Facebook is planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the new product. This new technology could see Facebook as the engine behind the comments system on many high-profile blogs and other digital publications very soon.
Facebook already has Facebook Connect and Social Comments, but this isnt enough for them.
Stay tuned for more information as it comes to hand.
Tonights Saturday Night Live featured a suprise appearance by Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, alongside his The Social Network counterpart (host) Jesse Eisenberg and SNL counterpart Andy Samberg!
It is planned that Facebook roll out their new profile page design today. If you cant wait for them to roll this out, anyone can follow these simple steps and upgrade their profile page now.
To unlock the new Facebook profile, complete the following steps:
This blog is in charge of analyzing the #FollowFriday (or #FF) recommendations to create this type of reports, in this case combining their Twitter users database (with over 11 million users) with FilterTweeps, a powerful web app for searching users in Twitter.
The results of the URL in Twitter profiles show a preference by users to insert their Facebook home pages, taking the 28% of the total users. The other sites in the list are: Blogspot, 20%; Myspace, 13%; Tumblr, 8.3%; Orkut, 8%; Twitter (why?!), 6%. You can find the entire list here.
Glassdoor, company which collects information about employees in different companies anonymously and voluntarily, presented a report saying that people working in Facebook are not only paid more but also the social network offers a better work environment.
Here’s the rating for most important companies salaries in the software engineer category:
Google offers an average annual salary of $98K and Facebook for the same jobs is giving $110K, making this the most important salary around all companies; Cisco, Yahoo and Apple appears right after Facebook.
But that’s not all, work climate is an important factor in every job; and Facebook makes a difference in this area as well.
Based upon a 5-point scale, Facebook scores 4.6 as the top company in work environment; Google appears third with 3.9 (AOL and Apple appear fourth and fifth). And, surprisingly or not, HP offers the “worst” work climate raked with 2.7.
Social media is now an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. Skloog has put together an amazing infographic which outlines the history of social media.
PhotoRem represents a very interesting alternative for services like Flickr, YouTube or Picassa; providing a central place for us to store photos, videos and documents completely free.
PhotoRem also includes an application to edit your photos directly online, avoiding installing special software locally, editing it and then uploading it again. Other feature included is the possibility to create a slideshow with your images.
The files supported for video are: Flv, Mov and MP4; and the type of documents supported: PDF, DOC and XLS. Also PhotoRem is social network friendly, uploaded files can easily be shared via Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Pagemodo’s Page Builder is a free service to design Facebook pages in a very professional way. The interesting thing about it is that we don’t need any knowledge about programming or design.
Social Media business changed significantly with the growth of Facebook, forcing companies to use this social network to extend their business. And if we want to get Facebook’s users attention we will need something more than just a simple page of our company and/or startup.
Pagemodo provides a simple way to accomplish this by giving us all the necessary tools, with an easy method to embed images and instant publication. The site also includes paid versions (starting from $9 per month) with the possibilities to embed video, live support and with the feature of Google Analytics to be included soon.
Connecting our websites with social networks is one of the easiest ways to increase our popularity. ShareSideBar can help us in a great way, completely free and in one step we can create a sidebar for our site with all the common social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Delicio.us, Digg, Buzz, Reddit and Stumbleupon.
The most common use of providing visitors an easy way to share our website is adding links in our home page to all of the networks; certainly a more effective is using a sidebar in our website with a permanent and visible links. ShareSideBar creates for us the necessary code ready to be added in our website.
We can choose if we want the sidebar on the right or left side of the page, and the social networks we would like to use in the sidebar. This web app is completely free and does not require any registration.
