Posted by: Søren
in Business on Oct 29, 2011
The most popular social network in Denmark, Facebook is about to launch Facebook Deals, which is all about presenting discount for users from companies like McDonalds and 7Eleven. The idea is based on the "check in" GPS function in the Facebook application, and with Facebook Deals users can spot "Deals" from companies or shops in the area, and see if there is a "Deal" like e.g. discount on a McDonalds burger.
If the user/consumer likes the offer, let's say the burger, they click on it, and shows their phone to the staff in the restaurant they will get the burger, and the "Deal" will be announced on the comsumers Facebook wall.
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on May 20, 2011
Last week I was playing around with Facebook and Twitter login on my Joomla website. I managed to get it up and running with both features integrated, but I have to admit that it was kind of buggy since I was only able to login successfully every second time. So I decided to drop the Facebook login and went for the Twitter login only. And it works flawlessly.
So basically, if you need a Twitter login for your Joomla website I can recommend the MiniJomTweet component. The component includes a sign in module and an authentication plugin and all you need to do is to get an API key from Twitter. And the installation is easy.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on Apr 30, 2011
The last couple of months I got a lot of spam comments on my website which is absolutely annoying. To avoid spam comments I decided to require that visitors need to login before the can comment on blog posts.
In Joomla you can choose to let your visitors login with the standard login features which normally function very well. But after some research I found a Joomla component named ITPConnect which integrates Facebook's connection with Joomla.
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Apr 30, 2010
Facebook's newest attempt to conquer the Internet is the "Like" button - where Facebook users in a second can give "thumbs up" to any kind of Facebook post. Facebook's famous little blue like buttons remain no longer within Facebook's own territory. Web developers and programmers have for quite some time been making "like" plugins for blogs, and the "like" button is now spreading rapidly all over the internet.
If you have never seen the "like" button - here it is:
Posted by: Søren
in Websites on Oct 26, 2009
During the last year or so the wave of web 2.0 has been very dominating on the internet. Knowledge sharing on various platforms is the keyword. And since I want so share my "knowledge" I also integrated a way to share and interact my blog post on ornholt.dk with other users.
To do so I integrated a small javascript code on my website developed by a company named AddThis. You have probably seen this feature before. Nevertheless I find the method very cool.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Sep 17, 2009
Facebook has been around since 2004 and it took five years before the social network succeeded to become profitable (black numbers on the bottom line).
300 million. So many people around the world use today the social network Facebook, and the figure has been high for long.
Nevertheless, it has taken five years before Facebook managed to get revenue to surpass the cost to operate the site.
Posted by: Søren
in Marketing on Jan 25, 2009
One of the fundamental - and most exciting courses I have been studying throughout my master at Copenhagen Business School is Consumer Behavior. Responsible for the course was Marketing Professor Torben Hansen ( He recently wrote a chapter in Philip Kotlers well known Marketing Management book and won a prize for his research) - super competent scientist within the field of Consumer Behavior and marketing.
And what has this got to do with Facebook? Well. One of the theories we were taught in Consumer Behavior is about people, individuality and groups and how every one of these adopt trends. The theory is originally developed by an American Marketing professor named Everett M. Rogers.
