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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Speaks (At Harvard), But Not About The IPO
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg made her first public appearance since the social network's troubled initial public offering, speaking to graduates of the business school at her alma mater and that of Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard University, but nary a word was spoken about the IPO. Reuters reported that Sandberg would not comment before or after her speech, saying she was not speaking to the media. So what... read more>>
Facebook Testing Region-Specific Versions Of Pages
"Stay focused and keep shipping," indeed: Facebook appears to be testing another new feature for pages, this time allowing them to customize their appearances in different regions, while maintaining a single tally of likes. Sister blogs allfacebook.de and Inside Facebook reported on the new feature, saying that Facebook users will automatically be directed to the page designated for their region, but they can access the versions for other regions via a drop-down... read more>>
Student Suspended For Fake Suicide On Facebook
A high school student who created a fake Facebook page and video of a fictitious girl who was bullied on her Facebook page and commits suicide was suspended from school for five days. Mashable reported that the student, 15, said she posted what were intended to be anti-bullying materials for a class project. Alarm bells sounded when a parent saw a comment in which the teen, pretending to be the young girl in... read more>>
Cost To 'Short' Facebook Stocks Fell From 40 Percent To 6 Percent
When more lendable shares became available than were expected, the cost to borrow Facebook shares for one year, or to "short" shares, fell from 40 percent of the stock's value Tuesday afternoon to 6 percent Wednesday, according to Astec Analytics, as reported by The Wall Street Journal's MarketBeat blog. Tuesday, the annualized rate, which was 28 percent at the trading day's close, was too steep to short, due to high demand, MarketBeat... read more>>
Facebook's Photo Focus Continues With Release Of Iphone App Camera
Facebook continued its focus (pun intended) on photos with today's release of iPhone application Camera, which aggregates photos from users' Facebook friends into one feed. Camera also allows users to simultaneously share multiple photos by tapping check marks next to the photos, as well as to add captions and location information, and to tag friends. Users can edit photos in their iPhone camera rolls, including cropping, rotating, and adding filters, and swiping enables... read more>>
Should Facebook Develop A Social Mobile Browser?
It's time for Facebook to put serious thought into mobile, and to dedicate a crew of developers to coming up with ways to shift the network. After, that is, the social network gets past the pressing repercussions of last Friday's sloppy initial public offering. After all, Facebook's admission in its revised S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission May 9 that it had no clue how to monetize mobile despite most... read more>>
The IPO Effect: David Kirkpatrick Talks Facebook
Busted: We admit to a case of interview envy. David Kirkpatrick, who penned The Facebook Effect in 2010, was in the hot seat yesterday at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012 summit. Discussion topics ran the gamut, from what a post-initial public offering Facebook may look like, to predictions of upcoming acquisitions by the social network, and how it might solve its advertising platform dilemma. Now that the company has gone public, analysts will... read more>>
Facebook App Developers Can Restrict Access To Open Graph Stories
Facebook application developers now have the option of restricting access to their open graph stories by age, country, or content type. The social network announced in a post on its developer blog that settings can be applied to all content from an app, or on a per-object basis, offering the following illustration: For example, a video app can restrict stories from movies rated PG-13 to viewers age 13+, and restrict movies rated NC-17... read more>>
Allegations Continue To Mar Facebook IPO
Alleged questionable tactics by underwriters prior to Facebook's initial public offering last Friday continue to surface, with the latest report involving Capital Research and Management. The Wall Street Journal reported that one of the underwriting banks warned Capital Research at a May 11 Facebook roadshow meeting that the social network's revenue projections were slipping. As a result, the Journal reported, a Capital Research manager told a banker at lead underwriter Morgan Stanley Thursday... read more>>
Facebook Pages Manager Offers Push Notifications
Facebook is allowing users of its new Pages Manager iPhone application for page administrators to receive push notifications via the app when Facebook users post or comment on their pages. The "your settings" menu under the "manage" tab on pages includes the following option for Pages Manager users: Pages Manager mobile notifications: Send push notifications to the Pages Manager mobile app when people post or comment on (name of page). Thank you to Blink... read more>>
Facebook Displays Percent Of Users Who Like Pages Who Have Seen Specific Posts
Facebook continues to quietly add and tweak features behind-the-scenes, without fanfare or announcements, and the latest example is the addition of a percentage link to posts on brand pages, which enables page administrators to see what percentage of the users who like the page have seen the post. The social network appears to be taking aim at its projected advertising revenue shortfall by following the old saying, "Information is power." Thank you to... read more>>
Zao Expands Job Referral Process To Facebook Friends, LinkedIn Contacts
Companies leaning on their employees for job referrals during the hiring process is nothing new, but why leave out potential contributors such as trusted former employees, or contacts who work for partners and vendors? That was the thinking behind Zao, which makes its official debut today. Zao does not charge for use, only collecting percentages of referral bonuses after successful hires through the platform. It uses an algorithm to search Facebook friends and... read more>>
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