Is Facebook helping Google+ Grow?

It seems lately that Facebook has been adding a lot more features such as the subscribe button and the change in the news feed. The simplicity of the 'old' Facebook is being lost and the simple platform is as I noticed last night made some people turn to alternatives such as Twitter and Google+.

I imagine now that Google+ having added that blue chalk looking arrow pointing for people to "join" their new social network and the text below the search box suggesting the same thing to the hundreds of millions of visitors they get a day has helped their cause.

I even had someone tell me that they were moving to Google+ because Facebook was getting to complicated, they still haven't though and I suppose that's the effect Facebook has with people - to many people to leave.

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Get People To Your Event!

Eventbrite is website for anyone planning or attending an event and was founded in 2006. They have since sold over 36 million tickets and raised almost $80 million in funding according to CrunchBase.

The service provides event organisers with a number of features to sell tickets;

• Publish - Set up an event page, specify the different ticket types, let attendant buy tickets, embed widget on your own website.
• Promote - Automatically get listed on search engines/ other event sites, build contact list from those registered, integration with social media, offer affiliate link payouts, integrate with Mailchimp and embed custom calendar to keep website users up to date.
• Manage - You can track attendees through charts and graphs plus Set up a single page to manage multiple dates, let attendees pay through Paypal or Google checkout & collect data from potential buyers even when tickets have ran out so you are able to offer tickets to them if they become available. Also generate customised name badges and receive a check-in list. You can organise accepting donations for tickets too, so you don't have to charge a fixed price.
• Sell Out - Set up collecting money at the door, pass the service charges of Eventbrite on to your attendees and many of the other features also mentioned previously.

Fees to sell tickets 

(UK- GBP) - 2.5% + £0.65 (Maximum of £6.50)

(USD) - 2.5% + $0.99 (Maximum of $9.95)

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Protecting Your Brand From .xxx Domains

Today brand holders and those with registered trademarks will have 50 days to pay a one time fee of around $200 to get their .xxx domain name. After the 50 days there will be a further 17 days for those in the adult industry to buy exclusively their domains. The sTLD or sponsored top-level domain has been designed for the adult entertainment industry.

The domains were implemented in order to encourage responsibility from website operators but also it enables sexually explicit material to be blocked easier. According to the ICM website ".XXX domain is scanned daily by McAfee for Malware"

There has recently been approval for domain which can have any suffix such as '.snak' or '.piggy' and so on. They won't be cheap and applications will start being accepted next year.

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Sources - ICM / Mashable 'dot-whatever' / Mashable '.xxx'