Facebook Trademark: ‘Face’ and ‘Book’ – Next?
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 29, 2010Filed under: Social Media
Back in December 2005 Facebook were trying to trademark the word ‘Face’. It does make me laugh when a company gets big they try to trademark names that have been around for thousands of years. How can anyone have the right to say that they own the word face –…
Small Business Saturday 2010: New Facebook Movement
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 27, 2010Filed under: Social Media
How many times have you gone into a local restaurant and enjoyed the meal and service, or a local store and wanted to spread the word about just how great it is? Well you can with the aid of the Small Business Saturday Facebook page, and takes place today, November…
National Unfriend Day: Trimming Facebook Fat
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 18, 2010Filed under: Social Media
Today is National Unfriend Day, which is a day that Facebook users are asked to trim the fat, which means getting rid of those friends you no longer need. There are some users who have hundreds if not thousands of friends on the Social network, but how can you talk…
Twitter vs. Path: The Friends Limit
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 15, 2010Filed under: Social Media
There has been a huge amount of speculation over the months, but Stealth startup Path is now here, and there is talk that this is considered an anti-social network. The reason for this is because it does things a little different to Twitter, as you can have only 50 friends.
MySpace Put On Notice: Your Thoughts?
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 5, 2010Filed under: Social Media
Over the past few months’ things have been going from bad to worse for MySpace – the once dominant force in social networking. There is a planned revamp of the website in the UK this month, but this has still not stopped owners, News Corp from putting MySpace on notice.
Online Business Tools: Facebook Deals
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 5, 2010Filed under: Social Media
When it comes to businesses, the most important thing that they need to have is a selection of online business tools. One of those should be the new ‘Facebook Deals’, which is part of the new iPhone and Android app. This could be the perfect marriage, where both make money…
Prop 19 Results: Social Media Responds
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 3, 2010Filed under: Social Media
We have discussed in the past how social media has become an important tool for politics, not only for the politician, but voters as well. So it comes as no surprise that Prop 19 results has had a huge response on Twitter and Facebook.
Polling Place Finder: Tips On Twitter
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 2, 2010Filed under: Social Media
The past couple of days we have offered advice on finding your voting locations; we gave details on two websites, as well as an app. We have yet another website tool for you, this time the “Polling Place Finder”. This one was suggested to some of our readers via Twitter.
