Monday December 23, 2024

Marin Software Integrates Facebook Ads Into Paid Search Management Platform

Marin Software, a startup that creates search engine management software for advertisers and agencies, is now offering advanced applications for advertising on Facebook. Marin’s Search Marketer platform now offers advertisers and agencies the ability to manage Facebook Ads alongside paid search programs on Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Advanced solutions for Facebook include algorithmic bidding, audience […]

How To Use Facebook Ads For Social Recruiting

Social recruiting is all the rage right now when it comes to finding new employees to hire. Citysearch CEO Jay Herratti recently told me about a simple but effective way his company is using Facebook ads to hire people. Facebook ads are highly targetable. Citysearch puts up an ad with a picture of the hiring […]

Parature Brings A Customer Support Tab To Facebook Pages

As Facebook increasingly becomes a channel for brands to interact with consumers, it makes sense for companies to tap into the social network to manage customer support. Salesforce’s Service Cloud, Get Satisfaction and a host of others have launched deep integrations with Facebook to allow companies to engage with the 400 million plus consumers on […]

Collaboration Platform Socialwok Now Integrates With Facebook, Twitter And Buzz

Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products, was just integrated as a partner in Google’s recently launched Google Apps Marketplace. At last year’s TechCrunch50 conference, Socialwok made a big splash, winning the award for best demopit startup and launching its enterprise-friendly, FriendFeed-like layer for Google Apps. The web-based […]

The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped

Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. In it, he responds to critics of his last guest post arguing that enterprise software should be more like Facebook. Two weeks ago on TechCrunch I posted “The Facebook Imperative,” which posed a simple question, “Why isn’t all enterprise software […]

Zoho Adds A Social Layer To Productivity Suite With Facebook Connect

Online productivity suite Zoho has been open to allowing users to use their Google, Google Apps and Yahoo accounts to log-in to Zoho Apps. Zoho says that most of its users are using their log-ins for other applications to use Zoho’s offerings. Today, the productivity suite is adding a social layer to its suite by […]

The Facebook Imperative

This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. I quit my job at Oracle in 1999 because I couldn’t stop thinking about a simple question: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Amazon.com?” Why couldn’t applications be run from a simple website, without software or hardware to install, and pricy consultants […]