Google just launched its own recommendation tool and gets social. The tool with the name ‘+1‘ is the answer to Facebook’s very popular Like button. People can use +1 to rate search results in Google’s SERPs and to value useful and relevant websites or adwords ads, provided that they have a Google account.
Facebook’s terms and conditions doesn’t allow businesses to operate a personal profile as these profiles are solely foreseen for real people and not for businesses. However, many businesses still use a personal page to promote their business. Most of them still struggle to convert their profile into a page as they would need to start [...]
The largest business network community with more than 83 million users just launched a new service called LinkedIn Today. LinkedIn Today helps you to go more virally with content and to build better relationships with your connections. LinkedIn Today works as a tool to market or sell your business and services to others. Watch the [...]
Welcome to our new series of monthly Facebook statistics in South Africa. This article provides you with the latest user numbers for Facebook in South Africa. 2 week ago, Marc Cowan, Head of Emerging Market at Facebook, gave a presentation in Cape Town on the social change. He said that soon South Africa will hit [...]
Many administrators of Facebook Pages didn’t like the fact that with the latest Pages update, wall posts were shown based on popularity and not in a chronological way. This new default view implied that most recent posts with no interactions quickly disappeared from the wall and that updates that have received a lot of Likes [...]
Facebook wants to become the key player for online communication and displace services like Skype, ICQ and email. In this context, Facebook just aquired Beluga, an eight-month old group text service which allows users to create groups in real-time and send messages to all the members of the group at once. The acquisition of Beluga [...]
A few days ago, WordPress 3.1 was released and can be downloaded here. The WordPress Dashboard now looks much cleaner and allows an easier handling. The new Post Formats allow theme developers to create portable tumblelogs with different styling for different types of posts such as videos, galleries, photos, audio, quotes and on and on. [...]
It was Steven Spielberg himself who announced the best picture winner at the 83rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday. But in the end, “The Social Network” couldn’t stand up to “The King’s Speech” which won four Academy Awards on the night, including best original screenplay, best director and best actor. However, David Fincher’s The Social [...]
South Africa is one of the world’s top raising countries in terms of the development of Facebook population. In the last 6 months, South Africa gained 750.000 new users (+ 25 %) and now has more than 3.76 million users in total. In Africa, only Egypt has more users with over 5.6 million, of which [...]
Eminem is Facebook’s new most popular living person and has more than 28,880,000 fans on the biggest social networking site. The number of fans increases rapidly by every minutes that goes by. He adds up as many as 546,000 new fans each week. Only the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has with 29.1 million fans [...]
