To access the Facebook chat emoticons simply click on the smiley emoticon at the bottom of the chat box.

The coolest emoticon is the “Like” emoticon with a thumbs up… Too bad they did not add a thumbs down.

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According to IFR It is looking like they are starting with raising approximately $5 billion in this offering. Indications are that they are going to start small and then move up with 5 Billion ($5B)

Facebook is expected to file to raise $5bn in a preliminary IPO prospectus on Wednesday morning, which while less than anticipated could be increased to satisfy investor demand, according to sources close to the deal. Previous reports had put it seeking ~ $10 billion, so this initial 5 billion number seems pretty low.

The smaller deal size reflects a decision to start with a conservative base number before deciding whether to increase.

If things move smoothly with the SEC’s review, it appears that Facebook will go public sometime in May. So springtime will be rife with speculation around everything Facebook. No matter what happens; most likely the demand for this offering will be unprecedented.

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I am stunned by this on several levels. It appears to be the weakest DQ that I can ever remember and they are trying to silence controversy surrounding the decision. It all feels very hypocritical to me.

Now they keep making bad social media decisons on top of an original bad event decision by simply trying to silence the issue and removing all posts to their facebook wall asking for a public explanation and a link to the facebook group that is supporting Langely. XGames has to know that they are wrong and they are trying to silence the public. Guess what guys… too late for that. By agreeing to have a facebook page you have to deal with the good and the bad of social media as a platform… not only when it suits you to pimp your event positively.

I anxiously await to see how their pr and organizers decides to handle this. My gut tells me not well based on what I am seeing on their facebook page. Here is Langely’s Facebook profile photo with her showing some love to Sarah.

Time will tell how this all works itself out on the social front. I was not going to write this blog post about this whole situation until they repeatedly deleted every post I made on their facebook page. The posts were actually quite nice but pointed out that we expected answers. I guess they wanted to silence me but luckily I live in the USA where free speach is a constitutional right. I even warned them if they kept deleting my post I was going to be forced to write this blog post… So here we are, and my thoughts are with the Burke family in this time of loss.

As a parting note, I am involved in this partially because Langely is a friend of mine and is a world class human who always has her heart in the right place and XGames obviously does not.

UPDATE: The Denver Post weighs in on the situation with more details about the disqualification.

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One thing to keep in mind is how both Apple IOS and Android are rapidly gaining in the number of handsets activated daily. As more and more consumers upgrade to smart phones and as technology costs drop, opportunity rises in the ways that new use cases can have huge consumer and business impact.

7 Tech Trends to watch out for in 2012

1. In-app purchasing from mobile apps becoming more common and will jump above 99 cents in many cases.

2. Digital goods becoming perceived as a more normal way to pay for entertainment

3. Social recommendation engines for products

4. Customer service increasing its Mobile touch points with consumers

5. Social Identity and ranking becoming more like your credit score

6. Location aware apps for connecting merchants with virtual fence technology

7. Your facebook identity connecting with your purchasing history across the web and in the real world

While I could have made this list much longer, I have chosen these 7 tech trends as what I see coming to reality in the year 2012.

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The photos of Cuppy can be shared on Twitter and Facebook. There are leader boards for 9 Categories of Cuppy Photos. The pics are funny and this game is a great icebreaker at parties, the beach, the dorm, bars and while playing beer pong.

There is also a cool map that shows all the places that Cuppy has had his photo taken. The app also has some cool photo filters.

Download the App in iTunes now

Here are a few pics from the Where’s Cuppy iPhone app.

Follow WheresCuppy on Twitter
Where’s Cuppy on Facebook

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Check out this Cool Guitar Giveaway on Plixi. It looks like a photo contest where you upload a photo with the hashtag #patrickstump to Plixi.com

Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy has a new solo EP called Truant Wave. So upload your photo of you in your spotlight showing what you do best to be entered to win this Stump-O-Matic guitar.

You can see all the cool photos that have been entered in this live photo stream here: www.plixi.com/live/patrickstump

Details of the photo contest are here:

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you will see tons of new product announcements. my thoughts are “like” and “geo places” and checkin with iphones are my predictions. Looks like keychain tokens as well

1500 people will be there; these events rock and facebook does it first class.

if you want to see all the great stuff happening at facebooks f8 live stream and tracks here

facebook f8 watching it stream live http://apps.facebook.com/feightlive/

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8:30 AM — Registration – Prepare for the day (please be on time) Join us for a scrumptious breakfast and lots of networking.

9:00 AM — Welcome and Introduction Co—Hosts: Beverly Macy, Rodney Rumford
Setting the stage for a full day, we’ll introduce the core concepts of social media and review the speaker agenda. The take aways from this event will provide the attendees with the knowledge, perspectives and insights to the next wave of effects Twitter, social media and the real-time marketing are having on business.

