Link: The New Facebook Groups: All You Need To Know “Today Facebook announced a revamped Groups product. However most people are either still not aware about what this means or unaware of what all the features are. This post will answer all of your questions.” by Nick O’Neill on All Facebook
Link: Is Facebook Suffocating the Rest of Social Media? “Forrester Research recently released a 2010 update to its Social Technographics® data that analyzes the social behaviors of global Internet users.” Jay’s commentary on his interpretation of this new research is not what I would have expected. How about you? by Jay Baer (@jaybaer)
Link: Facebook Unveils Recommended Subscriptions Might this turn out to be a big thing? Facebook, more than almost anyone else, knows a ton about each one of us. If anyone could churn over our various tastes and activities and generate focused recommendations, it might be Facebook. See what this author thinks… Oh ya, and check…
Link: Breaking: Facebook Places Launches in Canada “At long last, Mark Zuckerberg can know where you are in Canada. Yes, Facebook Places has been turned on for Canadians! I’m waiting for the rush of excitement, but I’m wondering if …” by @TheNextWebCA
Link: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes @TechCrunch has already received a few hundred emails from users, mentioning that they cannot currently access facebook.com. Many are getting a DNS error, others are seeing other errors, but to many, Facebook doesn’t currently exist.
Link: How to Use Facebook and Twitter to Drive Traffic to Your Retail Shop “I’m always surprised at how few retail spaces take advantage of Twitter and Facebook (yes, there are exceptions). The costs are low, the risks are manageable and your customers are already using the platforms. By engaging customers ‘where they live,’ you…
Link: The difference between Facebook vs the *new* Twitter Here is a chart that takes the main improvements in the *new* Twitter web experience that was just announced, and compares them to the Facebook environment, on a one-by-one comparison including an explanation of the rationale for each conclusion. by Chris Saad (@chrissaad) and Jeremiah Owyang…
Link: The Implications Of Consumers Spending More Time With Facebook Than Google “Any informed person knew the trends and expected this to happen, so whether Google or Facebook is No. 1 is less interesting than what the trend really means. This week’s news is not as immediately dire for Google nor as immediately beneficial for…
Link: FarmVille (on Facebook) vs. Real Farms [INFOGRAPHIC] This InfoGraphic contains some very interesting, albeit unexpected, statistics comparing this very active online game to its real-life counterpart, on many levels (real stats). I found the large orders of magnitude quite telling. by Shane Snow on @Mashable
Link: Users amused, annoyed by Facebook Places “It’s been two weeks since Facebook users took to blogs and message boards to voice their concerns about Places, a location-based service that allows people to check in to gathering spots via the social network.” Here are some more recent comments from users and their differing experiences. by…
