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Facebook and Ebay launch Social Commerce Platform

13, Oct 2011

Without wanting to sound like a broken record, here at the FirstFound Blog we’ve mentioned the importance of Facebook Business Pages once or twice.Or seven or eight times – we forget which exactly. But our point stands, especially now that Facebook have announced that they’ll be working alongside online auctioneer Ebay to create a brand [...]

Facebook “Spam King” Surrenders to FBI

8, Aug 2011

The history of crime has been littered with heroic/foolish last stands and shouts of “you’ll never take me alive”. So when a hardened master criminal meekly hands himself in, fans of mobster films everywhere feel a tinge of regret. But when you’re the criminal mastermind behind junk Facebook messages, you can probably be forgiven for [...]

Facebook and Google – Are the Toys Out of the Pram?

18, Jul 2011

There’s been a war of words in the press. There have been malicious press releases. But now Facebook’s war with Google has heated up even further. Because it looks like Google+ has rattled more than a few pages down at Facebook HQ. This time it’s over advertising. Specifically, a fun little advert from an application [...]

Your Business Really Should be on Facebook

15, Jul 2011

“People are deserting Facebook!” “Google+ is the future!” “Mark Zuckerberg wants to have the word privacy removed from the dictionary!“  – If you believed everything that has been written about Facebook in recent months, you’d think the site was on its last legs. But it’s stronger than ever. And your business needs to be part [...]

Careless Tweets Cost Lives – MoD in Social Media Warnings

15, Jun 2011

Soldiers of Britain! Do you Tweet? Post Facebook updates? Check in on FourSquare? Well you could be betraying state secrets to the enemy! So say a selection of videos from the Ministry of Defense.  A marketing campaign from the MoD has raised the issue of members of the armed forces using social media sites to [...]

Facebook to Sue Daily Mail

24, Feb 2011

Facebook – the world’s most popular website. Or, if you’re a Daily Mail reader, a haven for paedophile sex gangs. Funnily enough, Facebook have taken offence at the latest Mail headline linking the site with criminal activity. And they’re threatening to sue. Friday’s edition of the Daily Mail led with the headline “How Many More [...]

World’s Oldest Facebook User is an iPad Fan

20, Dec 2010

A woman from Tenby, Pembrokeshire is thought to be the oldest current user of Facebook. 103 year old  Lillian Lowe is an ex-hotel owner who’s spending her hard-earned retirement surfing on her trusty Apple iPad. As such, Mrs Lowe has become something of a Facebook celebrity. Along with friend requests from her great-grand children, Lillian [...]

World Cup, Soldiers and Cher: Facebook Zeitgeist 2010

15, Dec 2010

We’ve already seen what people have been searching for on Google in 2010,  but today Facebook have entered the zeitgeist fray to tell us just what the residents of the world’s largest social network have been talking about. Facebook’s Fastest Growing Global Trends HMU – Apparently it’s the Internet’s hottest new acronym and means “Hit [...]

Apple and Facebook “Bad for The Internet”

23, Nov 2010

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, he imagined an open service where content could be freely seen and accessed by all. Now, 20 years after the first ever web page was put up, he’s decided that certain companies are damaging his utopian vision for the Internet. Berners-Lee claims that some of the internet’s [...]

Facebook’s New Currency Launched

22, Nov 2010

We’re all used to heading down to the Post Office or Travel Agents to pick up a few Euros before a week in Spain or Greece – but what about heading to Tesco to exchange your money before signing in to Facebook? Tesco and Game are going to start selling Facebook ‘Credits’ – a virtual [...]


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