Steve Jobs Resignes from Apple

We all knew the day would come where Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple.  The day has finally arrived. August 24, 2011 is a day that will remain on the minds of many geeks, especially Apple lovers.

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Viral Marketing with Facebook

Every once in a while, technology is introduced to help with the viral spread of something online. This is what you’ll discover below.

For any business or person branding themselves online, you need to know about Facebook pages.

Click the “like” button below, and download the report “Facebook Success” from my company SMLBIS.com

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How to fix Facebook Photo Slider

Many Facebook users have been greeted with changes to the site that they don’t like.
Two main things is they are not seeing the feeds from their friends like they usually do and the photo slider.

The photo slider is cumbersome and rather intrusive. It takes over your whole screen with a black background and makes it impossible to see anything besides the photo. I’m not really sure why this has been added but many people don’t like the new Facebook Photo Slider.

Here is a quick way to get around it:

1. Click on the photo you want to see.
2. The screen should turn black and the photo should be presented
3. Press the [F5] Key
4. This should reload your screen and remove the black photo slider
5. Browse photos like normal!

What do YOU think about the photo slider?

Facebook Give Lawsuit Threats to Daily Mail

Reports from the Guardian and the Global Dashboard claim that Facebook threatened to sue Daily Mail. This is due to an article that wrongfully claimed that the social network giant makes it easier for older sex predators to seduce and approach minors.

The article was written by Mark Williams-Thomas, a former police detective. His original title for the said article was “I Posed as a Girl of 14 on Facebook. What Followed Will Sicken You”. The writer talked about his experience when he posed as a minor on Facebook and how he was able to attract sexual predators immediately.

The real issue was that the author was not using Facebook in his experiment and in truth was using a different social networking site. The article was updated at the bottom by the Daily Mail staff. The full text of the update goes this way:

“In an earlier version of this article, we wrongly stated that the criminologist had conducted an experiment into social networking sites by posing as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook with the result that he quickly attracted sexually motivated messages. In fact he had used a different social networking site for this exercise. We are happy to set the record straight.”

The article had caused a strong response from Facebook. According to the Guardian, a UK spokeswoman for Facebook said that the company was considering taking legal actions as the article has damaged its reputation. Aside from the erroneous reporting, Facebook do not accept members below 18 years old and has measures already in place to prevent that kind of behavior from taking place.

Facebook and Omniture Work Together for Better Facebook Ads Management

Big and small companies now have a better way  to use the world’s largest social network as their marketing channel.

Omniture, one of the best enterprise web analytics providers has gained a stronger partnership with Facebook as it introduces a new tool for managing Facebook ad campaigns. Omniture announced that customers can now automate, purchase and track their Facebook ad buys more thoroughly.

This offer is geared towards marketers who are interested in Facebook media buys. The new tool by Omniture has custom, reporting options for a more complete and professional outlook when it comes to the analytics and effectiveness of customer engagement that is generated by their campaigns.

The said tool by Omniture would be able to help companies understand how effective Facebook advertising is and would help encourage these companies to do more.

Omniture’s products have gone through a lot of evolutions in the past years in order to help support not only Facebook application measurement but also Twitter analytics. The addition of the Facebook ad measurement tool was a good and logical move for the Adobe owned company.

A big part of Facebook’s projected revenue for the year 2010 comes from ad buys which is one of the reasons why Facebook and Omniture would want to help their marketers have a better analysis and get to spend more and optimize on their Facebook Ad campaigns.