As reported on The Verge. By Ellis Hamburger It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to turn his focus back on users, not just investors We’ll be live blogging Facebook’s event tomorrow starting at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Check it out here! There’s no numerical evidence that Facebook has “lost its cool,” but you can feel it. You hear people talking about it. Instead of seeing Facebook blue illuminating the phones of fellow subway and bus riders, you…
As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER The past few years have been a rollercoaster ride for the social TV market. Driven by the growth of smartphone and tablet usage while viewers watch television, dozens of companies have emerged in that time to aggregate audiences who wish to share what they’re watching on TV with other, like-minded viewers. But for all the startups that have emerged to tackle the issue of social TV, only one…
As reported on TechCrunch. by JULIEN CODORNIOU Editor’s note: Julien Codorniou is the head of EMEA Game Partnerships at Facebook where he works with the growing social games industry in Europe. Follow Julien on Twitter @codorniou. New social gaming companies are emerging around the world (hot spots right now are Moscow, Tel Aviv and Helsinki), and in my role I get to speak with developers every day. Regardless of the size of the company, their locale, or…
As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Don’t spout off about social in the business world. Just use it to get the work done, because that’s what matters most. I have been reminded of that often during the year. Earlier this month, I wrote about Moxie Software and how it uses the Facebook social graph and a company’s social data to determine the context for chatting with a customer over a branded page. The company uses Facebook and social…
As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos Sure, Facebook may have scored one billion active monthly users earlier this fall, but Twitter has some celebrating to do as well — albeit for a significantly smaller figure. Rather than commemorating the announcement with an awkward commercial comparing itself to furniture, Twitter sent out a solitary tweet stating that it now has more than 200 million monthly active users. We last checked in on the microblogging service’s traction when it had 175…
As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE To prevent uncivil debates from breaking out on itsFacebook Page wall in the wake of the tragic shooting in Newtown, the National Rifle Association has unpublished its Facebook Page, presumably temporarily. The NRA hasn’t confirmed that it voluntarily hid the Page from the public, but Facebook is refusing to comment rather than saying it’s responsible as it typically does when it takes down Pages. The non-profit group that advocates to protect the…
As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Microsoft has unleashed Socl into beta for all comers to probe, bringing it out of the experimental stages and a step closer to a full-fledged site. We first heard about the project back in July when it was dubbed Tulalip, and MS Research’s Fuse Labs officially launched it internally and into some universities back in October last year. The site carries the Windows 8 tile-like look, and Fuse says that imagery is…
As reported on Mashable. by Todd Wasserman It’s almost 2013 and it seems like the whole world is on Facebook and Twitter. That’s pretty much true, except for that stubborn 24% of adult Americans who still haven’t joined Facebook, and for the five brands listed below. Pretty much every other major brand is tweeting and providing updates to its fans on Facebook, even those you’d think wouldn’t bother, like Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil. 1. Trader Joe’s The quirky, much-loved grocery…