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Instead of just posting, poking or collecting pieces of flare -- all fun Facebook pastimes -- Blackboard Inc. is helping students hit the books while logged on to the famed social networking site. (BBBB) ...

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The social networking site's coming redesign will be marked by a cleaner, more organized look to appeal to its vastly bigger, more diverse user base ...

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Source: mashable.com --- 35 minutes ago
Leave it to Virgin Mobile to come up with some crazy marketing schemes that usually work. Some of you may remember the Sugar Mama program that launched back in 2006, that lets you earn minutes for your monthly wireless bill by viewing advertising campaigns, other “creative materials,” referrals and taking quick quizzes and surveys. [...] ...

Source: www.imediaconnection.com --- 1 hour ago
MySpace and Facebook are locked in a head-to-head battle for users and advertising dollars, but it seems both will bring in less advertising revenue this year than predicted... ...

Source: www.downloadsquad.com --- 4 hours ago
Filed under: Productivity , Web services If you've been to college sometime in the past decade, you might have run up against Blackboard. It's an online assignment system that students generally dread logging into, because it usually means new work or more brown-nosing questions from that showoff in your class. That's not Blackboard's fault, though. To show they want to make things easier on their user base, the students, Blackboard is now on Facebook with an app called Blackboard Sync. A quick Google search shows that some colleges have been hacking together their own mashups of Blackboard and Facebook, which suggests to us that there's already a demand for this product. Granted, the move could have come sooner: now that Facebook is increasingly used by middle-aged PR officers who want to network -- heard of LinkedIn, guys? -- a lot of users are going to pass this by. For the college kids who still log into Facebook every day and use it as a primary mode of communication with friends, this is great. While you're making plans to go out drinking at the nearest fraternity, take a quick look at the Blackboard app to make sure you won't wake up with a last-minute assignment to finish. The business of Facebook application development has been dying off because nobody wants to lace their profile with annoying pirates, ninjas, mummies, or whatever the latest trend is. Applications that actually have value to Facebook's natural demo ...

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Source: ma.gnolia.com --- 2 hours ago
Facebook recenly released a guidebook for businesses titled: Facebook Insider’s Guide to Viral Marketing. Don’t get too excited about the title, just because you set up a Fan Page for your business and buy a few social ads does not mean you’ll unleash a profit-virus, or even make a ripple in the pond. But the guide does help you understand what Facebook has made available for you and how to get a Page all set up. Saved By: Frederik Van Zande | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: viral_marketing , social_marketing , Facebook , e-shop , e-marketing ...

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Source: chronicle.com --- 3 hours ago
The course-management company now offers a plug-in for the popular social-networking site. ...

Source: www.loogic.com --- 4 hours ago
Desde que Facebook tiene versión en español hemos empezado a ver como algunos proyectos hispanos preparan una versión para Facebook, en algunos casos se trata de llevar alguna utilidad específica a la red social y en otros casos de emular el funcionamiento completo con el objetivo de llegar a más usuarios. En el caso de la [...] ...

Source: www.loogic.com --- 4 hours ago
El 30 de mayo tendrá lugar el Barcelona Facebook Developer Garage, pude asistir al realizado en Madrid y os lo recomiendo para que veáis todas las posibilidades que existen entorno al desarrollo de aplicaciones para Facebook. Aquí tenéis los datos del evento: Fecha: Viernes, 30 de mayo de 2008 de 16:00 a 20:00h Ubicación: Sclipo Loft. Calle Atlantida [...] ...

Source: www.northbynorthwestern.com --- 4 hours ago
No, we haven’t yet figured out the literal significance of those five names that showed up beneath everyone’s Facebook search bar Tuesday. Facebook claims that it wasn’t a list of the people who search for you the most, nor was it a list of the people you search for. Supposedly, it was just Facebook’s guess [...] ...

Source: www.socialmediaportal.com --- 1 hour ago
Facebook Releases Site in PolishPALO ALTO, California /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook today announced another step towards enabling anyone in the world to communicate and share information with the people they know, regardless where they live or wh... ...

Source: www.bigblueball.com --- 3 hours ago
1338The recently launched Facebook Chat (http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/general-other-im-news/42439-first-look-Facebook-chat.html) has made waves, mainly because Facebook has so many users, and it automatically appears without requiring a software download or installation of a widget. Now there... ...

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Source: www.beyondvc.com --- 2 hours ago
As you know, I have always been a believer in open standards (see my post from January 2006 ).  Being a market leader, it is quite easy for Facebook to create their own standard similar to how every other instant messaging network was started.  And to that end, Facebook started down that path.  But just today, it announced that it was extending its chat and opening up its service by offering XMPP/Jabber support .  Assuming there are no restrictions, this is a huge win for openness.  Maybe one day Skype and MySpace and others will adopt the same strategy and move us to a world where we can IM anyone from any network and have one IM identity rather be forced to live in a world that was similar to the dark ages of email where Prodigy, Compuserve, and AOL users could only communicate with users on the same network.  Once Facebook starts with chat, maybe when and if it ever offers VOIP, it would leverage the open SIP standard as well. Rest assured that the development team at portfolio company Gizmo5 is digging into the details of the Facebook annoucement and in short order can offer seamless connectivity to Facebook chat from your mobile phone.  From the day Gizmo5 was started, it was built to live in a world of open standards leveraging the SIP protocol for VOIP and Jabber/XMPP for IM and Presence.  As you might imagine, the smaller networks who needed users were the ones to adopt open standards first.  Slowly but surely, larger ...

Source: www.hitsearchlimited.com --- 13 minutes ago
Thanks (once again) to Mashable for spotting an interesting online advertising innovation developed by VirginMobileUSA. They had pioneered Sugar Mama a mobile advertising system where you actually get mobile phone airtime for viewing ads…now a similar system has been developed for Facebook. Called Fund My Phone it credits your phone each time your Facebook friends [...] ...

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I am positively addicted to quizes ...

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Internet search leader Google Inc. is introducing tools that are supposed to make any Web site more sociable. via Tacoma News Tribune ...