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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Bitstrips Draws Success From Facebook
One of the hottest Facebook applications may have just made photos boring. Comic creation community Bitstrips, which recently launched its Facebook app, is growing rapidly. Bitstrips allows users to create fun, engaging comics starring themselves and their friends. On Dec. 8, Bitstrips had just 10,000 monthly active users - now more than 110,000 people and counting are animating themselves. Bitstrips started out as an online community for people who love to create... read more>>
Facebook Engineering Details Favorite 2012 Hacks
With 2012 drawing to a close, Facebook celebrated its hacker culture by sharing its favorite hacks from the past year in a note on the Facebook Engineering page. The social network highlighted: A giant QR code on the roof of one of the buildings of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. A map that plotted which regions of the country root for which National Football League teams. Full-screen photo displays. Improvements to its events functionality. An LED... read more>>
Facebook Adds Filtering To Messages, Tests Paid Service
Facebook released an update to its messaging system Thursday, adding a filtering system and introducing a paid service for U.S. users who want to get in touch with someone they are not friends with. The filtering system makes it so only messages from friends show up in the inbox, while all others are sent to the "other" folder. As users complained to Facebook that the, "Who can send me Facebook messages?" setting... read more>>
A Facebook Contest From Sallie Mae?
A Facebook contest from Sallie Mae? The financial services company, which focuses on education, doesn't quite fit the profile of brands that engage in such actions, but the It Pays to Repay sweepstakes on its Facebook page, is living proof. It Pays to Repay invites Facebook users who are Sallie Mae clients and who have made six or more on-time loan payments to enter a random drawing for the chance to win... read more>>
Android App OStream Speeds Up Facebook Experience By Synchronizing Content In Background
Facebook's newly revamped Android application was rebuilt with a focus on speed, and startup oStream wants to help users of devices on that operating system access their content on the social network even faster. The Android app from oStream came out of private beta earlier this week, and it allows users to: Access their news feeds instantly, with no loading times or delays, due to the app synchronizing all of the content in... read more>>
Facebook Begins Rolling Out Country-Level Analytics For Global Pages Via Graph API, FQL
When Facebook announced its global pages initiative in October, it promised page administrators that it would provide country-level analytics, such as like totals and people talking about this, via its graph application-programming interface and FQL. The social network has begun to deliver on that promise. Facebook posted on its developer blog: We're starting to roll out like count and people talking about this metrics for all pages via the graph API and FQL.... read more>>
Facebook Publishing Garage In The Works?
What is Facebook Publishing Garage? According to the website of Addie Marino, a creative strategist in the social network's New York office, it is "a program geared at building world-class social publishing systems that enable brands to create the most meaningful connections with their connections and their friends through news feed stories." Facebook Publishing Garage was discovered by Fusible, which learned via domain-registration-information provider Whois that the social network registered the following... read more>>
Foursquare Adds Recommendations From Facebook Friends To Its Explore Feature
Location-based mobile application Foursquare launched its counterpunch to Facebook's new, improved nearby tab on its mobile applications, which was announced earlier this week, with its addition of recommendations from Facebook friends to its explore options. Foursquare and Facebook are both mindful of the fact that their users are more likely to trust recommendations when they come from people they already trust, as in, their friends. In addition to seeing nearby places where their... read more>>
New Facebook Privacy Notifications, Controls Begin Rolling Out In New Zealand
Facebook's favorite launching ground for new features, New Zealand, maintained its hold on that title with Thursday's launch of the social network's recently announced changes to its privacy controls in the Pacific island nation. Owen Williams, a contributor to The Next Web, reported on the rollout of the new features and captured the screen shots included in this post, telling The Next Web other friends in New Zealand are seeing the same... read more>>
Ads Can Now Be Targeted Toward Children Under 13
A change in the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) means that children under the age of 13 can be shown ads targeted toward them when they're online. This could lead to Facebook lowering its age of admission. Drafted in 1998 -- well before MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks burst onto the scene -- the Federal Trade Commission updated COPPA Wednesday. The amendments work to protect children online, noting that... read more>>
Facebook Launches Collections Test, Part II
Facebook launched the second phase of its test of the Collections feature Wednesday, adding some new retail partners to the mix and testing five open graph actions: want, save, add, collect, and wishlist. The social network said this phase of testing is aimed at understanding how users are interacting with and sharing items from collections in their news feeds, adding that much like during its first test, users will only see one... read more>>
Should Facebook Move Forward With Autoplay Video Ads?
On Tuesday, a report detailed that Facebook is planning to implement 15-second video advertisements that automatically play - an effort to grab television ad dollars. The reaction around the Internet was swift and negative, criticizing the social network for being too invasive by making the ads play instantly, forcing users to push pause or stop. But how effective are video ads in the first place? Video posts from pages and brands are... read more>>
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