A number of leading bloggers have said that they’re deleting their Facebook profiles on account of its recent changes to the way it treats users’ privacy, reports Read/Write Web. The changes have actually turned out worse than I reported a couple of weeks ago, when you could opt out of appearing on the new
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If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth largest in the world, just after the US, but bigger than Russia, Brazil or Argentina. Two-thirds of ComScore’s top 100 US websites and half of the their global top one hundred websites have implemented Facebook Connect. So what’s next? If you look back a couple of years, nobody really expected that social games, like Farmville, Mafia Wars and Texas Hold’Em Poker, would be a particularly powerful force in social media. How wrong we were. Researchers from Psychster created social media marketing content in a variety of formats to see which worked best. They used the allrecipes.com and Facebook social networks, conducting surveys with users after they’d been exposed to the content. The video is Carnegie Mellon University Professor, games developer and former Disney imagineer Jesse Schell on the surprise success of the likes of Farmville, Webkinz, Club Penguin, Wii Fit and X-Box Achievements. Late December and early January see the seasonal appearance of a popular type of blog post: ‘My Predictions for [Next Year]’. They’re a great stock-in-trade because you can say whatever you like and nobody can prove you wrong until the end of the following year, by which time everyone’s forgotten. I’ve written a couple in the |             | |||
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