five employers use social networking sites to search for information on candidates, and to look at how they project themselves. Almost two thirds of the employers surveyed said that information found on such websites influenced their recruitment decisions heavily, while a quarter said that they had changed their mind and decided not to hire someone because of what was online. Andy Powell, a d
StumbleUpon, the social bookmarking service, has released its Facebook application, and added some new features. Access the StumbleUpon Facebook app here. This app lets you display your recent “thumbs up” stumbles on your Facebook profile. View the most recent stumbles for websites and videos, as well as your own favorites, and the favorite stumbles of your friends. The “What’s New” tab, displaying the most recent stumbles, is a new feature for StumbleUpon, and offers up newly added websites and videos from the larger community, not just those StumbleUpon users in Facebook. Each stumble can be shared with your Facebook friends, and reviewed, though the review feature will redirect you to StumbleUpon’s site. via http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/blogID#/posts/full
As reported by Kara Swisher on All Things Digital, Mark Zuckerberg (who I have previously ripped on for his lacking CEO skills) made public inportant financial data on Facebook. In an open call, Zuckerberg reported $150 million in 2007 revenues and projects $300 to $350 million in 2008. 2008 EBITDA is projected at $50 million [...]
Researcher is building a prototype to protect users’ privacy from Facebook ‘widgets’
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JANUARY 31, 2008 |Â University of Virginia researchers have discovered that 90.7 percent of Facebook’s most popular applications have access to users’ private data, whether they need it or not — leaving users exposed to targeted phishing attacks and identity theft. So a UVA researcher [...]
I surely did not see this coming anytime soon but Facebook just released their JavaScript client library than enables developers to extend their applications to their own websites. Rather than building your applications strictly within Facebook you can now extend the full functionality of the platform to your own website and leverage Facebook as the [...]
This is not a joke; Yahoo is really going to fire its employees soon. Yahoo is currently having approximately 14,000 workers and it is believed that the company has drawn up a list of 2,500 jobs that could be eliminated. Slow revenue growth and the rise of social networking sites have caused Yahoo to consider about this negative move. The most important thing is, Yahoo struggles to hold on to young web surfers because you all spend more time on Facebook.com and MySpace.com!Don’t believe? Check The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal; they have both reported on the Internet icon’s cost-cutting plans too. advertising
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Rumours are emerging that Nokia is in talks with Facebook to port the generally still-in-favour social network to its range of handsets. Sources have suggested that this could be as prominent a placement as the “YouTube” button is on Apple’s iPhone.
Facebook could benefit from Nokia’s advertising campaigns in retail outlets, and there’s even the possibility [...]
The social networking website Facebook is to be questioned by the information watchdog about how it handles people’s personal data.
The move by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) comes after a user of the popular site complained he could not fully delete his profile after he had closed his account.
Currently, users who wish to [...]
