Advertising Facebook Explodes Revenue Estimates Facebook estimated global ad revenues will jump to $3.8 billion, more than double the social networking giant's 2010 total. Ad revenue for the site, which has over 750 million registered users, will miss the expected $4.05 billion mark, according to analysts, but the slowdown in growth is explained as a diversification into other revenue… Social Douglas Crets View comments
Digital Lifestyle Facebook Brings Sensitive News Feeds Facebook made significant changes to how it delivers your friends' news and updates today by releasing a ticker feature and a news feed format that arranges missed updates in a newspaper-style format. The move is an improvement in relevancy of information feeds in social profiles and it demonstrates an intelligent system for delivering… Social Douglas Crets View comments
Breaking Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera Wadah Khanfar, the director of Al Jazeera, announced his resignation today after Wikileaks released documents that could prove embarassing to the news organization, the New York Times has reported. According to the documents, Khanfar held particularly close ties with the U.S. government, to whom he promised the network would provide less critical… John Paul Titlow View comments
Facebook What Will NOT Be Coming at f8? Earlier today we looked at what to expect at Facebook's developer conference later this week. It is going to be content crazy, to say the least. Yet, there are some tectonic plates moving at Facebook that are likely not going to be featured at f8 that deserve some mention. Essentially, Facebook has loaded up to dump one feature after another on… Social Dan Rowinski View comments
Advertising Google Puts +1 Button on Ads Alongside all the announcements of new user features for Google Plus, the latest big news out of the Google camp is for advertisers. The +1 button is coming to Google Display Network ads, hinting at the first monetization channel for the social network and enabling Google users to personalize their ad experiences. Google has shown +1 buttons on… Jon Mitchell View comments