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Thursday, September 13, 2012
NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' Seeks Fan Picks For Guest Hosts, Musical Guests Via Facebook, Twitter
Facebook has been an unofficial source in the past for fans of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" to recommend their picks for guest hosts, as in the case of Betty White in May 2010. Now, the late-night juggernaut wants to make it official, posting a note on its website urging fans to submit their suggestions via Facebook and Twitter. The note on the "SNL" page said the show's staffers will designate one day... read more>>
Sheryl Sandberg Heads To Japan To Talk Facebook's Focus On Asia
Although Facebook is still frozen out of China, there is still major growth potential throughout Asia. Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is in Japan now speaking about the social network's plans to grow in the region, which already has 255 million users. According to Socialbakers, Facebook has roughly 14 million users in Japan. However, Japanese-based social network Mixi has roughly 21 million, most of whom are native to the country. Facebook... read more>>
Comufy Notify Allows App Developers To Tap Facebook's Notifications API
Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Comufy devised a way for application developers to use the social network's notifications application-programming interface to inform their apps' users of new content or features. Comufy Notify (llows app developers to send personalized notifications to users of their apps, alerting them about new content, features, or offers. The Comufy Notify feature is part of the social media marketing software company's Social Suite platform, which captures and stores the data... read more>>
Offerpop Offers Facebook Page Administrators Useful Social Data, Analytics
Social marketing software provider Offerpop rolled out its new Integrated Social Marketing platform, providing Facebook page administrators with comprehensive social data and analytics. Offerpop said its ISM will allow page administrators to: Categorize their brands' Facebook posts and determine what types are the most popular. Automatically build social profiles for all users of the social network who engage with their brand on Facebook. Leverage that social data across all marketing channels, including social, email, advertising,... read more>>
Facebook Helps Developers Avoid Duplicate Likes
Facebook introduced a process to allow developers to avoid flooding users of the social network with duplicate likes when the actions are published by applications and by Facebook. Here are the details, from a post on the Facebook developer blog: Earlier this fall, we announced the built-in like action, which allows you to publish like stories via the open graph. When publishing a like from your app, there are scenarios where notifications might... read more>>
Facebook For BlackBerry Update Enhances Icons And Birthday Alerts
The Facebook application for Apple iOS devices recently got a major facelift, and an update for Android is coming soon. But what about BlackBerry? The mobile company announced Thursday that Facebook for BlackBerry has been updated. New features include enhanced icons, birthday reminders, and more support for Facebook events. In Facebook for BlackBerry 3.2, the icons have been refreshed. Now the icon for your profile is your most recent Facebook profile photo: The... read more>>
Documentary 'The Invisible War' Eyes Visibility With Facebook Premiere
Social entertainment provider Milyoni and digital distributor Cinedigm Digital Cinema will launch social action campaign "Million Eyes on the Issue" in conjunction with the Facebook premiere of documentary The Invisible War Monday, Sept. 17 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The Invisible War, from Academy Award- and Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick, takes a critical look at the epidemic of rape in the U.S. military. The film debuted at the 2012 Sundance Film... read more>>
UPDATED: Facebook Exchange Is Out Of Beta
Facebook formally announced Thursday that its Facebook Exchange real-time-bidding ad-purchase platform is out of beta, and the social network began allowing its FBX partners to release results they have achieved via the platform. Among FBX partners that shared their results Thursday: AdRoll reported a return on investment of 16 times for its clients using FBX ads (via TechCrunch). DataXu did not release specific data, but Co-Founder and CEO Mike Baker said, "The initial results... read more>>
Facebook Faces Another Patent Suit
Facebook was hit with another patent-infringement suit, this time from Eolas Technologies, which licensed four interactive technology patents from the Regents of the University of California, and the university. Reuters reported that the university was issued four patents for interactive technology, including hypermedia display and interaction, which it then licensed to Eolas, with a university spokesman calling the patents public assets and telling Reuters: (The university) should be paid a fair value when... read more>>
Mo. Congressional Campaign Hinges On Facebook
We recently profiled the race of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz in Texas, whose Facebook strategy helped earn him a win in that state's primary last month. We thought we'd take a look at another grassroots campaign leveraging the social network, this one in Missouri's large seventh congressional district, featuring political neophyte and Democratic challenger Jim Evans pitted against incumbent GOP Rep. Billy Long. Lacking extensive party support, combined with the... read more>>
Rainn Wilson Debunks Facebook Statuses, Helps Stop Malaria
Pretty much everyone has been guilty at one time or another of posting a cheesy, inspirational Facebook status update. Rainn Wilson, known for playing Dwight Schrute on the U.S. version of popular television show "The Office," wants to put a stop to the cheese. In a YouTube video, he counters happy-go-lucky Facebook status updates with cold, hard facts. He's not doing it to be mean, but rather in an effort to... read more>>
Facebook Becoming A Powerful Job Searching Tool
When most people think of a social media site that's tailored to job searching and recruitment, the obvious answer seems to be LinkedIn. However, Facebook is becoming more prominent in those arenas just by sheer volume. Many of the site's 955 million users are eager to connect their job applications to their profiles, according to Susan Vitale, chief marketing officer of recruitment platform iCIMS. Vitale told AllFacebook that through iCIMS' technology,... read more>>
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