9:10 AM — Social Media Marketing Overview, Beverly Macy, Gravity Summit
Beverly teaches Social Media Marketing at UCLA and works with clients at all levels to understand how social media tools fit into the traditional Integrated Marketing plan. She will discuss the social media marketing landscape, giving best practice examples of how major brands are using Social Media as a fast, efficient, and relatively low-cost way to get their message directly to an audience. Learn how companies from all industries are changing the ways in which they engage with their customers and associates.

9:20 AM – AM Keynote VML Inc., Mike Lundgren – Partner, Director Innovation Strategy– “How Social Media is affecting advertising and branding”
VML is a preeminent Young and Rubicam Brands partner company that was recently named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: US Interactive Agencies – Strategy And Execution, Q3 2009. Mike Lundgren has been providing insights and thought leadership on emerging trends and disruptive technologies and innovation to the industry for many years and is a highly sought-after speaker on this topic. With advertising and the new technologies grabbing an ever greater share of the total advertising dollar, the need for accountability is greater now than ever. Join Mike for this bird’s eye view of how agencies are working with brands to implement social media campaigns to help ensure the best visibility in the market for the client and how this is affects businesses today.

9:40 AM – Syfy – Matthew Chiavelli, VP, Broadband & Mobile

Syfy has traditionally had a huge presence at Comic-Con San Diego, but took a different approach in July 2009 following the channel’s rebrand earlier that month. Part of Syfy’s presence was a free iPhone application that served as a Syfy companion piece allowing visitors at the convention to share their photos from the con as well as follow Syfy’s latest news coverage during the event. Hear Matthew discuss his role in the Syfy presence at Comic-con and the creation of the Syfy Comic-Con app.

10:05 AM – Twitter for Dummies, Laura Fitton, Author
Twitter has changed everything. Even businesses not using Twitter are affected by it because their clients, customers, partners, and competitors may already be in the “Twitterverse”. Called by some Twitter’s original Cinderella story or a “Queen” of Twitter, Laura “@Pistachio” Fitton is the founder of www.oneforty.com. Credited with explaining Twitter’s business value to Guy Kawasaki and dozens of other tech leaders, she’s been speaking professionally about the business use of Twitter since October 2007, and launched Pistachio Consulting, the first Twitter for Business consultancy, in September 2008.

10:25 AM – Networking Break

10:45 – AdWeek, Brian Morrisey, Digital Editor
Brian is the digital editor at Adweek, where he writes about innovative, effective ways companies reach consumers through digital channels. He’s reported on digital advertising for eight years for publications such as DM News, ClickZ and Silicon Alley Reporter. Find out how the industry views these changes from a 3rd party perspective. Who’s doing it right and what lessons can be learned by your business?

11:05 – Deep Focus, Ian Schafer, CEO
Deep Focus is the visionary creator of the “MadMen Yourself” social campaign for AMC’s hit series MadMen. Ian Schafer, President and Founder of Deep Focus, has been consistently redefining the way entertainment properties are marketed online. In 2002, Ian founded Deep Focus to bring a holistic suite of marketing and promotional solutions to the entertainment industry. Deep Focus’ current clients include America Online, Dimension Films, HBO, MGM, Universal Music Group, 20th Century Fox, and many others.

11:25 – Current Media, David Neuman, President of Programming
The Internet and social media has dramatically changed the landscape on how independent content producers can get exposure. Find out how Current Media has approached the new media market hat is about what’s going on in your world: all the things you and your friends are actually interested in — that you won’t find on any other news site or cable TV channel. David Neuman is Current’s President of Programming, overseeing content on three television networks (US, UK/Ireland, and Italy), as well as the original video featured on www.current.com. Neuman leads a team of over 200 creative personnel based mainly in San Francisco.

11:45 – Twitter & PhotoSharing to Drive Business Results, Rodney Rumford, Gravity Summit
Rodney is a major force in the social media world today. He will discuss Twitter as a Business Tool; how you choose to use that tool will be determined by what you want to use it for: ie. news distribution, customer service, sales, branding, extending product awareness, product launches, promotion, relationship building, etc. He is also the CEO of TweetPhoto, a new photo sharing service and will discuss the value of photo sharing in customer engagement.

12:05 —Bing, Paul Yiu, Group Program Manager – “Amplifying Twitter’s Value with Search”
A new era of search is emerging as real-time data from platforms like Twitter and Facebook integrate with search algorithms to build a smarter, more cohesive hierarchy of social content. As search begins to curate the real-time fire hose, businesses now have a unique opportunity to monitor awareness and the zeitgeist of conversation bubbling up around their brand. Paul Yiu, the lead program manager behind Bing’s recently announced integration with Twitter, will share how businesses can leverage the valuable conversations around their brand by using search to surface important trends and buzz-worthy topics from the Twittersphere.

12:30 – Networking Lunch

1:30 BUSINESS CASE STUDIES
The sudden emergence of social media has been happening for the last couple of years, but the importance of building communities online for brand awareness and increased revenue generation is just coming into focus. These speakers will explore the art of managing social communities and how this relates to media relations, customer service, and employee interaction with social media. They will also discuss the best practices as well as the lessons learned as they have ventured out into the new social media realm.

