Last night Facebook quietly opened it’s public Groups, Wall Posts, Events and Discussion topics to search engines for indexing purposes. This move converts Facebook’s consumer-generated treasure of categorized content into a search engine optimization source and Facebook expects it to increase traffic from organic search. Read more
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If most of us thirty-somethings were not already keen on how much technology has altered everything in our lives, right down to the sub-culture of culture, then consider this little news tidbit:
Teenagers are using Google Earth to zoom in on inviting pools in their towns and then send out the location and invites to their Facebook buddies for a late night (3am-ish) pool party called “Dipping”.
It’s actually clever enough, to make me chuckle. Read more
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I just ran across this on Mashable and decided to share the post with you via Flock.
My thoughts are that it’s interesting how MySpace is declining in unique audience, although people are spending a lot MORE time on the site overall. Why? Well, as someone who has a MySpace network that has reached the up side of huge, and given that many of my “friends” are actually REAL friends on there that I physically friended, (as in met in person and know), and as such requiring things like occasional posting, chatting and updates or I start to get hoards of “Where are you???” email…… I can understand why people are spending more time on MySpace when they do get up the courage to go there and deal with the upkeep. Read more
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