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Friday, October 12, 2012
Facebook Tests Navigation Bar Layout With Search On Left, Messages And Notifications On Right
Facebook's accelerated focus on search may soon be extended to the navigation bar that appears throughout the site, as sister blog Inside Facebook reported, via a tip from Ignited Art Director Jeremy Carson, that some users of the social network are seeing a rejiggered version of the navigation bar, with the search box next to the word "Facebook," and the icons for messages and notifications pushed to the right-hand side. Inside Facebook... read more>>
Mozilla To Test Out Social API For Firefox Beta With Facebook Messenger
Facebook Messenger will be the first application used to test the new Social API developed by Mozilla for its Firefox beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mozilla said its Social API will allow developers to integrate their social services into the Web browser, adding that beta testers should begin seeing social sidebars with Facebook Messenger in the next few weeks. Mozilla added in a blog post: Much like the OpenSearch standard, the Social API... read more>>
What Kind Of Candy Should You Give Trick-Or-Treaters? Ask Facebook
Halloween is approaching quickly, and it's almost time to stock up on the big bags of sugary goodness to pass out to trick-or-treaters. Can't decide between Skittles, Kit Kat, or Reese's Peanut Butter Cups? Let Facebook be your guide. Here are the most popular candies on the social network. Facebook recently released a list of candies with the most populous fanbases: Skittles- 23.39 million Starburst- 11.44 million Reese's Peanut Butter Cups- 10 million (recently hit... read more>>
Social Media Jobs: High 5 Games, ICED Media
This week, High 5 Games has several new positions open. The company is hiring a project manager, a UI/UX designer, a customer support manager, and a social media analyst. Meanwhile, ICED Media is on the hunt for a group account manager. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro. Project Manager High 5 Games (New York, NY) UI/UX Designer High 5 Games (New York, NY) Customer Support... read more>>
Facebook On European Outage: DNS Issue, Not Anonymous Hack
Facebook said an outage Thursday in European countries including Denmark, France, Norway, and Italy was a DNS issue, and the social network was not the victim of hacking by Anonymous. According to VentureBeat, Twitter user @AnonymousOwn3r, who was responsible for hacking domain-registration service GoDaddy in September, claimed responsibility for the social network's outage, as well, in tweets including the two posted below. However, Facebook denied the hacker's claims, saying in an email to... read more>>
Two Firms Fined $721K For Facebook Scam Involving U.K. Grocery Chains Tesco, Asda
Facebook crime does not pay, as a 2011 scam that promised users of the social network free vouchers and gift cards for U.K. grocery chains Tesco and Asda wound up costing mBill of Australia and Amazecell of Israel a total of £450,000 ($721,000). Sophos' Naked Security blog reported that PhonepayPlus, the U.K. regulator of premium-rate phone-paid services, found mBill and Amazecell guilty of running deliberately misleading promotions on Facebook, fining the offending... read more>>
Biden Bests Ryan On Facebook During Fiery Vice Presidential Debate
The only debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan was a substantive and spirited affair, with supporters on Facebook weighing in on everything from taxes to abortion and from Iran to Libya. While the mainstream media were split over who won the "duel in Danville, Ky.," Facebook users appeared to draw a clear conclusion. According to Facebook-CNN Election Insights, Biden owned the night. His name was spiking... read more>>
What Does It Look Like When A Facebook Photo Goes Viral?
To show viral activity, we could post graphs, charts, and just a plain list of numbers. Facebook, through its Stories program, took virality a step further. Facebook Stories took three images from celebrity George Takei and created an intriguing visual representation of sharing through the social network. Facebook tracked the shares of three images that Takei has posted: Marvin the Martian,Ab Fab London, andFamous Failures. The site then put together animations showing... read more>>
American Diabetes Association Wants To Know How Facebook Users Live With Diabetes
Facebook announced last week that more than 219 billion photos have been uploaded to the social network, and the American Diabetes Association would like to see that total rise due to its A Day in the Life of Diabetes Facebook application. The goal of the campaign is for Facebook users to share images about how they deal with the disease on an everyday basis, whether they or loved ones are inflicted. Photos will... read more>>
Jell-O Facebook Contest Finds The Fastest Pudding Eater
Most food-based Facebook contests want to leave users with a lasting impression. Jell-O's newest Facebook contest is all about making the product disappear as quickly as possible. The company wants to see who can eat its pudding the fastest, and it's getting its 525,000-plus fans into the fun, as part of the Jell-O Pudding Prix. The CP+B-facilitated contest, which wraps up Friday, pits five pudding enthusiasts in a battle to the bottom... read more>>
North Social Rolls Out Photo Contest App For Facebook Brand Pages
Facebook application provider North Social wants to know if users who like your brand's page have any pictures that are worth 1,000 words. The company released a photo contest app for pages that allows brands to run user-generated photo contests. North Social's photo contest app boasts features including fan gating, entry moderation tools, viral sharing, and voting tools, and it uses the vendor's content management system (version 3.0) for easy designing and... read more>>
Facebook's Mobile Advertising Interface Was Built By Interns
Interns at Facebook are responsible for much more than getting coffee and making copies. They make valuable contributions. Peter Cottle, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkleley, and future Facebook engineer, reflected on his internship with the social network, writing that himself and another intern were responsible for most of the work on the site's first mobile advertising interface. Even Cottle (pictured), who will join Facebook full-time next spring, admitted... read more>>
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