In this report Goldman Sachs says that social media doesn’t have much influence upon online shopping activity. That sounds strange, cause this bank led a $1.5 billion investment in Facebook
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Report of Goldman Sachs About Facebook Commerce
Facebook Mobile Application 2.0 for Blackberry: Photos, Chat and Places
An improved Facebook Application 2.0 for Blackberry was introduced by the social networking site not long ago. It’s in a beta version as yet but disclosed a lot of advantages comparing with the previous version which was developed with menu after menu to scroll through to do anything. The new app is considerably quicker to boot and really easy-to-use.
Worldwide Access to Facebook Places
Facebook account holders from the countries listed below are now empowered to use location checking service Places. The implied nations are Brazil, India, Singapore, the Philippines, South Africa, Egypt, Israel and some other countries around the world. Range of the launch is under studying.
“Discover New Games” Module on Facebook
Thanks to the new sidebar module introduced by the social networking site and called “Discover New Games” there is a novel opportunity for Facebook account holder to be acquainted with unknown to him games played by his friends. This discovery channel displays several of user’s friends playing a certain game. The new feature is likely able to lower the developers’ trust to the marketing that is carried out with the purpose to increase the popularity of the games.
Update of Analytics on Facebook’s Insights
Analytics tool Insights were considerably developed by Facebook according to the statement of the social network issued a few days ago. Thanks to the improvements made as a way to enhance their quality admins of Page and Open Graph website are now empowered to receive information about operations accomplished using their Like button and Comments Box social plugins and info about the pages of their websites enjoying the widest popularity. Admins also gain the possibility to learn the age, gender, language, and place of residence of the visitors to their websites. If the website isn’t integrated into the Open Graph, admin is enabled to claim the site and get analytics about the data from his site published on Facebook.
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Facebook is Popular in UK!
The quantity of Facebook users in the UK attained almost half of the population size of this country, i.e. 30 million people.
According to data published by the social networking site four million more account holders in the UK have registered since July 2010.
Facebook Statistic
1 person out of every dozen of them all over the world is rightfully considered as a Facebook account holder because he/she was registered on this social network. Every second of this quantity visit daily the social network.
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Google Adsense is out of Facebook’s Advertisment Providers List
Recently the social network Facebook published a renew list of advertisement providers that are allowed to be used by the account holders of Facebook. Google search engine is not on this list. That means that Google Adsense, for example, can’t be used in order to generate revenue within a Facebook application.
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Changes of Tabs on Facebook’s Pages
The quantity of visible tab applications on Facebook was considerably enlarged a short time ago. These tabs are placed above the fold the navigation menu of Facebook Pages.
The Facebook account holders receive an opportunity to access more tabs for promotions, email signups, games, etc. Though some Pages will be claimed to affix multiple apps, the tabs won’t be required to be reordered.
New Comments Box Plugin from Facebook
Comments Box social plugin on Facebook was considerably changed a short time ago. First of all it performs particular waveforms with the purpose to provide appropriate remarks. Besides the new system empowers the admins to delete indecent and unbecoming comments. Act of logging by users to plugin either through the social network or Yahoo! brings about announcement of user’s remarks on the wall.
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