Tuesday, July 17, 2012

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News25 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook users not as satisfied as Google+ users
CNET
Facebook's reputation for customer satisfaction continues to tarnish, while Google+ pops up on a customer satisfaction index for the first time and makes it to the top of the social network pyramid. Read this blog post by Donna Tam on Internet & Media.
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Facebook engineer accidentally blocks Imgur, apologizes on Reddit
CNET
When things go wrong on Facebook, they go disastrously wrong. But one Facebook engineer faced the Web's wrath head on and mitigated a public relations disaster for the world's largest social network. Read this blog post by Zack Whittaker on Internet ...
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Facebook video leads to teens' murder arrests
CNN
A teen charged in the fatal beating of a Chicago man had a video of the attack on his cell phone when arrested Saturday, prosecutors said.
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Google+ Tops Facebook in Customer Satisfaction
PC Magazine
Despite Facebook's popularity, users aren't actually happy with the social network, which suffered the largest decline in customer satisfaction this year, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report.
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Prosecutors: Facebook video of teens' deadly attack was 'Knock 'Em Out' game
Chicago Tribune
Delfino Mora, a father of 12, was collecting cans in an alley on the Far North Side early one morning last week when the three teens killed him with a single punch. A videotape of the attack was posted on Facebook, leading to their arrest on first ...
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Chicago Tribune
Facebook Monitors Your Posts and Chats To Catch Sexual Predators
Slate Magazine (blog)
That's the takeaway from a recent Reuters article, which recounted a case in which Facebook's software detected a man in his thirties allegedly trying to set up a meeting with a 13-year-old Florida girl for sex. From Reuters: Facebook's extensive but ...
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Slate Magazine (blog)
Facebook Plummets; Google+ Strong in American Customer Satisfaction Index
MarketWatch (press release)
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jul 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Facebook, already the lowest-scoring e-business company, suffers the largest decline in customer satisfaction according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report released ...
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Facebook hires team behind SF startup Spool in quest for mobile...
SiliconValley.com
Facebook continued its quest for improved mobile technology Monday by acqhiring the team behind San Francisco startup Spool, a two-year-old company that focused on making mobile content more palatable.
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Facebook Posts Biggest Drop Since May on Sales Growth Concern
Bloomberg
Facebook Inc., operator of the world's largest social-networking service, posted its biggest one-day drop since May 29 amid investor concerns the company's earnings report next week will point to slowing sales growth.
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Bloomberg
Google+ nabs top spot in customer satisfaction survey; Facebook falls
Washington Post
Google+ tied Wikipedia for the highest score. Facebook, which has been criticized for changes to its interface, had a lower score.
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Customer satisfaction index: Facebook falls, Google+ rises
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Facebook changes such as Timeline along with concerns over privacy have brought down the social network's consumer satisfaction score, according to a new report. Meanwhile, Google's own social network, Google+, scored fairly high in an annual survey ...
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Facebook Video Leads To Murder Arrests
WRTV Indianapolis
(CNN) -- A teenager charged with the fatal beating last week of a Chicago man had a video of the attack on his cell phone when arrested Saturday, a video he also posted on his Facebook page, prosecutors said. ... Tuesday, July 17, 2012.
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Yahoo!, Intel, Facebook: Tech Premarket
TheStreet.com
Yahoo! was one of the big gainers on Tuesday as investors welcomed the appointment of Marissa Mayer as CEO.
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Facebook's News Feed Sorely Needs A "Read It Later" Button, And That's Where ...
TechCrunch
Here's a common problem: you notice an awesome article, video, or song in the Facebook news feed but there's no easy way to save it for later. So while Facebook only bought the talent and not the tech behind Spool, a content caching service, I bet ...
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Facebook's Zuckerberg gets mortgage rate of 1.05 percent
Denver Post
The 28-year-old billionaire refinanced his Palo Alto home April 9 with a 1.05 percent adjustable rate mortgage on a loan of $5.95 million.
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Facebook Leads to Teens Arrest
Daily Beast
Facebook led to the arrest of three teenagers in the murder of a 62-year-old Chicago man Saturday. The group unwisely decided to film their game of "pick 'em out and knock 'em out," in which 16-year-old Malik Jones "picked" a 62-year-old man who had ...
