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Ticketmaster’s Interactive Seat Map integrates socially with Facebook

August 24, 2011

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On Tuesday, Ticketmaster has announced the integration of Facebook into its interactive seat map. Now you can share venue seat location with Facebook friends, by buying event tickets next to near your Facebook friends and also tag yourself in seats and vice-versa. Yet users has the choice to control who can see where you are located.

This new feature is now live for over 9,000 events on Ticketmaster and Live sites. Buyers need to connect their Facebook account with Ticketmaster whereby a list of friends who are attending the same event and sharing this information appears. The venue’s seat map displays Facebook flags over seats which friends have purchased.

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David Fisch of Facebook said in a statement, “Ticketmaster’s interactive seat map shows the promise of using social technologies to improve the event experience”. The company launched interactive seat maps last year, but the Facebook integration will allow Ticketmaster to build a mini community around each event.

Ticketmaster users accounts for 75% from Facebook net-workers, seat-tagging has real potential to drive up ticket sales and improve the concert going experience for all. And each time a user share information by purchasing tickets via Facebook, it generates an average of $5 in incremental sales.

Fast company reported that, through this social integration the company hopes to “reduce the estimated 40% of live event tickets that go unsold”. After-all, live events experience will be as social online as it is in real life.

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The Sim Social, Coming Soon On Facebook

August 7, 2011

As a revolution to social gaming, Electronic Arts (EA) in collaboration with Sims Studio and Playfish, is launching a simulation games called “The Sims Social”, a Facebook version if its 100m-selling ”virtual soap opera”. The Sims Social is a whole new entertainment experience game with uniquely playful and creative elements.

The Sim Social, Coming Soon On Facebook

It allows players anytime, anywhere to create and control their Sims.  Build a bachelor pad or dream houses, spark friendships and romances, and have exciting adventures hooking up with their Facebook friends. Players can choose from different personality types, such as creative and Romantic for their Sims.

The primary objective of the game is to keep the Sim happy by satisfying a set of basic needs such as hygiene, fun, socialization, sleep hunger or bladder capacity.

The game is being all about socialization among Sims, but the actual social elements in the game come from standard gifting of virtual items, visiting friends’ in-game houses, recruiting friends to complete construction of new rooms and new objects and from interaction between the player’s Sim and their friends’ Sims governed by a permissions system.

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The Sims Social is based on one of Electronic Arts’ oldest and most thriving PC game franchises that run on Facebook as an app.

The game which is now in closed beta version, is expected to launched on Facebook soon and will be available in five languages globally.

 

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Researchers Found New Method Of Finding Friends On Social Network.

August 6, 2011

Researchers Found New Method Of Finding Friends On Social Network.

Researchers at Cambridge University have formulated a new potential method for obtaining more friends and followers on social networking sites.

The team said that to date,the strategy of social networks like Facebook and Twitter which offer suggestion by following the ‘friends-of-friends’ was ‘flawed’ if the goal is to meet like-minded people. However, the researchers claimed that their new method is based on the links to favorite hang-out in the real world such as pubs, gyms, schools and offices, which could provide highly efficient friend suggestions.

Researcher Salvatore Scellato, “If the sites compare the locations users have registered on their profiles, they will be able to predict who a user may want to be friends with,” said Scellato. He strongly believes that social networks should recommend new friends based on the places where users ‘check-in’.

Scellato said, in their year long research, they monitored the behavior of people visiting different places and the connections they made, and discovered that over 30% of people going to the same places finally become friends with one another.

The method is based on the very properties of places people interact which can determine how likely people are to develop social ties. This method could really help the social networks to do away with the vast number of users, when offering friend suggestion.

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Philippine Actor-Director Survives Stabbing Attack By Facebook Friend

June 13, 2011

A Philippines actor-director was stabbed several times by his Facebook buddy early Monday.

Rivero and Hans Ivan Ruiz met over Facebook about five months ago.

According to the Inquirer, Ruiz stabbed Rivero 10 times in the chest area while he was asleep, and tried to choke him with a towel when the latter escaped into the toilet.

