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Last year, I looked into the way companies are using Enhanced Facebook Pages as a way to beef up the branding and interactivity available with Facebook’s default Page settings. On my company blog, I explored the enhanced Pages of big companies such as Starbucks and The Gap. And I also made a list of ten third-party applications that you could use to enhance Facebook Pages, based on what was available at the time. In that vein, below I’ve identified ten more third-party apps that can be easily plugged into your Facebook Page to offer a little extra functionality and interactivity.
There are more apps available now that don’t require a lot of programming. While most of these apps offer very limited customization, they still provide a degree of enhancement that can help to bring you out of the default Facebook Page rut. Keep in mind that you cannot — or should not — add them all. Facebook limits the number of tabs you can have on your Page, and the Wall and Info tabs are immovable.
Here’s the list:
What third-party apps do you use to enhance your Facebook Pages?
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Mobile, meet Cloud. The conjunction of mobile computing and cloud-based services will unleash an entire new wave of product and market growth. GigaOM’s Mobilize 2010 will bring together the thought leaders and practitioners of the mobile web ecosystems for discussions, demonstrations and debate. You can register today for only $395. Building on the recent success of touch-based tablet devices, add a legion of machines as subscribers — your car, your fridge, your TV for example — and you have the makings of a vast new mobile opportunity. At Mobilize, an A-list roster of speakers will examine what new opportunities are enabled by broadband wireless and how the proliferation of new device types creates opportunities for entrepreneurs, investors and consumers.
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See the full list here. Mobilize will feature a stellar lineup of speakers representing all aspects of the mobile Internet from blue-chip companies to startups to investors. Our schedule and our speaker list is increasing daily. See details at http://mobilizeconf.com. Register for only $395.
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This might actually get me to cross some items off of my ever-growing to-do list: an app called Epic Win that turns chores into quests, and rewards completion with experience points, loot, and leveling up. And it looks great. More »
Apps – Games – iPhone – Video Games – X11
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Soon you’ll be able to add “travel info” to the long list of things for which you depend on Google—they just bought ITA Software, a company that organizes airline flight information, for $700 million. In a separate but not unrelated note, everyone at Kayak and Expedia just canceled their summer vacation plans. [TechCrunch] More »
Google – Searching – Search Engines – ITA – Companies
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If you’re carrying an EVO 4G and live in St. Louis, MO; Richmond, VA; or Salt Lake City, UT, it’s time to smile: that mandatory monthly $10 fee you pay for the 4G network just got a whole lot more worthwhile.
That adds 3 more cities to the slowly growing list of WiMax-enabled cities — a list which, by the way, we’ve got right behind the jump.
All of the cities with Sprint 4G, as of June 28th, 2010:
Georgia – Atlanta, Milledgeville
Hawaii – Honolulu, Maui
Idaho – Boise
Illinois – Chicago
Maryland – Baltimore
Missouri – Kansas City, St. Louis
Nevada – Las Vegas
North Carolina – Charlotte, Greensboro (along with High Point and Winston-Salem), Raleigh (along with Cary, Chapel Hill and Durham);
Oregon – Portland, Salem
Pennsylvania – Harrisburg, Lancaster, Philadelphia, Reading, York
Texas – Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, San Antonio, Waco, Wichita Falls
Utah – Salt Lake City
Virginia – Richmond
Washington – Bellingham, Seattle
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The humble to-do list hasn’t changed much over the years, but the methods we use to manage it have. Here’s a look at five of the most popular tools for helping you manage your to-do list. [Lifehacker] More »
E-mail – United States – Business and Economy – Health – Open source
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Twitter has just launched the next phase of its advertising strategy: In addition to “promoted tweets,” in which a brand can pay to have its tweet show up higher in the Twitter stream, the company now offers “promoted trending topics.” The first of these appeared last night, with a “Toy Story 3″ topic at the bottom of the trends list that includes the word “promoted” in yellow. Clicking the topic leads to a promoted tweet paid for by Disney. But unlike promoted tweets, the selling of trending topics blurs the line between Twitter’s role as a media filter and its growing intention to become an advertising company.
It’s not just that the word “promoted” may not make it entirely clear to users that it’s an advertisement (though hovering their cursor over the word shows a small bubble saying, in this case, “promoted by Disney/Pixar”). It’s that promoted trends aren’t just ads that sit at the bottom of the topic list — according to Twitter, they will actually rise up the list of topics just as other, real trends do, or possibly fall off and disappear from the list, based on the company’s view of how much they “resonate” with users.
And how will that decision be made? That’s not clear. Twitter says it’s developing “resonance” algorithms that determine when a trend moves up, but it’s not clear how they will apply to promoted trends. Will it be based simply on the number of people who actually retweet the trending message, or will the fact that it’s been paid for accelerate its rise? Will the company do anything to try and guard against Twitter users — employees of the advertiser, for example — gaming the trend or the “resonance” ranking by retweeting the company’s message excessively? All the FAQ says is that tweets found to “violate Twitter’s spam and abuse policy will be deleted.”
The problem is that trends are supposed to show what users are actually talking about, just as Google’s search results are supposed to show the most relevant links for a topic. The search company has sponsored results too, but they show up at the top of the page and are clearly ads — they don’t move up and down in the search results the way Twitter’s promoted trends apparently will. Twitter is now trying to do two mutually exclusive things: be a smart communications network with filters that help users discern what it’s important, and sell ads that are mixed in with those filters. It’s going to be a tough line to walk.
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“While Windows Phone 7 (WP7) sounds intriguing as a platform for iPhone-type applications, TechEd 2010 was very illuminating on the many things that this new platform does not include and why you will unlikely be able to migrate your existing Windows Mobile applications forward. Let me go through the laundry list of the have-nots…”
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Moving to a completely new platform – and that’s really what Windows Phone 7 is, despite it still be based on Windows CE – means having to start over. And having to start over means, at the start, things will be missing. From a developer’s point of view, this is where things can get painful. The list of what’s missing is pretty long, but some of them we already know, namely the lack of native code. If you’re making games XNA Game Studio is a great tool – but if you’re not making games, you’re going to code in Silverlight, and that has a laundry list of limitations that go along with it. All told this is a pretty negative article – time will tell if creative developers can work around the limitations and deliver great apps. And, hopefully, Microsoft is keenly aware of what developers want next, and will add it.
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“Let us take you on a tour of the most noteworthy mobile moments – from telecom inventions to handset debuts to appearances in popular culture, we’ve found the top 20 Moments in Mobile Phone History”
Well, let’s just say that this is a list of 20 interesting moments in the evolution of the cell phone market. I am not sure how many cell phones were actually sold because a little girl got a Barbie doll that had a toy phone, and it is a bit questionable as to whether the Pre has had any material effect on the market other than the massive amounts of ink spilled about it during the first half of 2009. Still, it is an interesting list and the older you are, the more likely you are to actually remember some of the events.
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