Facebook begins another round of ‘talent acquisitions’.

Right in the beginning Facebook owner, Mark Zuckerberg, grabbed the passion of Sheryl Sandberg from Google to help move them from start-up to multi-national ultra-billion-dollar organisation. Recently, they acquired the whole team at Gowalla, to add to their growing team of extremely talented developers. They did so in a manner that allows Facebook to add the […]

Facebook declares mobile messaging war with free dedicated chat application

Many Android and iPhone users have had the opportunity to install the Facebook Messenger application that provides a dedicated stand-alone chat/messaging interface for communication with their ‘friends’ via their mobile phones. This application is now available for Blackberry users too, when BIS is working that is *cough*. This moves Facebook into competition with, well… everybody. […]

Tell-a-friend: Facebook was, is and will ALWAYS be free to use!

Once again a rumour is circulating rapidly about paid packages for Facebook. This is not true and is not even feasible in Facebook’s business structure, that runs on allowing users to use their features more and more on various platforms. Please be more logical with what you help spread. You’re friends trust you, and that’s […]

FB Timeline: Your Activity Feed (Control what is shown)

As we continue to dig deeper into the new Timeline profiles on Facebook, we came across the ‘Activity Feed‘. This will become a blessing to many users who would like to streamline or manually edit what appears in their timeline. The activity feed is available and visible to you, only. You can go back till […]

FB Timeline: User Information

Over the next few days we will be testing and implementing upgrades across our platforms to allow for more integration into the new Facebook Timelines. During this process we will also be posting updates to cool features, bugs or for-your-info’s about this new profile structure on the social network. Today we looked at the User […]

Mindblowing Facebook change: [verb] any [noun]

During the last year, the ‘like’ button has become a part of the internet. This was part of Facebook’s mission to connect interests to people after connecting people to people. Instead of originally letting people ‘liking’ actual objects, the new changes will allow any user to [verb] any [noun]. This sounds simple, but think of […]

Mindblowing Facebook change: New profile layout (timeline)

As the heart of the Facebook experience is the profile, they are releasing a new layout that will allow you to express yourself more over a long period of time, rather than just right now. The way they propose to do this is by enabling a new layout in the form of a ‘timeline’ that […]

Why the September 2011 new Facebook layout is great for YOU!

We saw hints of what was to come a few days ago when we caught the subtle top-bar change on Facebook, and have seen many new features being tested around over the last few weeks, but this morning Facebook unleashed a new layout onto its 500million+ users. This will obviously be met by the critics […]

Facebook Subscribers: What does it actually mean?

We’ve been watching this development over the last day or so and have seen that Facebook will be making a move to a more Twitter-like approach to personal-brands (ie celebrities, journalists and other public figures). What the change essentially does is allows other Facebook users to opt-in to receiving public status updates, links and shares […]

Bringing checking in to Cyprus, the right way.

We’ve been working hard on finding a way to enable effective Facebook Places campaigns with a high ROI for our clients here in Cyprus, and we’ve managed to get it working. This weekend we are testing our very first ‘check in offer’ using Facebook’s Places via the 7 Seas fan page. The entertainment manager will […]