Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Facebook Fan Page Scam – Whole Foods

From cnet News: The scam has been spreading virally through Facebook via “fan pages” with names like “Whole Foods Market Free $500 Gift Card Limited – first 12,000 fans only” and “Whole Foods FREE $500 Gift Card! Only Available for 36 hours!” The fan page asks Facebook users to add it as a fan, thus [...]

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5 Reasons I’m Not a Fan of Your Business on Facebook

Guilty as charged! Another excellent post by Dawn (@lettergirl)! 5 Reasons I’m Not a Fan of Your Business on Facebook And thanks to this post, I have lots of work to do – I spend a good amount of time connecting, but my Facebook page needs to be touched up.  Definitely read this.  And anything [...]

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Minnesota’s Governor to Hold Town Hall via Facebook

From Mashable.com: The governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, has found a novel use for Facebook: conducting town hall meetings. On Wednesday, March 31, at 7:15 p.m. ET, the governor will use his Facebook Fan Page to make a major announcement and to gather feedback from his fans on “helping Republicans win the 2010 elections.” Facebook’s been [...]

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Rudy’s and Texas Independence Day! 1/4 lb of brisket for 32 CENTS!

With every purchase of 1/4 lb. Brisket on March 2nd, the 32¢ payment received will be donated to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. One per customer, participating locations only (see below) and cutter’s choice brisket. Also, Rudy’s will donate 50¢ to Clinton Bush Haiti Fund for every new verifiable Twitter follower and Facebook fan from [...]

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Facebook’s new look (again!)

Facebook turns 6!  Happy Birthday.  And it is now 400 million users strong! From Mashable.com: In a private meeting with the press, Mr. Deng took the time to explain the new Facebook () redesign and all of its new features in-depth. I whipped out my Kodak ZI8 and filmed the entire conversation and demo. While [...]

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Facebook Comment Spoofing via Email

A new vulnerability for Facebook users: From F-Secure.com: Facebook recently published a nice new feature: Reply to this email to comment on this status. This seems like a very handy feature to have if you’re trying to converse with friends on the go. But is it secure? As it turns out, based on our testing, [...]

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Facebook nearly as large as the US!

Last night I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with the San Antonio chapter of  DSWA (more on that soon). During our talk, I brought up a slide that showed the statistic that if Facebook were a country, it would be larger than Japan…. Well that just changed! According to CNN.com, Facebook just crossed the [...]

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