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Thursday, September 27, 2012
BlackBerry 10 Comes With Native Facebook App, Timeline
With all the hype about the iPhone 5 and Facebook's renewed focus on Android, it's easy for BlackBerry's newest release to get lost in the noise. The BlackBerry 10 was announced during a recent conference in San Jose, Calif. The new phone will have a native Facebook application as well as (finally) timeline. Through the now-native Facebook app in the BlackBerry 10 has a much faster news feed and timeline comes across... read more>>
Campbell Soup Exec Scalds Facebook's Ad Sales Team
Facebook is apparently in the soup at Campbell Soup, as its global director of digital marketing and social media, Adam Kmiec, tore into the social network during Business Insider's Social Media ROI Conference in New York Thursday. According to Business Insider, Kmiec took Facebook to task for its communications, or lack thereof, as well as its lack of data for advertisers prior to its initial public offering. Kmiec said, as reported by Business... read more>>
North Social App Allows Facebook Page Administrators To Add Instagram Photos
Facebook application provider North Social turned its attention to Facebook-owned photo-sharing application Instagram with a new app that will allow page administrators to feature Instagram photos on their Facebook pages. North Social said its app enables page managers to filter and feature images from Instagram by user names or hashtags and display them in high-resolution, along with allowing users to comment on and share those images. The company added that page administrators can... read more>>
Report: Instagram Tops Twitter In August
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, it's certainly worth more than 140 characters, so it should come as no surprise that Facebook-owned photo-sharing application Instagram topped Twitter in terms of average daily active users and time spent on the site for the month of August, according to data provided by comScore to AllThingsD. According to comScore, Instagram tallied 7.3 million average DAUs in August, compared with 6.868 million for Twitter, while... read more>>
Nimbit Enables Musical Artists To Thank, Reward Facebook Fans, Twitter Followers
Nimbit, a direct-to-fan commerce and promotion platform tailored toward the music industry, released an update to its promotional tool for Facebook and Twitter that allows its users to reward fans who redeem free-download promotions with automatic thank-you messages featuring product discounts. The PreSonus-owned company said its users can share free downloads and immediately follow them up with offers of discounts on albums, or reward fans who have purchased music with thank-you messages... read more>>
Annie Ta Leaving Facebook Corporate Communications For Pinterest
Pin this: After almost five-and-a-half years with Facebook's corporate communications department, Annie Ta is leaving the social network for a similar position with budding rival Pinterest. Ta made the announcement in an email. Readers: Are you surprised there haven't been more stories about staffers leaving Facebook for Pinterest?... read more>>
Facebook Improves Accessibility Of Mobile Apps
Facebook is a wonderfully picturesque site, and the company wants those who are visually impaired to be able to experience that, as well. The social network posted recently about the work it has done to improve the accessibility of its mobile applications, including verbal descriptions of photos. Facebook posted a video showing the accessibility aspects of its mobile apps, which includes a screen reader that says aloud things like, "cover photo," and... read more>>
Facebook Marketing Firm Betapond Acquires App Developer IPlatform
Consolidation of Facebook-related companies made its way across the pond, as Ireland-based Facebook marketing firm Betapond announced its acquisition of U.K.-based application developer iPlatform, as reported by TechCrunch. According to TechCrunch, Betapond's clients include M&S, Unilever, Intel, Avis, Red Bull, Tourism Ireland, The Met Office, and Paddy Power. Meanwhile, iPlatform, which claims to have been Facebook's first U.K.-based preferred developer, counts McDonald's, Google, Gumtree, and Hewlett-Packard among its clients, TechCrunch reported. iPlatform Founder Joshua... read more>>
Facebook Debuts Feature That Will Change Social Networking As We Know It: Real-Time Pokes!
Never mind upgrading its mobile applications and offering advertisers more options: An intern at Facebook found the pot of gold at the end of the revenue rainbow for the social network: real-time pokes. TechCrunch reported that Facebook's pokes page began updating in real-time, so users can instantaneously return the favor when their friends poke them. The video below features a poke war between Josh Constine and Drew Olanoff of TechCrunch. Can't you just... read more>>
Facebook Bug Allows Posts By Blocked Users To Escape Deletion
Call the exterminator: Another Facebook bug was discovered, this one involving users of the social network not being able to delete posts on their walls by other users whom they have blocked. Mathias Olofsson, a project manager at In2Media in Copenhagen, Denmark, alerted Mashable about this particular Facebook oddity. The basics: Once a Facebook user blocks another Facebook user, he or she cannot see content posted by the blocked user, including content posted... read more>>
Page Like Totals Drop As Facebook Begins Purge Of Fake Accounts, Likes
The purge of fake profiles and likes announced by Facebook earlier this month kicked into full gear Wednesday, and the deletion of accounts that were created illegitimately and likes from malware, compromised accounts, deceived users, fake users, and purchased likes caused the like totals of several pages to drop, but in most cases, the effects were minimal. TechCrunch reported on the start of the purge by Facebook, citing statistics from sister site... read more>>
University Of North Alabama Schools The Field In Facebook Engagement
The University of North Alabama may not have the enrollment or national following of schools such as Ole Miss, Nebraska, or Marquette, but it has bettered them in one category: Facebook engagement. According to Varsity Outreach, UNA had the most engagement on any post from any college so far this year. It was a photo honoring an alumnus who had passed away, entertainer George Lindsey. Varsity Outreach's metrics take into account comments,... read more>>
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