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Facebook’s New “Questions Tool”
Within 15 hours, we had engaged 13% of our fanbase and had not only gained votes on answers we had given to the question; we also had fans suggesting (and voting for) new answers, including local couponing sites, LiveTVChat and more. For us, it was an opportunity to enjoy a high level of engagement with our followers, emerge as a thought leader and learn a little all at the same time.The next frontier, after some additional testing, will be to activate Questions on behalf of our clients. Next month, we are planning on extending Legends Outlets Kansas City’s “Charity Check-In” program through use of Facebook Questions. On Legends Outlets Facbeook Page, Legends Outlets is currently encouraging its consumers to check-in with Facebook Places in order to trigger the brand to donate $1 to a pre-determined, local Kansas City charity.Next month, the brand will be doing the same, but we will also be employing Facebook Questions to ask the fans what charities they would like to see appear as part of the ongoing Charity Check-In program. We’re excited to help Legends Outlets partner with the charities that mean the most to its fans, while raising their friends’ awareness of ways they can give back to the community.Mashable: What was your initial reaction to the new Facebook Questions tool?Grossman: Any time Facebook adds a new standard application to all user and business profiles, I get excited. When Facebook adds major new functionality like Questions, it stands to shift the social dynamic of over 500 million people, creating richer, more diverse and increasingly dynamic conversations.Beyond the impact it will have on users, the widespread release of Facebook Questions is also emblematic of the continuing trend we’ve seen from Facebook: As soon as a new trend in social media begins to rise up, Facebook acts quickly and decisively. For those long-time Facebook users out there, Questions will hearken back to the days when Polls were far more common on Facebook. But this round ...
Russian Hacker Selling 1.5 Million Facebook Accounts
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1242 Million Facebook Accounts tweets Million Facebook Accounts 04/23/10 by Jolie O’Dell A hacker who calls himself Kirllos has obtained and is now offering to sell 1.5 million Facebook IDs at astonishingly low prices — $25 per 1000 IDs for users with fewer than 10 friends and $45 per 1000 IDs for users with more than 10 friends — according to researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense. Looking at the numbers, Kirllos has stolen the IDs of one out of every 300 Facebook users. Information for sale includes login credentials; whether or not the e-mail addresses and passwords are legitimate is currently unknown.
Typically, this information would be sold for between $1 and $20 per account, according to data from Symantec. Currently, around 700,000 accounts have been sold. The threads where the accounts are being sold have been removed, as far as we are able to tell. The users whose e-mail addresses and passwords have been compromised risk having their identities stolen, but they could also become targets of more insidious scams.
As always, we will keep you updated about any Facebook scams that come across our news desk. Hacking Facebook isn’t a new hobby for this person. Here’s a screenshot of another offer the hacker previously made on a forum earlier this year; then, he was then selling 100,000 hacked accounts from users around the world: Kirllos also appears to have had an interest in iPhone applications at one point. According to some Antichat.ru forum users, he was born in Russia, lives in New Zealand, is 24 years old and speaks both English and French.
HOW TO: Clean Up Your Facebook Profile
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Facebook offers extensive options for fine tuning what individual applications and people can see or do on your Facebook profile, but if you haven’t been following all the changes (and Facebook likes to change often), you might feel lost in all the options. We’re offering a rundown of the most efficient ways to make more sense of your Facebook experience.
The simplest way to control what shows up in your News Feed is to click “Hide” on an item you don’t want to see. Facebook will ask you whether you want to hide that person or page, once you confirm it, you won’t see anything from them again.
Find out more here: HOW TO: Clean Up Your Facebook Profile.
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Ten Ways a Facebook Fan Page Helps Your Business
Even if members have no intention of buying anything, the community you build can benefit your business.
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Facebook is a social network, not a shopping network, so why should any business spend resources establishing and maintaining a Fan Page on Facebook? (A Fan Page, by the way, is a profile for a business or organization rather than for an individual.) Because even if members have no intention of buying anything on Facebook, the relationships you establish and community you build there can benefit your business in countless ways. Here, I reveal the top 10 ways a Facebook Fan Page can help your business.
