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- Facebook gives permalinks to individual comments, hides potential spam
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Spruce Media, W3i, OfferPop and more
- Facebook now features app activity more prominently on Timeline
- Zynga, Draw Something, Cities I’ve Visited, ESPN, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
| Facebook gives permalinks to individual comments, hides potential spam Posted: 28 Mar 2012 03:50 PM PDT Facebook now assigns permanent links to all comments on the site and hides spam comments rather than just marking them with a darker background. The company announced the improvements in a post on its Facebook + Journalists page.
Facebook added permalinks to comments in its plug-in for third-party sites last year, but didn’t do this for the main site. Whether this was an issue of scale or lack of demand is unclear. However, with the increase in Facebook activity among public figures, more public conversations are happening on the site and being able to link to comments directly is important. On Twitter, for example, every tweet has a unique URL, making it easy to refer back to specific parts of a thread. Other features might not be necessary when users interact with their friends on the social network, but as they engage with pages and popular people who allow subscribers, the deficiencies of comments on Facebook.com become more apparent. For example, Facebook doesn’t thread comments or sort them by relevancy on the site as it does with its plug-in. On Facebook.com, all comments are presented in a single thread. There is no way to clearly and directly respond to a comment from another user. Admins can @ tag people who have commented on a post, but users can only tag the names of their friends. (In Facebook groups, users can tag anyone in the group even without being connected as friends.) Comments are presented in order of when they were posted. However, the Facebook comments plugin used by websites including this one shows relevant comments from friends, friends of friends and the most liked or active discussion threads above others. Comments on Facebook.com do have spam detection. Potential spam comments are not visible to other users, but they used to show to admins with a darker grey background. This would catch moderators’ eyes so they could delete the comment, block the user or unmark the item as spam. Now potential spam will be hidden behind an ellipsis. Page owners can click the ellipsis to see the comments and take action on them.
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| New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Spruce Media, W3i, OfferPop and more Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:10 PM PDT The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week's highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: International Business Times, Rebel Entertainment, Spruce Media, Shutterstock Images, W3i, OfferPop, PopCap, SponsorPay, MachineZone, Bally Technology, CheckPoint Studios, PT Gaming, Legacy Games, High 5 Games, SpeedDate.com, King.com, East Side Games, SoJo Studios and BrightRoll.
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| Facebook now features app activity more prominently on Timeline Posted: 28 Mar 2012 12:30 PM PDT
The changes make stories more visual and as a result could help users discover new applications and pages through their friends. However, users have limited control over how these boxes display on their profiles, and Facebook should be mindful of how it implements features like this. User Timelines include boxes for individual applications like Pinterest or Foursquare, as well as boxes for categories like music, games, video and news. Previously, Timeline included a small section for "most recent activity" that displayed users' actions on Facebook and Open Graph apps along with small icons. Now that box has more prominence and includes larger thumbnails next to stories. (See comparison images below.) There's also an additional box called "apps" that clearly identifies what a user has interacted with lately. This could lead friends to try new apps and remind users to return to games and apps they've used before. The new boxes take up additional space on the right-hand side of users' Timelines, pushing down posts they've actively created — i.e., posting a link, sharing a photo or making a status update — and posts their friends have shared with them. Users can click an X in the top right corner of the apps box to hide the module, but it's unclear whether it will reappear at some point after a user tries new apps. Users can hide stories from the recent activity box, but after refreshing the page, older stories populate that space. There is not a way to remove the boxes for games, videos, news or music, unless a user makes all their app activity visible only to themselves and not others. However, if apps are explicit about the type of activity they will share, users will only add the apps they want to display on Timeline and won't consider these stories to be spam. Old ‘recent activity’ box
New activity box and apps box
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| Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:22 AM PDT
Zynga's Slingo and Draw Something topped our list of the fastest-growing applications by daily active users this week. A few other games, page tabs, birthdays and Open Graph apps completed our list. The titles below grew between 110,000 and 2.4 million DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook. Top Gainers This Week
Zynga Slingo topped our list, with 2.4 million DAU. No other game passed 1 million new DAU this week. As mentioned, there were other games on the list: Texas HoldEm Poker, The Price Is Right Slots, Solitaire Blitz and a game in Arabic, مدينة الأهرامات. Daily Horoscope grew significantly, asking users to invite their friends to the app, then 21 questions allows them to answer questions about their friends, publishing the answers to the feed. The Cities I’ve Visited Timeline app allows users to interact with friends over travel-related activities and American Greetings' Birthday Calendar lets users make calendars with their friends' birthdays. There were a pair of social networking apps, a pair of tab apps, then the Facebook integrations for Scribd and ESPN. All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday. |
With the addition of permalinks, users can share a direct link to any comment. When users visit the link, the comment will appear at the top of the page and will briefly appear highlighted in yellow. Previously there was no way to do this, and it could be difficult to find a particular comment among a thread of dozens or sometimes hundreds of others. Permalinks can be accessed by clicking the timestamp of a comment.
Facebook has expanded the "recent activity" box on users' Timelines and added a new "recently used apps" box to give more prominence to Open Graph applications.
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