Facebook Expected to Roll Out Email Service

On November 15, 2010, in Internet Marketing, by Ben Johnston

Facebook and Google have been butting heads over the last week regarding the privacy and ‘openness’ of user data, particularly when it comes to importing contacts from Google’s Gmail accounts to the social networking behemoth. With today’s expected announcement of Facebook offering users an email platform with @facebook.com or @fb.com email addresses, it’s perhaps understandable that Google are reluctant to let Facebook import contact details from their services.

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Journalist Uses Twitter To Break a Major Story

On September 7, 2010, in SMO, by Ben Johnston

One of the main criticisms of Twitter is that the signal to noise ratio isn’t the greatest – for every great insight or celebrity scandal posted, there are a thousand posts which aren’t what you’d describe as amazing literature. That said, the instantly updating nature and access to a large audience does mean that the microblogging phenom is perfectly suited to breaking stories, and this function was utilised to great effect recently by journalist Adam Penenberg.

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Keep Your Privacy In The Fridge

On August 26, 2010, in SMO, by Ben Johnston

Facebook’s constant drive towards making all of your data public means that the world’s largest social media site probably isn’t the best platform for you to share those photographs of you kissing the boss’s daughter, but the modern web has created a mindset which means that we just have to tell people and show them the pictures when something like that happens.

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LinkedIn Passes the $2 Billion Mark

On August 3, 2010, in SMO, by Ben Johnston

Bloomberg are reporting that business-based social network LinkedIn is now worth more than $2 billion after recent outside investments.

The report states that hedge fund Tiger Global Management invested $20 million for an approximately 1% stake in the platform, paying $21.50 per share. SharesPost – an online privately held company marketplace – states that LinkedIn has 105 million shares left. Doing the maths leads us to a figure of $2.26 billion.

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Rumours Of New Google Social Media Platform Gather Momentum

On July 1, 2010, in Internet Marketing, SMO, by Nicholas Woolnough

The web is currently abuzz with rumours that Google are developing a social network called ‘Google Me’ that will attempt to challenge undoubted market leaders Facebook. The development has been predicted by Digg founder Kevin Rose and further weight has been thrown behind the information by former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo.

Rose claimed on Twitter to have received the information from a ‘very credible source’, writing ‘Google to launch Facebook competitor very soon.’ Google are yet to officially comment on the rumour, but D’Angelo added further credence to the story by answering a question on Q&A service Quora stating: ‘This is not a rumour. This is a real project.’

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AOL Find Seller For Bebo

On June 16, 2010, in Internet Marketing, SMO, by Ben Johnston

Struggling social networking site Bebo looks set for a change of hands after sources close to AOL revealed that the internet giants were close to agreeing its sale. AOL announced in April that they would be looking to either sell or shut down the site and it was believed that a fruitless search for a buyer was already well under way at that stage.

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