One of the most memorable features on Facebook is the “poke”. What is it? What does it mean? Well honestly, we don’t think that anyone knows other than the Facebook team. Poking someone is a way of saying “Hi”, or a way of saying “You’re cute”, or a way of saying “Hey I haven’t heard from you in a really really long time!”. It’s whatever you want it to be really....
The battle for digital supremacy has taken a rather ugly turn, as news emerges that Facebook hired a PR agency on the sly…specifically to plant negative stories about Google. Dan Lyons from The Daily Beastrevealedthis tantalising little tidbit earlier today, and it looks like the negative coverage Facebook was seeking to gain for its arch nemesis has been caught in a gale and thrown straight back at them. Top PR firm Burson-Marsteller was hired to pitch negative stories about the search engine giant to newspapers....
Since its inception, Facebook has beendominatingone country after another until it faced a huge roadblock, which is China. It’s a bit unfortunate for the social network that the country has the world’s biggest Internet and mobile population. Yet as appealing as it sounds, doing business there is no cake walk. AllThingsDreports that despite all the denials, numerous sources claim Facebook is preparing to launch in China, and it might be closer than we think....
Facebook, whichrolled out a whole host of changesthat the company has been testing with a select few for a week, has increased the status update character limit to 5,000, from a previous 500,Inside Facebook reports. Among other things, the entire newsfeed has changed, complete with anew update box on the right hand sidethat shows you what all of your friends are doing on Facebook, including leaving comments, uploading photos, and things that they’ve “liked”....
March 6 marked the day a new type of Facebook page was created for popular movement in the Middle East. The page’s title reads ‘Third Palestinian Intifada’ (Intifada meaning revolution) and has gathered some 180,000 fans and counting till the time of this post. But possibly not for long. After the disruption of 3 Arab governments so far, 2011 is proving to be a decisive year in the Middle East. A year that historians, politicians, and social media enthusiasts will discuss long after it’s over....
