In the face of hundreds of thousands of complaints, Facebook relented this evening saying that it would make some tweaks to the Twitter-like redesign it introduced earlier this month. Users had complained that the new design was unnecessary—and difficult to navigate. In a blog post, Facebook Director of Product Christopher Cox said that users will [...]

A recent collaborative effort by SEOmoz CEO Randfish and David Klein offers advice on how best to leverage advertising on Facebook and build investment confidence in the space.
The following is a summary of their findings, posted on SEOmoz.com.

Facebook, sporting hundreds of millions of users, makes a compelling case for investing (chart via Nielsen) in the [...]

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TV.com, a unit of CBS Corp., said Thursday that it has begun beta testing a high-definition video gallery that allows users to watch ad-supported repurposed network programming online in 1080p resolution.
Supported by Adobe System’s Flash platform, the 1080p video gallery (www.tv.com/1080p) will augment the site’s current HD gallery, photos, news, interactive forum [...]

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Over the past 20 years, there’s been much speculation about what the convergence of computers and TV would ultimately look like. Paul Graham says that we now know the answer: computers.
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Facebook launched several new features that many say take a direct shot at Twitter, the microblogging site that Facebook tried to acquire late last year. Twitter is all about real-time communication, while Facebook has been focused on fueling communication through interactivity. With the launch of these new features, however, Facebook is now [...]

When Facebook overhauled its user interface last year, dozens of “protest groups” cropped up from members that didn’t like it. The social network stuck to its guns on the changes, and Chris Cox, Facebook’s director of product, said people actually ended up using the site more.
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A few weeks after AOL (NYSE: TWX) denied it would hastily offload its $850 million Bebo acquisition, the social network is trumpeting a whole roster of new products offered not just through Bebo, but through AOL itself, AIM, ICQ and AOL’s mobile products, each of which is harmonizing user profiles. Designed to [...]

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What ad models most effectively reach social networkers, today? According to the social networkers themselves, opt-in advertising works best, while behavior-based campaigns and randomly generated ads are far less successful.
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Twitter is becoming ever-more powerful. You can tell when businesses, brands and governments start putting skin in the game.
Were you just as shocked as I was to see the attention that the general election in Canada was giving to Twitter on the night that we chose our government? Every so often, the TV hosts would [...]