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Facebook Clone Vkontakte IPO plans for 2012

Russia's largest social network Vkontakte has begun, according to Bloomberg talks with investment banks about an initial public offering next year in New York.

Vkontakte was started 2006th The profit for 2010 should have amounted to 94 million USD. For 2012 iwird expects a further increase in profit by 30% to over $ 120 million. The monthly number of users have [...] in April

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10 tips on what to do should a hotelier on Facebook

First Use a vanity URL
From 25 fans on Facebook, you can use a vanity URL for your Facebook Page. So that the address is then ihrWunschname www.facebook.com /. Go for the easy entry to www.facebook.com / username and then work through the specified sequence. Since the name of the URL in the search results appear, and also for the SEO of your website is important [...]

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Yuri Milner invested in Airbnb.com

The Russian investment fund DST Global, led by Yuri Milner, known for its early investment in Facebook and other Webgrößen, has a new object is found worthwhile. This time in the travel sector.

DST Global will have invested $ 100 million in tourist Airbnb.com Internet service provider (Air Bed and Breakfast) together with Andreessen Horowitz. This would Airbnb.com with more than a [...]

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Tourism crisis management and social media

[17 May 2011; 09:30 to 17:00. ] Perhaps the impression is so subjective, but apparently, the international travel industry increasingly shaken by crisis-like developments (and I do not mean the low margins). Nuclear meltdown, earthquakes, tsunamis, more or less peaceful revolutions, ash clouds, fast bankruptcy, strikes - just to name a few.

What role in the management of these situations by the travel industry social media? [...]

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Replaces Facebook's own site - NO!

This afternoon Facebook announced via the developer forum that Facebook Pages now need to be authenticated in order to have landing tabs. This means any new visitor to your Facebook Page will not be able to land on a custom tab unless you have greater than 10.000 fans or the Page administrator has worked [...]

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Facebook is working on simplified privacy settings

Facebook's Public Policy Director Tim Sparapani, spoke with Kojo Nnamdi today in Washington, DC and stated that the company would soon release simple privacy settings in the coming weeks. In addition to defending the company's position in providing for extensive number of privacy settings (Which is a legitimate position), Sparapani stated that there will [...]

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KLM with a viral Facebook app - your personal luggage tags

via insidefacebook.com

Give away something, even if it is only a trifle, and attention is certain. KLM makes it with his little app - build your own luggage tag - and that the response from customers safe - free of charge. Viral marketing.

Posted via web from The Travel [...]

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Fb content blocked

via flickr.com
I'm in the Terms of Facebook was overlooked?

Posted via web from The Travel Technology Consultancy

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Facebook and the law

Facebook is claiming that it is a criminal offense to use an add-on that lets users aggregation service access information from multiple social networking accounts. Power Ventures, creator of the social network aggregator Power.com is being sued by Facebook, who claims that their terms of service bans users from accessing their information through automatic [...]

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The target, travel management companies like Facebook are indispensable

Olaf Gueldner (pictured), Travelport president and managing director Europe & Brazil, said: "Are you in danger of losing your traveler to Facebook? There is a risk of losing the traveler in the process of booking the trip.

"They are using other sources of information before they go to the TMC [and] you are executing something that [...]

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