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social network software maker Slide Inc said on Friday it had closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook's wave of popularity. Slide made some of the hottest programs running on Facebook and News Corp's MySpace, including media-sharing applications Slide Shows, Top Friends, SuperPoke! and FunWall. Max Levchin, its Ukranian-born and Chicago-raised founder, declined to name the investors. But sources close to the deal said they were Fidelity Investments and T Rowe Price. The round is nearly 10 times the size of the median round of $5.18 million for Web 2.0 firms in the first half of 2007, according to Dow Jones investment tracking unit VentureOne. This follows the roughly $500 million recently raised by Facebook from Microsoft Corp and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, giving it an implied $15 billion valuation. Slide, incorporated in 2005, was originally
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social network software maker Slide Inc said on Friday it had closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook's wave of popularity. Slide, a 65-employee company founded by Max Levchin, 32, the Ukranian-born co-founder of online payments company PayPal, is the creator of several of the most popular software programs running on Facebook and News Corp's <NWSa.N> MySpace. Its Facebook programs include Top Friends, FunWall and SuperPoke! In an interview, Levchin declined to name the institutional investors. But sources close to the financing deal said the investors were Fidelity Investments and T Rowe Price <TROW.O>. Levchin said the new cash will be used to boost the size of the San Francisco-based company to about 100 employees and expand the applications it offers on the upgraded MySpace platform. Acquisitions of other so-called social software developers will be a low pr
Me encantan las redes sociales que se van creando a medida que la tecnología avanza. Los contactos crecen, conoces gente, se arman redes interesantes.Hay redes para todos los gustos y preferencias. MySpace, Orkut, Hi5!, LinkedIn, eConozco, FaceBook. Y otras cuantas redes, casi todas temáticas, que tratan de formarse su espacio: ASmallWorld, una red privada para ricos, (sorry chicos, sólo por invitación), Neurona, más profesional, Cork'd: para amantes, aficionados y profesionales del vino, ModelsHotel sólo para modelos top, y otras como Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, LastFM, donde miles de internautas muestran qué hacen, qué ven, qué dicen, qué escuchan.Falta tiempo para meterse y conocer más de los secretos de estos rincones virtuales. En Facebook puedes ver en tiempo real lo que están haciendo tus contactos, con quién conversan, a quién agregan, qué compran, qué leen, qué escriben, qué les gusta, qué aplicaciones tienen, puedes abrazar causas a las que otros te invitaron
Google and its rival search engines may lose advertising pounds to sites such as Facebook and Bebo this year, as businesses shift their marketing focus to cash in on the social networking phenomena.
A new report, The Impact of Social Networking in the UK, claims that 2008 will see social networks improve their functionality, and in [...]
Social networking site Facebook has been judged to be the slowest and most inaccessible social networking site, according to a new report.
According to research conducted by website and application monitoring service WatchMouse, despite its popularity amongst users, the network took the longest to load up.
of 104 sites studied, 51 showed very slow loading times, achieving [...]
It was revealed today that German entrepreneurs Marc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer have made an investment in facebook’s $15 billion valuation round.
Facebook has recently closed investments from Microsoft ($240 million) and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing ($60 million). The funding round is still open, as confirmed by Techcrunch. Facebook’s total funding to date is $338.2 [...]
After publishing an invitation to Facebook to join the DataPortability Working Group January 4, we never thought that Facebook would accept it. Today changes everything you’ve ever thought about social-networking data and lock-in before, because today Facebook, Google and Plaxo have joined the DataPortability Workgroup
Google and Plaxo joining are a positive, however given that both [...]
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The DataPortability Workgroup has announced that representatives from Facebook, Google and Plaxo have signed on as its members. The group, spearheaded by Chris Saad of start-up Faraday Media, is an alliance of Web thinkers devoted to “(putting) all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end data portability.”
“Their [...]
In a social engineering attack much like the “I Love You” Virus; Facebook is dealing with a Facebook widget that secretly installs spyware on the user’s computer. If you get a message saying “Secret Crush” they don’t really have one, rather they want to secretly crush your computer, and steal your personal information.
This [...]
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Have you used Facebook to give a shout-out to businesses you like? Best make sure your profile picture catches your best side, because you might be an unwitting star in those businesses’ next Facebook ad campaigns.
In November 2007, the Palo Alto, California-based social network announced a highly targeted advertising platform, called Facebook Ads, [...]
Earn free money for your expenses and you can also enter to win the cash prizes every time you click on the ads. Simply you can add the Facebook cash clique application to your facebook. Once you finish the step you already enter the program and you can start work with it right away.Whether you click on the ads or you refer to your friend by inviting them to join, you will receive the actual amount of money. Cash clique is the application that you click on ads and get paid...You can try with this simple cash making program and feel free to invite you friends to come along. As long as you have more friends on the network that mean you can make a lot of money through the application of cash clique too. Enjoy playing around.
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Become a fan of “Tufaan” on the new group on Facebook! Webops@leechonfilms [dot] com is in charge of the group. So if you guys have any questions or suggestions for the group go ahead and email at the email above.
