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5 Recurring Themes From Mark Zuckerberg's Senate Hearing

Hubspot

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared this afternoon before a joint hearing held by the Senate Judiciary and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees. The data was obtained when University of Cambridge researcher Dr. Aleksandr Kogan developed an app, “thisisyourdigitallife,” that scraped the personal data of myriad Facebook users.

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9 Tools for Better Market Research

BenchmarkONE

The downside is that you’ll need to provide your own focus group members, since the tool doesn’t aggregate these for you. What we like: This tool is free, and you can have your groups open as long as you’d like — which can be great for getting long-term, deep feedback about a product or service. 4: Social Mention. Census Website.

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity

Economic conditions may have been tough in 2010, but there was no shortage of online innovation. Create your own online newspaper from Twitter and Facebook updates based on any topic or group of contributors. 6 slick news aggregators you should try by iMedia Connection. Create animations? Promote events through social media?

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How Local Search Will Evolve in 2013 [6 Predictions]

Hubspot

The release of Facebook Nearby. Rather, it’s going to be a year in which existing technologies and platforms mature and the potential of some thus far disconnected features at Google and Facebook begins to be realized. In some sense, Facebook has forced Google’s timetable a bit with its launch of Nearby. So here goes nothing.

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Targeted Advertising: Does it Actually Work?

Contently

More likely, though, a firm bought data from Instagram parent Meta (formerly known as Facebook) and advertised to me a product based on my Facebook profile. We’re being slowly conditioned to accept privacy invasions as inevitable, but people are still creeped out by the ‘surprise’ factor.”

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Don’t go it alone: Creating social relationships with technology

Sprout Social

Developing strong relationships with your customers is the key to both short and long-term success. They see your business as one entity, and it’s easy to message that entity on Facebook. React to changing conditions. It’s an aggregation of billions of peoples’ thoughts, opinions, anxieties and joys.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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