While many businesses on Facebook are looking to get new page fans, many want instant results, which is why Facebook is now offering advertisers direct response ads. Last week Matt Zarzecki posted screenshots of a new Chick-fil-A homepage advertisement. After click the ad, users are encouraged to enter their address in order to get a coupon for a free Chicken Biscuit. Until now Facebook has refrained from offering any form of direct response ads but as of last week, that all has changed.

This is a pretty significant offering for Facebook as it shifts from the traditional Facebook sales funnel,…

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Today the updated version of Facebook for Blackberry has gone live. I just downloaded the application by visiting mobile.blackberry.com from my Blackberry’s mobile browser. I previously wrote about the updated Facebook Blackberry application back in March and all of the cool new features that come with it. It looks pretty slick and I’m waiting to finish installing it so I can post a video review.

As I previously wrote, there are four new features to the upgraded version of the application:

Calendar Sync – This will update your handheld’s calendar with Facebook events.
Contact Sync – This will sync your…

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