Big FACEBOOK announcement Wednesday at 1PM

Big FACEBOOK announcement Wednesday at 1PM

by Selena Spencer-Lipscomb

Mark Zuckerberg has promised that Facebook will have a HUGE announcement today at 1 p.m. EST (10 a.m. PST). But what will it be? What do you think he has up his sleeve?

An Ipad App? Come on' that isn't huge, but would be "about time". I heard something about photo sharing for the iPhone too, but that isn't what I would call a HUGE Announcement. I also heard it will be the "gmail killer". Hmmm. must have something to do with phones too....

The invite that Facebook sent out looks like it may be a new face to face chat option and that Skype may be the newest digital "dive" unless they have partnered up with Facebook. I hope they were in on the "big announement".

Maybe Mark has learned how to beam folk to the location on their desires. This will guarantee he will win the Nobel Peace Prize. Just think of all of the time we would save commuting and also the pollution index would be amazing!

With GOOGLE getting in on social media networking it is probably in competition with their "HANGOUT" feature that is apart of the newly launched Google+ social network.

GOOGLE has the android market on lock, so maybe Facebook will venture into the android market too. So many rumors! So many could be, Guess we will ALL have to watch today at 1PM to find out what FACEBOOK really has going on.

You can catch me on Twitter @blsuccess I'll be tweeting all about the latest and greatest Facebook news! We can find out what to expect together by checking out the FACEBOOK stream at http://www.facebook.com/FacebookLive or just follow me on Twitter where I will give you the scoop 140 characters at a time! @blsuccess

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Nestle' backs down b4 the Facebook mob!!! Power of Social Media!

Nestlé backs down before the Facebook mob

Credit where credit is due? In March, I wrote a post about a Greenpeace-inspired Facebook revolt against Nestlé that protested the company's sourcing of palm oil from suppliers in Indonesia who were reportedly destroying rainforest habitat and driving the orangutan to extinction.

I was intrigued by the fact that Nestlé's Facebook representative had made the mistake of actually being a human being instead of a faceless marketing drone, thereby earning the great ire of the social media mob for his "rudeness." And I launched a little driveby attack on "people who imagine that they are engaging in some form of meaningful social protest by posting complaints about a company while sporting juvenile profile pictures on a Facebook fan page."

Well, shame on me. On Monday Nestlé announced that it would pursue the goal of a "no deforestation footprint" by working with the respected non-profitThe Forest Trust "to build responsible supply chains by identifying and addressing embedded social and environmental issues." While I'm not entirely sure how different this new promise is from Nestlé's previous pledge that 100 percent of the palm oil used by the company would come from sustainable sources by 2015, Greenpeace is declaring victory, with a big shout-out to social media.

With nearly 1.5m views of our Kit Kat advert, over 200,000 emails sent, hundreds of phone calls and countless Facebook comments, you made it clear to Nestlé that it had to address the problems with the palm oil and paper products it buys.

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So maybe Facebook comments are a form of meaningful social protest -- at least insofar as they manage to generate lots and lots of media coverage.

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