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Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Facebook Now Counting Viral Shares In Some Pages' People Talking About This Totals
The tweak to people talking about this numbers by including viral shares, first reported two weeks ago, has gone live. Sister blog Inside Facebook reported that some pages are seeing huge PTAT increases as a result of the change, including George Takei and Jesus Daily, which routinely see their posts shared thousands of times. A source close to Facebook described the methodology to us May 25: We are going to begin counting viral shares... read more>>
Shopping, Fashion Timeline Apps Ride Facebook's Open Graph
Facebook touted the use of its open graph by brands in the shopping in fashion categories in a post on its developer blog, highlighting how five brands created effective timeline applications and offering a best practices guide. The five timeline apps spotlighted by the social network were: Fab: The daily design app has seen membership grow to more than 4.5 million since launching with open graph in January, from 1.8 million previously, and... read more>>
Facebook Allows Advertisers To Buy Sponsored Stories In News Feed Separately
Facebook continued down the path of diversifying its offerings for advertisers with Tuesday's announcement that sponsored stories in the news feed are now available for purchase separately via the social network's ads application-programming interface and power editor. Marketers can choose from the following placement options for their sponsored stories: All placements, which includes the right-hand side, and the desktop and mobile news feed. All desktop placements, which includes the right-hand side and the desktop... read more>>
Analyst: Facebook To 'Disappear' Like Yahoo In Five To Eight Years
No Facebook by 2020? That's how one analyst sees it, comparing the next few years for the social network to the past few years for Yahoo. Ironfire Capital founder Eric Jackson appeared on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Monday, and Mashable reported his comments on Facebook: In five to eight years, (Facebook is) going to disappear in the way that Yahoo has disappeared. Yahoo is still making money, it's still profitable, it still... read more>>
Report: Facebook Users 'Bored,' Ads Not Effective
A new poll shed more doubt on the value of Facebook's 900 million-plus users to advertisers and marketers, uncovering negative results in terms of advertising and time spent on the site. The online survey, from Reuters/Ipsos, which drew more than 1,000 respondents, brought some alarming results, including: Four out of five respondents have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network. 34 percent of Facebook... read more>>
EA Bringing SimCity Social To Facebook
Coming 23 years after it established the city-building video game genre in the gaming industry, Electronic Arts announced that it will introduce a new game in its SimCity franchise, SimCity Social, on Facebook, sister blog Inside Social Games reported. A launch date has not yet been established for the game, which was co-developed by EA Playfish and EA subsidiary Maxis, but beta-testing is underway, EA said during its press conference at E3... read more>>
SmartRecruiters Beefs Up Careers Tab For Small, Midsized Businesses' Facebook Pages
Social recruiting platform SmartRecruiters announced an update to its Careers Tab application, which allows small and midsized businesses to add careers tabs directly to their Facebook pages. SmartRecruiters said more than 2,000 small and midsized businesses are using the current version of its Careers Tab, having posted some 15,000 jobs, added that the app currently allows them to: Display available jobs. Allow Facebook users to like and share available jobs. Sync their job listings with... read more>>
Hoax Facebook Privacy Notice Goes Viral
A privacy notice starting off with the fact that Facebook is now a publicly traded entity has been going viral in status updates over the past few days. However, it's not true. Sophos' Naked Security blog reported that the message is a hoax, and that Facebook's terms of service and privacy policies are not affected by the alleged disclaimer. The hoax message reads: Facebook is now a publicly traded entity. Unless you state otherwise,... read more>>
Facebook Changing News Feed Photo Display
Facebook began importing some of the changes it made to its mobile photo layout last month onto its Web news feed, increasing the size of photos and displaying more of them from the same album or event. TechCrunch reported that photos in the news feed will now appear up to double their previous size, with more photos from an album or event included, and the text appearing larger and wider-spaced. Last month, the... read more>>
Facebook Eyes Former 'New York Times' Building
Facebook is reportedly perusing space options at The New York Times' former digs at 229 W. 43rd Street in Manhattan, the ever-buzzing heartbeat of Times Square. Other options, according to Crain's New York Business, include the social network expanding the Madison Avenue office space it already rents. Possible incubation-mode-prompting specs of the space: Add-ons to the space include a basketball court where the publisher's dining room previously was and AstroTurf covering the... read more>>
Report: Facebook Still A Distant Third Behind LinkedIn, Twitter In Terms Of Job Postings
Despite the strides Facebook has made on both sides of the job-search front, the social network remains a distant third when it comes to job postings, well behind LinkedIn and Twitter, according to the latest data from software-as-a-service social recruiting solution Bullhorn Reach. According to Bullhorn Reach, only 25 percent of jobs that were posted to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook were posted on Facebook, compared with 77 percent on LinkedIn and 54... read more>>
Cie Games Founder Justin Choi: Execution Key On Facebook's Gaming Platform
Cie Games, developer of Facebook auto-racing game Car Town, has been able to swerve around the debris left on the track by game developers struggling with the social network, such as CrowdStar, LOLApps, and Digital Chocolate, driving its flagship game to continued success and some 5.9 million monthly average users. The key, according to Founder Justin Choi: Better execution. Choi's message about the viability of the Facebook platform for game developers is... read more>>
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