Vanity URLs are great to have, as they are far more easier to remember and comprehend compared to the originally cryptic looking urls on Facebook. Having a Vanity URL has a lot of business sense, because these urls are easier to share on social media sites, email signatures etc.
The ordinary facebook fanpage url would look something like the url below:
Default landing pages are a great way to send out an introductory message to anyone visiting your Facebook fan page for the first time. Research has showed that having a default landing page, with a “Become a Fan” call to action drastically increases the visitor to fan conversion ratios.
In this guide,we will walk you through setting up a default landing page for your Business’s Facebook fan page.
Facebook might face curbs in Italy after a recent attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Members of Berlusconi’s coalition have squarely laid the blamed Facebook for inciting the general public, that eventually led to the attack that left the Italian premier with a bloodied face.
Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni is said to have been considering tougher limits on freedom of expression and has planned to crack down on social networking sites that have been inciting violence against against Berlusconi. Although Facebo ok’s name was not officially mentioned, many in the know – believe that the minister was talking about Facebook.
Facebook is suing three guys – Jeremi Fisher, Philip Porembski, Ryan Shimeall and their associated companies Choko Systems, Harm, and iMedia Online Services, in a U.S. federal court. The lawsuit alleges the defendants of using phishing techniques to get access to Facebook user profiles and then using these profiles to send spam to their friends.
CNET reports that the lawsuit makes claims under the Can-Spam (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the California Anti-Phishing Act and the California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act.
Facebook has reached a major milestone, as it joins the list of a select few web properties that have surpassed 100 million monthly US visitors – according to comScore. The other popular sites to have more than 100 million monthly US visitors include Google Sites, Yahoo! Sites and Microsoft Sites. Facebook now ranks at number 4, among the top 50 web properties tracked by comScore.
Facebook was founded in Febuary 2004 and by Nov of 2004, it had a US audience of around 2 million. Compare this to today’s tally of more than 100 million US visitors and you have an increase of 50 times – since Nov 2004. What’s even more impressive is that Facebook has doubled itself in 2009 alone.
Zynga, a San Francisco based game maker of popular facebook games such as FarmVille, Café World and Mafia Wars, has raised $180 million in a new round of funding – according to NY Times. The round was led by Moscow based Digital Sky Technologies (DST). The Russian based digitial investment firm has previously invested $200 million in Facebook.
The investment is structured similar to that of DST’s investment in Facebook, whereby DST invested directly into Facebook and also bought stocks from Facebook employees. Similarly Zynga employees will get a chance to sell their shares to DST, allowing them to cash out before the IPO.
Banks are using Facebook apps to acquire user details illegally, according to security veteran Roger Thompson from AVG. Roger has reached this conclusion as a result of his own personal experience. Apparently he was in London to attend a conference. Because of being abroad Rogers bank suspected his credit card transactions and decided to decline and suspend his credit card. Till here everything is pretty standard procedure, that banks use to weed out fraudulent transactions.
However things became complicated when Roger called the bank to have his card get unsuspended. The bank asked him personal identifying questions such as the last four digits of his social security number and so on. But then suddenly, the representative from the bank started to ask him questions about his daughter-in-law, using her maiden name. The representative claimed that they know about her from publicly available information.
In this age and time, Charity now begins at Facebook and Twitter. Some of America’s oldest charities are using Facebook and Twitter to send out tweets and create virtual kettles, besides the old ways of sending out “snail-mails” – according to a recent report on Baltimore Sun.
Some of the charitable organizations to join the social media bandwagon include, United Way, Salvation Army and the American Red Cross. Salvation Army has created a facebook fan page. The fans of the page could become virtual cheerleaders for the charity by creating virtual kettles on their profiles and asking friends to make donations, their by eliminating the need to ever go to the real storefront kettles.
As the saying goes “If you cant conquer them, join them”. This is exactly what Facebook is planning to do by enabling its users to directly post their status updates to Twitter from their Facebook profiles.
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Dropbox is your one stop solution to file sharing and syncing needs. It’s one of the most simplest file sharing service you’ll ever come across, and doesn’t require many clicks to get the job done. Along with the file back ups and syncs it lets you share them with anyone you want using a public URL.
Dropbox opened up to public yesterday, as it was in an invite only beta earlier. Dropbox is providing 2 GB of free storage space users at the moment. It’s desktop client is available for all operating systems, Windows, Mac and Linux.
