Month: January 2011
10 reasons your business should get into Facebook Deals
Don't dismiss the Facebook Deals announcement today as one for just the advertisers and social media wonks. This is one for anyone who sells anything: whether it's jeans, gig tickets or coffee. If you've got a brand and it has some kind of physical location, you can do something with this. And Facebook deals can…
Facebook Deals: cheap coffee but bad chat? Do we want brands in our conversations?
So it's going to be good for brands. And good for getting some cheap things - free coffees, discounted fashion sure - but I just have a hunch that Facebook Deals is not going to be good for the chat. The banter. The conversation. You know what I mean. Sometimes people say really interesting things…
VIDEO DEMO: How Facebook Deals will work
Facebook users in the UK with the app for iPhone or Android phones will soon be able to claim deals and vouchers with their phone. We grabbed an iPhone at the Facebook Europe conference and shot a quick video of how Facebook deals will work: When you see a list of places to check into…
Facebook Deals philosophy: The wisdom of friends, not the wisdom of crowds
Facebook spokespeople discussed the philosophy behind the new Facebook Deals programme at the launch in Facebook Europe. Emily White Director of Local flew in from the States to explain that it meant harnessing the wisdom of friends rather than the wisdom of crowds - a shift from the traditional model of the internet. White said…
FACEBOOK DEALS: Announcement today
Facebook launched a new service called Facebook Deals. Using Facebook Places, Facebook ads and the Facebook networks.it will bring a new sort of social buying and offer a new way to monetise Facebook's network. Joanna Shields Facebook VP EMEA said it would help "brands and businesses share and connect with our users". She said: "The…
One problem with this Facebook Friendship Test thing – it will kill humourous photo tagging
We've seen in the press today that Facebook will be putting in a place a "friendship test" where users may be shown pictures of their friends and asked to identify them - to prove that they are the true account holders. However the official Facebook Blog says nothing about this so we're not sure if…
Tweetdeck's Dreck.ly feature busts open 140 character limit and creates a potential rival to Twitter
Tweetdeck is known as one of the best web apps for Twitter, but could the handy service actually start to rival the social network that it provides a conduit for? Well possibly and it looks like it's taking on Twitter on one of its strengths - the 140 character limit that has proved so popular.…
LEAK: the new HTC flagship Android
Say hello to the world's new top Android phone - if rumours are to be believed - that's it up there, snapped out in the wild by a keen-eyed tipster who sent the photos to Engadget. HTC are likely to make the big official announcement about their new phone at Mobile World Congress in two…
A flip-out bum-bag for iPad: The way to look like a dork
Cancel out any cool kudos that iPad brings you by casing it in this little piece of geek-gear that affixes it to your stomach. In many ways this kangaroo style front cradle looks kind of useful. Convenient and safe, it lets you operate your iPad with just one hand. And you could sort of cuddle…
Is it a handbag..? no – it's a car! Citroen DS3 gets an Orla Kiely makeover
You may be more used to seeing those little acorn and stem designs from Orla Kiely on pencils and laptop bags, but Citroen have just gone and pasted them all over a car. A car which you, dear reader, can go and buy. Though they mocked-up a wrap-over patterned car for the concept model, what…
