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Monday, August 20, 2012
Windows Users: Upload Photos To Facebook Via URL
For Facebook users on Windows, the site recently made it easier to share photos. Now you can simply copy and paste a photo URL when prompted to upload a picture, as first discovered by a Reddit user. CNET also picked up the tip, illustrating how users can easily post photos via their URLs: If you see a photo online that you want to share, right-click on it and select "Copy Image URL." Then... read more>>
How Did Facebook Pitch To Advertisers In 2004?
You might think that advertising and Facebook have only been bedfellows for the past few years. You'd be wrong. Digital media site Digiday posted the media kit that former Facebook Chief Financial Officer Eduardo Saverin was handing out to potential advertisers in New York in 2004. Back then, the site was still called TheFacebook, and it had a membership of roughly 70,000 college students. Digiday said one of the people at that... read more>>
Vistaprint Launches Facebook Business Page Builder
Small business marketing outfit Vistaptrint added custom Facebook pages to its arsenal, launching a set of tools that enable easy creation and management of pages on the social network. Vistaprint acquired Webs Inc., parent company of Facebook page-creation vendor Pagemodo, last December, but its new offering is independent of Pagemodo, which is still operating as a stand-alone site. Features of Vistaprint's Facebook Business Page Builder include: A custom Facebook cover image designer, which includes... read more>>
NeedNumbers.me Aids Facebook Users Who Need To Reacquire Friends' Phone Numbers
If you've ever lost the contacts from your cell phone and set up a Facebook group or event to reacquire your friends' phone numbers, NeedNumbers.me may save you a lot of typing. TechCrunch reported that NeedNumbers.me was the creation of 17-year old Stephen Ou, who developed it in five hours. NeedNumbers.me will analyze Facebook groups and "automagically" find all of the phone numbers contained within, and then export the data as a vCard... read more>>
Facebook Tab Developer SocialAppsHQ Adds Monitoring
Facebook tab developer SocialAppsHQ added social media monitoring to its offering with its launch of Monitoring, which, when added to its Social Planner post-scheduling feature and Social Ads pay-per-like service, form a complete social marketing platform. Features of SocialAppsHQ's Monitoring include: The ability to create an unlimited number profiles that track keywords related to users' brands, competitors, and industries. A dashboard that displays top-level metrics and allows users to filter data based on categories... read more>>
Judge Rejects Facebook's Sponsored Stories Class-Action Settlement
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg expressed "significant concerns" about the settlement Facebook reached in June in a class-action suit over the use of its members' likenesses in sponsored stories. The concerns were apparently significant enough to cause him to reject the settlement in a ruling late Friday. Wired reported that the main concern expressed by Seeborg -- who took over the case from District Judge Lucy Koh after she... read more>>
Facebook Doubles Up On Trending Articles
Remember trending articles? They're back, and bigger than ever. Facebook has been testing ways to give trending articles more prominence in news feeds and the latest incarnation is to have two trending articles stacked on top of each other. Previously, users would scroll sideways through trending articles. If you haven't seen it yet, here's what it looks like, courtesy of sister site Inside Facebook: Inside Facebook noted that since Facebook changed up the... read more>>
Facebook Now The Web's Second-Most-Popular Video Site
Facebook users love video. So much so that the social network recently trumped Yahoo as the Internet's second-most-popular video site in July, in terms of total unique viewers, according to new statistics released by comScore. While Google (which owns YouTube) still remains king, Facebook is moving up: Other interesting stats from comScore: 85.5 percent of the U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. The duration of the average online content video was 6.7 minutes, while the... read more>>
Will Facebook Decide Whether Obama Or Romney Is Winning The Digital Race?
The highly competitive presidential election is heating up on Facebook and across social media channels, and raw data from a new Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism study examining the campaigns' use of digital resources shows President Barack Obama besting Gov. Mitt Romney. But a closer inspection shows that both candidates are not engaging with voters on Facebook and other media channels as much as they could be. And the... read more>>
Is Mark Zuckerberg In Over His Head?
As Facebook's value on Wall Street continues to fall, critics have wondered if the problems facing the social network are too big for Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to solve. The Los Angeles Times published a story Friday, asking if Zuckerberg should step aside to let someone more experienced run Facebook. NBC notes that several other critics feel similar sentiments. After finishing Thursday valued at $19.87 per share, Facebook stock continued to... read more>>
Facebook's Prineville, Ore., Data Center Addition Will Be Pretty Cool
We know that Facebook plans to expand its data center in Prineville, Ore. Recent filings show that the new building will be pretty cool - literally. Facebook has given the new center the nickname of Sub-Zero. Wired wrote more about Facebook's plans for the additional data center. Wired offered some more details as to what it will be like inside the new building, a mini-data center that Facebook is building next to... read more>>
Underwriters Begin Receiving Their Shares Of Facebook IPO Profits
Lead underwriter Morgan Stanley began doling out the $100 million or so in profit earned by banks as a result of Facebook's initial public offering to the rest of the underwriters, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal reported that the amount issued to each underwriter was calculated based on their participation in the IPO, adding that the profits were earned through a process known as stabilization, in which underwriters purchase shares... read more>>
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