Christmas Picture for Chrismas Day
Jumat, 03 Desember 2010
Christmas Gifts for Facebook Apps
Christmas Picture for Chrismas Day
Jumat, 29 Januari 2010
Valentine's Gift
Facebook is clearly focused on their gifting business. Recently the company made a small modification which increased birthday gift promotions on your friends’ profiles. Tonight Facebook rolled out a new Valentine’s day promotion. When you visit any of your friends’ profiles you are instantly prompted with the option of sending a Valentine’s day gift to that friend.
The gift will be revealed to your friend at midnight on Valentine’s day. There is then a large number of Valentine’s day themed gifts. From troll dolls, to thongs, to cakes, to Valentine’s day ninjas? I’m honestly not sure what the ninja is about but there are also a couple of branded gifts in there including a Honda heart love meter and a Cover Girl lips gift.
It’s not surprising to see the company increasing its promotion of holiday themed gifts. I’m guessing that we’ll see a lot more of these types of promotions in the near future. As Facebook continues to search for a more effective monetization model, virtual gifts are providing a sizeable revenue stream. By some estimates Facebook’s virtual gifts business reaches the tens of millions of dollars.
Asia, in contrast to the United States, has a long history of virtual goods on social networks as advertising revenue is not as strong outside of this country. It’s great to see Facebook pushing their virtual goods and I can only hope that they’ll continue to promote these goods in the future as it easily can help cover the cost of a couple thousand servers!
Kamis, 01 Oktober 2009
Facebook desktop Apps To Try
Seesmic for Facebook
An Adobe AIR app, Seesmic for Facebook (news) uses Facebook Connect to let you update your status and view friend status updates without surfing to the Facebook site. It's in beta testing, but it works as advertised: updating status is quick and easy, and whenever a friend updates their own status, it's there for me to see. It's a little buggy, but it was just released.
TweetDeck
TweetDeck is one of the most popular Twitter desktop clients, and now the app's developers are vying for Facebook dominance too. The upcoming version of TweetDeck lets you send a message just to Twitter, just to Facebook, or to both simultaneously. Once installed, the new version also includes a column displaying friends' status updates, and it offers the ability to chat with them via Facebook chat directly. The app isn't available to everyone just yet, but its public release is right around the corner.
Jumat, 10 Juli 2009
Send Funny Gifts App
Social media has the ability to move constituents from this model
Organizational Activities -> Org.-Person Relationship -> Outcomes
more towards this one
Organizational Activities -> Communities of practice {e.g., web community} -> Outcomes
The latter being facilitated by the Internet and with the possibility of a richer set of outcomes stemming from an engaged community. We want gifts to be expressive of our relational ties, hence full of meanings, within a given social context, e.g., a community of practice.
Facebook is a global player, but still needs a solid revenue model. Apple's success with "apps" show the power of a platform to deliver value, often at a low price-point. The Facebook platform should be developed in line with how people, how a large number of people, actually engage in symbolic relationship management, tied to other strategies, such as
* Bling gifts that are expressive of sentiments {various media}
* Donations and sponsorships
* Online events to engage community members
* Free/Low-cost personalized apps that add value, e.g., health monitoring, reminders, alerts, etc
Organizations are still figuring out how to use social media and Facebook is still figuring out how to deliver value. All I can say its future isn't online ads and organizations just paying lip service to their constituencies with social media is as transparent as this