Amazon - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:48:18 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Facebook Joins Fortune 500 Facebook is in some great company right now, with Amazon, eBay, and Yahoo, on the Fortune 500 list. Fortune announced that the social network cracked the prestigious list for the first time, coming in at No. 482 — 12 spots ahead of Yahoo.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-joins-fortune-500_b116684#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-joins-fortune-500_b116684 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116684 Mon, 06 May 2013 15:31:35 +0000 Facebook’s 1Q Lobbying Tab: $2.45M You can’t get to 1.11 billion friends without spending a few dollars: Consumer Watchdog reported that the social network spent $2.45 million on lobbying efforts during the first quarter of 2013, up a whopping 277 percent from $650,000 in the year-earlier period.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/1q-2013-lobbying_b116603#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/1q-2013-lobbying_b116603 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116603 Fri, 03 May 2013 16:00:09 +0000 Ecwid: Facebook Storefronts Stay The Course In 1Q Facebook commerce provider Ecwid reported continued momentum for small and midsized retailers using its storefronts on the social network, saying that orders rose 37 percent in the first quarter versus the year-earlier period, while sales jumped 26 percent during the same period.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/ecwid-1q_b116394#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/ecwid-1q_b116394 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116394 Wed, 01 May 2013 15:04:19 +0000 Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Tops Glassdoor’s List Of 50 Highest-Rated CEOs Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is No. 1 — at least according to Glassdoor, as the social jobs and career community released its list of the 50 highest-rated CEOs, as voted on by employees, and the leader of the social network led the pack.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-glassdoor-ceos_b112997#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-glassdoor-ceos_b112997 http://allfacebook.com/?p=112997 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:00:19 +0000 Can Your Facebook Likes Give Away Your Identity? Many Facebook users worry about their personal identities being compromised on the social network through unfortunate photos or tagged posts. But a University of Cambridge study shows that it’s possible to gain information such as political affiliation and ethnicity just from seeing Facebook users’ likes. Social security firm Secure.me also published a top 10 list of the Facebook applications that require this information when users connect to them.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/cambridge-study-facebook-likes_b112744#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/cambridge-study-facebook-likes_b112744 http://allfacebook.com/?p=112744 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:54:25 +0000 ‘Fortune’ Reveals World’s Most Admired Companies; Facebook Makes List At No. 48 Facebook secured a spot on Fortune’s 30th annual World’s Most Admired Companies list — barely. The social network came in at No. 48 on the list of 50 firms.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/fortune-worlds-most-admired-companies_b111895#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/fortune-worlds-most-admired-companies_b111895 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111895 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:02:58 +0000 STUDY: Facebook Accounted For 8.48% Of All Web Searches During 4Q Of 2012 Five websites accounted for 20 percent of all search activity during the fourth quarter of 2012, and Facebook sat atop that list, as the subject of 8.48 percent of all searches during the period, according to the latest research from Experian Marketing Services.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/experian-marketing-services-4q-2012_b111154#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/experian-marketing-services-4q-2012_b111154 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111154 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:49:34 +0000 The Pros And Cons Of Facebook’s Domain Sponsored Stories More companies are catching on to a Facebook ad product that used to be mainly used by Amazon: domain sponsored stories. For instance, if you share a link from Amazon, the company can then share that link again on friends’ news feeds at a later date. Facebook marketing expert Jon Loomer wrote in-depth about how a page administrator can create a domain sponsored story and gain successful click-through rates on those ads, but Inside Facebook noted that they can often be confusing for users.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-facebooks-domain-sponsored-stories_b110541#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-facebooks-domain-sponsored-stories_b110541 http://allfacebook.com/?p=110541 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:55:50 +0000 What Does The Facebook Card Mean For Brands? Last week, Facebook entered the gift card market with the Facebook Card — a new addition to Facebook Gifts. Unlike other gift card options offered by Gifts, this is a plastic card that can be used at Target, Sephora, Jamba Juice, and Olive Garden. Noah Mallin, vice president of social media for brand agency Digitas, thinks that the Facebook Card could be a very powerful way that brands learn more about users’ spending habits, and it could also revolutionize mobile ads.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-card-brands_b110107#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-card-brands_b110107 http://allfacebook.com/?p=110107 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:53:33 +0000 Facebook Wants To Speak With Poke Users Facebook is poking around into what users of its recently released Poke iPhone application think, tapping research firm Ethnio to conduct phone interviews via Skype or GoToMeeting.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/poke-phone-surveys_b108333#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/poke-phone-surveys_b108333 http://allfacebook.com/?p=108333 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:54:29 +0000 Facebook Scraps Specific App Metrics, Moves To Tiers It’s not just Instagram: Facebook plans to change the way all applications are measured. In a post on its developer blog Wednesday, Facebook noted that instead of revealing specific metrics such as apps’ actual monthly active user and daily active user totals, the social network will instead rank apps and place them in tiers.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-scraps-specific-app-metrics-moves-to-tiers_b108269#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-scraps-specific-app-metrics-moves-to-tiers_b108269 http://allfacebook.com/?p=108269 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:22:02 +0000 INFOGRAPHIC: The Year In Facebook And Social Games 2012 was a big year for games on Facebook, as hits such as Angry Birds, SongPop, and Dragon City were played by millions of users all over the world. Rebel Entertainment (makers of Dungeon Rampage) put together an infographic showing how social games left their mark last year.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/infographic-the-year-in-facebook-and-social-games_b107869#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/infographic-the-year-in-facebook-and-social-games_b107869 http://allfacebook.com/?p=107869 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:37:03 +0000 Big Brands Placing Holiday Bets On Facebook Domain Sponsored Stories On Black Friday, I posted an update on Facebook with an affiliate link to Amazon’s product page for Razor scooters. Nearly two weeks later, Dec. 6, this update was still showing up in the feeds of friends, only the post had been changed slightly, with a sponsored designation. This is a prime example of Facebook’s domain sponsored stories in action.

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]]> Guest Writer http://allfacebook.com/cowley-domain-sponsored-stories_b106684#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/cowley-domain-sponsored-stories_b106684 http://allfacebook.com/?p=106684 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:08:30 +0000 Social Gifting On Facebook Trending Toward Local Experiences As Facebook looks for ways to monetize its presence, the company rolled out Gifts earlier this year — a program that is now available to all U.S. users. But Facebook wasn’t the first, and certainly won’t be the last, to test the social gift market. Several other companies — such as Plumfare, Boomerang, Treater, and GiftHit — use Facebook to deliver experiences that can’t be captured with gift cards.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/gifting-local-experiences_b106660#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/gifting-local-experiences_b106660 http://allfacebook.com/?p=106660 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:52:28 +0000 Amazon Friends & Family Gifting Feature Taps Into Data On Facebook Friends Ecommerce giant Amazon incorporated Facebook into its new Friends & Family Gifting feature, which allows its customers to tap into the social network, as well as Twitter and Pinterest, for shopping help.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/amazon-friends-family-gifting_b106661#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/amazon-friends-family-gifting_b106661 http://allfacebook.com/?p=106661 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:09:43 +0000