Verified pages by Facebook

Facebook has launched the official Verified Pages & Profiles on Facebook.

For famous public figures & pages, (eg. Sachin Tendulkar, Selena Gomez, ToI) you will see a blue tick mark next to the name, on their official Facebook pages. It means that the pages have been verified by Facebook as official. I am not sure how they verify, maybe they just call up, hey Sachin is http://www.facebook.com/SachinTendulkar your official page?

Here is an example

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Facebook Page Manager for iPhone is here!

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Facebook raises 5000 friends limit.

Snapshot by Mahesh Murthy

Iphone app sold for 1 Billion Dollars!

Forget about diamonds, rubies & fine jewelry, mobile apps is where the money is! Instagram, the sensational fastest growing iPhone app was acquired by facebook today for 1 Billion Dollars!

New Facebook Feature : Interests List

Facebook has launched a new feature today!

Interest Lists :

What is it?
A collection of facebook pages & people whose updates will be available in the list, to which anyone can subscribe (if the privacy is public)
It is like a personalized interest based newsfeed, similar to hashtags (#facebook for example)  in twitter using which you can see everything related to #facebook in one news feed.

Check out this example, https://www.facebook.com/?sk=fl_10150660106619803 for high-end jewelry & watches that I created.

How do you plan to use this feature with your friends?

Hint : You can also make private lists with exclusive stuff only for your friends.

Facebook Timeline coming for Pages!

YUP! That is true!

Now Facebook Pages will look like your new profile, the TIMELINE! With some rules, though.

Check out facebook timeline for pages at http://www.facebook.com/FineRuby

1. Your cover photo may not contain promotional material.
2. Your cover photo cannot be only text-based.
3. You cannot incentivize download or sharing or liking of your cover photo or use your cover photo for the same.
4. Your cover photo should not ciolate a copyright or infringe other trademarks.

Here's the Big Bonanza
FANS can MESSAGE to the page now! :D :D

If you manage multiple facebook pages like I do, you know how important the Big Bonanza is!

What do you think about timeline for facebook pages?

How SOPA & PIPA Acts affect non-americans

A lot of non-americans in touch with me, a lot of them Indians with
e-startups, are not really concerned about SOPA & PIPA. But I think
there are reason to be concerned about.
If you do not know, these acts are giving ISPs, the Government &
Domain Registars the power to pro-actively censor any website, not
just content, they deem as piracy with 'considerable evidence' or 'in
good faith'.
Sounds close to internet dictatorship?
1. The acts do not just cover US businesses & websites but also
foreign websites located on US servers (like this blog) as well as any
foreign website that has 'piracy content' from being accessed from
within the United States.
2. This is a deadly blow to user-generated content, crowdsourcing &
e-businesses.
3. It gives dictator-ly powers to ISPs & domain Registrars.
4. Similar laws might be enacted in other countries on the same lines.
5. It 'awards' ISPs & Registrars that pro actively take action in good faith.
6. It has a clause to take down the whole website & not just the
acclaimed pirated content. i.e. If one piece of your content is
pirated, your whole site can be taken down & not just the 'pirated
content'
7. It places the responsibility of action on the website. which in
simple words means, if you post some 'pirated content' on Facebook,
then Facebook not you, will be penalized.
Impact - Websites will discourage user-generated content as it is
impossible to check all user-generated content being generated on a
big website. This could also lead away investors & venture capitalists
from internet startups. So much, for the golden era of the internet.
All in all it could mark the beginning of the end of free & open
internet that we enjoy today.
Hope that helps clear why even Wikipedia blacked out today. Wikipedia
might become illegal under the acts & we will have to live without
Wikipedia if the acts are passed!
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Self composed one liners, statuses

Just to keep track of that random stuff. Call me a narcissist if you wish :P

• Your thoughts become your words & actions, rule over your thoughts & you shall rule the world.
• My Customer is my Brand Ambassador.
• I like my life simple, I like complications only in my watches.
• The day a girl tags me in a "married to" post, I'll know I'm in deep shit.
• If Sunny Leone & Sunny Deol got married & had a kid, their child's passport would say
  Father's Name - Sunny Deol
  Mother's Name - Sunny Deol
• I am really bad with excel files. I should probably take a job in an investment bank so I can learn it in my 1st year.
• Ted Mosby sure takes a hell lot of time to tell a story.
• If you think I am rude to you, you cannot imagine how rude I am to myself.
• The beauty of voice & sadly it is abused
• Aptitude test for IITs! & this is not even from Faking News!
  Govt. seems to be playing dumb, dumb & bumber with IITs! :-/
• Don't FACEBOOK your problems, FACE them.
• Not self composed this one - A boy to very rude girl - If i ever have to commit suicide I ll jump from your Ego level to your IQ level. :)
• Teacher: Where is the Capital of India?
  Student: In Swiss Bank
• the 44th top selling book on amazon is What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex & guess what, the book is blank!
• BTP completed, aisa lag raha hai jeevan safal ho gaya! lol
• Its just so strangely awesome that just as you are about to become an emotionless working machine, someone walks into your life & reminds you what being human is all about.
• God could not be everywhere, so he created Mothers
  Devil could not be everywhere, so he created Girlfriends!
• All forces of nature work towards one end, happiness :)
• Seek forgiveness and Forgive all!
• Let noble thoughts come to us from all directions, will never forget it. ( BVB Vidyashram )
• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
• Its is never to late to seek forgiveness and forgive. It is always equally pleasant and harmonious to do so!
• Mickey Mouse is so lucky, he shares my birthdate!
•    

Engagement beoynd facebook fans

There are more users engaged than the total no. of fans on the page, that says something! (Achievement) :D

Facebook's most talked about brands!

