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Monday, September 24, 2012
Users Seeing Old Facebook Wall Posts, Not A Private Message Leak
The 2000's were a simpler era. There was no timeline, MySpace was still the social network of choice and everything on Facebook wasn't broadcast to the world. So when people started crying foul that Facebook was publishing private messages, they were misguided. Facebook shows wall posts from 2009 and before, when many people used the Facebook wall feature to post messages they believed only the recipient would read. TechCrunch first reported the... read more>>
Obama's Latest Facebook Campaign Sticks
The race for the U.S. presidency is increasingly being fought on Facebook. President Barack Obama's team used the social network this weekend, launching an interesting way to drive traffic to the Obama 2012 application, while giving users a tangible reward. When users connect with Obama via Facebook, they can get a free car magnet. The promotion was posted to Obama's Twitter and Facebook accounts, quickly gaining steam. The Facebook post has been... read more>>
Facebook Friends-Of-Fans' Information Is Key For Marketing
People are shocked when Facebook launches new ad products every few days -- targeting your search queries, what sites you've been to, or taking your Facebook information and injecting it into other websites. You can even upload customer email lists and phone numbers to Facebook, too.But if you want Facebook to be able to measure your return on investment, it must know who the friends are of all your fans. Facebook is... read more>>
Ustream Broadcast For Friends Live Video-Streaming App Adds Support For Facebook Pages
Streaming-video provider Ustream released an update to its Broadcast for Friends iPhone application that allows page administrators to record and broadcast live video on their pages. According to TechCrunch, the update to Broadcast for Friends also added deeper integration with Facebook's open graph, enabling greater visibility of shared videos on Facebook, as well as support for lower-bit-rate connections. Broadcast for Friends also offers features including location, and different filters, such as Maltese (saturated... read more>>
Syncapse Offers 2013 Facebook Advertising Spend Calculator
It's never too early to start planning for 2013, and social performance management platform Syncapse introduced a tool to help Facebook page administrators do just that: the 2013 Facebook Advertising Spend Calculator. Syncapse said its 2013 Facebook Advertising Spend Calculator is aimed at helping brands determine their strategies and budget allocations for four key phases of the process: Mapping media plans to goals. Acquiring a core fan base. Engaging fans and amplifying socially endorsed advertising... read more>>
Facebook Launches One-Click Mobile Payments Via Bango In U.S., U.K., Germany
Mobile payment platform Bango announced that its integration with Facebook, first revealed in February, is live, and the social network's users in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany can now purchase items such as virtual gifts and game credits and be billed via their mobile carriers. According to TechCrunch, Bango (as similar services in place for BlackBerry AppWorld, Opera's mobile store, and Google Play, and Amazon will follow suit shortly. Bango said the... read more>>
Regulator In Hamburg, Germany, Still Squawking Over Facebook, Facial Recognition
Facebook appeared to have settled concerns within the European Union over its use of facial-recognition technology with Friday's announcement of an agreement between the social network and Ireland's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, but the memo apparently never made it to Hamburg, Germany. TechCrunch reported that the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information issued an administrative order against Facebook that same day, ordering the social network to alter... read more>>
WARNING: Twitter DMs Promise Facebook Videos Featuring Users, But Deliver Malware
Facebook and Twitter may be playing nice, but the two social networks are also being combined to spread malware, with Twitter direct messages claiming to contain links to Facebook videos featuring the recipients. Sophos' Naked Security blog reported that "a variety" of Twitter DMs containing such messages has been discovered of late, but while the bait may be different, the result is the same: Users who click on the links are directed... read more>>
Facebook Asks Users If Their Friends Are Using Their Real Names
Facebook hates fake profiles. The site has roughly 955 million users, and it wants to make sure that they're all real people. Several outlets are reporting that the social network is asking users to report friends who may be hiding behind pseudonyms. Some users have been seeing a prompt, asking if one of their friends is using their real name. The prompt assures users that their feedback is confidential. Talking Points Memo... read more>>
Pittsburgh Hostage-Taker Uses Facebook To Post Updates
A 22-year old Pittsburgh man has taken a hostage in a high-rise building and is using Facebook to explain why. UPDATE: AP reports that the suspect has surrendered to police. Klein Michael Thaxton has taken one man hostage, all the while posting chilling messages to his Facebook wall. At the time of this post, his Facebook profile appears to have been shut down. However, numerous news outlets shared Thaxton's last thoughts on... read more>>
Facebook Now Keeps Search History In Activity Log
Facebook is widely known as the social network, but now it is making more progress toward becoming the search network. Not long after Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company has a renewed focus on search, the site announced a change in its activity log, which now saves Facebook searches. Facebook posted about the change on its newsroom blog, noting that you can delete your saved searches, too: Starting today, in... read more>>
Facebook Introduces Real-Time Updates API For Developers
In an attempt to make it easier for developers to keep pace with changes to Facebook's social graph that may affect their applications, the social network Friday added a real-time updates application-programming interface to its app dashboard. Facebook said the real-time updates API will allow developers to subscribe to updates on objects that affect their apps and receive alerts when they are modified, adding in a post on its developer blog: The new... read more>>
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