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Should Facebook offer a poll? Yes or No?

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Facebook has created an easy way for its users to get quick answers to questions through its new polling feature. Facebook Polls allows you to ask detailed questions, target them to specific user segments and receive real-time responses. Facebook users can be targeted based on gender, age, school, location, or profile keyword. Each poll is displayed in users’ News Feed.

Facebook Polls is an excellent way for any corporation, organization or individual looking to gauge interest in a particular topic. For instance, a political organization can create a poll to get a sense of the popularity of candidates within a particular region and within a certain age demographic.

Facebook Polls is viewed as the newest revenue source. To create a poll, each user must spend a minimum of $5 for set-up. From there, each user can dictate how many answers they would like to receive and how much they are willing to pay for each answer. The more you are willing to pay per answer, the more your poll will show up and the quicker you will receive the cumulative data. .

Originally posted on June 4, 2007 @ 3:30 am

CollegeHumor.com launches content sharing application with Facebook

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collegehumor.jpgCollegeHumor.com, the source for irreverent student humor and co-ed pop culture, announced a unique content sharing application built on Facebook Platform.

The new CollegeHumor applications will allow Facebook users and fans of CollegeHumor to interact more easily. With this new application, Facebook users will be able to share their favorite CollegeHumor videos, pictures, and articles in their profiles for their friends to view. They will also be able to add applications that showcase the newest and most popular content, content from their school, and even an application to insult their friends (Editor’s note: Why would you insult a friend?).

“Facebook has truly emerged as the premiere online social utility. We’re thrilled to be sharing our unique content on the Facebook Platform and to be part of larger growing online community,” said Josh Abramson, president and co-founder of CollegeHumor.com.

Originally posted on May 28, 2007 @ 9:23 am

Glimpse takes fashion & style to Facebook

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glimpse.jpg Riding on the new Facebook/f8 Platform, online fashion and shopping destination Glimpse has launched Fashion & Style Application developed to allow Facebook users worldwide to express their fashion style using products they own, love or dream about.

“Providing this Fashion & Style application on Facebook Platform will bring to life the inner fashion whims of millions of users. We are thrilled to be a part of this exciting new endeavor and are pleased to bring the world of fashion to the world of Facebook,” said Glimpse CEO Frank Han.

Facebook users can create personalized lists of products from Glimpse.com’s universe of over 250,000 fashion and beauty items using products they love or products they want to buy. They can name them, annotate them, and publish them to their Facebook profile for easy sharing. Friends can come by and view their friends’ style, create their own style, and receive notifications when their friends’ styles are updated.

Originally posted on May 25, 2007 @ 3:27 am

Facebook is now open

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facebook.jpgFacebook announced that it is opening up its platform to third-party software developers. From hereon, developers can create applications for Facebook users and even allow companies to open retail services inside, get advertisers, and take home everything.

“You can serve ads… or if you don;t want to advertise, you can just sell something. You keep all the revenue,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO said.

The company also announced the debut of Facebook/f8, a platform that allows anyone to build applications for social computing. Beginning tonight night, Facebook said that users will be able to equip their profiles with 65 new services.

The move is seen as Facebook’s attempt to eat into MySpace territory. According to Hitwise, MySpace continued to dominate the social networking category in April 2007, with 79.7 percent of category visits. Following MySpace was Facebook with 11.47 percent of visits and Bebo with 1.28 percent of category visits. U.S. visits to MySpace increased by 70 percent from April 2006 to April 2007, while visits to Facebook were up 126 percent and visits to Bebo up 184 percent in that period.

Originally posted on May 24, 2007 @ 9:27 pm

Facebook does classifieds, newspapers will suffer more

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facebook.jpgFacebook is set to do classified ads, according to PaidContent.

Not that MySpace classifieds put the world on fire, but Facebook, by virtue of being more organized, might have a better chance at it: it is adding free classifieds. It is calling the new service Marketplace and plans to introduce it on Friday, reports NYT.

Classified ads is a sure way for newspapers to earn money, so it should come as no surprise that sites like Craigslist have dug deep into their pockets. A well oiled community (sorry, social networking service) should be able to further move the classifieds online, leaving the newspapers even more out of that particular game.

Originally posted on May 11, 2007 @ 6:26 am