July 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The latest software upgrade to Amazon’s Kindle reader adds some powerful social networking capability to its stripped down, early entry into the e-book reader market: Twitter and Facebook updates.
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Tags: Amazon, Facebook Twitter, Kindle, Kindle Reader, Software, tweets, update
July 20, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Facebook’s expected to announce its 500 millionth user soon, but the news is likely to be overshadowed by a recent survey that found its current users are terribly dissatisfied with the site.
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Tags: ACSI, American Customer Satisfaction Index, consumers, E-Business Report, Facebook, popularity
July 13, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Debt collectors have a new, insidious weapon in their search for folks who skip paying their bills: Facebook. The social network site has become a new way to track down deadbeats.
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Tags: debt collectors, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, FTC
June 7, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Seems that consumer advocates and politicians smell blood in the technology waters. The red stuff is flowing from the direction of Facbook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose awkward performance at a tech industry conference recently sent schools of predators swarming.
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Tags: CEO, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy
June 4, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
If your organization’s dragging its heels about creating a social media policy or strategy, the folks at the analyst firm Forrester might start looking at you with some pity.
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Tags: Forrester, policy, sex, social networking, strategy, usage
May 25, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Repeat after me: Facebook is a business, its job is to make money. Now, go check your Facebook privacy settings and see how you’re helping this Internet tsunami sweep through your life and contacts to add to their coffers.
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Tags: advertising, business model, Facebook, privacy features
April 27, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Where’s the biggest chunk of your business Internet traffic going? The answer may surprise you. A hint: It’s not always business related.
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Tags: business, Facebook, Network Box, Web traffic
April 16, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Only a short time out of the starting gate and the iPad’s almost snagged as much Web traffic volume as the stalwart BlackBerry and Google’s Android OS.
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Tags: Android, Blackberry, daily market share, iPad, NetApplications, OS, Web
April 12, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
You knew it was only a matter of time until Facebook’s meteoric rise in popularity morphed into the social networking site becoming a scapegoat for all the world’s ill. And that time has come.
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Tags: British, Facebook, public health, syphillis, U.K.
March 17, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The rewards of social networking are both social and, increasingly, financial. That’s driving folks to update their status in some bizarre places, a new study’s found.
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Tags: Facebook, Retrevo, socal networking, study, Twitter
