Chicken salad, step one (Taken with instagram)
Training for Paris. We leave one month from tomorrow (Taken with instagram)
And our last stop on 24 hours in New York… (Taken with instagram)
Making every effort to avoid turning the heat back on as I crank out four articles before my class. (Taken with instagram)
My car said “boob” (Taken with instagram)
How to Spot a Phony Facebook Profile
Her Facebook profile says she is into men and women and that she has 726 friends. She graduated from a college that was 338 miles from her high school, according to Facebook.
She has never updated her status on the world’s biggest social network, perhaps because she was busy tagging photos: On average, she has 136 tags on every four photos she uploads to Facebook.
And she may very well be fake, according to a study released earlier this year by Barracuda Labs, which identified common characteristics of phony, malware-spreading Facebook profiles.
Facebook Wants to Mimic Click-Through Success of Twitter Ads
Users were more likely to click on a Twitter ad than a Facebook ad in the first quarter, according to a recent study. Yet Facebook will likely be valued at more than $100 billion following its initial public offering next month, while Twitter struggles to find a consistent revenue stream and remains several years away from an IPO of its own.
Why?
The short answer is volume: Twitter has yet to fully launch a self-service ad-buying program, making it hard for all but the biggest users to undertake effective campaigns. Facebook, on the other hand, can attribute its click-through rates to sheer volume of ads, thanks in part to the ability for even advertisers with small budgets to purchase advertising without going through a sales rep.
What Companies Are Next on Facebook's Shopping List?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says Monday’s purchase ofInstagram isn’t likely to be repeated, but Wall Street will beg to differ. As Ben Foster, vice president and digital strategist at Ketchum, notes, “Once a public company, there will be pressure for repeatable profit and revenue growth.”
With user growth slowing, one of the quickest ways for a publicly traded company to show quarterly growth is through mergers and acquisitions. We asked Foster and other experts what companies and types of companies would make sense as likely Facebook acquisition targets.
What Crooks and Companies Learn When You Overshare on Facebook
You have your birthday listed on your Facebook profile, and at some point you got caught up in the local banking movement and decided to become a fan of your local credit union. In the friends list you have highlighted your family members, including your mother, whose profile is searchable under both her married and maiden names.
The decision to include that information is the result of three seemingly harmless and unrelated, split-second decisions. And in many cases, it’s all an identity thief needs to empty out your checking account.
5 Things the Experts Say You Need to Know About the Facebook-Instagram Merger
Depending on which hastily pasted-together analysis you believe, Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition Monday is reason enough to close your Instagram account, and Facebook is going to ruin Instagram. We’re not buying it, so instead we spent Monday interviewing a dozen experts for their thoughts and opinions on the deal.
All agreed that the deal is big, but only time will tell how big. In the meantime, they gave us five areas to watch, as the Instagram acquisition may very well shift how Facebook views content and serve as an acknowledgment that the Web is becoming increasingly visual.
