Bing Adds Social Media Face To Its Search Engine
In the ever increasing fight to stay relevant, Microsoft’s Bing search engine is making headway in attracting social media users. As part of its revamp, starting this week, Bing will input more searches based on your social media following and unlike giant rival Google, will include the option to get your Facebook friends’ direct input [...]
Facebook Opens Up The App Center
On the verge of makings its stock market debut, Facebook is rolling out its very own app store in the coming days. It is Facebook’s second attempt at centralizing the myriad of apps that make the social media site home into one store and, as another way for the social networking site to make some [...]
Is A Facebook “Like” Free Speech?
Depending on your opinion, you are probably going to “dislike” what you’re about to read (If they only had those buttons—but that’s a different story for a different day). Last week, a judge in Virginia ruled that a public employee’s like of a political opponent that resulted in his firing did not fall under protected [...]
The Downside of Facebook Brand pages
Toast, naps, Justin Bieber…you name it, I have probably like it on Facebook. Since brand pages first showed up on my sidebar in 2007, I have been liking and becoming a fan of a wide variety of pages without fear of retribution. I could handle it when things I had liked started showing up on [...]
3 Questions About Facebook Privacy
According to a recent Consumer Reports survey, the magazine estimates that as many as 13 million don’t use or have little idea about the privacy controls offered by the social media giant Facebook [mind you they only surveyed 2,000 people, so it’s an estimate at best]. With Facebook changing its privacy setting more often than [...]
Should We Take Facebook Boycott Pages Seriously?
Early yesterday, Mashable published a story detailing a dying veteran’s struggle with Spirit Airlines and the resulting public backlash on Facebook. The boycott is in response to Spirit Airlines denying Jerry Meekins, a 76-year-old war veteran, a refund after his doctors told him that he could not travel due to his terminal esophageal cancer. Meekins [...]
5 ways to spend one hour of social media silence
Free time, remember that? From summer camp or elementary school recess? In the golden days of your childhood you were given an hour or so to do whatever you wanted. Perhaps the reason that this idea of free time is a thing of the past is because every potentially free second we have is filled [...]
Facebook Cares: They Share Your Organ Donor Status
First it was your relationship status, then it was those photos from your fraternity days and with that timeline feature, your whole life is an open book. Now Facebook wants you to share your body—by being an organ donor. That’s right, the share-happy social media site is adding a feature on the timeline that lets [...]
Are You Really My Friend?: An Interview with Tanja Hollander
Portland, Maine-based photographer Tanja Hollander ambitiously sets out to photograph every single one of her over 600 “friends” on Facebook, whether they are close or distant in both world and heart, in her art project titled “Are You Really My Friend?” While many of us may have never seriously questioned the broad or particular meanings [...]
4 Reasons Why Dove’s Facebook Ad Campaign is Awesome
I read this on Mashable yesterday, and I literally can’t stop thinking about it. This is possibly one of the most brilliant social media marketing campaigns I have EVER seen. So just to give you guys the lowdown, Dove created a Facebook app that aims to replace all those ads you’ve seen that make women [...]
