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Mashable is reportage that Facebook is launching the subscribe button for websites.
Yes, you read that right.
Soon, you will be able to subscribe to content on any website just how you can "like" content and share it with your social graph.
This functionality will have big implications as to how we connect with brands on the web and in fact, it could potentially be a RSS killer.
So while I'm buzzing through my RSS reader, I came across Mashable's story about "HOW TO: Get Journalists to Tell Your Story" and immediately thought to myself, holy crap, they are missing one critical element to media relations:
It's about the relationships, stupid.
It was reported today that Facebook is sending out window decals with text-to-Like SMS instructions to select local businesses.
Mashable got the tip from B.J. Drums, who works for the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California. Drums apparently sent Mashable proof that Facebook is taking their "like" feature seriously via a letter and some of the sticker samples.
This move by Facebook is proof positive that online engagement strategies need offline counterparts.
The biggest news coming out of the Twitter world over the past day or so is that the company acquired the very popular Mac and iPhone app Tweetie.
On the heels of that news, Tweetie users were somewhat up in arms about what this means for the popular app and whether or not we'd see Tweetie 2 for Mac (Tweetie 2 for the iPhone has been out for months).
Twitter GermanIn a blog post today, Twitter announced that more than 60% of users reside outside of the U.S., mostly due in part to the service being launched in other languages last year.
That expansion took place in October of 2009 and in November, the site became available in Spanish and shortly thereafter, French. December was when the site was available in Italian and German. However, Japan has been online for just about two years.
Twitter’s lead engineer for the international team, Matt Sanford, wrote today: