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Monday, October 01, 2012
Ice Cream Shop Lands In Hot Water Over Facebook Comment
It's great when a brand or business on Facebook responds to posts and comments from their fans. However, an errant comment can result in the wrong kind of engagement, as a Montana ice cream shop found out recently. After a Muslim fan of Wilcoxson's Ice Cream in Livingston, Mont. asked if the ice cream contained pork gelatin, the page manager responded with an inflammatory comment. The backlash has led Wilcoxson's to... read more>>
Facebook Marketing: Getting Outside Of The Click Mentality
Up until now, online marketing has been intensely focused on the click. The main goal for ad companies is to get people click on ads, hoping that they can convert that into sales. Brad Smallwood, Facebook's head of measurement and insights, spoke Monday at theIAB MIXX conference, sharing the company's findings from a partnership with Datalogix in an effort to help marketers achieve success through the social network. Facebook teamed up with... read more>>
Facebook Likes The Sound Of Mixcloud
So you want the quality of DJ-spun music mixes, but you're stuck in the office? That's where Mixcloud comes in. The application, which was highlighted Monday in the Facebook developers blog, has been rapidly growing in popularity since it was launched at last year's f8 conference. Mixcloud connects userswith high-quality mixes, radio shows, and podcasts featuring Moby, Fatboy Slim, Wired, and NPR's Radiolab. Through the app, which has integrated open graph technology,... read more>>
Facebook, YouTube Blocked In Kashmir?
Facebook and YouTube have been blocked in the Indian state of Kashmir due to the protests against an inflammatory anti-Islam video that was posted on the Google-owned video site, according to reports. IBNLive.com reported that the state's Home Department issued the following order: In the interest of public safety and for maintaining public order, the government directed all licensed telecom-service providers and Internet-service providers to make arrangements to ensure that their subscribers in... read more>>
Facebook Seeks FTC Clarification On Possible Changes To COPPA
Facebook submitted a filing to the Federal Trade Commission seeking clarification on whether the social network and other websites will be able to show first-party advertising to children if the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is updated by the agency. Mashable reported that the FTC's proposed changes to the 1998 bill would add applications, games, and online advertising networks to the list of platforms that are restricted from collecting personal information... read more>>
Facebook Details Privacy Measures Implemented With Launches Of New Ad Products
Facebook posted a note on its Facebook Privacy page to reassure users of the social network that their privacy remained top of mind during the rollout of new advertising options such as Facebook Exchange, the ability for advertisers to target custom audiences, and its agreement with Datalogix to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. Privacy Engineer Joey Tyson wrote in the note: Many sites across the Web provide free services by including advertisements.... read more>>
Mr. Zuckerberg Goes To Russia: Red Square, McDonald's, Meeting With The Prime Minister
Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in Moscow Monday to meet with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Deputy Prime Ministers Arkady Dvorkovich and Vladislav Surkov. AFP reported that Zuckerberg made the trip to discuss cooperation in IT technology and startups in the Skolkovo Innovation Center, a Silicon Valley-style technology-development park just outside Moscow, likely hoping to boost Facebook's presence in the country, where VKontakte is currently the top social network. According... read more>>
Facebook Messenger For IOS 2 Adds Support For IOS 6, IPhone 5, And Bubbles
What do Apple's iOS 6, the larger screen on its new iPhone 5, and bubbles have in common? They are all pillars of the new version of Facebook Messenger for iOS. Launched less than two weeks after the update of Facebook Messenger for Android, the new version of the application for Apple devices includes support for iOS 6, support for the increased screen size of the iPhone 5, and the addition of... read more>>
Paul Ryan Finds Winning Facebook Formula As Campaign Strategists Name Favorite Features
With Election Day only 40 days away in a cycle that's been dubbed the first "social" election, campaigns are working overtime to gain an advantage on Facebook in order to motivate supporters and get out the vote. A look at the Facebook pages for each presidential campaign says a lot about how the race on Facebook is managed behind-the-scenes. For example, while President Barack Obama leads Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Facebook... read more>>
Facebook Suggests Pages You Should Like
Facebook loves to suggest new experiences: friends, games, why not pages? Sister site Inside Facebook wrote Friday that the site added an option on the left-hand side: Like Pages. Clicking that takes you to a screen offering page suggestions based on interests in categories such as movies, music, brands, local businesses, and recent check-ins. This is a way for Facebook pages to regain some of the momentum they lost when the site... read more>>
Report: There Are 63.52 Million Facebook Users In China, Despite Ban
Laws are meant to be broken, including, apparently, the one banning Facebook in China, as research firm GlobalWebIndex reported that Facebook users in the country have skyrocketed from 7.9 million in July 2009 to 63.52 million as of the second quarter of 2012. According to GlobalWebIndex, Twitter, which is also banned in China, has seen its users grow from 11.8 million to 35 million during the same time period. GlobalWebIndex said it conducted... read more>>
Apps 101: Facebook Teams Up With General Assembly To Offer Class To Developers
Class is in session, and Facebook is the instructor: The social network will begin teaching developers how to create social applications on its platform, collaborating on the curriculum with "global network of campuses" General Assembly. According to TechCrunch, tuition is $4,000, and the class will be offered in New York and London, with the New York version set to run from Nov. 6 through Jan. 29, with Tripl Founder and CEO Peter... read more>>
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