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Stipple Introduces Interactive Images to Facebook
What is Stipple? If you have not heard about the service, Stipple allows you to embed interactive hotspots into an image to create additional connections directly within the image. Now Stipple supports direct publishing support via Facebook, a...
Facebook SEO Comes to Life as Graph Search Launches
Recently Facebook announced one of the biggest changes to their search feature to date with the limited beta release of Graph Search. Mark Zuckerberg stated Graph Search would become the third pillar of the Facebook experience in addition to the...
Headlines & Stuff from 2012
We said we were done with these, but hek, we’re still working so we figured we’d share. Happy New Year!Nielsen & Twitter To Start Social Media TV Rating Service Nielsen and Twitter are creating a social media TV rating service – all to capture...
Stats of the Week: Travel, Social Media, Holiday Gifts
Every week we compile lots of interesting stats here at Fanscape. Here are some of our favorites from this past week:Travel We were perusing travel specialists Frommer’s website recently and stumbled upon their 2011 Digital Travel Content and User...
Red Bull Facebook Timeline Timewarp
The roll-out of Facebook Timeline for brands on leap day proved to be a showcase for brands that were a part of the private beta prior to the roll-out. One of the clear winners out of the gate was Red Bull. Not only has the brand done a great job of...
The Importance of Social Sign-On
We have all dealt with “YAN” in one form or another over the past few years. YAN stands for Yet Another Network login. This stems from brands using proprietary authentication methods vs. leveraging Open Authorization (OAuth) such as Facebook’s Graph...
Social Giving for Japan
A few weeks back I shared a note about LivingSocial’s Amazon deal. My intention was less about sharing a great deal, and more about demonstrating the volume of redemption taking place in this new social commerce space. Yesterday...
Facebook Changes Aplenty
Facebook is making a lot of changes these days and it is hard to stay up on them all. Here are some of the key ones you may want to know about: Facebook Pages are Redesigned and Administrator Features are Added Facebook recently redesigned Pages...
Facebook Messages Made Easy
Recently Facebook announced its new Facebook Messages platform. The long-anticipated product, which was originally thought to be a Facebook email service, turns out to not be an email service at all but rather a complete reimaging of...
Social Shopping For The Holidays
In 2009, e-commerce sales on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) increased 35% over 2008. Meanwhile the following Monday, also known as Cyber Monday, saw nearly $900 Million in online sales in one day. Accounting and consulting firm, Deloitte...