Rivero managed to escape and drive himself to Philippine Heart Center.

Ruiz was apprehended at Rivero’s home with the actor-director’s bag, containing several personal items including a laptop and cell phones, by the police. However, Ruiz is reportedly maintaining that he took no part in the crime. He added that he did not know where the knife came from and even offered to take the victim to the hospital. As for the bag he was caught with, he explained that Rivero had instructed him to get valuables from his home before heading to the hospital.

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Survey Reveals Most Women Are Annoyed By Their Facebook Friends

March 31, 2011

Facebook is the de facto social networking site in the world. It is viewed by many as a place to reconnect and keep in touch with old and new friends. Being together with friends in one place, sharing and chatting about nothing in particular, and playing games  can be really great and mood lifting. But, of the many friends you have, do you find them annoying at times? I bet you do. The good news is, you are not the only one.

A survey conducted by Eversave, a company that offers daily deals called Saves, found out that 85 percent of women say they have been annoyed by their friends on Facebook.

Although, the main goal of the survey was to better understand the impact of social networking on deal, the result uncovered more information about the participants’ love-hate relationship women have with Facebook:

Of the 400 women who took part in the survey, the annoying behaviors topping the list were:

  • Complaining all the time – 63%
  • Sharing unsolicited political views – 42%
  • Bragging about seemingly perfect lives – 32%

Eversave also noted that despite these occasional annoyances, women appreciate Facebook for allowing them to see friends’ photos and videos (91%) and helping them search for long lost friends (76%).

On being asked to classify their friends with certain online personalities, the survey showed the following result:

  • The documentarian – they update their status with their every move (65%)
  • The drama queen – everything’s a crisis with this friend (61%)
  • The proud mama – they think Junior’s every move is newsworthy (57%)
  • The incessant liker – they “like” every post (46%)
  • The slactivist – don’t they know Facebook can’t cure cancer? (40%)

The poser – they project an image of life so perfect, and it’s not true (40%)

“The survey validated our thinking on Facebook’s growing influence on daily deals, but we were surprised by responses that show the love/hate relationship women have with Facebook,” Jere Doyle, CEO of Prospectiv, which owns Eversave, said in a statement.

Having said everything, if you are really annoyed by some of your friends, you can always hide their updates icon wink Survey Reveals Most Women Are Annoyed By Their Facebook Friends . We will post a post on how to do shortly.

 

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Albany Man Gets 13 Years For Raping Facebook Friends

March 25, 2011

A man from Albany, New York was sentenced to 13 years in prison for raping four teenage girls he met on Facebook.

David Bradt used Facebook to meet more than 700 girls, mostly between the ages 15 and 20.

According to the Times Union, he would first ‘friend’ one teenager on Facebook, then send friend request to all her friends.

He was arrested after the mother of a 16-year-old girl became concerned over unusual text messages her daughter received from him.

Albany County District Attorney David Soares told reporters Bradt targeted high-school cliques and exploited them.

“When he was ‘friending’ one girl and he was able to see her list of friends, he was basically using those girls as leads, like you would in a business…That’s how he was venturing into these other networks and was able to identify and find all of his prey,” Times Union quotes Soares.

Bradt pleaded guilty to four counts of third-degree rape for having sex with underage victims.

This isn’t the first time sexual offenders have use Facebook to find their prey. Users should exercise more caution in their judgments when accepting/making friends on social networks.

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Drug Syndicates Using Facebook To Recruit Drug Mules

December 2, 2010

International drug syndicates are said to be using Facebook to recruit drug mules with promises of lucrative rewards.

According to the Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Richard Riot Jaem, an increasing number of young females using Facebook were being approach by International drug syndicates. After befriending them, most of the victims would be offered holidays overseas and even pocket money to spend on the trip. The victims would then be asked to meet people who would be the tour guide at the destination.

“Most victims are befriended through Facebook. It [Facebook] can be a good friend. But it’s also a dangerous friend,” the Star quoted Richard, as saying.

