Facebook Launches New Messaging System

Posted: November 15th, 2010

Facebook announced today that they will be rolling out a new messaging system, which is supposed to be an innovative, simple take on email. The best part in my eyes is that you will now be able to have an @facebook.com email address.

Some of the new features we will soon be seeing are:

Seamless messaging: You can be reached easily anywhere anytime, be it email, SMS, or IM. You don’t have to email a friend, or IM a friend. You send a message and check the box to choose what contact medium you wish to use.

Conversation history: All those conversations are in one long stream that will be similar to the new “see friendship” option, only it will be far more private. So now you can hold on to you all your messages for eternity. Instead of having some conversations on email, some on texts, some in IM, you get them all in one place.

Social inbox: Facebook can give you good filtering based on your friends. You will get three options — messages, other, and spam. Messages will come from people that you’re friends with on Facebook. Other will be everything else. And spam is, well spam.

These services will starts rolling out today to select users and will most likely spread to everyone in the next few months.

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Think! Movember

Posted: November 2nd, 2010

Tom Sellack called, he wants his moustache back

It’s the time of year when men around the world donate their faces in the name of raising awareness for prostate cancer: MOvember. Think! has made a team and we cordially invite you to join us or support our mustache glory with donations.

Here’s a brief video explaining the Movember (which got its start in Australia in 2003):

All ‘staches aside, Movember is a great case study for an idea that lends itself to social media. Companies like Budweiser have a Facebook app that allows you to add a mustache to your profile picture. For every person that posts a picture using this app, they will donate $1. Another beer company that is heavily promoting Movember is Granville Island Brewing in Vancouver. These companies obviously have the perfect demographic to make a large campaign around Movember, but many companies have internal teams and competitions. Do you know of any other companies promoting Movember?

What kind of Mo will you grow?

- Think!

P.S. Don’t forget to celebrate when you successfully complete Movember! Here is a list of some of the parties around BC.

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