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They're a bit gloomy over at Facebook, aren't they?
New status update options in the latest Facebook design:
5 things you shouldn’t miss: mobile phone usage, finding out more about your loves, clever hotels and more
Welcome to the latest in our monthly collection of five weblinks that you shouldn’t miss. How and when we use our mobile phones http://bit.ly/oTrMiU How does mobile phone use vary between services, through the day and across countries? Find out with this nifty little graphical tool from TNS. What do you love? http://bit.ly/pqfi8L Google wants to tell [...]
Google+: its prospects and likely implications for PR
With a relatively low-key blog post, Google has announced details of its long-talked about new foray into social networking – Google+. Google’s hit rate with its new projects is fairly low. It knows that if it tries out enough new ideas, the occasional one will be the sort of success that more than makes up [...]
Is the problem with Facebook deleting too much or too little?
Facebook’s habit of deleting profiles or pages which don’t fit with its rules was in the news recently when over 50 British political accounts were deleted. I’m with Jon Worth on that story – which is that all the accounts in question were breaking Facebook’s own stated rules so a significant part of the responsibility [...]
Facebook commenting: right, what's it like then?
Just coming to the end of the latest round of changes on this site. You’ll notice a lot more Facebook integration, both in the right hand column and in the footer, alongside some tidying up of the design and smaller improvements here and there. But the other big functional changing is trying out moving over [...]
Have you tried out the new Lib Dem Voice Facebook app?
It can be fun to let people know when you’ve been campaigning – but it’s also an extremely effective way to encourage more people to campaign too. If someone sees that their friends are doing campaigning, they are more likely to campaign themselves. And so the Lib Dem Voice Facebook app (kindly part-funded by Liberal [...]
Facebook vs Foursquare vs Gowalla: what Arsenal tells us
Sometimes one simple example summarises the wider picture rather neatly:
Online politics: get your content by following the ‘little and often’ rule
I’ve talked before about how slow and steady progress is usually the way to successful online politics (as in The secret to getting 1,000 ward residents to follow you on Twitter), but slow and steady progress often runs into a problem: where do you get the content from? Whether it’s building up an email list, [...]
Cute dog deployed to improve corporate image
Cute animals have done wonders for many companies and products (including the Andrex Puppy, a client at work). So perhaps it’s no wonder that following increasing criticism and an unflattering film portrayal of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is now hosting a page for Zuckerberg’s cute puppy. The pup modestly says “I am extremely cute”. [...]
