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As Facebook grows larger than we ever thought possible, businesses are finding yet more and more ways to earn money using its different features and functions. Along with that, more people are voluntarily involving themselves with these brands and businesses on Facebook.
Get ready to see twitter all over the web! Twitter have announced their new @anywhere platform, and it's going to make twitter readily available to users browsing through different sites. The new @anywhere development makes it so easy for normal Websites to implement the social-media micro-blogging functionality of twitter into their own site, and with a wide range of partners for the rollout already, you can prepare for a serious competition between them and Facebook.
Is Facebook slowly consuming the internet? Well some of us seem to think it is, especially businesses and marketers. Many have expressed their views, and it's very mixed, some think that Facebook will take over, some think it will go the way of Geocities. Let’s have a more in-depth look at the subject…
Geolocation is now active on Twitter, with most users now being able to add their location to all of their Tweets. It is now also possible for the majority of users to pull up location-related information based upon one single tweet.
Earlier this week, Facebook acquired a patent that poses to threaten the rest of the social media world. The biggest social network in the world has patented the news feed. Patent #7,669,123, refers to Facebook’s patent of the news feed, which was awarded to Facebook this Tuesday. It credits Mark Zuckerburg and seven other early Facebook users as the inventors, and assigns the rights for the patent to Facebook Inc.
You may have heard of Ping.FM since our latest social networking seminar, but for those of you that don’t know, Ping.FM is a free social networking service that allows you to update multiple social networks like Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Bebo, etc. Recently some software has been released to enable the use of Ping.FM on smartphones.
We all now know that Facebook can be a huge source of web traffic, with its 400 million users. We all know somebody that uses Facebook. If you don’t have a Facebook account for your company/business, or are just not doing much with it, you are losing out. There is a big reason why 80,000 sites and businesses use Facebook. A small page and a little time dedicated to it daily, brings back big results.