Archive for August, 2010

How to have an ecommerce shop on your Facebook

by Ades on August 24, 2010 in Business, Online Tools, paypal with 49 Comments

fb_commerce.jpgPayvment’s E-Commerce Storefront enables you to launch a professional storefront on Facebook. This app gives you everything you need including a full-featured admin area to manage your storefront and products directly from Facebook.

The Payvment tab couples PayPal’s API with Payvment’s shopping cart, allowing you to sell products directly on your Facebook Page… for free! This is a comprehensive app which allows you to add products and assign those products to a category. Payvment’s tab allows you to upload photos, list terms of service, provides shipping options, offer coupons and much much more. Your customers can shop for products like they would from any other e-commerce site, right on Facebook.

One of the coolest features of the Payvment tab is that it is integrated with all other Payvment stores, both on and off Facebook. If a user adds a product to their cart from your store, and later goes to check-out after shopping at another Payvment store, your item will still be in that user’s cart.

URL: http://www.facebook.com/payvment

Facebook launches “Places”

by Ades on August 19, 2010 in Business, iPhone with 29 Comments

places.pngFacebook launched Places, an extension to its iPhone application where people can post their location via Places to their Wall on FB. You can also tag your friends who are with you in the same place. Another feature of Places is, you can find friends who are nearby you. Seems like going to be interesting. Unfortunately it’s only available in US at the moment, in Malaysia you only see this blank screen to the right.

Places will directly compete with foursquare, another most popular location tagging application at the moment. Foursquare is not easy to beat though, since it has a competitive advantage; people can use foursqare to get discounts in restaurants, boutiques, shops etc, users also receive funny badges and become a mayor of the places…

It’s going to be interesting in the next few months, how these two apps will be competing with each other.

App – iPhone 4 Retina View Simulator

by Ades on August 18, 2010 in iPhone with 16 Comments

getreviewapp.pngIf you are an iPhone developer that has yet to get your iPhone 4, you should check out this application. It allows you to view your mockups in iPhone 4 retina display.

App costs just $2.99, much cheaper than the iPhone 4 investment :)

URL: http://www.getreviewapp.com/

LogoDesignTeam has a new look

by Ades on August 15, 2010 in Links with 15 Comments

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logodesignteam new look

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Website: http://www.logodesignteam.com

Get Twitter’s Official “Tweet” button

by Ades on August 14, 2010 in Social Networking with 11 Comments

Twitter finally launched it’s official “tweet” button. As you can see below, it comes in 3 different sizes.

twitter_offical_button.png

URL: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton

It’s the “retweets” that count

by Ades on August 8, 2010 in Social Networking with 15 Comments

Latest study by HP Labs suggests that “The correlation between popularity and influence is weaker than it might be expected. This is a reflection of the fact that for information to propagate in a network, individuals need to forward it to the other members, thus having to actively engage rather than passively read it and cease to act on it.”

That means it’s the retweets that really matter, and if you are a social networking advertiser you might want to find out the retweet rates of your twitter users that you are advertising on. Otherwise, if no one retweets their tweets, you might be wasting your money.

Because the research suggests that there are users with: 1) many followers and low relative infuence, and 2) users with fewer followers but high relative infuence. If you were to choose one of two, you should go for the second type of users. Because that way your message will be heard by a lot more people.

As we know twitter is like a river, at any given time you can only see the latest tweets and everything else is a history… So unless your “message” is retweeted, it’s as good as it’s dead.

I am just rumbling here, but I hope you know what I am getting at. Here is the research:

Influence and Passivity in Social Media – HP Labs Research