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Doubling your traffic from Facebook: how best to integrate Twitter, Facebook and your website
Many Liberal Democrat councillors and campaigners have both a Twitter account and a Facebook profile alongside their blog or website. Linking the three together efficiently can greatly increase the political impact of them individually, especially as many people find that Twitter is one of the best ways of driving traffic and Facebook one of the [...]
Facebook admit to bug in advertising cost information
I recently noticed a discrepancy between how much Facebook was telling me some adverts had cost and how much it said it had taken via credit card. Look in two different places in the Facebook online advertising management screens – for total cost on the Campaigns page and total billed on the Billing page – [...]
Facebook Notes import from RSS failing?
Facebook’s ability to import from an RSS feed into the Notes application (so that, for example, your blog posts automatically appear as notes on your personal profile) breaks often enough to be annoying but not so often that I remember where the special page is for reporting this sort of problem. So for my future [...]
How many people have used Facebook to tell their friends they have a pimple?
Glorious, glorious invective. Now, excuse me whilst I go update my Facebook status…
How will paywalls alter online commenting habits?
Of course, if newspaper paywalls don’t turn out to work outside the existing niches such as the Financial Times, their impact on general online commenting habits will be very limited. But let’s assume for a moment that paywalls work well enough to spread across various newspaper and other sites. A core feature of paywalls is [...]
Dear Facebook, I don't like you this morning
Dear Facebook, I don’t like you this morning. Why? Because you’ve made some changes that (a) come over as you bullying me, and (b) create a whole load of duff content that’s even worse than the Google Ad revenue chasing content-free spam sites which still clog up too many search results. Facebook used to be [...]
Paper criticises Facebook for privacy policy longer than US constitution, but its own policy is too
The New York Times has a good piece highlighting just how complex the privacy options and privacy policy have become for Facebook users. (Piece found via a work colleague’s blog post.) However, the newspaper also criticises Facebook’s privacy policy for being longer than the US Constitution (or rather the US Constitution without amendments, which is [...]
Philippa Stroud: the disappearing Conservative candidate
This morning The Observer ran a piece detailing the less than savoury attitude towards homosexuality of Philippa Stroud, Conservative candidate for Sutton & Cheam and head of the influential Conservative think-tank Centre for Social Justice:
A high-flying prospective Conservative MP, credited with shaping many of the party’s social policies, founded a church that tried to “cure” [...]
