Six Degrees Web Design » Facebook http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog Bringing you closer to your audience on the web Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:03:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Facebook mimics G+ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/08/29/facebook-mimics-g/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/08/29/facebook-mimics-g/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:16:18 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=802 There’s been a bit of buzz about Google Plus (G+) lately. Everyone’s discussing where they think it is lacking somehow or the features are just what everyone always wanted on Facebook or other services.  Whatever you think about G+, Facebook has been paying attention. Since G+ came out, new features have slowly been sneaking

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]]> http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/20/facebook-in-the-news-its-more-than-just-privacy-issues/feed/ 0 The Fisticuffs Are Out: Facebook v Google & Microsoft v Apple http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/13/the-fisticuffs-are-out-facebook-v-google-microsoft-v-apple/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/13/the-fisticuffs-are-out-facebook-v-google-microsoft-v-apple/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 12:59:31 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=743 Tech companies are coming out swinging at each other today starting with Facebook being discovered paying advertising firm Burston-Marsteller to place anti-Google stories out in the wild. (Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google) The fights continue with a lawsuit being brought against Apple in the issue of whether App Store can be

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]]> http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/13/the-fisticuffs-are-out-facebook-v-google-microsoft-v-apple/feed/ 0 Too Many Deals? Facebook Joins The Fray http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/27/too-many-deals-facebook-joins-the-fray/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/27/too-many-deals-facebook-joins-the-fray/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:37:36 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=724 As of Monday, Facebook has joined the abundance of deals sites popping up on the web these days. Facebook Deals is launching with the hope of beating out other North American deals sites like Groupon, Living Social, and Google and Bing’s deal sites by offering free deals to businesses and not taking a slice

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]]> http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/27/too-many-deals-facebook-joins-the-fray/feed/ 0 Your Social Media Preferences: All-in-one or to each their own? http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/19/your-social-media-preferences-all-in-one-or-to-each-their-own/ http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/2011/04/19/your-social-media-preferences-all-in-one-or-to-each-their-own/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:53:52 +0000 admin http://sixdegreeswebdesign.com/blog/?p=721 With Twitter in talks about buying the highly popular TweetDeck (read the WSJ story here), a third party client used to post messages on Twitter as well as following other services including: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, and Foursquare, I was wondering…what would happen in Twitter’s hands? Would TweetDeck become Twitter only? Do you

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Did you know that if you post something on Facebook that you want to remove all you

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Twitter Considering Facebook-Style Pages for Brands [REPORT] Twitter might introduce pages for brands similar to those on Facebook, according to reports.

The initiative, which Marketing Magazine reports is being lead by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and President

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Have you seen the custom page addresses on Facebook, but don’t know how to get one? It’s simple, really. Get 25 people to Like your page and you can have a custom

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