Facebook Stock Takes A Dump On Itself

It seems like all those huge financial institutions holding a majority of Facebook shares over the past year may have been a little too aggressive with their plans to dump their shares on small investors at huge premiums compared to Google and other high tech flyers. As the crazy waves of massive selling continue, the [...]

 
Heello Microblogging Social Network

What is Heello? Think Twitter without 10 million news feeds and spam bots. There aren’t trending topics or idiots trying hijack them (yet). Search doesn’t really exist yet. What does exist is a very simplified social networking platform that resembles the twitter we orignally fell in love with before Guy Kawasaki started having his secretaries [...]

 
Facebook Blocking Affiliate Networks?

Facebook once was friends with affiliate networks, but abuse by a small percentage of rogue affiliates may spoil the party for everyone. Facebook will likely ban all affiliate networks because FB will never have the resources to work one on one with affiliate networks to identify and terminate only the abusive publishers. No matter what [...]

 
Facebook IPO Timing Could Be Disastrous

Facebook rolled the dice by shelving their IPO until at least 2012. Google+ is gaining hype and users daily while Facebook is seeing it’s first months of decline in US user accounts. This environment will not lend to the huge share price surges the hail mary month over month growth from the past 2 years [...]

 
Facebook Ad Disapproved: Negative User Feedback

One of the few drawbacks of dealing the Facebook self-serve advertising platform is that some entire successful campaigns can be disabled if the ads receive enough negative user feedback. The typical message advertisers see when ads are disapproved goes something like: “This ad has been disapproved due to negative user feedback concerning the ad’s content. [...]

 
 The 80/20 Rule for Effective Social Networking

Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and other social networks that provide or feature status updates from users have taken the internet by storm over the past several years. MySpace helped lead the Web 2.0 revolution before it crashed and burned. Now Facebook seems like it could be headed down the same path. Originally, the first huge wave [...]

 
MyLife.com Drops Ads from Facebook

Has MyLife.com banned the use of Facebook and MySpace as sources of traffic in their affiliate program? I received the following email on April 6th from one of my associates that seems to indicate it’s true: “Dear Valued Affiliate, Effective today, all MyLife affiliates are restricted from advertising on Facebook and MySpace. Please make the [...]

 
MySpace CEO Quits As Facebook Has 10x Daily Reach

Owen Van Natta, the CEO of MySpace since April 2009, is on his way out. Owen was hired from rival Facebook where he served as Chief Operating Officer. In a statement, MySpace said Mr Natta will be replaced a by two people, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn. This is probably the best thing that could [...]

 

Facebook topped Google‘s traffic again on New Year’s Eve, marking the 3rd time in a 7 day period the Social Networking giant exceeded Google’s US Visitor count according to Hitwise, an independent traffic monitoring firm. Apparently people were constantly updating their status with their latest meal highlights and wishing holiday greetings to their 300 friends [...]

 
Facebook Click Prices Take NYE Rest

Finally, after more than seven days of outrageous prices, Facebook ads are back in the zone. Noticeably, the United Kingdom, France, Norway, and Canada are showing cost per click declines around 50% versus one week ago. Are advertisers simply taking a break for the New Years holiday? Did affiliates burn up their ad spend during [...]

 

Zuckerberg creates new class of stock in preparation for selling to institutions and the public. Insiders have been talking about the possibly of an IPO for months, but today the dual stock class decision is a clear indication that your chance to own some powerless B class shares is coming soon ;-) I think I’ll [...]

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