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Thursday, June 07, 2012
Facebook App Center Screen Shots Leaked
The app center Facebook announced last month could be very close to launch, as Facebook confirmed that it is being tested with a small percentage of users, and one of them leaked screen shots that were not previously available. Facebook told TechCrunch: Since we announced the app center to developers last month, we've been testing it with a small percentage of users. We have no further details to announce at this time. According to... read more>>
Club 53: A New Place To Hang On Facebook
There's a hot new venue in town (er, on Facebook) -- at least, those launching it are hoping it sizzles on the social network. Called Club 53, it's a virtual music venue from San Francisco- and Israel-based Shaker, a company founded in 2010 that "brings real world interactions online." In collaboration with BandPage, a social application built to help musicians share their sounds, Shaker will host a series of events, the first... read more>>
Tabfusion Continues To Meld Pinterest, Facebook With New Pinboard Tab App
Facebook tab application provider Tabfusion took its integration of Pinterest and Facebook one step further with the release of its latest tab app, Pinboard, which allows page administrators to create Pinterest-style promotions for their Facebook pages. Once the app is installed, photos can be uploaded directly from within the tab, and they appear in a Pinterest-style layout, in which visitors to the page can like and favorite pins. Each time this is... read more>>
Nasdaq Catches Flak For Proposal To Remedy Facebook IPO Issues
Nasdaq's proposal to compensate traders and investors affected by its technical issues with Facebook's initial public offering is already meeting resistance in the financial community. The embattled exchange filed a proposal with the Securities and Exchange Commission in which it detailed a one-time payout of some $40 million to compensate affected firms, to be made up as follows: $13.7 million in cash from the $10.7 million profit Nasdaq made on the first... read more>>
Facebook Markup Language Endpoints To Disappear As Of July 5
The slow death of Facebook Markup Language continued with the social network's announcement that all FBML endpoints will be gone as of July 5. Facebook said in a post on its developer blog: FBML apps will no longer work on platform. The "FBML Removal" migration now appears and is enabled for all apps. It will be possible to disable the migration, thereby re-enabling FBML, until July 5, 2012, when the migration and all... read more>>
INFOGRAPHIC: How Facebook's IPO Affected Home Prices In Silicon Valley
Online real estate network Zillow examined how Facebook's initial public offering and the new wealth it created among employees of the social network affected the Silicon Valley housing market. Among the topics Zillow explored: the value of homes near Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., including nearby town such as Woodside and Los Altos Hills, as well as the rise in home sale prices in Silicon Valley and what $1 million gets... read more>>
How Facebook Killed The Web's Incognito Days
The early days of the Web opened the doors to everyone's interests. You might have thought you were the only one in the world thinking like you. But after a quick search on, say, AltaVista, you realized that there was an entire forum dedicated to the obsession of (add your [weird] interest). You could do whatever you wanted -- read, watch, and listen -- and nobody could follow what you did. Today,... read more>>
Facebook Music Game TubeHero Adds Four-Player 'Rock Battle' Option
Facebook gaming just got a little more musical, as TubeHero launched a new edition Thursday featuring a "Rock Battle" mode that allows four players to square off against each other. TubeHero is a tap-based rhythm game, similar to Guitar Hero, which allows players to use almost any music video on YouTube or the Web as the soundtrack for their games. The game's technology analyzes videos to ensure that they are labeled as music,... read more>>
Study: Pinterest Users Follow More Retailers Than Facebook Users
Pinterest is dominating as a social site where consumers and retailers connect, according to a new comScore-led study. On the image-rich site, retailers can easily showcase their wares in a flashy digital format, and shoppers are eating (and buying) it up. According to the new comScore-conducted survey of some 1,500 consumers in the U.S., Pinterest users follow an average of 9.3 retailers on the site, compared with 8.5 by Twitter users, and... read more>>
Case Study: Marketing On Facebook Is Just One Part Of The Road To Conversion
Online advertising-management platform Marin Software outlined how its workflow, campaign-management, and optimization tools helped London-based fashion site Stylistpick achieve a 50 percent increase in click-through rate after just one month, as well as guiding it toward a better understand of how to use Facebook as part of a wider advertising strategy, rather than simply looking at the social network as a sales channel. Marin Software helped Stylistpick realized that when looking at... read more>>
Self-Serve Facebook Marketing Platform Shoutlet Shouts About $15M Funding Round
Cloud-based self-serve social marketing platform Shoutlet announced Thursday that it raised $15 million in series-C funding from FTV Capital, bringing the company's outside investment total to $24.2 million. Shoutlet said the new funding will be used to further develop its Social Canvas Facebook tab creator and contest developer, its Social Switchboard trigger-based campaign publisher, and its Social Profiles data acquisition and analytics tool. The company said it will also add staff across all... read more>>
Soccer Betting Kicks Off On Facebook With Crowdpark's 90Live On Eve Of UEFA Euro 2012
Just in time for Friday's kickoff of the UEFA European Football Championship, European social gaming startup Crowdpark announced the launch of 90Live, which it calls the first dedicated soccer betting game on Facebook. UEFA Euro 2012 is the 14th European championship tournament, featuring 16 national clubs, and it will run through July 1. 90Live features a special "Euro mode" that allows players to answer trivia questions about the tournament, bet on games, receive... read more>>
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