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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Facebook Eyes Expansion Of Oregon Data Center
Facebook filed an application with the city of Prineville, Ore., to construct a new data center near the 334,000-square-foot facility it opened in April 2011 and the twin building it is erecting next door. The Bulletin of Bend, Ore., reported that the proposed new data center is much smaller than its predecessors, at about 62,000 square feet, according to Facebook Spokesman Lee Weinstein, who added that there is no timeline for the... read more>>
What Facebook Integration In The ITunes App Store Means For App Developers
We all heard the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote in June announcing all of the exciting new features of iOS 6. In addition to Siri's new powers, the deep Facebook integration has developers and iPhone users drooling. However, very little was discussed regarding the Facebook like functionality in the iTunes App Store. Although this feature isn't as sexy, I believe that this integration is a game-changer. For the past two years,... read more>>
Nike Wins Facebook Brand Battle During Olympics
Now that we know which athletes won both the social and actual Olympic Games, it's time to figure out which brands did best in London via Facebook. According to Socialbakers, Nike left everyone else in the dust. New statistics released by Socialbakers show that Nike dominated both on Twitter and on Facebook. Nike's fan growth on Facebook skyrocketed between July 27 and Aug. 2 - showing an increase of 166,718 fans. Competing... read more>>
HireRabbit Hops Into Facebook Job App Field
The list of applications providing job-search features for Facebook just grew by one, as enterprise software-as-a-service provider HireRabbit hopped into the sector with its private beta offering. HireRabbit boasts ease of use from both the applicant and company side, saying that companies can set up job search tabs within 25 minutes. Its features include: The ability for companies to add customized, fully functional job sites to their Facebook pages within minutes, including the... read more>>
Where Can Facebook Advertisers Get The Most Bang For Their Buck?
Keeping with the theme of the Olympic Games, Kenshoo Social wanted to see which countries offered the most value and effectiveness to Facebook advertisers in areas such as average cost per click and average frequency of delivery for ads. While the U.S. may have brought home the most gold in London, the same was not true in Kenshoo Social's competition. Kenshoo Social named medalists for these categories relating to Facebook ads: Average... read more>>
Facebook Touts Games, App Center At GDC Europe
More than 235 million people are playing games on Facebook.com each month, up from 205 million in August 2011, and up 8.4 percent since the beginning of 2012, according to statistics released by Facebook at Game Developers Conference Europe 2012 in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday. The social network also announced at GDC Europe that more than 150 million people used its app center in the past month, and that app center is driving... read more>>
U.K. Office Of Fair Trading Approves Facebook-Instagram Deal
Facebook's pending acquisition of photo-sharing application Instagram cleared one hurdle across the pond when the U.K. Office of Fair Trading signed off on the deal. The OFT announced its decision with the following brief statement: The OFT has decided, on the information currently available to it, not to refer this merger to the Competition Commission under the provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002. The text of this decision will be placed on the... read more>>
New Facebook Metric For Sponsored Stories: Average News Feed Position
Facebook began offering advertisers using its sponsored stories a new metric to help them analyze their campaigns: average news feed position. 22squared Senior Digital Strategist Justin Oh tipped off sister blog Inside Facebook about the launch of the average news feed position metric, which was first discussed with Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers in June, but did not appear on the social network's ads application-programming interface until late last week. Inside Facebook pointed out... read more>>
Payvment Puts New Face On Facebook Commerce With Beta Launch Of Lish.com
Facebook commerce platform Payvment launched its first major initiative since the resignation of CEO Christian Taylor last month, announcing the beta release of product discovery destination Lish.com. Payvment's 175,000 or so sellers offer some 4.5 million products, and Lish.com will feature those that generate the most buzz on Facebook and Twitter, in real-time, combined with the simplest of ratings systems: a smiley face, a "meh" face, or a frown. The company added... read more>>
Ben & Jerry's Asks If You 'Wanna Spoon' With Facebook Friends
There are numerous applications that try to connect Facebook users through similar interests. None probably tastes as good as Ben & Jerry's Wanna Spoon? The new app scours users' friends' profiles, looking for anything they might have in common - favorite bands, favorite foods, or even relatives with the same name - and connects them. Users are then given a coupon to try Ben & Jerry's Greek Frozen Yogurt. By accessing the... read more>>
Take That, Zuck: App.net Founder Raises More Than $700,000
App.net Founder and CEO Dalton Caldwell is not a fan of Facebook, which claims that his product is too similar to the social network's app center. So after Caldwell wrote some not-so-kind words for Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he broke away from the site and let the public decide if App.net - a paid social platform - is a worthwhile endeavor. Hoping to crowdsource fundraising efforts and raise $500,000... read more>>
Hello Kitty Purrs After Facebook Like No. 10M
Reaching 10 million Facebook likes is nothing to bat a paw at, and Hello Kitty soared past that milestone last week, marking the occasion by sharing virtual gifts with its fans, including Facebook profile photos and timeline cover photos, as well as desktop wallpaper. Hello Kitty also shared some fun statistics about its fans, including: 93 percent are female. 18,350 people like Hello Kitty every day. 1.1 million people interact with Hello Kitty on Facebook... read more>>
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