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Comment by Todor Krecu on August 17, 2009 at 10:05pm

Topic: Facebook - A presentation by Brad Keown, Midwest Director of Sales at Facebook
http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/events

Agenda:
6:00pm-7pm - registration and networking
7pm-7:05pm - Introduction by Todor Krecu
7:05pm-7:10pm - Introduction by Marc Schulman, President at Eli's Cheesecake Company
7:10pm-7:45pm - presentation by Brad Keown, Midwest Director of Sales at Facebook
7:45pm-8pm - Q&A

Coffee and delicious desserts will be provided by Eli's Cheesecake Cafe

Brad Keown has over 9 years of interactive media experience and currently serves as Facebook's Midwest Director of Sales in Chicago. In this role Brad focuses on helping both brand and direct marketers develop social media strategies to connect with Facebook's 250MM active users via a combination of targeted ad placement, branded application integration, and custom program development.

http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/events

Comment by Todor Krecu on March 28, 2009 at 9:33pm

Facebook Redesign Revolt Grows to 1.7M
More than1.7 million Facebook users have united against the site's redesign. Now Facebook is weighing in.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/161932/facebook_caves_to_user_gripes_over_redesign.html?tk=loom_art

Comment by Todor Krecu on March 18, 2009 at 4:52pm

Facebook post gets worker fired.

A Facebook post criticizing his employer, the Philadelphia Eagles, cost a stadium operations worker his job, according to a story in Monday's Philadelphia Inquirer.

Full story is at:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3965039

Comment by Todor Krecu on March 7, 2009 at 2:21am

What Facebook's Stumble Can Teach Your Company
Every firm will eventually have a social media strategy and all executives will face some of the same issues Facebook navigates today about who owns what online.
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/feb2009/ca20090220_714605.htm?chan=careers_managing+index+page_top+stories

Comment by Todor Krecu on March 3, 2009 at 3:01pm

New Facebook worm threat.
CNN's Errol Barnett looks into a new worm infecting users of Facebook and other social networking sites.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/03/02/barnett.facebook.worm.cnn

Comment by Todor Krecu on February 28, 2009 at 9:32am

Teenage office worker sacked for moaning on Facebook about her 'totally boring' job:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1155971/Teenage-office-worker-sacked-moaning-Facebook-totally-boring-job.html

Comment by Todor Krecu on January 2, 2009 at 3:23pm

Frito-Lay Enlists Fiesta Bowl Fans on Facebook
http://www.clickz.com/3632238

Comment by Todor Krecu on December 27, 2008 at 10:50am

EMarketer reported that Facebook's overall revenue in 2008 will be $250 million to $300 million, with an estimated $210 generated from U.S. ad spending. That is a growth rate of 45 percent over 2007.

Comment by Todor Krecu on November 25, 2008 at 5:35am

According to a posting on All Things Digital, Facebook ended talks to buy Twitter because the $500 million price tag was too high.

You can read the full story here:
When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled

Comment by Todor Krecu on November 21, 2008 at 5:06am

Salesforce.com and Facebook Create New Opportunities for Enterprise Applications to Serve Facebook’s 120 Million Users

Force.com for Facebook enables developers to create a new class of enterprise applications for Facebook on Force.com. By bringing together the leading social and enterprise platforms, developers can use social data from Facebook to power their Force.com apps
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – November 3, 2008 – Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company, and Facebook, the world’s largest online social community, today introduced a new suite of tools to marry next-generation business productivity applications to the interpersonal power of social networks. The new offering – Force.com for Facebook – is designed to foster a global development community for Facebook’s 120 million users and salesforce.com’s 100,000 developers. The move makes Facebook an 'enterprise-friendly’ platform for global enterprises and individual entrepreneurs worldwide and puts salesforce.com at the forefront of business applications for social computing.

