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Thursday, November 29, 2012
It's All Downhill For Liftopia Facebook App
The holiday shopping season may be in full swing, but skiing season is also underway, and online ski marketplace Liftopia launched a Facebook application allowing skiers and snowboarders to compare the mountains they have tackled. The Where I've Skied Challenge also allows users to compile galleries of mountains they have visited, and Liftopia said more than 13,000 Facebook users have installed the app in a little more than one week. The top five... read more>>
INFOGRAPHIC: The Social Wedding
You may have noticed that whenever a Facebook friend gets married, it sets off a flurry of activity throughout the social network. Friends post photos from the wedding, and there's the creation of a life event and the notification on the top-right corner of the screen. Mashable and TheKnot.com recently studied how entwined Facebook is in users' nuptials, finding that 8 percent of people are updating their Facebook relationship status to... read more>>
Facebook To Host Windows 8 Hackathon
Facebook loves to run hackathons, where developers have 24 hours to come up with the best application possible. Earlier this year, Facebook managed World Hack, bringing together the best developers all over the world. Now Facebook HQ will host a hackathon for the Windows 8 platform in Menlo Park, Calif., this weekend. Facebook wants to see what kinds of apps can be developed on the new Windows 8 platform. Starting at 6... read more>>
RadiumOne Completes Integration With Facebook Exchange
Social advertising company RadiumOne announced Thursday that it completed integration with real-time ad-bidding platform Facebook Exchange. RadiumOne said its platform taps real-time data to identify intent, increase audience scale, and deliver targeted display, mobile, and video ads across the Web, adding that as a result of the integration, its ShareGraph audience-amplification tool is now connected with real-time ad inventory on the social network. RadiumOne also offers advertisers social-sharing and content-creation tools, combining its... read more>>
Facebook Completes Rollout Of Developer Alerts
Facebook announced that it completed the rollout of its developer alerts feature earlier this week, and it is now available globally. The social network announced developer alerts earlier this month, saying at the time that they will be used in the following instances: If apps are using functionality that Facebook is altering or removing, alerts will be issued 90 days, 60 days, and 30 days prior to the changes taking effect, as well... read more>>
Self-Proclaimed Facebook Co-Owner Paul Ceglia Pleads Not Guilty To Mail, Wire Fraud
In the latest installment of the ongoing saga of the man who claims to own one-half of Facebook, Paul Ceglia entered a plea of not guilty Wednesday on one count each of mail fraud and wire fraud related to a contract with Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg that Ceglia allegedly doctored in an attempt to claim his Facebook stake. Bloomberg reported that Ceglia entered his plea at a federal court in... read more>>
Facebook Promotes Cyber-Security Awareness Among Employees With 'Hacktober'
Facebook decided that the best way to protect itself and its employees from hackers was to hack its own employees, and it did just that in October, holding its second annual "Hacktober." Mashable reported on the month-long event, in which the social network staged simulated security threats against its employees' computers, rewarding those who reported threats or phishing scams with prizes including Facebook shirts, bandanas, and stickers, while "punishing" those who failed... read more>>
WARNING: Bug Causing Some Facebook Users To Rejoin Groups They Have Left
Facebook is currently dealing with a bug involving its groups, which has resulted in some users being resubscribed to groups they previously left, without any actions being taken by the affected users or the administrators of the respective groups. Sophos' Naked Security blog shared the experiences of several users, including (unedited): It's 3 a.m. I was asleep and my phone suddenly tells me I have 50 notifications from groups I somehow joined while... read more>>
Facebook Uses Holiday Season To Promote Advertising On Facebook
The holiday shopping season also marks the heaviest advertising, marketing, and promotional period of the calendar year, and Facebook is no exception, using the end of the year to push advertising on the social network. Earlier this month, some page administrators began seeing a banner ad urging them to "Get More Page Likes This Holiday Season," and directing page admins who clicked on the banner to Facebook's Target Your Ads page. Sister blog... read more>>
Facebook Testing More Visual Mobile Sponsored Stories
Some users may be seeing a new kind of ad in their mobile news feeds, as Facebook is testing a more visual approach to sponsored stories, which prompt users to like a page. TechCrunch reported that the site is showing off a a new format for sponsored stories, including a big, bold photo. Currently, for most users, here's what it looks like when Facebook suggests pages for you: Here's the new format Facebook... read more>>
Health, Alcohol, Consumer Goods Are The Fastest-Growing Industries On Facebook
More companies are putting more importance on having a Facebook presence, but which industries have seen the most growth in terms of pages and fans? Analytics company Socialbakers crunched the numbers from July through September (the third quarter of the year), finding that health and travel were the kinds of Facebook pages being set up the most. Pages regarding health and alcohol saw the greatest gains in terms of fans. Oddly enough,... read more>>
Google Plus' Bradley Horowitz Rips Advertising On Facebook
The executive who oversees Google Plus believes recent advertising initiatives at Facebook are a big minus, as Google Vice President of Product for Google Plus Bradley Horowitz shared some unkind words about his rival at a Business Insider conference in New York Wednesday. As reported by CNET, Horowitz accused Facebook of "jamming ads" in order to create revenue, saying that the social network does not work the way the real world works,... read more>>
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