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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
CBSSports.com Selects Facebook For NFL Draft Coverage
CBSSports.com's coverage of the 2012 National Football League Draft, which kicks off Thursday night, will include a social desk dedicated to monitoring Facebook and Twitter for social buzz. Lindsay McCormick will be the host of the CBSSports.com Draft Show Live social desk, joined by Senior NFL Columnist Pete Prisco, and Senior NFL Blogger Will Brinson. The social desk will interact with fans, conduct instant polls, engage users in social conversation, and share insight,... read more>>
Facebook Debuts Antivirus Marketplace
The Facebook security team opened the doors to the Antivirus Marketplace, featuring free downloads and six-month licenses from Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec. The anti-virus offerings join other measures implemented by the social network's security team, including its URL blacklist system, which scans trillions of links daily to weed out malicious URLs. The free downloads and six-month licenses available via the Antivirus Marketplace are: Microsoft: Microsoft Security Essentials McAfee: McAfee Internet Security 2012 TrendMicro: Smart... read more>>
Facebook Real-Time Page Insights Go Live (Sort Of)
The real-time page insights Facebook announced at its Facebook Marketing Conference Feb. 29 are now live for most pages, and we have the full list. Steve Allard of Wise Metrics, who alerted us about the update, said most of the metrics are not actually real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and most are related to posts on pages, and not the pages themselves. Here is the full list: Page storytellers: The number of people... read more>>
Protestors Target Facebook's New York Offices
Employees at Facebook's New York offices, brace yourselves: The company will be the subject of a protest, along with the delivery of a petition, at noon ET today. Ultraviolet, an online community dedicated to championing women's rights and battling sexism, said it will deliver a petition with more than 53,000 online signatures to the social network's offices at 335 Madison Avenue and hold a public protest over the fact that Facebook's board... read more>>
HTC Facebook Smartphone Rumors Return
Here come the Facebook smartphone rumors again, with the latest reports saying HTC is developing a customized smartphone with the social network, possibly debuting as early as the third quarter of 2012. Digitimes reported that Google's move to partner with Samsung on the next-generation Nexus smartphone, rather than with HTC, which produced the Nexus One, led HTC to turn its attention to Facebook. Sources told Digitimes the new, Android-based smartphone will feature a... read more>>
Facebook Enlarges Timeline Pages' Profile Images
Facebook will increase the size of profile images on timeline pages to 160 pixels by 160 pixels, from 125 by 125, the social network announced in an email to page owners, saying the change will be implemented Thursday. Images must still be uploaded at 180 pixels by 180 pixels, after which they are resized by Facebook. For brands that incorporate their profile images into their cover photos, in addition to the increase in... read more>>
Facebook Social App Discovery Added To Android
What's good for the Apple is good for the Android, as Facebook announced that it extended its single-sign-on and deep-linking options to Android devices, following its move in February to do the same for iOS devices like the iPad and iPhone. Social application discovery will allow users of Android devices to discover apps directly via Facebook, through social channels such as requests, bookmarks, and the news feed. Its availability was enabled by... read more>>
Offerpop Rolls Out Fan Profiles For Timeline Pages
Will Facebook users who like brands like them enough to create their own fan profiles on those brands' timeline pages? That's the premise behind today's release of fan profiles by social marketing platform Offerpop. Fan profiles, built to take advantage of Facebook's conversion of pages to timeline at the end of last month, allow Facebook users who have liked pages to create brand-specific profiles on those pages and connect with other fans... read more>>
Report: Facebook IPO May Be Delayed Yet Again
Remember that May 17 date for the Facebook initial public offering that was widely reported last week? We would advise writing that in pencil, and not ink. CNBC reported that the impending IPO has not been at the top of the priority list for Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and other top executives, with the focus instead on acquisitions and running the social network. In particular, Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of... read more>>
U.K. Grocery Startup Launches Facebook Offers
Grocery-delivery startup Hello Fresh said hello to a fresh new idea for marketing via Facebook, becoming one of the first businesses in the U.K. to launch Facebook offers. Facebook offers can be created free of charge by brands, and Facebook users who click through receive emails that they can use to redeem the offers. The number of users who have claimed the offer is displayed. Hello Fresh launched an offer yesterday on its... read more>>
8thBridge Graphite Social Commerce Platform Taps Facebook Open Graph Action Verbs
Social commerce provider 8thBridge announced the launch of its new Graphite platform today, including extensive incorporation of Facebook open graph action verbs. Graphite was designed to easily integrate with marketers' existing channels and marketing systems, and it keeps shoppers in the Facebook environment until the very last step, the request for credit-card information to complete the transaction, which is handled via the retailers' existing websites and storefronts. 8thBridge Founder and Chief Executive Officer... read more>>
When Will Facebook Reach 1 Billion Users?
Following Facebook's announcement yesterday that it had topped 900 million monthly average users, the obvious next milestone is 1 billion, and according to Ireland-based bookmaker Paddy Power, August is the early favorite for when that mark will be reached. Paddy Power started taking bets earlier this month on which company Facebook would acquire next, following its $1 billion deal to scoop up photo-sharing service Instagram. Location-based mobile application Foursquare was the early... read more>>
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