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Blackberry’s Facebook 2.0 App Emphasizes Photos, Chat and Places

[An Inside Facebook Post] Blackberry’s new Facebook application, Facebook 2.0 in beta, is a big improvement over the previous version, which was cumbersome because it was designed with menu after menu to scroll through to do anything. The new application is much more sleek, easier to use and faster, to boot. Facebook for Blackberry now [...]

sara ines, April 12th 2011

Posted in Facebook, Inside Facebook, Marketing, Social Media

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Latinos Poised To Be Perfect New Media Consumers

[A News Taco Post] Media will not be consumed on TV or computers we know them in the future. Even now, smartphones and tablets are increasingly peoples’ gateways to the Internet, and by extension, the greater world. I would argue that, given Latinos’ proclivity for loving their mobile phones — and smartphones in particular — this [...]

sara ines, March 5th 2011

Posted in Facebook, Inside Facebook, Latinos, Marketing, News, NewsTaco, Social Media, Technology

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Macs Better Than PCs For Accents, Spanish

[A NewsTaco Post] December 30, 2010 I took the plunge into Macs earlier this year and have to say I’m not disappointed. Although purchasing a MacBook Pro this year was a huge adjustment from the Dell laptop I’d been using for three years, but one of the best features of my new computer is that it’s [...]

sara ines, January 22nd 2011

Posted in Facebook, Latinos, NewsTaco, Technology

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Latinos Need Net Neutrality

[A NewsTaco post] A good piece on net neutrality ran on The Root this week; although the piece revolved around the importance of net neutrality for the African-American community, similar reasons exist for why this is important for Latinos, too. And so you say, why is this a particularly important issue for Latinos? About half of [...]

sara ines, December 3rd 2010

Posted in Facebook, Latinos, News, NewsTaco

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Religious Groups Build Communities on Facebook

[An Inside Facebook post] Religion takes many forms on Facebook. There’s a Page for The Bible, with more than 4.5 million Likes. Religious leaders are gaining lots of fans, for example the Dalai Lama’s 913,200. Places of worship have their own Pages, as do important buildings such as the Support Al-Aqsa Mosque Page, with 15,200 [...]

sara ines, September 21st 2010

Posted in Facebook, Inside Facebook, Marketing, News, Social Media, Twitter

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Swedish App Polls for Parliamentary Election Voting Plans

[An Inside Facebook post] Riksdagsvalet 2010 is a new Swedish application that allows people to “vote” in the country’s 2010 parliamentary elections. The app is intended by its creators to be nothing more than an informal poll. It has you give it some basic data permissions, select your preferred political party, vote for a party as [...]

sara ines, September 13th 2010

Posted in Facebook, Inside Facebook, News, Social Media

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Facebook Becomes More Important to Red Cross Fundraising, Disaster Relief Efforts

[An Inside Facebook post] Facebook is now at the center of the American Red Cross‘ efforts to keep the public informed about disaster relief, especially after a catastrophic event like the Chile or Haiti earthquakes, says Wendy Harman, the organization’s director of social media. It was particularly after the Haiti earthquake that she says the Red Cross mobilized and [...]

sara ines, August 24th 2010

Posted in Facebook, Inside Facebook, Marketing, Social Media

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Facemoods Brings Emoticons to Facebook Chat, Gets Millions of Users

[An Inside Facebook post] Israeli start-up Facemoods only launched in December of last year, offering a browser add-on that enables emoticons for use on Facebook’s chat service, among other web products. So far, it’s been a hit. We’ve watched as it has gained 4.4 million Likes on its Page — and around the same number of users, according [...]

sara ines, August 4th 2010

Posted in Facebook, Inside Facebook, Marketing, Social Media

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Levi’s Uses Events Marketing for Sales Promotions

[An Inside Facebook post] Levi’s has begun to use some interesting event marketing on Facebook to promote sales on its web site, as well as its stores via its Facebook Page and profile advertisements. As we’ve noted previously, Levi’s has been particularly active on Facebook, working with the company to premiere the social plugins on its web site [...]

sara ines, July 19th 2010

Posted in Facebook, Inside Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Uncategorized

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Work For Us App Brings Job Hunting to Facebook

[An Inside Facebook post] Facebook can now be a job board with a new application, Work For Us, which allows Page administrators to install a tab on their Page to collect potential hires’ information. The app’s basic version is free for 30 days and allows brands to post jobs on their Pages and automatically create Facebook ads advertising [...]

sara ines, July 5th 2010

Posted in Facebook, Inside Facebook, Marketing, News, Social Media
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