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A clever trick to automatically invite all your Facebook friends to be fans of your page

Dennis Yu — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:56:30 +0000

For folks that have a personal profile (a “standard” account), you can use a clever trick to invite all of these friends to fan the page. There is no way to automatically import. When you’re on the Facebook fan page…

GASP! Facebook’s like button is broken!

Dennis Yu — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:55:49 +0000

For those of you who are wondering why the “like” button isn’t working on your website any more, it’s not you. Facebook developers are aware this is priority 1 in their bug tracking system. We’ve been putting…

Facebook deals a MASSIVE blow to small business

Dennis Yu — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:11:41 +0000

Yesterday afternoon, developers all over began complaining that they couldn’t create FBML pages, the necessary elements of custom landing pages. The new rule was that you had to either have 10,000 fans or have an account rep, which means…

Singapore is full of lesbians according to Facebook

Dennis Yu — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:09:22 +0000

Facebook’s ad tool gives you demographic counts. Here are the number of people 18+ in Singapore– 1.8 million:

We’ve left the setting on both genders and all relationship statuses.

Now we look at just the females. There are 903,840…

Facebook Fan Page updates showing up in Google Alerts

Dennis Yu — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:03:43 +0000

I set up Google Alerts to monitor a number of keywords– and increasingly I’ve noticed how updates to Facebook pages are now showing up. Part of this is the fact that Google is increasingly using social signals to determine…

3 Facebook ads on the homepage

Dennis Yu — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:12:37 +0000

Is this just me or are you also seeing 3 ads on the Facebook homepage? This reminds me of the days when Yahoo! and Google would insert more ads on pages to increase revenue. Could imagine what Facebook would…

Facebook Community Pages auto-generation out of control

Dennis Yu — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:53:44 +0000

A couple weeks ago, Facebook released community pages– an attempt to auto-tag the web and build a rival to Wikipedia. Great SEO strategy, as these are in-text links coming from people’s profiles, allowing Facebook to extend their rankings from…

Determining the value of Facebook for your business– mistakes you’re probably making

Dennis Yu — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:52:03 +0000

A Rice University study last week claims that Facebook is an effective marketing tool because of these stats, comparing the Facebook fans versus their general customer base:

Made 36

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Facebook Fans– concept being changed to “like”

Dennis Yu — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:48:09 +0000

Internal documents propose that users can become a fan by just clicking “like”, as opposed to “become a fan”. Their documents, read them here, note that saying “like” is a light-weight method of…

Google Analytics in Korean– and a scary thought

Dennis Yu — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:22:53 +0000

Whoa, I just logged into my Google Analytics and see it in Korean. I hadn’t changed my browser’s language settings, logged in as another user, or had dinner at my favorite Korean restaurant.

I have seen this kind of…