Facebook’s IPO filing this past week notes that the company is still indeed looking at China as a possible market for its popular social network, despite being currently blocked. While there have been no shortage of rumblings about about Facebook’s possible jump into China, when we asked representatives back in October), they were mum on the topic. But in the recent filing does explicitly mention China more than a few times, perhaps most notably in this remark: We may enter new international markets where we have limited or no experience ...
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Tabbang: A Drag-and-Drop Facebook Tab Creator For Small Businesses
Have you ever wanted to have Twitter feeds or customized tabs on your Facebook page? With Tabbang, you now can. This India-based startup has created a suite of applications for small businesses who are having trouble with technical details on Facebook. Hiring a good developer is tough, and often expensive too. In contrast Tabbang, for now, is a free service. To use it, all you have to do is authenticate your Facebook page so Tabbang can provide you with a simple drag and drop creator. Tabbang has a list of interesting ...
Feb 3 2012
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Waffle: Making Public Wifi Social, and Hopefully Easier
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, or for our RSS feed, click here. Public wifi is often a nightmare for individuals, made to jump through ridiculous hoops by telcos, venues, or other providers. The Korean startup Waffle wants to make the process easier and more social for users, as well as actually profitable for businesses that need to provide wifi. Waffle, founded by Lee Min-ku (pictured below), is a platform ...
Jan 31 2012
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Indonesia No Longer World’s Second Largest Facebook Nation
According to new statistics from SocialBakers.com, the hierarchy of the world’s top Facebook nations has just experienced a shift near the top. While the US remains by far the top Facebook nation with 152 million users, India has just surpassed Indonesia for the number two position. India now has about 43.5 million users, while Indonesia has about 43.1 million (see chart below). Of course if we look at Facebook’s penetration rate in the top nations, we can still see that the popular social network is still just scratching the surface ...
Jan 26 2012
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Air China’s Facebook Marketing Campaign Takes Off
We’re always on the lookout for creative online marketing campaigns from companies here in Asia. But we were somewhat surprised to hear that Air China (HKG:0753) was using Facebook as a promotional tool since the popular social network is blocked in China. But upon taking a closer look, this particular campaign was for Air China in Sweden, where of course Facebook is not blocked at all. The campaign was orchestrated by Swedish ad agency Rodolfo, who decided to take advantage of local Asian restaurants in Stockholm. Customers were encouraged to check-in ...
Jan 26 2012
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Angry Birds Coming to Facebook on Valentine’s Day [EXCLUSIVE]
Speaking exclusively to Penn Olson today in Jakarta, Peter Vesterbacka, the ‘Mighty Eagle’ of Rovio, and Henri Holm, the SVP of Rovio Asia, shared the company’s plan to release Angry Birds to more than 800 million people on Facebook. And what’s more, the company is planning its big launch to be held in Jakarta on February 14th. Why Jakarta? Well it’s obvious, Peter says, as Jakarta is the global capital of Facebook. Holding the launch here would be appropriate as it is a major Facebook hub. Angry Birds has become a ...
Jan 18 2012
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Tokyo’s Voyage Group Helps You Make Your Face a Mosaic
Tokyo's web service juggernauts Voyage Group (previously known as EC Navi) has announced it has set up a new division exclusively for developing Facebook apps - and today released a new Facebook app called Mosaic Face Me. The app uses your profile image on Facebook, breaks it down into many tiny parts, and re-organizes a new image of you made up of small pieces of your Facebook friends' profile images, as pictured below. It takes around one to three minutes to complete the own mosaic, which can be placed on your ...
Jan 13 2012
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India High Court on Google, Facebook: Like China, We Will Block All Such Websites
Back in December we told you about India’s intent to ban offensive online material, and how internet companies like Google and Facebook were being asked to control the content distrubuted on their platforms. And just yesterday, according to The Hindustan Times, Justice Suresh Kait of the Delhi High Court ominously warned: Like China we will block all such websites. The initial complaint against the internet companies was filed by journalist Vinay Rai, and subsequently representatives of 21 internet services, including Facebook, Google, and Yahoo were summoned to court. Here on PO ...
Jan 12 2012
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MediaPop App-ifies Facebook Pages With Its Social Marketing Dashboard
Singaporean startup Media Pop has launched a new service that makes it easier for brands, either big or small, to set up a social media campaign on Facebook. Its social marketing dashboard is, the startup says, a useful way for a company to engage users more effectively, with custom apps for offering giveaways and other enticements. The Media Pop service has four main apps that it then injects into the ‘Facebook Page’ of a brand: giveaways, vouchers, and photo and video competitions. And then all of this is managed mostly from ...
Jan 9 2012
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10 Predicted Trends In Indian Social Media for 2012
Indian social media grew by leaps and bounds in 2011. Indians witnessed the true power of social over the course of the year – whether it was bolstering the IAC movement in India or MTV India being awarded the best social media TV program by Mashable. It has been a year of amazing social media campaigns but also a year of great fiascos. I feel social media momentum will only grow more in a country where 70 percent of the population accesses the Internet through mobile . There will be ...
Jan 3 2012
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Top 10 Fan Pages: See Who is Rocking it on Facebook in Singapore
Christel is a social media strategist at Havas Media Singapore. Besides having worked on social media campaigns for DBS Bank and KLM Airlines, she has written posts for Social Media Today and conducted workshops in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. She observes marketing and social media trends on her blog and on Twitter. table.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;} .tableizer-table td {padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;} .tableizer-table th {background-color: #0D66BE; color: #FFF; font-weight: bold;} RankPageFan count. And yes, there are more than a ...
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Singapore’s Social, Smartphone-Luvvin’ Citizens [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Singapore has always punched above its size in the world’s economy, and so it’s no surprise that its citizens are so wired and engaged with gadgets and social media. Indeed, the island state has the highest concentration of smartphones anywhere in the world, and over three-quarters of its citizens access the web every single day. Singaporeans are social on the web, too, with people there spending about one hour each day engaging with other folks ...
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