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Facebook launched the platform and its Timeline feature in September, and by now its 800 million members are familiar with how they can instantly share songs from Spotify or news stories they're reading through the Washington Post. But Facebook is expanding the universe of available Timeline apps beyond music, news and video to include apps for sharing favorite restaurants, travel spots, movies, online deals and more. At a press conference Wednesday in San Francisco, Facebook announced it had opened up the next stage of the Open Graph system to include 60 new third-party companies that have developed apps for Timeline, including eBay, Foodspotting, Rotten Tomatoes, StubHub, Airbnb, Gogobot and Pinterest. If a Facebook member chooses, each app shows up as a module on their Timeline that gives a summary of recent shared activities.
"This is going to be the biggest catalyst for pushing social commerce," said Payvment Inc. Bodymetrics Uses AR to Solve the Online Shopping Dilemma, Virtually Try on Clothing. Online shoppers may be able to buy clothes in their pajamas, but they never know just how well those purchases will actually fit.
That problem may soon be history — thanks to a breakthrough piece of augmented reality technology from Bodymetrics. The company has partnered with PrimeSense on a 3D body-mapping product to be revealed this week at CES 2012. The product uses PrimeSense 3D sensors, much like those used for Microsoft Kinect, to scan a user's height and waist size, as well as the other shapes and curves that make a body unique. After creating an account, users will be able to virtually try on clothes from partner retailers to get a true sense of how potential purchases fit.
Facebook to Include Sponsored Stories in News Feeds. 7 Ways to Create a Memorable Customer Experience With Social Media. Dave Toliver is the Director of Corporate Marketing at Angel, a leading provider of cloud based customer experience solutions.
By developing innovative IVR, call center and voice applications that put the customer first, Angel is changing the way enterprises serve their customers. There's bad news and good news about the way consumers interact with brands on social media. The bad news? When customers complain on social media, those complaints can tarnish your brand's name for a wide audience faster than ever.
The good news? If you think you’re not “on” or “doing” social media, you’re wrong. f8 Live on Facebook. Google+ Hangouts Adds Screen Sharing, Google Docs Collaboration, and More. Stubbornness Increases the More People Tell You You’re Wrong. By Duncan Geere, Wired UK A group of psychologists working at HP’s Social Computing Research Group has found that humans are more likely to change their minds when fewer, rather than more, people disagree with them.
[partner id="wireduk" align="right"]The team conducted an experiment asking several hundred people to choose between two pieces of furniture. After a varying amount of time, they were asked to choose again between the items, but told that a certain number of other people had preferred the opposite item. The results showed that a small amount of social pressure to reverse an opinion was far more effective in getting people to change their minds than if the pressure was much greater. When an overwhelming number of people were shown as having made a different choice, people tended to stick with their original selections.
There are two conflicting theories of social influence at work here. The next step for the team is to bring quality into the equation. Image: HP. Icon Search Engine. What you should know about US Hispanic Moms. New research on the all-powerful U.S.
Hispanic mom. In a recent study by Latinum Network, the premier business network that helps brands reach US Hispanics, an in-depth analysis and market study in conjunction with America's most important consumer companies, identified eight critically important trends that marketers should recognize and embrace as they intensify efforts to reach US Hispanics. According to Latinum VP Andy Hasselwander: 1. MOMS CONTROL BILLIONS: The total population of Hispanic moms (6.9 M as of 2010) increases by about 100,000 every year-and about 475,000 Hispanic women become new moms every year.
Foursquare wins major victory with death of Facebook Places. While Facebook was rolling out some changes to its privacy policies today, the company also quietly announced it was killing off the Foursquare-like Places function inside of its mobile app.
The Facebook Places feature was unveiled a year ago and let users “check-in” to various locations. Many saw this as a serious threat to other social location services like Foursquare and Gowalla because Facebook has an incredible number of users. But by October you could already see that the feature wasn’t catching on, with only 6% of Facebook users trying the service. Dr. Digipol - The Blog, Bit.ly provides a QR code for all shortened URLs... Save Time on Twitter - Pluggio.