1:30 – Case Study Domino’s, Ramon deLeon, COO, Domino’s Chicago
1:45 – Case Study The Roxy Theater, Nic Adler, Owner
2:00 – Case Study Operation Smile, Renee Hamilton (former) Social Media Manager
2:15- Case Study TurboTax, Scott Gulbransen, Corporate Public Relations
2:30 – Case Study The Roger Smith Hotel, Adam Wallace, Brian Simpson
2:45 – Case Study, Columbia Records, Christian Schlager, Sr. Director, Digital Marketing

3:00 PM – Networking Break

3:20 PM – PM KEYNOTE, Larry Chiang, Author, “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School” and blogger for Business Week
Larry doesn’t believe the best business tips, strategies, techniques and ideas are always taught in b-school. “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School” is a sequel to a book that he did not write. The original book was written by his mentor, Mark McCormack. Larry’s blog posts for Business Week typically take an irreverent view of the technology market and the emerging “social web”, but his insights prove meaningful and helpful to businesses seeking to take a realistic view of how social media is affecting their company.

3:45 PM – Bringing It All Together – Which Tools to Use, How To Get Started Beverly Macy, Rodney Rumford
Discussion on how you can establish strategic objectives and ROI targets for successful social media campaigns. Find out how to get started in the Social Media world and move in the right direction to meet your business objectives.

4:10 PM – Expert Q&A
Prepare to put your new knowledge into action! Your brain is going to feel very, very full.

4:30 PM – Adjourn

5:30 PM –TWEETUP /After Party at The Roger Smith Hotel – FREE and open to everyone

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This also makes Twittter even more valuable as a communication channel and will undoubtedly drive higher adoption of Twitter. Fasten your seat belts; I predict a bumpy ride.

Here is the blog post from the facebook team.

Publishing to Twitter from Facebook Pages

Many people have asked us to make Facebook and Twitter work better together for those times when they want to share their content as widely as possible. We agree. Over the next few days, we will be releasing a feature that allows administrators of Facebook Pages to publish their Facebook updates to their Twitter accounts automatically.

Public figures, musicians, businesses and organizations of all types who’ve created Facebook Pages often want to share a status update, a photo or an event with as many of their supporters as possible. Celebrities may want to share personal news or charities may want to put out calls for help to both their Facebook fans and their Twitter followers, all at the same time.

If you manage a Facebook Page, you now will be able to decide whether to share updates with their Twitter followers, and you also will be able to control what type of updates to share: status updates, links, photos, notes, events or all of them. If you have multiple Pages, you will have the option to link each of those Pages to different Twitter accounts. This new feature will only link Facebook Pages to Twitter, not your individual profile. It will soon be available at http://www.facebook.com/twitter.

A number of celebrities and organizations on Facebook are already using this feature to publish the content on their Facebook Page to Twitter and reach a wider audience. They include Dane Cook, LIVESTRONG, The World Wildlife Fund, and the NBA, WNBA and D-League.

We are always looking to make it easy for you to use Facebook with your favorite websites and applications. Facebook Connect allows you to bring your Facebook profile with you across the Web. We recently worked with Yahoo to integrate your Facebook experience into Yahoo’s new homepage; we’ve built our own Firefox and iPhone applications in-house; and we built tools to help you bring your content from YouTube, Hulu and other sites into your Facebook profile.

Twitter was a natural next step to link with Facebook Pages because it is a powerful tool for broadcasting short messages widely.

I was able to build this new feature from start to finish as a summer engineering intern. Next month I’ll head back to school, but I’m excited to see my work here live on through all of the people who now will both share on Facebook and tweet on Twitter right from their Facebook Pages.

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There were a total of about 1 million users posting approximately 800,000 status updates on Facebook related to the live online broadcasts by CNN, E! Online, ABC and MTV of the Michael Jackson memorial service. Here is a breakdown by website:

CNN:
733,000 status updates
759,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast
6,000 updates/minute at the peak

E! Online:
9,000 status updates
87,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast

ABC:
48,000 status updates
97,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast

MTV:
5,000 status updates
21,000 Facebook users viewing broadcast

For context, there were 1.8 million Facebook status updates with the word “Obama” on Inauguration Day in the U.S. – an event that was broadly publicized for months leading up to it. I find it interesting that MTV the station that launched Michael Jackson into video stardom is at the bottom of the pile here; it’s because MTV has strayed too far from thier roots of music and have dived into the minutia of really bad reality programming.

Additionally…
• The Michael Jackson page www.facebook.com/michaeljackson has grown to have nearly 7 million fans, possibly making it the largest single following of any public figure on the Web and 1 million more than President Obama’s page on Facebook
• The free Michael Jackson glove virtual gift is the most popular in Facebook history with over 800,000 given away
• The Michael Jackson memorial GroupCard received signatures from Facebook users around the world

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