A few months ago we covered how Facebook officially said that there was no plans to implement a premium user group to boost their revenue. Today however a few friends of ours were greeting with an option to pay to promote or highlight their posts to even more people. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to the […]
A few days ago, Facebook announced that they have reached a partnership with some major online security companies. In order to enforce how seriously it takes user’s online security and privacy, they have informed us that they will be combining efforts to combat the rise in eWorms and Scams that are designed to spread via […]
It’s not a big update, but we saw that Facebook has added a little gem to their chat system. Hovering over a friend’s name now displays a new button to go directly to their timeline. Well done Facebook, and thanks for listening to your users’ ideas!
This is going to be a rather short post informing you that as we get ready to push our Copy Paste Meme app out of beta, we have begun testing some big memes due to popular demand. What to expect in the next release: More large memes. Ability for users to add their own memes […]
We noticed that more than one chat window was staying open for some of us yesterday… this we assumed was a bug due to the way Facebook’s chat used to mess up in the past. We then noticed that all the conversations continued to work as expected. This made us realise that it hadn’t crashed, […]
What an exciting day, and the Facebook Marketing Conference hasn’t even started yet! We just noticed that users will be able to message a brand privately. This could become a crucial part of the customer service a brand can now offer directly through Facebook. From what we can tell, users can message a brand and […]
We were waiting patiently, whilst preparing a few campaigns for launch tomorrow, to hear how Facebook was planning to change the marketing of brands through it’s network. We all expected them to announce the timelines for pages and many worried about what implications this would be for the tabs we have all invested massive resources […]
We’ve often heard of people disabling the whole Facebook chat service because they don’t like to let everyone of their friends seeing that they’re online. This might be even more necessary during exam, work, or quiet time. You may not want the whole of your social circle being able to talk to you, but allow […]
Facebook have upgraded their overlay pop-up photo browser. From our observations this is good for: Brands/Users – More emphasis is given to the source of the image. Whether it be a user or a fan page, the prominence of the information may lead to more followers if a photo is re-shared. Advertisers – More prominent […]
We are currently busy testing an unreleased plugin that will allow users of our clients’ blogs to login and comment using any of the big three social networks. The tests are currently being run on our very own OnThisIsland.com where we have successfully setup the additional login levels above the existing Facebook login system. Once […]