Fahad HAug 3, 20122 min readPhotos Increase Facebook Reach, But Does It Drive Traffic?Ever since Facebook started displaying Reach data directly on Facebook fan pages, here at Marketing Land and Search Engine Land we have...
Fahad HAug 1, 20121 min readReport: Major Brand Adoption Of Facebook & Google+ Has DroppedIn its latest Social Share Report, BrightEdge says that 90 of the world’s top brands have Facebook pages and 75 have Google+ pages....
Fahad HJul 31, 20125 min readWhy Adams & Not Others: Twitter’s Suspension Of Journalist’s Account In #NBCFail FlYesterday, journalist Guy Adams, who writes for The Independent, found his Twitter account had been suspended. The reason? Twitter...
Fahad HJul 31, 20121 min readChick-Fil-A’s Brand Image Suffers In Wake Of Family Definition ControversyAccording to a BrandIndex study by the market research company YouGov, Chick-Fil-A’s index score dropped from 65 on July 16th to 39 on...
Fahad HJul 26, 20124 min readThe Three Most Underrated Internet Marketing Strategies Of 2012In the online marketing world, we seem to be regularly gripped by a passion for the next big thing, the hip new marketing tactic that...
Fahad HJul 24, 20122 min readNew Social Discovery Engine ‘Bottlenose’ Aims To Take Over Real-Time ExplorationAn im Bottlenose, launched a public beta today. From real-time events, trending news and popular pictures, Bottlenose can help users...
Fahad HJul 23, 20122 min readWashington Post Triples Engagement Rate With Twitter’s New Targeted AdsThe Washington Post is one of the advertisers that’s been testing Twitter’s new targeting options that were just formally announced last...
Fahad HJul 19, 20122 min readTwitter’s Promoted Tweets Become A Pure Ad Productannounced a pretty substantial change to its Promoted Tweets ad product — it seems subtle, but it fundamentally changes what a Twitter ad...
Fahad HJul 18, 20122 min readFoursquare Intros “Local Updates” And Revamps Merchant InterfaceEver since local/mobile firm Foursquare released the latest version of its consumer application a month or so ago, the company has been...
Fahad HJul 17, 20123 min readGoogle+ Debuts With ACSI Consumer Satisfaction Score Well Above Facebook’sThe annual American Customer Satisfaction Index is out for social media sites, measuring satisfaction with Google+ for the first time...
Fahad HJul 16, 20125 min readThe Google Nexus 7 Tablet: Perfect For When The iPad Is Too MuchNexus 7. More important, Google’s produced a device that’s a solid alternative to the iPad. If you can’t afford an iPad, don’t like the...
Fahad HJul 10, 20122 min readIf The AFA Boycotts Google Over Gay Rights, Will It Remove Itself From Google?The American Family Association doesn’t like Google’s new Legalize Love effort to promote gay rights worldwide. Doesn’t like it so much...
Fahad HJul 10, 20122 min readFacebook’s Grip On The Web: 22 Percent Of Pages Link There, 8 Percent Use Open Graph [STUDY]The numbers come from a Zyxt Labs study of about 1.3 billion URLs earlier this year. The study found that more than 242 million pages,...
Fahad HJul 9, 20122 min readAirlines & Telecom Companies Are Best At Facebook Page Customer Servicerecent study by the social analytics company Social Bakers. At the company level, KLM Airlines, T-Mobile and Sony Mobile were the most...
Fahad HJul 2, 20122 min readPatent Chaos: Apple Blocks Galaxy Devices, Googlerola To Face Feds Over LicensingAmong the big match-ups are Apple vs Samsung-Android and Motorola (now Google by virtue of the acquisition) vs Apple and Microsoft. Last...
Fahad HJun 29, 20122 min readGoogle’s Developer Dilemma: Open Up Google+ Or Hold On To ‘Something Special’?The company has been, in the words of Google+ VP Bradley Horowitz, “tentative” in its approach to opening up a complete read-and-write...
Fahad HJun 28, 20125 min readGoogle+ Turns One: Hits, Misses & What’s AheadIt’s been a year of hits and misses for Google+, and whether there’s been more of the former or the latter depends on who you ask. Google...
Fahad HJun 24, 20122 min readA Look Inside Twitter’s New San Francisco Headquarters [PHOTOS]Market Square, a decidedly not-very-modern-looking property that was completed in 1937. (It’s classic California Art Deco, as you’ll see...
Fahad HJun 22, 20128 min readHands-Off: Microsoft Surface Tablet Reviewyet another “hands-on” review of the Microsoft Surface tablet, I thought it would be interesting to shed more light on what exactly the...
Fahad HJun 21, 20126 min readWhere Will Surface And Windows Phone 8 Be A Year From Now?Surface tablet PC and the new mobile OS, Windows Phone 8, which will be closely aligned with the desktop version of 8. At the same time...
