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Nov 2 2011

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Toyota is Hoping You’ll Be Their Social Network Racer [VIDEO]

byRick MartininGaming, Social Media

Thanks to Chiyo over on Asiajin for pointing out Toyota’s new Social Network Racer Facebook game/promotion. While I’m not personally a big fan of playing Facebook games, there’s clearly some strong potential for companies to use the platform as a way to spread brand awareness. Perhaps even more than Comnico’s Puma Facebook game we mentioned the earlier in the week, Social Network Racer is game that encourages you to post high scores and share them with friends. But you can also earn in-game credits by sharing as well, which will ...

Oct 25 2011

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Corporate Use of Social Media Across Asia [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Business, Social Media, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Burson Marsteller (BM) has just released its Asia-Pacific Corporate Social Media Study for 2011, giving insights - and infographics - that cover how companies are using social media in the region. This year's study paints a picture of brands being ever more keen to engage with consumers via social media, yet still not doing some things very effectively - such as failing to use video on social video-sharing sites, and not maintaining corporate blogs where ...

Oct 19 2011

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India and the UK are Facebook BFFs [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Social Media, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. A bit of data-delving by Western Union has revealed that British Facebook users have more friendship ties to India than anywhere else in the world. The data was gathered using Western Union’s Your World Facebook app, which allows users to visualize where their buddies are in the world. Perhaps surprisingly, it reveals that the UK’s social media mavens have more ‘friended’ more people half the world away in India than in closer countries such as ...

Oct 10 2011

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Facebook Overtakes Cyworld in Korea?

byRick MartininSocial Media, Web

A recent report in The Korea Times is indicating that Facebook has overtaken the nation's dominant social network Cyworld in terms of monthly visitors. The article cites metrics from Rankey.com which says that Cyworld Mini Hompy saw 15.9 million visitors in August, down from 18 million the previous month. Some of you may recall that Cyworld was hacked back on July 26th. Though it seems the network’s decline started well before that, with a number of failed efforts to expand beyond Korea’s borders and increasing competition from other services. One of ...

Oct 7 2011

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Facebook India Gets a New Public Policy Head Amid Nation’s Digital Security Concerns

byVikas SNinAsia, Web

It is a well known fact by now, that Indian government is seeking access to user data from Internet companies like Google and Skype, citing security concerns. It had also asked social networks like Facebook and Twitter to provide real-time monitoring of its user data, to ensure that national security wasn't compromised. To tackle this problem and help the company work with governments, policy makers, and regulators, Facebook India recently sought to hire a head of public policy. The company had said that the person would work closely with its Privacy and Public Policy global ...

Oct 9 2011

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Facebook on China: Still Not Talking

byWillis WeeinBusiness

Mark Zuckerberg once said that Facebook can never connect the world without including China’s 1.3 billion people. And we all assume Facebook has some plans up its sleeve for the China market. But no one knows for sure what Facebook has in mind, so at today’s F8 Singapore press meeting, I decided to ask: With all the rumors about Facebook and Baidu, what is Facebook’s plan for China? And as expected, it’s a no-comment answer. “We don’t comment on rumors,” said Ethan Beard, the director of platform partnerships at Facebook. He wouldn’t comment, ...

Oct 9 2011

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Facebook Singapore Eyes Sales and Developers in Asia. No Office for Indonesia, Yet

byWillis WeeinBusiness

What’s the function of Facebook’s Singapore office? Well, it’s pretty much still a sales office but it will now also focus on platform partnerships to help companies — both start-ups and big corporations — integrate/improve their products using Facebook, we learned today. Alexander Kleinberg, Platform Partnership for the Asia region, says that he traveled around in several cities in an effort to reach out to developers across the APAC region. When asked about which emerging Asian markets have a strong community of developers, Kleinberg says that he is “impressed by the ...

Oct 3 2011

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Kim Jong Il’s Grandson Retreats From Social Media After Accounts Discovered

byRick MartininSocial Media

After word got out that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s grandson was enrolling at a private high school in Bosnia, the 16-year-old Kim Han Sol found that his Facebook and Twitter profiles were suddenly under scrutiny. Over on his North Korea Tech website, Martyn Williams explains photos posted to Kim Han Sol’s social accounts were published by South Korean media, and subsequently public access to those accounts were restricted. There are a number of other social services that the young Kim had used, including a Wordpress called Pimp your Grades (Google cache), ...

Sep 15 2011

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MySellr Combines Facebook Pages and E-Commerce Into One

byJoshua KevininE-commerce, Social Media, Startups

Facebook and e-commerce have something in common in Indonesia: They are both huge, yet still have a lot of potential here. Many people are making an effort to combine the two, something that has come to be called F-Commerce (Facebook Commerce). MySellr is an Indonesian start-up trying to meld them together, working on it since March and are now in their final beta version. We talked with Hermawan Tjakradiwiria, the co-founder and CEO of MySellr, in an effort to learn more. 1. Can you explain to our readers what MySellr is? MySellr is a ...