Michael Jackson and Social Media

June 25th was an interesting day as there was a flurry of activity online especially Twitter. As the morning progressed RIP Farrah Fawcett and Farrah Fawcett replaced Iran on the top 10 trending topics on Twitter. However as the afternoon progressed there were a number of tweets stating that TMZ had confirmed that Michael Jackson was dead. Soon the trending changed to RIP Michael Jackson and other similar versions. This trend has continued since then. My newsfeed on Facebook was filled with updates from my friends giving their thoughts on the...

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facebook Connect stories

Daniel Berkal from the Palmerston Group showed us the video -should be on the Refresh partners website soon. Zipalong.com presented their experiences on facebook connect. Focus on making people’s trips look and feel great. They plan on expanding the use of facebook integration. facebook connect was integrated very early on in the process. Integration took a couple of days. The problem is the complication in the workflow for the authentication of login and consolodate the data. Plans for monetizing by buying tickets etc from the...

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Facebook Connect with Matt Wyndowe

Matt Wyndowe is from facebook who is Canadian, originally from Toronto. Been there for two years now.  Work with large companies how to leverage facebook. 175million users today and the rate of growth is increasing. These are 30 day active users. Canadians have great engagement stats. 70% of active users in Toronto are on facebook. Now facebook Connect, what is it? Started back in 2006 got requests for gaming channels, comedy etc.. Being an open company they took this into consideration. People give their real identity. Connect people’s...

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