Every Franklin spent on Facebook advertising has 35 times the reach of comparable spending on Google.
Social media guru Brian Carter fleshes this out in a cool infographic we’ve reproduced below. Readers, what do you think of these numbers?
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Facebook Launches ‘Listen’ Button On Music Pages
Facebook is launching a listen button on musical artists’ pages, residing between the like and message buttons. Clicking on the listen button directs you to the artist’s tracks on any of the social music-streaming services that a user has already signed up for.
The button is already live on the pages for Linkin Park, Justin Bieber and Slash.
Not to be confused with the buttons called “listen” that third-party developers have created for timeline via the open graph, Facebook’s launch of this new button supersedes numerous precursors of its own that the social network tested or at least proposed over the past year or two.
These have included ones that appeared in the ticker on the right-hand side of the homepage — one of them is live now — as well as a more ambitious “play” button that would have led to a music dashboard connecting as many music streaming services as Facebook could sign up.
By contrast, the “listen” button launching today appears on musicians’ own pages, not in any centralized portion of the site nor location controlled by streaming music providers.
The “listen” button coexists with a “listen with” button that runs in the ticker, enabling users to begin listening to a song that a friend is listening to.
Readers, what have you been listening to on Facebook lately?
Want More Facebook Likes? Fake ‘Em!
Facebook likes can only do so much for a webpage, and when they’re not even real ones you can’t call them true engagement. Nor will any web search engine results, for that matter.
So that has us scratching our heads over the utility of a site called Like Fake, which generates code that you can put on your own website to make it look like more people have given you the thumbs up than is really the case.
Simply input the number of likes you want your website to have, click the button and presto: a fake like tally you can put on your site.
Adding the resulting block of code to your webpage doesn’t have the same effect as a real Facebook plugin for the like button. On the social network itself, your real like count won’t change.
This is a vanity site at best — no attempt to make money on the thumbs up copyright appears here — so we’re not sure whether Facebook’s legal department might tell Like Fake to take a hike. What do you think, readers?
5 Apps You Should Delete From Your iPhone
Let’s face it. We all have more apps than we need, and it’s really annoying swiping through pages and pages of apps to get to the ones we use. To help you clean out your iPhone, this blogger has made a list of 5 apps that I’ve deleted from my iPhone to make more room.1. Borders: The company went out of business but the app may still on your phone. The app works but it is powered by Kobo, so you might as well consolidate and just use the Kobo app to read the books that you have purchased and buy new ones.
2.MySpace: The app for the social network is perfectly fine, but when was the last time you logged into MySpace? If you’re not using the social network, then you should just clean house and get rid of the app.
3. U.S. Open (tennis app): This is an awesome app to use during the tennis championship in New York. It’s got player bios, videos and it helps you figure out the evolving schedule. But they make a new app every year, so there is no use keeping this one around.
4. UrbanSpoon: Remember this app from the early iPhone commercials? It’s like a digital jackpot machine for finding restaurants. Using your location, it spins around and stops on recommended places to eat. It’s a fun idea, but have you ever really taken them up on their suggestions?
5. Netflix: Now a lot of people may disagree, because this is one of the best apps out there. But really its best to watch movies on your iPad where you have a bigger screen. How often do you actually stream feature-length films on your phone?
What apps have you cleaned off of your phone?
Possible human remains at Titanic site
In observance of the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking, a 2004 image was reissued to the public in an uncropped version, which shows a coat and boots buried in the mud at the site two-and-a-half miles below the ocean's surface, where the legendary passenger liner now lies.
This photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows a pair of shoes, lying in close proximity, are, while the visible remains of the victim have disappeared, suggestive evidence of where a victim of the Titanic disaster came to rest. Credit: Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration)
ROV Hercules investigating the stern of Titanic during a 2004 expedition, as photographed by its underwater partner, ROV Argus, both of which were deployed from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown. Credit NOAA / Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island
The bow of Titanic photographed in June 2004, by the ROV Hercules during an expedition returning to the shipwreck of the Titanic. Credit NOAA / Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island
View of a port side forward expansion joint on the boat deck of the bow section of the shipwreck Titanic as photographed June 1, 2004, by ROV Hercules deployed from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown. Credit: NOAA / Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island
View of a telemotor, the last piece of machinery remaining on the bridge of Titanic, as photographed by ROV Hercules deployed from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown. Credit NOAA / Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island
A view of the bow and railing of the RMS Titanic. Image copyright Emory Kristof/National Geographic.
A view of the bathtub in Capt. Smiths bathroom. Rusticles are observed growing over most of the pipes and fixtures in the room. Image courtesy of Lori Johnston, RMS Titanic Expedition 2003, NOAA-OE.
Two of Titanic’s engines lie exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in “rusticles”—orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria—these massive structures, four stories tall, once powered the largest moving man-made object on Earth. COPYRIGHT© 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by AVIL, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
The first complete views of the legendary wreck Titanic’s battered stern is captured overhead here. Making sense of this tangle of metal presents endless challenges to experts. Says one, “If you’re going to interpret this stuff, you gotta love Picasso.” COPYRIGHT© 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by AIVL, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
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This photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows a pair of shoes, lying in close proximity, are, while the visible remains of the victim have disappeared, suggestive evidence of where a victim of the Titanic disaster came to rest. Credit: Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration)
ROV Hercules investigating the stern of Titanic during a 2004 expedition, as photographed by its underwater partner, ROV Argus, both of which were deployed from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown. Credit NOAA / Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island
The bow of Titanic photographed in June 2004, by the ROV Hercules during an expedition returning to the shipwreck of the Titanic. Credit NOAA / Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island
View of a port side forward expansion joint on the boat deck of the bow section of the shipwreck Titanic as photographed June 1, 2004, by ROV Hercules deployed from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown. Credit: NOAA / Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island
View of a telemotor, the last piece of machinery remaining on the bridge of Titanic, as photographed by ROV Hercules deployed from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown. Credit NOAA / Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island
A view of the bow and railing of the RMS Titanic. Image copyright Emory Kristof/National Geographic.
A view of the bathtub in Capt. Smiths bathroom. Rusticles are observed growing over most of the pipes and fixtures in the room. Image courtesy of Lori Johnston, RMS Titanic Expedition 2003, NOAA-OE.
Two of Titanic’s engines lie exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in “rusticles”—orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria—these massive structures, four stories tall, once powered the largest moving man-made object on Earth. COPYRIGHT© 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by AVIL, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
The first complete views of the legendary wreck Titanic’s battered stern is captured overhead here. Making sense of this tangle of metal presents endless challenges to experts. Says one, “If you’re going to interpret this stuff, you gotta love Picasso.” COPYRIGHT© 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by AIVL, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
News from - http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/exclusive-new-images-of-titanic-slideshow/titanic-wreck-photo-1332359363.html
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