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There’s an interesting post today at Facebook’s engineering blog, detailing how Facebook’s engineers managed to make the site two times faster in a six-month period — from June of 2009 till the beginning of 2010.
It’s an interesting (albeit somewhat technical) read. In short, Facebook’s primary concerns were shortening network time (the time it takes for data to be transmitted ... Read More
How Facebook Became Twice as Fast
Posted On 19 Feb 2010 By UGM Social Media Marketing. Under: facebook, Social Media, social media news.
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There’s an interesting post today at Facebook’s engineering blog, detailing how Facebook’s engineers managed to make the site two times faster in a six-month period — from June of 2009 till the beginning of 2010.
It’s an interesting (albeit somewhat technical) read. In short, Facebook’s primary concerns were shortening network time (the time it takes for data to be transmitted ... Read More
How We’re Using Social Media on Our Mobile Phones [STATS]
Posted On 12 Feb 2010 By UGM Social Media Marketing. Under: Social Media, social media news.![How We’re Using Social Media on Our Mobile Phones [STATS]](http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/social-networking.jpg)
Mobile analytics company Flurry used its January data to look at the top application categories for iPhone and Android device owners. Parallels between the two types of smartphone users are very similar: social networking apps are by far the most frequently used category of apps.
For Flurry’s January report, the company decided to dissect application usage based on the following ... Read More
Social Media Marketing: How Pepsi Got It Right
Posted On 28 Jan 2010 By UGM Social Media Marketing. Under: Social Media, Updates.
Social media marketing campaigns are proving to be goldmines rich with customer engagement and insight that companies wouldn’t likely have otherwise. Companies like PepsiCo are going to extensive lengths to foster this type of collaboration with fans, and the payoff has been big.
The company’s Mountain Dew division is several stages into its DEWmocracy campaign — a plan to launch a ... Read More
Facebook Connect Comes to MySpace
Posted On 15 Jan 2010 By UGM Social Media Marketing. Under: Updates.
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About a month ago, we heard reports that MySpace and Facebook aren’t quite the archenemies they once were; on the contrary, MySpace was about to implement Facebook Connect, which meant that users would be able to log into MySpace with their Facebook credentials.
Now, MySpace () has indeed implemented Facebook Connect on its Fan Video service (which, like so ... Read More
How Social Media Has Changed Us
Posted On 07 Jan 2010 By UGM Social Media Marketing. Under: Social Media.
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Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen social media galvanize thousands over politics, create as many industries as it has destroyed, and offer an abundance of visual and audio entertainment. But has all this incredible change actually changed us, or just the world we live in?
Below are some areas in which social media has had lasting, and arguably permanent ... Read More
Find Available Domains and Twitter Names with Tweexchange
Posted On 04 Jan 2010 By UGM Social Media Marketing. Under: Social Media.
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Remember Tweexchange? It used to be a Twitter username marketplace, which seemed like a solid (or, better put, inevitable) idea, but it obviously didn’t last very long, since the site has been purchased by Blast Applications and now hosts a completely different service.
The new Tweexchange lets you quickly find available Twitter usernames and web domain names (through GoDaddy) at ... Read More
