Category Archives: Facebook Timeline

Facebook Year in Review 2013: show off your social profile this year!

A small side box appeared today in my Facebook profile page: it’s the Year in Review 2013. It’s a brand-new way for Facebook to give you a view over the past years showing you the most popular statuses you shared … Continue reading

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Facebook: one billion active users milestone – from Zuck’s own words!

Just saw this on my Facebook timeline: As they say: the world is shrinking… Mark Zuckerberg just announced that there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. 🙂

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Facebook releases new advertising infrastructure

New life and tools for Facebook advertising? Along with Timeline for brands, Facebook also introduced Premium Offers and Ads, which function similarly to Promoted Tweets. Marketers can pay to get their ads or Sponsored Stories some better real estate on … Continue reading

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Social networking history: how it all began and where it’s heading

This post gives a historical overview of social networking – and some good hints too. Beginning from the very first mail through Geocities – anyone remembers this one? – down to Friendster, MySpace and, of course, Facebook. Oh, by the … Continue reading

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Facebook IPO: a comic cartoon explaining…

This may explain what’s doing Mark right now… Source: Chappatte, GenevaLunch

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Social media equals the death of privacy? A book explores this hard-to-answer question

Lori Andrews, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and the director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology, just released the book I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of … Continue reading

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Facebook growth rate: quicker than a (social) ray of light – and almost a nation on itself

Following yesterday Facebook’s filing for IPO – and all the consequent hype about this, let’s look at what’s really behind the Facebook business. According to this infographic from Fusioncharts: every 8 seconds people from everywhere in the world sign in … Continue reading

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Friend or not on Facebook: a parents’ dilemma explained

A research by Lab42 just published, delves deep into one of the worst problem parents are facing these days within their family. Does a social network – and siblings relationship – mean that all parents are friend with their children? … Continue reading

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Facebook in the less social place: a profile-shower-tent

The folks at SpinningHat, a UK design company, just broke the last taboo: bringing a social network in the place where – usually – you’re not keen on being social, the shower. Their shower tent replicates a Facebook profile and … Continue reading

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Hubspot’s Facebook for business guide – for free!

Never dimiss a free meal! Hubspot is giving for free this How to Use Facebook for Business 35-pages guide. Ok… you may know all the tricks of the trade, but this free guide may still be a good starting point … Continue reading

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