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Carmen Sandiego is coming to Facebook

Ohemgee. If you’re one of the folks who grew up with this game then you’d be excited. On February 9th, Carmen Sandiego will be on Facebook!

Check out the fantastic trailer below:

Stay tuned by liking the game’s Facebook Page.

Old school games rock!

Personalizing your Facebook Profile

If you haven’t noticed, Facebook recently introduced Photostream; a set of the five most recent photos in which you’ve been tagged, displayed at the top of your profile. A lot of folks moaned and groaned didn’t like it but creative folks certainly embraced it.

A good 30 minutes and I got mine hacked up. Check out pics below.

This is my first stab in personalizing my Profile Page:

But then I decided I wanted to include my profile image in the design, so now I got this:

Want to hack your own profile page? Continue Reading…

IKEA’s successful facebook campaign

Social Media is fast becoming the channel of choice for most marketers. Back in the day, if you wanted to launch something you’d have to have a budget for tri-media: TV, Radio, Print. With the Internet today, the most effective channel is social networks, and Facebook leads the pack.

Lorne Fade recently published an ad spending infograph based on Nielsen AdRelevance data with very interesting data.

A day earlier, IKEA published a video on how they are utilizing Facebook’s “most popular function” – that of tagging photos – and getting people to spread the word about IKEA’s products via profile pages, newsfeeds, and links. A very smart and creative campaign I must say.

Why is the campaign successful? Continue Reading…