Scrabblegate- Hasbro’s Missed Facebook Opportunty
Brothers Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla are Scrabble fanatics. After the site on which they were playing a Scrabble knock off, Quadplex started charging users to play, they decided to create their own version. In June 2007 they took their online version to Facebook and since then, more than 2.3 million users have [...]
Managing 5,000 Facebook Friends
“How do I manage my 5,000 Facebook friends?” is a question Mark Cuban had to face recently.
Facebook went from being a way to broadcast information to 5k people, probably 4k of which I didn’t know or even have a business link to, to a platform I either had to take seriously or walk away from.
Mark [...]
A Facebook Ban for Dummies Man
Like many companies, we have been dipping our toe into the social applications waters with some of our brands. Our Wrox brand has a Facebook Group and a Twitter Stream, and until recently our iconic ambassador of our For Dummies series, Dummies Man, had his own Facebook profile.
Collegaue Ellen Gerstein, who had been managing [...]
My Twitter Alter Ego, and the Question of Brand in Social Applications
I have been doing some experimenting with social applications as it pertains to publishing. I tend to think of this blog as part of a “personal brand” if you will - it’s about me and my thoughts on the industry I happen to work in. Should I ever leave book publishing I suspect [...]
Facebook for Content Providers: A Look at the New York Times Application
The New York Times dips its toe into the Facebook waters today with the release of its New York Times News Quiz application.”Sigh, another Facebook application.” you say? Perhaps, but this one is particularly interesting to me for a few reasons:
It is one of only a very few from traditional print publishers
It is not [...]