“Facebook users are always eager to try new applications that can improve their ability to connect and share in a trusted environment.” said Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook. “Our work with salesforce.com will give developers the tools to create and deliver a new class of business applications for Facebook’s 120 million active users.”

“We are seeing social meet CRM and the enterprise for the first time,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “This is the premier social graph fully integrating with the premier enterprise cloud computing company----this is the true power of Internet.”

Force.com for Facebook enables developers to easily use the Facebook APIs within their Force.com applications. Freely available at http://developer.force.com, Force.com for Facebook provides a new set of tools and services to enable developers to build applications that bring together social data from Facebook with the database, logic and workflow and Sites capabilities in Force.com and run them on salesforce.com’s trusted global service infrastructure. The tools will give developers a new means of creating business applications that greatly expand Facebook users’ ability to do corporate work on the site, by managing sales data, organizing business events or automating marketing decisions.

Developers Can Now Bring Together Facebook and Force.com Platforms

With Force.com for Facebook, developers have new tools to bring together the Facebook and Force.com platforms to build new kinds of social and business applications. Force.com provides a complete feature set for the development and delivery of business applications. By leveraging the social graph data on Facebook Platform, developers will have unprecedented capability to create applications that take advantage of the best of both platforms. As with applications built on Facebook Platform, users’ data remains secure and can only be accessed by developers with users’ permission.

Developers can use Force.com for Facebook to:

Enable a new class of applications for business on Facebook Platform. Force.com for Facebook enables the creation of applications that run 100 percent as a service, powered by Force.com. Applications built and run on Force.com inherit all the benefits of a proven platform, including security and sharing models, workflow, analytics, customization, integration, and mobile access as well as the reliability, availability and global scale of salesforce.com’s trusted infrastructure.

Leverage Facebook Connect to enrich new and existing Force.com applications with social data from Facebook APIs. The Facebook social graph layers on top of the Force.com platform. With Force.com for Facebook, social data is now readily available to the more than 100,000 developers in the salesforce.com ecosystem. Now they can leverage Facebook’s social graph to build a new class of enterprise applications.

Create new ways for Facebook users to share and connect. By making it easy for Force.com developers to build robust applications in areas like recruiting, productivity and project collaboration that can be quickly integrated through Facebook Platform, users on Facebook will be presented with new tools for activities such as sharing a job opportunity or collaborating with co-workers or friends on an event or project.

Apps-O-Rama (http://www.appsorama.com) is a developer of an online tool called Get Stuff Done for Facebook that helps individuals and groups collaborate on projects on Facebook. Apps-O-Rama built Get Stuff Done because they were frustrated by how hard it was to juggle all the activities going in their lives, especially when other people were involved. Since projects are inherently social, Facebook was a natural environment for a next generation project management tool. Now the world can Get Stuff Done collaboratively within their Facebook network and reliably with Force.com. Get Stuff Done can be used for anything users want to get done together, including sharing files, creating and assigning “to-do” lists, managing projects and seeing what happened while they were offline. It lets users go beyond group formation, and allows them to do things together such as plan tri! ps, organize events, move to a new apartment and much more.

“Our goal at Apps-O-Rama is to make working together in small groups dramatically easier than ever before,” said Jason Holloway, founder and CEO of Apps-O-Rama. “The development of our initial version of Get Stuff Done in PHP took months to build and deliver. Using the Facebook and Force.com platforms together we have been able to get a prototype of Get Stuff Done for Facebook running on Force.com in just a couple of weeks.”

Availability Freely available at http://developer.force.com, Force.com for Facebook will help developers build social and business applications that leverage the capabilities of Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect including full support for FQL and API calls, FBML generation for native Facebook applications, xFBML support, profile presence support, custom components for Facebook Pages and more.

With the new tools, developers are given first class access to the Facebook APIs directly within Force.com's Apex Code, enabling the creation of new applications and user experiences that connect directly to Force.com’s Sites, database, integration, Apex programming language, and Visualforce user interface capabilities.

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