Actually, I will be the first to admit I’m not [...]
You think I do not know what is called “FACE”? You think I do not want FACE? Do you want a Face just to show people or do you want a FACE that people can remember and take picture?
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My blogs are my books. I Face Books everyday. I have no money [...]
If you’re not designer or some with artistic skill, creating your own icons for your website or application is definitely not an option. Luckily there are many artists and Samaritans who contribute their amazing and beautify artwork to the society by making available the icon images to the general public. Most importantly free. MaxPower.ca has compiled a list of beautiful icons available for download that not only royalty free, but also with more freedom on ownership and distribution of derivatives rights based on Creative Commons (CC), General Public (GPL), or Lesser General Public (LGPL) license.Go to MaxPower.ca website to browse a list of artists with the sample icons of their work, together with the type of license of the released work and the free icons download link.
If you’re not designer or some with artistic skill, creating your own icons for your website or application is definitely not an option. Luckily there are many artists and Samaritans who contribute their amazing and beautify artwork to the society by making available the icon images to the general public. Most importantly free. MaxPower.ca has compiled a list of beautiful icons available for download that not only royalty free, but also with more freedom on ownership and distribution of derivatives rights based on Creative Commons (CC), General Public (GPL), or Lesser General Public (LGPL) license.Go to MaxPower.ca website to browse a list of artists with the sample icons of their work, together with the type of license of the released work and the free icons download link.
Yes, I have a "FaceBook". No, I'm not adding you. Its not because I don't like you and its not because I'm stuck-up. I simply hate FaceBook. Its ugly, slow and mostly broken. That is just the beginning...
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Guardian Unlimited, Monday December 24 2007
Badoo: allows users to pay for popularity using its Rise Up function Badoo, a social networking website which offers users the chance to pay to be popular while banning all advertising, is set to launch into an increasingly crowded UK market.
At the moment, Badoo is a relatively unknown web [...]
Ever since Facebook opened their network to allow everyone worldwide to join some time ago, I have been receiving invitations from friends to join. At first, I wasn’t really interested in joining Facebook. After all, I was not going to “waste” time playing around with the network.
However, when I came across an article that mentioned [...]
VoIP firm Truphone is to offer an application that lets you make free phone calls from within the social networking website.Truphone's 'Call Me' application consists of a button that can be inserted in Facebook messages, posted onto someone's wall, or added to a Facebook group. In fact, it can be put anywhere on Facebook where attachments can be added. After that, your friends simply have to press the Call Me button to phone you free of charge. Call Me The Call Me application is available to all Facebook users, and you don't even have to have a Truphone account to use it.For now this service is only limited to landline number witha possibility of mobile phones in future. Source: Tech.co.uk
VoIP firm Truphone is to offer an application that lets you make free phone calls from within the social networking website.Truphone's 'Call Me' application consists of a button that can be inserted in Facebook messages, posted onto someone's wall, or added to a Facebook group. In fact, it can be put anywhere on Facebook where attachments can be added. After that, your friends simply have to press the Call Me button to phone you free of charge. Call Me The Call Me application is available to all Facebook users, and you don't even have to have a Truphone account to use it.For now this service is only limited to landline number witha possibility of mobile phones in future. Source: Tech.co.uk
Orkut and Facebook are the two most widely used social networks in countries like Pakistan and India and its hard for users to remain active at both sides so I have an interesting Facebook app for you that will make your online social life easier and you will be able to manage both social networks simultaneously.MyOrkut is an application that brings your very own Orkut profile to your Facebook account! You don’t have to provide any login or password. All you specify is your Orkut Profile URL!This app is currently being used by a lot of Orkut and Facebook fans however there are some flaws in the app e.g. it does not ask for your account authentication (which it should ask) and does not allow you to do scraps (because Orkut does not allow anonymous scraps)However its a guarantee it will make your life easier and happier so Add this app to Facebook now.
