Not too long ago Twitter has introduced a “Who to follow” feature. Here’s how the suggestion box looks in my Twitter account today:

When I first saw it, I thought I had seen it somewhere before. Of course! Facebook’s “People You May Know” function — which they’ve been running for over two years already — is [...]

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…and it is now available for a free download!
Scary, isn’t it? 100 million Facebook users essentially means every fifth account.

A couple hours after the publishing of this database, BBC picked up the news writing:
Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings.
The list, which [...]

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First of all, my sincere apologies to all my Facebook friends who got “my” invite into a “Check who has blocked you on Facebook” app earlier this morning. I received a similar Facebook message from a someone I trust and regard highly, and clicked the link. Apparently, this circulated the spam around my own friends, [...]

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Yesterday Sophos reported the newest scam scheme on Facebook — the Target Week SHOP for FREE, which thousands of Facebook users have already fallen for.

The way it works is basically like this:

You’re told you need a special gift card to participate in this promo.
To obtain the card you are “required to perform a few steps, [...]

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Geno on May 27th, 2010

It looks like something is definitely cooking… I’ve logged into my Facebook account earlier this morning to find this notification:

Facebook is certainly broadening the scope of their interests, and no wonder why the area of questions and answers got their attention.
First of all there is a huge demand for this service. Remember Aardvark that grew [...]

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Geno on March 3rd, 2010

I love statistics, and I was certainly happy to find the below “The State of the Internet” video by JESS3 (Jesse Thomas) on Vimeo today:

Only one criticism: being so jam-packed with numbers, a video that’s close to 4 minutes long is frankly a bit hard to digest.
I am sure everyone will find something for (him)/(her)self [...]

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Geno on December 11th, 2009

Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2009 keynote speaker, Dan Siroker, a lead analyst for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, has announced a product the essence of which is based on the lessons learned from the use of Social Media for that presidential campaign. Siroker explains:
The product is called Spreadly… and the product is the way of [...]

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Geno on November 25th, 2009

A few days ago a Toronto-based affiliate marketer, Lorne Fade, has published an ad spending infograph based on Nielsen AdRelevance data. Among other things the infograph reflected the distribution of the top advertisers (by impressions and spend) on Facebook:

A day earlier IKEA published a video on how they are using Facebook by kidnapping the platform’s [...]

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Geno on November 9th, 2009

Earlier this morning my friend and famous online marketer, Bryan Eisenberg, tweeted that Razorfish has released its 2009 Digital Brand Experience Report. I closely follow everything that Bryan says and posts (on Twitter, Facebook, or his blogs), and sure enough, this was another gem.
Browsing through this report I have found it absolutely fascinating! Richly [...]

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Geno on October 21st, 2009

Interesting statistics has been announced by the Pew Internet & American Life Project today. Out of the 2,253 online Americans they have surveyed (via phone interviews), 19% say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others”.
As expected, “mobile users are more likely to tweet” and are [...]

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