GM tackles Facebook over Ads
Some ackward news hits the wire days before Facebook’s historic $105 billion IPO; General Motors said it plans to stop advertising on the social media site, concluding that its paid ads don’t have a big More...
Facebook’s Telescope on Human Behavior
MIT’s Technology Review has an interesting interview explaining Facebook’s efforts to mine its piles of data and why it says the effort can help explain why people act as they do. More...
Israel Loves Iran
An online call for peace initiated by an Israeli couple has managed to achieve the support of 1,000 Israelis and Iranians. And it all began with two posters. More...
Team Great Britain Olympic Kit Blues
Uh oh, trouble in the Empire. Fashion designer Stella McCartney today showed off her designs for the 2012 London Olympics for Team GB as the head creative director for the project at Adidas. The design is inspired More...
Your Facebook Profile is Not as Private as You Think
Since the rise of social networking, it has become common for managers to review publically available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other sites to learn more about job candidates. But many users, especially More...
The Crash and Burn Personal Branding on Social Networks
While a growing staple of celebs, reality TV stars, athletes and everything between is getting smarter by the day in using their social media fanbase to promote their ‘business’ there are some, mostly More...
Chocolate and Facebook a Strategy To Think About
The Guardian has an interesting article from Word of Mouth Blogger Natalie Hardwick where she explores how social media campaigns can be used to revive discontinued (Chocolate) brands. Natalie has an interesting More...
Gowalla Shuts Down
Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The screenshot below can be found on the location startup turned travel guide‘s homepage. More...
Fake Facebook account of Commander embarrasses Nato
As well as their names, people routinely put personal email addresses, dates of birth, clues about their home address and personal and family pictures online. Some even state their current location, and messages More...
FHM Magazine cover banned for being racist
And another nice creative is pulled after a series of complaints from the morality minions on Facebook. This time the creative is the cover for the March edition of FHM Philippines. Reason for complaint; being racist. More...
New Meets Old Skool
If you think you can tweak your Facebook privacy settings to prevent your parents to read your juvenile rants: think again! Especially when your parent happens to be a bright IT-cookie and owns a Colt .45 stacked More...
AIM HIGH Starring: YOU
Facebook is one of the biggest websites in the history of the Internet and now Warner Bros. Digital Distribution are looking to do something entirely different with the social networking empire by rolling out Aim More...