Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed some exciting new upgrades to Facebook Platform last Wednesday at f8. I attended the London Facebook Developer Garage with friends @OliverWaters and @JoshuaBaker and watched 'Zuck' spill the beans in San Francisco via a live stream. Facebook have created easy to use 'Social Plugins' for developers to use across the web. These social plugins allow anyone the ability to add a 'Like' button to any webpage on the web. The beauty of the 'Like' or 'Recommend'
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After watching this very short interesting video post by Thomas Power, it raised many questions in my head about how the world's banking mechanics could completely change if social 'peer to peer' lending is introduced on a mass scale medium. Facebook is clearly the perfect network for it to happen on with an approximate billion people on the site by 2012. I'm still surprised Thomas' video hasn't had 100,000's of views, I first viewed it at 3k hits - I'm
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There are many Twitter programs out there that everyone raves about in the Twitterverse. Most of them promise lots and then tend to offer little value or 'under deliver'. I had around 150 followers last summer and I wanted more people to follow my tweets and visit my websites/blogs. Everything has since changed after I stumbled upon the holy grail of Twitter productivity tools, Tweetspinner. With now over 12,000 Twitter followers, my account has flourished with business and networking opportunities, new real friends
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Most of you probably now know about Google Buzz unless you've been hiding under a rock the past few days. 'Buzz' is Google's latest attempt to break into the Social Media realm and after a good ol' play it's actually pretty good. "Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting." On my blog you'll now see a 'buzz this' icon in between 'Tweetmeme' and 'Facebook Share'. The Buzz This button is currently not
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Although I've only recently setup my own Facebook Fan Page, I have used the following method to automatically display RSS feeds from blogs across many fan pages. This only takes a few clicks and can really help engage your readers with new published content from your site via Facebook. Keeping all of your subscribers, followers, friends and contacts informed of all your new posts via different social sites like Google Reader, Twitter and Facebook is essential to maximise your exposure and catch their
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For those of you that have read my story, you'll know I messed up my little "i <3 MySpace" t-shirt business a long time ago, just look at them - they suck. That aside, while I was tidying in the loft today I found 10 MySpace t-shirts left over in a big plastic bag and rather than throw them away I thought I'll see if anyone wants a free tee via Twitter. So... for your Free Tee: Retweet this post Leave a Comment
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Are you tired of having to update your status on 10 different social networks when you want to share something interesting with the world? If the answer is yes, then get yourself over to Ping.FM, It updates your status across 50 social networks in one single update. What's even better is that you can make your Ping.FM update via instant messaging services like Skype, MSN, AIM or even my favourite GTalk, so you can even update whilst in your browser
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Adding a mailing list to your Facebook fan page can really boost your number of subscribers. This post is written for people that have an AWeber mailing list account. If you have not got one yet, check out my post on 'Why you MUST have a Mailing List on your Website'. One of my favourite things about Facebook Fan pages is that you are able to embed HTML into a Tab. AWeber provides you with an embed code for your mailing
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