August 31st 2010 13.32 GMT
Facebook went down and so did all of their "like this" widgets.
Was this an update gone wrong? Were they compromised? Did Facebook's massive social graph API crumble under pressure?
Mashable looking a bit odd without the widgets...
Here's Facebook's response 3 hours later...
Below is an infographic tracing the history of privacy problems that have plagued Facebook over the last 6 years...
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5:15pm PST August 19th 2010 - Facebook announced its new Places application.
Here are the screenshots from the presentation.
It will be used only in the US tomorrow and then rolled out to the rest of the world at a later date.
This will be added to business fan pages (is this your business link? can be claimed by businesses).
Tagging your friends functionality will set the Facebook app in good stead compared to the other geo location based apps.
Here's the slightly ominous indi rock promo video...
What do you think will happen to the partners? Is this a move by Facebook not to ruffle too many feathers in the industry by replicating what Gowalla and Foursquare have built over the last couple of years?
Our social media agency has loads to say about this huge announcement!
August 9th - Provided by Hitwise Intelligence
Facebook is the second most visited website in the UK: in July it accounted for 7.14% of all UK Internet visits and over half (54.48%) of all visits to a social networking websites. In terms of total visits it continues to trail Google UK (9.59% market share in July) and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. However, using the measure of total page views rather than visits, Facebook is way ahead. As the table below illustrates, the social network accounted for 16.73% of UK page views during July. In other words: last month, 1 in every 6 Internet pages viewed in the UK was a Facebook page.
Will we see Facebook's market share increase in the UK or is this as high as it's ever going to be?
Please let us know your thoughts below...
The guys from PPC Blog really nailed down how Google's natural search algorithm works (right now) in this image below...
It's a pretty complex flow when you when you see it like this! All of this happens in the fraction of a second after 300 million people press the Search button every day.
Google + Bazaarvoice partnership gives consumers greater control & scores big for brands.
If you already submit your product data to Google, you know it’s a great way to get free, qualified traffic through enhanced ad formats and Google Product Search. Now, through the Google Product Reviews Program, we’d like to help you leverage your high-quality user reviews and ratings to attract more customers, by surfacing this content wherever it’s relevant for shoppers on Google, including our search results and our advertising programs. On Google Product Search, for example, we’ll feature your logo alongside representative reviews from your site, increasing brand exposure for your web store at a key point in the conversion process.
Ready to participate? The first step is to work with your webmaster to make sure you’ve specified your canonical URLs for products in your web store. Next, if you’re a client of one of the reviews platform providers listed below, all you need to do is contact them and let them know you’d like to submit your user reviews to Google. If not, we’ll be adding more platforms soon, as well as a process for submitting reviews directly to Google. In the meantime, remember to specify canonical URLs for your website so you’ll be ready to participate.
Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today announced at the Social Commerce Summit 2010 that it has partnered with Google to share high-quality product review content from Bazaarvoice client sites on Google Web Search, Google Product Search, and Google AdWords ads. Now, retailers and manufacturers using Bazaarvoice can easily leverage their product review content to drive more high-quality traffic from Google, as well as provide brand exposure to qualified shoppers. Consumers benefit from immediate access to opinions from other customers as they research and complete purchases, adding relevance and authenticity. Bazaarvoice is Google’s first publicly integrated platform partner for product review content and is making the new capabilities immediately available to retailers and manufacturers as SyndicateVoiceTM for Search. “In the past four years, there has been a tremendous change in consumer shopping behavior as people increasingly rely on information from their friends and peers to make purchase decisions,” said Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice. “Our clients’ innovative use of the voice of the customer has helped Bazaarvoice become one of the fastest growing technology companies today. Now, Google is affirming the power of social commerce with this partnership to integrate Bazaarvoice reviews content into Google.com - the heart of its business - as well as throughout product search and advertising vehicles. It is a big honor to be Google’s partner in this industry first, and this will be transformational for our retail clients and their suppliers.” “HSN, a leading interactive multichannel retailer, is a client of Bazaarvoice. Two of the most utilized tools for consumers on the Web are search and consumer-generated product reviews,” said Brian Bradley, HSN's Executive Vice President of HSN.com and Advanced Services. “The partnership between Google and Bazaarvoice offers HSN a tremendous opportunity to increase brand exposure and product visibility by surfacing product reviews in search results and ads. The result is real value for consumers, who gain immediate access to authentic customer opinions on our products, and increased traffic and sales for HSN.” Getting More from Reviews and Google: SyndicateVoice for Search Bazaarvoice’s industry-leading social commerce platform supports product Ratings & Reviews, Ask & Answer, and Stories on more than 800 leading sites. Now, with client permission, Bazaarvoice can tap the power of the platform to easily and automatically feed full-text product reviews to Google on behalf of the retailer. The integration provides retailers and manufacturers the opportunity to boost brand exposure through: The data feed of full-text review content is available through Bazaarvoice’s new SyndicateVoice for Search offering. SyndicateVoice for Search lets brand sites capture purchase-ready searchers at every stage of the purchase process. User-generated content provides fresh content that relates directly to products in the customer’s language, using the same words shoppers would use to find products. SyndicateVoice for Search allows Bazaarvoice customers to boost brand exposure and increase sales. SyndicateVoice for Search is immediately available to retailers and manufacturers.
Micro-blogging platform Twitter and business networking site LinkedIn, which has 50 million registered users, have announced a partnership to enable their users to cross-post their status updates.
Allen Blue, LinkedIn's co-founder and VP of product strategy, announced the decision on the LinkedIn blog: "The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, you can send that message to your LinkedIn connections as well, from any Twitter service or tool.
The way that the integration works on the Twitter side is especially interesting, because you can choose between two versions: you can decide to use the Twitter settings to send all of your tweets, or select certain tweets from Twitter back to LinkedIn as a status update which you mark with the hashtag #li or #in.
watch Reid Hoffman and Biz Stone talk...
