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 ...

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 ...

Facebook and Google users: Your social media and online life is about to change, and there’s almost nothing you can do about it. Facebook is rolling out Timeline, a scrapbook-like profile page that gathers every post a user has made and arranges them by year, while Google is making changes to its privacy policies that some see as the latest attack against Internet users. Google announced it ...

While you have a few more days to pick the resolution you will enviably break days, if not hours after the new year rings in, you have about 24 hours to prepare your Facebook for the complete transformation to Timeline. That’s right, tomorrow is the day when all Facebook accounts will officially reflect the new Timeline design and if there are photos, status updates or other activity that you ...

There’s been a little buzz, and frankly some people freaking out over Facebook’s plan to force all fan pages to be secured by October 1, 2011. As of this writing, that leaves us fan page owners about a month to prepare. According to Facebook: As the web evolves, expectations around security change. For example, HTTPS — once a technology used primarily on banking and e-commerce sites — is now ...