Social Media
Last weekend, Facebook hosted its first ever Hacker Cup. In what will probably become known as the Olympics of hacking, the Facebook Hacker Cup is Facebook’s international coding competition that’s designed to weed out the creme de la creme of the coding elite. Their mission? To find solutions to the most difficult algorithmic coding challenges in three elimination rounds.
Let’s face it: web industry wars over users are really nothing new: Microsoft v. Apple, Yahoo v. Google, Facebook v. Twitter. For the past 15 years, we’ve all watched as numerous contenders have set foot in the ring, talked their trash to their opponent, and proceeded to either win with a TKO or get their HTML handed to them on the playground. This time, however, might be a little different.
If you’re looking to sell your stuff online, the first place you’ll probably go to is Craigslist or Ebay. But you might want to consider Facebook Marketplace.
Facebook Marketplace has been around for awhile. Originally launched in 2007, it’s inception was a bust because the site never really caught on among users. The site was re-launched early last year after Oodle (a growing online classifieds service that organizes millions of classified listings from across the web–say that three times fast) gave it a makeover. By taking online classifieds social, Facebook is hoping to give Craigslist a run for it’s money.
One of the newest areas of applications born out of the social networking era is location-based social networking. Location-based social networking works by users joining an online community and sharing their location through their mobile phone. Although the concept doesn’t exactly sound particularly exciting, it’s on the verge of becoming the newest social phenomenon. And it might be handier than you think.
One of the most important aspects of engaging your audience on Twitter is understanding how your consumers access it. Although it might seem irrelevant, knowing how your consumers connect with social media can give you more insight into not only what type of consumers they are, but what they are looking for from you as a business.
