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Friday, December 21, 2012
Social Media Jobs: Wooga, GLO Gaming, Slingshot SEO
This week, Wooga is hiring a university relations manager, while GLO Gaming needs a senior account executive. Slingshot SEO is seeking a client partner, and Rundavoo is on the hunt for a senior developer. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro. University Relations Manager Wooga (Berlin, Germany) Senior Account Executive GLO Gaming (New York, NY) Client Partner Slingshot SEO (Indianapolis, IN) Senior Developer Rundavoo (Los Angeles, CA) Director/Co-Founder... read more>>
Senate Approves Act To Let Netflix Share U.S. Data With Facebook
Not long after the U.S. House of Representatives approved changes to a bill that would let video rental services such as Netflix share viewer data (with their consent) to sites such as Facebook, the Senate gave it their blessing, too. This means that soon, Netflix users will be able to share their movie history with Facebook, much like music listeners do through applications such as SoundCloud, Songza, and Spotify. The Video Privacy... read more>>
Education Is The Key To Preventing Facebook Leaks
Many companies don't have a seasoned social media guru at the helm, often relying on interns or marketers to present the brand on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. This sometimes leads to leaks, hacks, and other nightmares. Jaspreet Singh, the CEO of Druva, told AllFacebook that the key to preventing these mishaps is almost always education. Druva works with major brands and entities such as NASA, Tesla, McAfee, and General Electric to... read more>>
Zynga Shuttering Japanese Operations
The struggles continue for game developer Zynga, as the company confirmed that it will shutter its operations in Japan, just two months after laying off more than 100 employees in Austin and closing its Boston studio. Zynga hinted in October when it announced its first round of cuts that it might close its offices in Chicago, Japan, and the U.K., and now it appears that at least the middle one has suffered... read more>>
Facebook Officially Begins Rollout Of New Privacy Tools In U.S.
What started in New Zealand continues in the U.S., as Facebook officially announced that it began rolling out the new privacy tools it announced earlier this month, starting in the U.S. and rolling out globally by year-end. To summarize, Facebook is introducing: Privacy shortcuts. An easier-to-use activity log. A request and removal tool for photos that users are tagged in. In-context reminders warning users that content they choose to hide from their timelines may still appear... read more>>
Instagram Nixes Sponsored Story-Like Ad Product ... For Now
Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing social network, caused a stir throughout the Internet this week when the company altered its terms of use to foretell of an advertising service similar to Facebook's sponsored stories. Many people mistakenly believed that Instagram would sell photos without any notice or benefit to users. After all of the confusion, Instagram decided to revert the advertising portion of its terms of use to original 2010 status. Earlier this... read more>>
Facebook Testing Redesign To One-Column Timeline
It appears that Facebook is looking for ways to simplify the timeline design. As first noticed by social media expert Mari Smith (and ABC News), some users are seeing a sleeker-looking timeline, including a single-column design and buttons that easily connect to the about section, friends, photos, and other sections of users' Facebook profiles. We reported Oct. 31 that Facebook was testing a single-column design, but it appears that the company has... read more>>
A Look Back At The Year Of Facebook Developments
Even a casual Facebook user can see that the site has changed dramatically over the past year. On Thursday, Facebook's developers team took some time to reflect on some of the highlights that made the social network what it is today. One of the major stories for developers was the adoption of open graph technology, which opened to a much wider audience in 2012. Several applications, such as Songza and Nike+ Running,... read more>>
Looking For Facebook, In All The Right Places?
Facebook is not very difficult to find, but that didn't stop the term "Facebook" from finishing atop the list of most searched terms in the U.S. in 2012 for the fourth consecutive year, according to Experian Marketing Services. The term "Facebook" accounted for 4.13 percent of all searches, up 33 percent from 2011, according to Experian Marketing Services, which added that "Facebook login," "Facebook.com," and "www.facebook.com" also finished in the top 10,... read more>>
Facebook Rolling Out Drag-And-Drop Photo Uploading
Uploading photos to Facebook just got easier. As first reported by Inside Facebook, the social network is rolling out drag-and-drop capability, allowing users to simply choose the photos they want to present. Now, instead of navigating folders, users can just drag photos to the status update box on top of their news feeds. This new feature also allows people to upload multiple photos at once, without having to create albums. Inside Facebook reports... read more>>
Facebook Limits Text In Cover Images, News Feed Ads To 20 Percent
Facebook tweaked its policies related to the use of text in the cover images of pages, as well as in ads that appear in users' news feeds. Sister blog Inside Facebook pointed out the changes to Section III.D and Section III.B of the social network's ad guidelines, reporting that images from page post ads that are eligible for news feed will be reviewed via a grid-based text-overlay detection tool, and that text... read more>>
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>>
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