Most of the cases are suspected to involve drug traffickers from Nigeria and South Africa.

According to the deputy minister, 70 Malaysians have been sentenced to death since 1991 in foreign countries for drug trafficking.

It is highly possible that such strategy is also in use by the syndicates in other countries. So, be informed and spread the news. Keep yourself and people around you safe from unfortunate incidents.

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Will You Observe Jimmy Kimmel’s Official “National Unfriend Day”?

November 6, 2010

How many Facebook friends do you have whom you don’t know in real life? I would not be surprised if you say a majority of them are.

So, you ever thought of dumping some of them? If you have, then November 17th – National Unfriend Day, is a good alibi to cut off a major chunk of people from your network.

Well, it’s not official, but that’s what Jimmy Kimmel urge people to do on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night.

He announced a new national holiday called “National Unfriend Day,” to be observed on November 17 to “pull out some weeds out of your life.” icon smile Will You Observe Jimmy Kimmels Official National Unfriend Day?

Personally, I think a majority of the Facebook users won’t be be ready to weed out those unknown friends yet. For some, it’s cool to be connected with many people either to show off, to know about what’s going on with whom, or  just for the sake of contacts for different reasons. While a majority of the users (maybe around 200 million) needs lots and lots of unknown friends to enjoy the different apps on Facebook.

So, will you observe Jimmy Kimmel’s official “National Unfriend Day”? What is your opinion?

If you haven’t watched the show, you can view a clip of the show at Youtube. Click here.

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Facebook Introduced New Feature: Friendship Page

October 28, 2010

Facebook has launched a feature on called “Friendship Pages.” As the name suggests, now you can have Pages that tells the story about you and a particular friend of yours on Facebook and more.

According to Facebook software engineer Wayne Kao, who announced the feature:

“[Friendship Pages will] contain the public Wall posts and comments between two friends, photos in which both are tagged, Events they RSVP’d for together and more.”

On top of having your Friendship Pages, you will also be able to view the Friendship Page of your friends too, if they are both connected to you or you are friend with one of them and have permission to view both their profiles. That means, if the non-friend party profile is publicly visible. This is little creepy.

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Apparently, the feature launched this Thursday but the feature has not arrived in my profile yet. So, I am not sure how you start a Friendship Page with a friend.

Also, the blog says, “You’d remember that first Wall post with your best friend or the funny photo from a night out.” So, a Friendship Page with a friend will most probably include everything that you shared between yourself as well as other things where both of you were involved. If so, Friendship Pages will be a neat and creepy way (when unknown people checks it for whatever reasons) to proudly display all the common information that you have with your friend.

However, this feature will certainly take you down the memory lane, that will be a fun and emotional way to look back at your friendship with someone. On top of that, it will now be lot more easier to find information that traversed between you and your friend.

The feature is expected to reach all the users in the next few days. Share with us your thoughts on this new feature.

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Defriended: iPhone App Blocked by Facebook

January 18, 2010

Ever wondered if there are any Facebook friends who have removed you from their list of Facebook friends? Want to know who? Last week, i-Doodz released the iPhone app, Defriended (http://www.appstorehq.com/defriended-iphone-124040/app), just to do that. Although the app is still present in the App store, Facebook immediately blocked that app only days after its release. So downloading it will just be a waste of money.

Defriended is a 99-cent iPhone app that scans your Facebook list of friends each time the program is run. It then compares your current list of friends to the most recent list stored in its memory. If there is a missing name, it then alerts you about it. However, any missing Facebook friends before the first run of the program, will not be known.

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To some people, finding out who removed them from their friend list is. However, to social networking sites, this knowledge can cause a lot of drama and negative emotions associated with their service. So it is better to be kept under wraps.

Despite this drawback, there are other ways of getting the information needed. For example there are some browser scripts that Facebook cannot block, like the Unfriend Finder script (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58852) and Facebook Friends Checker (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40027).

For those who think finding out who unfriended you is not very important although you are curious, my advice is spare yourself the misery and stay in blissful ignorance.

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