Facebook and other social media, such as Twitter and YouTube, enable businesses to announce events, sales and specials and get instant feedback from patrons, as merchants have discovered. LA Times has confirmed that Merchants are using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other online outlets to connect with customers, build relationships and save money. The social sites [...]
The number of Internet users who visited a social network or a blog increased by 24 percent, from April 2009 to April 2010, while the average person spent 66 percent more time on those sites during that period, according to new statistics from the Nielsen Company. About 75 percent of all Internet users visited a [...]
In a smart move, Facebook has acquired FriendFeed for 50 million dollars from it’s founders. All 12 FriendFeed employees, including the founders (four ex-Google employees) will join Facebook, giving Facebook a boost to its engineering talent. Several features make FriendFeed unique and explain it’s approximately one million subscribers. FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that [...]
Social Networks have become very popular in the Internet. This can be understood as a natural outcome of the increasing use of the Internet in our daily life. You could say it is people helping other people. Take for example “Social Bookmarking” – someone collects interesting, relevant bookmarks, and then shares them with the community. [...]