By Tom Alison and Adam Mosseri Today we’re introducing Home – a new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone. We all want to share and connect. That’s how we discover new information and build meaningful relationships. But today, phones are built around tasks and apps. To see what’s happening with your friends, you pull out your phone and navigate through ...

Myth 1 Measuring “likes” and “followers” = Social Media ROI. Mindset – Marketers count consumer “activities based on convenience, creating a “quantitative fiction”. Truth = Focus on business goals, shift from “activity” metrics to “value” metrics. 1. Increase revenue 2. Deflect cost 3. Move brand perceptions   Myth 2 The way you determine ROI for social media is the same ...

What is Pinterest? A content sharing service that allows members to “pin” images, videos and other objects to their pinboard. Also includes standard social networking features … Pinterest is a tool for collecting and organizing things you love. 1. Pin, pin pin! Install a Pinterest share button in your browser tool bar so you can pin from the web. 2. Incorporate your own stuff. Pin ...

Facebook.com is now Number One on  Alexa Ranking  Overtake Google.com in Global Alexa Ranking. Google is still number one in US. Alexa.com Alexa’s website is built on the principle that timely and relevant information is essential to a vital web experience. Alexa Site Info – Alexa has built an unparalleled database of information about sites, including statistics, Related Links, and ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector. Yahoo has asserted claims on patents that include the technical mechanisms in the Facebook’s ads, privacy controls, news feed and messaging service, according to a source ...

Don’t try to use Bit.ly links on Facebook; they have been marked by the world’s largest social network as abusive, leading to dead end pages and frustrated users. Posting Bit.ly links on Facebook is currently impossible. If you attempt to share a link with your network, you are presented with the following message: “This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive ...

WASHINGTON: Social networking giant Facebook, which plans to raise $5 billion through an IPO, has said India is a key source for its future growth and its user base in the country has more than doubled in the past one year.The growth of 132 per cent in India has been higher than many other countries, including the home market of the US. It has also acknowledges that Facebook platform faces competition ...