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There are many social websites available on internet like MySpace, Orkut, Hi5 and most importantly Facebook. So, what is the difference in among them? Why Facebook is still on the top? The answer is that Facebook kept revolving the interests of the people by introducing new functionalities every few months. The big advantage of Facebook on other social networking sites is Facebook has plenty of applications to enjoy, work and play with. Facebook is also helpful in promoting your business in many ways.
Facebook is still living to the expectations because it doesn’t let the users get bored by amending according to the latest trends and interests of the users. On the other hand, other social sites just provide you the facility of changing the profile layout with some drag drop functions while Facebook knows what the users want and gets it done before the users ask for it. Every day more and more applications are added to its database, giving the users something to work on. Facebook applications are not only an entertainment but also facilitate you with business services by promoting your website among the users and much more. The main thing about Facebook is that its users are mostly authentic and its not easy to make a fake user profile. Research and development team of Facebook is working to keep facebook live till eternity and they aim to provide the best of social networking site to its user.
Facebook provides its users with two great free tools, Fan Pages and Groups, both have their own utility. There are several options with theses tools that you can use according to your need. Suppose if you want to publicize your business via Facebook then the best choice is to have Fan Pages rather to use Groups. Facebook Fan Pages act as personalized business pages.
These two tools differ from each other in the sense that Fan Pages are visible to guest users and search engine recognizes them as index pages, which also helps in SEO tasks. Fan Pages get you traffic on your site or Facebook Application.
In Groups, members can send invitations to other users, even to the non-members, making Groups work as a viral/events-oriented marketing tool.
The following table displays some facts about Fan Pages and Groups on Facebook:
We are looking for Facebook to introduce Groups and Facebook Applications’ interactivity. Fan Pages provide you this opportunity. Groups also are a good way to host discussions and getting attention by the user. On the other side Pages are the best in keeping long-term activities and also improve search abilities on social media.
Real Life Facebook wonderful video clip that is actually showing how Facebook works. Just that it is online or it is virtual so people take it as a joke or something but it is not. Whatever happened with guy who opened the door is actually what is happening with every one of us. This could include invasion into our privacy of people we don’t know and the like.
Politicians are now converting Facebook to a new platform to enhance their political career. With the popularity in youth of technology, many politicians are realizing the significance of Facebook. They are trying to find their votes on Facebook, as it seems effective to convince the youth. The last election young people are boosted on “Vote or Die” situation.
Marketing director for Facebook, Melanie Deitch said, “We wanted to provide a forum for politicians to have their ideas heard.”
The observers on political issues have noticed that Facebook is becoming a center of attention to people all over the world and it’ll prove to be effective to carry an election campaigns there. In addition to this Politicians are also taking Facebook Applications under their consideration, many applications are already present on Facebook promoting some candidates.
Professor of political science, University of Saskatchewan, David McGrane, in an interview to CBC News said “Facebook has picked up where blogs left off. This is sort of the first Facebook election,” he said. “Though blogs have been used in past federal elections, the feeling is — the feeling I’m getting — is that technology like this, information technology, is going to become more and more a part of elections.”
Larissa Shasko the candidate of Green party in the Saskatchewan riding of Palliser has a Facebook Fan Page and a Facebook Application. Within three days of campaign, she got 44 supporters on that politician page. She said that she uses Facebook to send messages to her supporters, but avoid being a spammer.
She also said, “I don’t believe in spamming. I think to use Facebook to spam people is irresponsible and it just hurts those of us that are trying to get our message across to a younger age demographic who believe Facebook is a great way to let us all speak.”
Ralph Goodale, Liberal candidate, had more than 600 supporters on his Facebook page. There are many like these on Facebook and all of them are seeking for more. Some Political candidates have their own Facebook Applications to promote their ideas and motives.
In the on going week, the announcement about facebook is that it is going to change the application measurement’s timings from daily to monthly. According to it instead of daily activity reports, Facebook developers can now look at their widgets’ performance on period of a month.
The change makes perfect sense because widgets have many different facilities with which it interact with users, such as timers, events, triggers, and pass along. By keeping track of daily interaction the user cannot simply have a good understanding of how all of these are working. In order to grasp a clearer idea, you need to maintain a track on a long term basis, may be monthly or even quarterly.
The idea of expanding cycles of measurement has been learned by the industry before. Same as retail stores extended their tracking of fast moving inventory sales to predict next year’s fashion trends, keeping the eyes to buyer patterns over an extended period of time which enables them to make a prediction of the items that would be in high demand the next session.
This change will no matter be useful for the developers by allowing them to incorporate determining user patterns of interaction when they are modifying and designing future widgets. This change is also important to be noted by the advertisers as the industry has been dealing with a way to tap into the ever growing user base of social networks. The displaying of ads within networks has produced low conversion rates, leveraging widgets is proving to be a better opportunity. The newly developed widgets can guarantee long term user engagement, that’s good news for the advertisement circle.
Let’s hope the next metric system update from Facebook gives developers a greater leeway in targeting which of the widget elements to track, as for what may be in store for the future. Built-in tracking system can be the trends, behavioral patterns and user profiles that will lend users better a good long term measurement skyline.
The good news about facebook is that over five thousand Facebook applications are currently working, and the best applications have tens of millions of installations with millions of active users.
The bad news according to our analysis is that about 87% of the usage is only on 84 applications and only 45 applications contain more than 100,000 active users. This is a long term marketplace with a vengeance — but unfortunately, the economic models (for developers at least, though not for Facebook itself) all depends on getting into the very short head. The following graph shows the distribution of active users among the top 200 developers.
As you can see in this graph, the drop-off is extremely steep. But this doesn’t mean that Facebook is not an important platform for developers, just getting Facebook application is not a short cut to quick riches. Requirements to embrace the Facebook opportunity are a lot more than optimism.
Our analysis focuses on the market for current Facebook applications, it seems that the future opportunity is less in Facebook applications per se, and more in the development of applications that use the social graph embodied in Facebook for entirely new purposes.
A new useful launch has been made by TheSMESpace service known as SMEStorage in which there is a Facebook component where Facebook users can share their Public files. Also integrated is the famous Picnik an online image editing service and Flickr for easy image uploads.
The CEO Ian Osborne says that they are committed to providing increased integration with other high value web applications services so that our users get the most from their data.
The SMEStorage offers access to data using several channels such as a rich web client, iGoogle, iPhone, Mobile, Facebook and Joomla. It also uses Amazon S3 to store its data and provides new users with 250 MB free.
The SMESpace offers online and mobile applications for businesses and individuals.
It is getting difficult day by day to make ads on social networks. Even big-timer Google is facing a hard time although it controls a lot of the inventory on MySpace. Another ad network for social applications on Facebook called Lookery is also renewing a promotion. The new promotion will offer 15 cents per thousand page impressions to application developers who signup. That means 7.5 cents per thousand ad impression. The same network in January was offering 12.5 cents per ad impression. This shows it has cut down its rates to nearly half.
Let’s talk about this new Facebook application by Facebookster! It’s a masterpiece of development which allows you to exchange knowledge with other Facebook users. Just like Yahoo answers, Brainsells lets you ask questions to which answers you cannot find and these questions are answered by other users who have relevant answers to it.
Besides it’s also fun! You can communicate on a free platform with anyone whether he is your friend or not. You can ask who will win the match between Australia and England to who gifted statue of liberty to America.