- Establishes another outpost for your business on the web
Creating a Fan Page provides your business and brands with another branding outpost on the Web where prospects, customers, future employees, vendors, and even the media can find information about your company and the products and services you offer. Unlike Facebook’s personal Profiles, which are member-only accessible, Facebook Fan Pages are public-facing by default; that is, people need not be logged into Facebook to view a business’s or brand’s Fan Page, so even more people have access to the information you post.Tip: To save time updating your Fan Page, create an RSS feed on the Page’s Notes tab to pull entries from your existing business blog. As long as your blog posts aren’t overtly “salesy,” the additional content should be well received.
- Drives Traffic to Your Website
Fan Pages have no restrictions on driving Facebook traffic to websites. In fact, Facebook encourages you to link to your website from your business’s Fan Page. Redirecting even a small portion of Facebook’s huge amount of daily traffic to your website could significantly improve the amount of qualified traffic on your site.Tip: Turn Facebook members into Fans, Fans into customers, and customers into Fans by cross-promoting your Fan Page and website. Link your Fan Page to your website and insert a Facebook widget on your site to link back to your Fan Page.
5 Ways To Drive More Traffic To Your Website
“If you build it, they will come.”
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If I’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that this old axiom doesn’t always apply, especially in this day and age. Simply putting together a website with the latest technology platforms on top of a semi-clever URL won’t do the trick. There are, however, five simple things that you can implement to move the traffic needle up and improve your metrics.
Search Engine Optimization: Search engine optimization, otherwise known as SEO for short, is one of the hottest topics in website development today. Not in the know? Here’s a quick rundown. According to Wikipedia, it’s “the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or un-paid search results as opposed to Search Engine Marketing (SEM).” It’s like tidying up your website and filling out all of the appropriate forms so that search engine crawlers will get the most context from your site and reward you with a higher page rank.
Flock: A remarkable new web browser for social networking.
Internet Explorer has been pretty much my defacto web browser, but since getting involved with this whole “Social Networking” thing, I’ve been on a quest to find the best tool to coordinate all of my online activities–Facebook, Twitter, Picture Sharing, etc.
I’ve tested the Adobe Air desk top applications like TweetDeck, FaceDesk and others, but none seemed to allow the integration of all the services I track. Then I came across a new web browser called Flock. Primarily, I spend the majority of my time on Facebook and Twitter, as it seems these are the two sites that have risen to the top of the heap based on ease of use and the number of people using the services; and a person only has so many hours in a day, so keeping up with many more than that was proving to be quite a chore.
However, Flock Browser manages to integrate every service I had an account at and then even suggest a few more.
Imagine all your friends from all of your social networking sites in one place. Imagine being able to surf the web and easily be able to share what you are doing with your friends on Facebook or Twitter or any one of several other social networking sites. Imagine being able to simply drag any image in an article or search right into your Flicker or Picassa. Or imagine wanting to blog about something you are browsing and having an editor available right in your browser to compose your article and post it to your blog. These are only some of the built-in capabilities of the Flock Browser.
After two weeks of testing this browser I am now about to do the unthinkable and make Flock my default browser–it’s that good. Here’s the link. Try it out and let me know what you think. Flock Browser – The Social Web Browser
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FaceBook Users Beware
BBB Warns: Your Facebook Friends Could Actually be Hackers, Scam Artists, and ID Thieves
FaceBook, one of the most popular social networking sites on the Internet, has become the target for several different phishing scams. Here is brief list of some of the scams you should be on the look-out for:
Friend in Distress:
Scam: Facebook users may receive a message in their inbox from a friend claiming to be in a dire situation — such as stranded in a foreign country — and needing money wired to them. The recipient doesn’t realize that their friend’s account has been hacked and that the message was sent by scammers. The Facebook user has no way of recovering the wired money after they learn that their friend is safe and sound.