Torrential Traffic Tactics is now unleashed, courtesy of Roy Oron and Maayan Marzan. These 2 guys are synonymous with traffic, traffic and MORE traffic (and AdSense too). I don’t think there is any question that this incredible program will sell out, and sell out fast…
I guess there must be a whole lot of people eager [...]
The Making of Daliwood - Dalí & Film Comes to the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. PetersburgSalvador Dalí (Spain, 1904-1989), Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937Weblogs rack up a decade of posts By EditorsWeblog The word “weblog,” coined on 17 December...
A month ago I wrote a post (you can find it here) about how the ‘is’ in facebook mysteriously vanished for a day and how that threw the tech world into a frenzy. I mean, everyone was abuzz about one little 2-letter word missing from a stupid status update.
Well maybe I am seeing things, because [...]
It all started in May 2007, when Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the “Facebook Platform” in San Francisco. With this announcement saw the introduction of millions of third-party applications, and an equally impressive increase in user numbers, both in South Africa and abroad, with an average of 250,000 new registrations every day. What this did for Facebook [...]
Every social networking website has a history behind it and Facebook is no exception to that rule. It has grown from relative obscurity to its current position as the second largest social networking website on the internet in terms of traffic (with MySpace being the very large first place social networking website). Facebook itself was actually initially called thefacebook and was started as a hobby website at Harvard University. As the website itself became well received and people started to tell their friends about it, thefacebook spread to other University campuses across the country and then eventually spread internationally. When the website became so popular, the name was changed to Facebook and the domain name of facebook.com was purchased for upwards of $200,000 American.Founder Of FacebookConsidering the small bit of history mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it should come as no surprise that the founder of Facebook was a student at Harvard University. A man by the name
Social networking is the biggest craze in the English speaking world today. Whenever a person logs onto Facebook or any other social networking service, they have the ability to network with their friends, meet new people and just generally enjoy themselves.Because of the web nature of this service, many people have been accessing social networking sites from work and many companies estimate that they have lost a very significant amount of revenue because of lost productivity that stems right from the overuse of Facebook and other social networking websites at work. In an effort to combat this loss of productivity, many companies have blocked access to these websites in the hopes that it will bring productivity back up to acceptable levels. As you are about to see, this is not always a problem.Social networking is a big niche at the moment and in big niches there is always the tendency to develop technology to solve problems very quickly. If you do a Google search for Facebook unblock,
Another way to access the website would be through the utilization of a Facebook proxy. The term proxy as it relates to social networking websites such as Facebook has two meanings but the meaning we are most concerned with in this article is the proxy that allows you to access the Facebook website in spite of a block.Rather than working to remove the block and therefore allow you to access the website by typing the URL into your browser, the proxy concept is quite a bit different. It attempts to circumvent the block and actually keep the block in place. This is done by accessing the Facebook service through a different server. This server, referred to as a proxy server, is a server that is not easily identifiable as being a Facebook server (and indeed is not owned by Facebook) and therefore is difficult to block with the software most companies and schools useWhen you consider all of the different options available to people today, it seems almost futile that people would attempt to b
Social networking sites are fast becoming a hotspot for cyber criminals.From morphed pictures to defamatory comments, police officials have their hands full with complaints from users.Many people have already become victims of obscenity on social networking websites. The Delhi police has recorded over 200 complaints in the past one year alone, regarding morphed photos and derogatory profiles on popular sites, such as Orkut and Facebook.22-year-old Shraddha is one of those targeted.“A fake profile was created on Orkut and a picture was also uploaded. This person was chatting in my name to hundreds of other people whom I didn’t know, whom I didn’t have any idea about,” she said.Cyber Law expert Karnika Seth says, “I think the percentage of reporting (of such cases) may be only close to five per cent at the moment because there are glaring instances when people are not going (to authorities). Sometimes, they are scared to take any legal action.“Mumbai has also seen a rise in c
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