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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Facebook, CNN Launch I'm Voting App
Facebook and CNN Wednesday officially launched the I'm Voting application, which they initially announced in early July. I'm Voting, which was created by platform developer and digital marketing agency Tenthwave, enables Facebook users to commit to vote for and endorse specific candidates and issues, and their commitments will be displayed on their timelines, news feeds, and tickers. The app is available in English and Spanish, and commitments will be visually displayed by U.S.... read more>>
Facebook To Award 25 Scholarships For Women To Attend Grace Hopper Conference
Facebook will award 25 scholarships to females who excel in computer science, enabling them to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference in Baltimore Oct. 3 through 6. The social network said in a note on the Facebook Engineering page that applicants must be either full-time students at universities who are majoring in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical majors; or full-time technical employees at engineering, computer engineering,... read more>>
GroSocial Adds Social CMS, Allowing Users To Manage And Monitor Facebook, Twitter Streams
Social media marketing software creator GroSocial beefed up the capabilities of its GroSocial Platform with Wednesday's launch of Social CMS, which adds the ability for users to manage and monitor their streams, posts, and scheduled updates on Facebook and Twitter. GroSocialsaid Social CMS will be added for more social networks later this year. GroSocial Platform gives its users access to drag-and-drop tools that enable the creation of custom Facebook tabs, timeline cover images,... read more>>
INFOGRAPHIC: The Most Effective Social Network On Facebook Is ... Wait For It ... Facebook!
Facebook knows how to Facebook. That was the shocking result of a study by Expion that examined how eight social networks -- Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Foursquare, and Twitter -- engaged with their Facebook fans from Jan. 1 through July 31. Other findings from social media management company Expion included: The eight social networks profiled averaged 657 comments and likes per post, but the range was large, with Facebook coming in... read more>>
Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Sells 450K Shares, Converts 7M More
The great Facebook stock sale frenzy continues on with a report that Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz unloaded 450,000 shares in the social network over the past three trading days, adding nearly $9 million to his coffers. CNNMoney reported that Moskovitz sold three 150,000-share increments at prices of between $19.38 and $19.99 per share, adding that he also converted 7 million of his remaining class-B shares to class-A common stock, much like Facebook Director... read more>>
Facebook Studio Edge Rolled Out To Select Group Of Agencies
First announced in mid-June, social learning and recognition program Facebook Studio Edge was made available Wednesday to a select group of agencies. Built in conjunction with Facebook Studio, which highlights agencies and marketers on the social network, Facebook Studio Edge offers 10- to 15-minute self-guided courses on topics relevant to applications, pages, and ads. Users who complete courses earn recognition badges that they can display alongside their case study submissions. Facebook said of the... read more>>
Facebook Quietly Deletes 'Cosplay' Profiles
Should Facebook warn owners of profiles that violate its terms of service, such as those without users' real names, before deleting them? Several "cosplay" enthusiasts who woke up Tuesday morning to find that their profiles on the social network had vanished think so. The Daily Dot reported that dozens of profiles containing "Cosplay" in their account names were disabled Tuesday morning. Cosplay refers to the art of dressing up and performing as... read more>>
Facebook Questions: Back And Bigger Than Ever
Wondering what happened to the Facebook Questions application? The site is testing ways to bring it back and give it more prominence with images. Here's what the Questions app could look like, as evidenced by a post on the Known Issues on Facebook page: You can also see this on the Facebook Tips page. When a user mouses over one of the selections, a shaded box with text (the answer option) pops up at... read more>>
Citadel Securities Urges SEC To Accept Nasdaq Facebook IPO Settlement Proposal
The $62 million settlement proposal by Nasdaq parent Nasdaq OMX Group to compensate firms affected by the technical issues that marred Facebook's initial public offering has at least one strong backer in Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel Securities. Bloomberg reported that Citadel sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange CommissionTuesday urging that it accept the stock exchange's settlement offer. Citadel said in its SEC letter that its Citadel Execution Services unit traded more... read more>>
More Changes To Facebook App Dashboard
Facebook continues to tweak and simplify its settings for developers, announcing more changes to its app dashboard late Tuesday in a post on its developer blog. Here are the details on the latest round of changes, from the post: Canvas settings are consolidated in basic settings. Auth dialog is now permissions, which lets you configure permission settings for app center and auth referrals. Android integration fields are easier to use. Contact info is consolidated in app... read more>>
Select Pages Now Have Facebook's Save Feature
Facebook has been testing out a save feature for select users on mobile and desktop, but tipster Ben Lang recently informed AllFacebook that now some pages can save posts for later, too. Lang sent us this image (courtesy of the page Miriam Young) to illustrate how pages can save content to read or share later: Readers: Have you been able to save posts yet? Image courtesy ofShutterstock.... read more>>
Mark Zuckerberg Likes What's Cooking With IGrill
The website for cooking application iGrill normally gets about 70,000 visitors per month. Then Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted about it on his page. The response crashed the server of iGrill's parent site, iDevices, with more than 1,000 visits per minute. The company, which recently added Facebook integration, joined SongPop in the ranks of Zuckerberg-approved products. On Sunday, Zuckerberg posted a picture of a steak with this message: I updated my... read more>>
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