Design Change for Notifications on Brand Timelines show Photos

One thing we are very aware of is that photos are big part of the future of social media for brands. And Facebook know’s this too. With the latest change to the notification area of the Admin Panel, content administrators can now see what photos a user has liked or commented on in a glance. […]

Beautiful Photo Collage Pages coming to Facebook!

In an attempt to make photo browsing a more enjoyable experience, the photo panel of timelines will soon be switched to a beautiful collage mode. Although the official news story from Facebook doesn’t state when we will see a global rollout of this feature, we are looking forward to yet another upgrade to the way […]

How, and Why, to quickly add Open Graph meta tags to your WordPress Blog

Meta tags are little snippets that give robots, search engines and social networks information on your articles. Let us go over how to add them to your wordpress blog and then why and then even give you a bonus once you’ve gotten it all done. First, the how: We found a quick little plugin for […]

ANOTHER reason why users will HATE groups for Brands on Facebook

We’ve been going on and on and on about why brands should NOT create groups, but instead use Fanpages/Brand Timelines… Today, Facebook began rolling out a feature that shows you exactly who has seen each post. (via Techcrunch) This is not a bad thing when a group is used for it primary function, but users […]

Homepage Ads kick in, and why Apple’s geniuses will close Facebook tabs faster!

Some users, like Ryan Spoon, have already seen the implementation of Facebook’s newest media offering, a homepage take-over advertisement for eBay. A large display area on one of the most popular ‘left on screen’ pages we’ve ever seen, that ties in with a pretty useless* social advert displayed in the bottom right hand corner. As […]

Facebook adds ‘Voice’ Menu for page admins

Just noticed a cheeky update to our fanpage/timeline on Facebook, that allows admins to choose how they respond/interact as they work. Previously, admins needed to choose an overall setting as to how they would be displayed in comments and likes on their brands’ timelines. Now, admins can choose how to be portrayed on a case-by-case […]

Busy testing out Facebook’s new official WordPress tie-in

It’s been a while coming, and today Facebook finally announced their own official plugin for WordPress. We’ve just begun testing it now, and will be doing even more vigurous testing with our partners at Divine Advertising over the next few weeks. (We are still busy testing another social integration method that opens up a site […]

You wouldn’t buy fake condoms. The same goes for Likes/Followers.

Brands all over the world are still ‘buying‘ likes and followers to appear to have the following online that matches the expectation created by their perceived offline popularity. (A bit of a mouthful we know, but bear with us) Whilst we can understand the WANT to appear to have 10’s of thousands more likes or […]

Why targeted ads are good for you.

There are many campaigns around the internet trying to stop companies like Facebook and Google from using the information you share with them to target ads at you, but we disagree with them. Not only as marketeers, but mostly as consumers, we find that the more targeted an advert is, the more successful it is. […]

Facebook offers an extra 50 million shares to investors

Those looking to invest in the social network will be happy to know that they have now bumped their total share offering to just below 337,500,000 shares. Facebook had this to say: We and the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters the right to purchase up to an additional 50,612,302 shares of Class A common […]