With the new facebook metric finally people are understand what me & other social media marketers have been trying to tell for years (2 years in my case lol), engagement is more important than the number of likes. Below is a list of the top ten facebook brands sorted by engagement :

1. Starbucks: 508,526
2. Coca-Cola: 220,867
3. Victoria’s Secret: 145,125
4. Skittles: 137,558
5. Oreo: 114,454
6. Red Bull: 112,051
7. Playstation: 104,837
8. Converse: 52,866
9. Pringles: 50,488
10. Converse All Star: 40,858

Now, for the traditional metric folks, below is a list of brands sorted by no. of likes.

1. Coca-Cola: 34,511,504
2. Starbucks: 25,446,846
3. Oreo: 23,092,391
4. Red Bull: 22,427,254
5. Converse All Star: 20,780,055
6. Converse: 20,141,021
7. Skittles: 19,348,317
8. Playstation: 17,420,065
9. Pringles: 13,602,128
10. Victoria’s Secret: 15,343,727

Funniest Facebook Spam going around!

Facebook will begin stealing your
underwear at midnight tonight if
you don' t copy and paste this message
in the next 36. 5 seconds, forward it to
everyone in your mailing list , print a
hard copy for your grandmother and
call your third grade teacher.
If you're lucky, you'll get a free unicorn in the mail tomorrow.
Copy-paste this or face the consequences.
xD

My Signed Check to Facebook Goes to Waste

Amidst all the speculations that facebook is going to charge from today, I had signed a check for facebook, but they never charged.
Sad, a signed check gone to waste bin.

Facebook drops plan to charge amidst user protests

Paolo Alto September 26, 2011

Facebook has announced that it has cancelled its plan to charge users for using facebook. Facebook now requests all users to calm down & enjoy & to stop posting the spam message around.

Live Screenshot of the Facebook Timeline!

for all who haven't yet activated the timeline, here's a live screenshot of the facebook timeline which will go live on September 30, 2011!

(Click on the image for full size)

Live preview of the facebook timeline of Sambhav Karnawat

Stay connected with me on facebook at Sambhav Karnawat on facebook.

 

Important Metrics of Social Media

Just completed a new project at BuzzWorthy, here are some stats from the project, reproduced with permission.

Though I cannot disclose what I did in the project, I want to shed some light on important metrics of social media. (In this case, the medium was a facebook page, but it could be anything)

How to get the old newsfeed back on facebook!

UPDATE : How to get the old newsfeed back on facebook!

If you hate the new newsfeed too, just go to your account settings

New changes to Facebook

You can see another flurry of changes coming on facebook before the f8 conference. Some that I came across in the last 5 minutes listed below :

Facebook's New Features!

Facebook released a lot of new features today! Here's a sum-up of the most important ones :

• Subscribe option for facebook profiles - This step takes the usual facebook profiles a step closer to facebook pages (in particular Public Figure pages). Now if you want to receive my updates but do not want me to see your updates or I do not accept your friend request, you can still receive my public updates by subscribing to my profile! Just go to my profile & click on the subscribe button, you'll start seeing my updates in your news feed! This is especially helpful for people who have hit the facebook friend limit of 5000 friends, like my friend Dan Gordon or the belle dancer Meher Malik.

Facebook Subscribe button for profiles

• Share facebook statuses - Long awaited, but here at last! Now you can share facebook updates, so no - via @ anymore! Just click the share button below a status & it'll be shared with your friends! :D

These are 2 of the most important new features I came across. But there are still many more awaited! The most important & the most awaited is :

• Advanced Notifications for facebook Pages! : If you run a page & engage a community on facebook, you know what I mean! Right now pages & their admins do not receive a notification if an old status or photo on their page gets a comment or something which results in less engagement than there can be!

Hope facebook launches this feature soon!

UPDATE : Today, September 16, 2011 the facebook navigation bar has become omnipresent, like vodafone's pup, wherever you go, it follows.

UPDATE : October 3, 2011 Facebook has announced the launch of a yet another feature, this one only for business pages on facebook, "People Talking About" (that might not be the final name for the metric) which will measure user-initiated activity on a Page, including posting to a Page’s Wall, “liking,” commenting, sharing a Page post or content on the Page, answering a Question posed to fans, mentioning a Page, “liking” or sharing a deal or checking in at your Place.

UDATE : October 5, 2011 (USA) Facebook is removing reviews & discussions tab from October 31, 2011 from all business pages.

What do you think, how does this fit in your scheme of things? Tell me in the comments below