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While it’s true that a social network is all about collaboration and sharing, it still needs to comply with the golden rule that states excess of anything is bad. Till date, Facebook has served as a modern age example of how to get sharing right in a social network – just the right amount of information, presented in an easy …

Facebook just keeps getting better and bigger, especially for businesses. A little over a week ago, the world’s leading social network organized a media event to unveil ‘something awesome’.  It unveiled the group chat feature and announced that it now has more than 750 million users. However, the ‘awesome’ announcement was the partnership with Skype – thereby allowing users to …

Facebook started off as a pure social network. As time passes, its creators and users both begin to realize its value proposition in the business world. So, Facebook launched “Pages” for business users analogous to “profiles” for personal users. In the business world, profiles became pages, followers became fans, the user interface changed to have a more business-centric appeal but …

Facebook and smartphones are all the rage these days. Last February, Facebook had nearly 100 million mobile users per month. Now, that count has gone up to 250 million. And if the current growth rate is anything to go by, Facebook looks all set to double that count within the next two years. It’s understandable that managing such a massive …

Facebook is in the news yet again. The world’s leading social network last week updated its comment widget to allow personalized chats on third-party websites. Facebook says the free plugin will make life easy for publishers to add Facebook-themed commenting functionality to their websites. As with any Facebook feature, there are mixed reactions on whether the new comment widget is …

Facebook continues to ring in usability changes and improvements. After revamping user profiles in December, the world’s most popular social network yesterday announced that it’s updating “Facebook Pages” to provide businesses with new tools to customize their pages and interact with consumers more easily and quickly. The latest round of changes is Facebook’s attempt at making Pages resemble user profiles. …

The verdict on Facebook’s valuation is finally out and I’m not surprised that the world’s most popular social network commands a mind bogging and whopping worth of $50 Billion Dollars! To be valued at more than Yahoo, eBay and Time Warner is a monster achievement and a massive moral victory for the social media brigade. Last month, Facebook recently overtook …

Facebook today unveiled the new Profile Pages which provide a compact listing of user’s personal information and a set of recently tagged photos. The new Profile View is especially well-suited for the business world as it provides a quick sneak peek into a user’s relevant information rather than being presented with useless information such as friend list, videos and wall …

The buzz around the new Facebook Social Inbox has been unbelievable. It has been dubbed as anything and everything ranging from “The Gmail Killer”, “The Modern-Age Email”, “The Convergence of Email and Social Media” and what not. I’d like to stay away from throwing in my expert opinion on whether it’s a Gmail killer or not and rather focus on …

Over the last few months, Facebook has been striving hard to ring in more business-friendly changes. Less than a week ago, it launched another game changer feature called “Facebook Deals” which can help your business by encouraging Facebook users to check-in at your location. As is the case with any new feature, most businesses are asking what’s the big deal …

There are several hundred similar posts on the internet which tells how to market your business on Facebook, so why do we need another one? Well, for a start, many of these posts are random ramblings without any concrete action plan of how to go about using Facebook for your business. Secondly, a large majority of these given an impression …

Facebook rolled out a number of cool features on Wednesday, aimed at giving users more control and the ability to share information with small groups of people. So, how do these changes impact your business? Will these help boost your business’ prospects on Facebook or will they serve as a dampener? I’ve been flooded with questions like these in the …

Facebook started rolling out its new design to users this week. This new design is not currently available to all users yet; it’s a great improvement over Facebook 1.0. The new design is targeted more toward updates than any thing else. Updates to the To Menu The Home, Profile, Find Friends links, and Account menu, which include your Edit Friends, …