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Daily Beast
Facebook acquires mobile startup's team
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. (US:fb) is acquiring the engineering team of Spool, a San Francisco mobile app developer, in another sign of the social networking company's focus on the.
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Google+ Is Beating Facebook (At Least In Terms Of Customer Satisfaction)
WebProNews
Of course, stuff like privacy concerns & advertisements fatigue are commonly complained about among the Facebook user base. ACSI suggests that privacy concerns and the use of personal information are two of the reasons why "social media" in general ...
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The Facebook-Yahoo Conundrum: Why Google Will Surge
Seeking Alpha
The annual American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Business Report, which scores companies on a 100-point scale, had some bad news for Facebook (FB): its rating reached an all-time low of 61 while Google+ ranked on the top alongside Wikipedia with a ...
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Hotels.com's New Facebook App Offers Hard-to-Find Deals, but Not in a Good Way
All Things Digital
Besides providing deals, the application also taps into your social network to make booking rooms more informed by people you know. After connecting to Hotels.com through my Facebook account, I was able to add destinations such as Honolulu, London, ...
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All Things Digital
Facebook Vows To Speed Web With Tech From...Google
Wired News
In a rare case of agreement between the two internet giants, Facebook has announced that it's adopting the new protocol Google developed to speed the delivery of webpages across the net.
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Wired News
Users Like Google+ Better Than Facebook
Newser
Finally, some good news for Google+. The most recent American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) finds that users are much happier with the Google social network than they are with Facebook. Facebook... Technology News Summaries. | Newser.
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Facebook Plummets In 2012 American Customer Satisfaction Index
AllFacebook
Facebook took a beating in the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, released Tuesday in partnership with ForeSee, experiencing the largest decline of the 230 companies measured, 8 percent, and setting a record low for an e-business.
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AllFacebook
A Staggering 592000 People Talking about Explore Talent on the Facebook ...
San Francisco Chronicle
According to the Facebook platform, this means that over 592000 people have "created a story about" Explore Talent. Furthermore, the Explore Talent site features celebrity videos, exclusive interviews with actors, actresses and musicians, such as Joan ...
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Facebook Engineer Tells Reddit Sorry For Blocking Imgur Links, Offers Cute ...
WebProNews
Redditors are pretty protective of their Imgur. Though they may lambast the free image hosting site every now and then for having a tendency to be down for extended periods of time, redditors know that Imgur is their friend. And reddit is Imgur's ...
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Blogs10 new results for Facebook
 
PR Done Right: Facebook Engineer Apologizes On Reddit For ...
By Billy Gallagher
Facebook software engineer Matt Jones has taken to Reddit to apologize to users for accidentally blocking popular image hosting site Imgur while working to catch malicious URLs. The image below was posted by Redditer "AmericanDerp" ...
TechCrunch
LinkedIn's Homepage Design Looks More Facebook-y
By Todd Wasserman
LinkedIn overhauled its homepage. The result is a more Facebook-y look.
Mashable!
Patent Troll Sues Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, Linkedin, Citigroup ...
By Mike Masnick
Some of the filings are more specific about the file system -- such as in the Facebook and Amazon cases, where it specifically calls out the popular Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). In the Oracle suit, it's parallel Network File System ...
Techdirt.
Here's How Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Congratulated Marissa ...
By Owen Thomas
Mayer is naturally going to be more open to partnerships with Google than past Yahoo leadership. She knows the company's leadership, products, and technology inside out. That's not great for Facebook, which wants to keep Google isolated.
Business Insider
Facebook hires team behind mobile bookmarking service Spool
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook has hired the small team behind Spool, a social bookmarking service that makes web content available for offline viewing on mobile devices, the company confirmed this weekend. According to All Things D, this was not a traditional ...
Inside Facebook
Rutland County, Vermont Republicans Apologize For Racist ...
By The Huffington Post News Team
A county Republican Party chairman in Vermont apologized Monday afternoon for a racist statement that had appeared on the county GOP's Facebook page.
President Obama on Huffington Post
Atheist Ethicist: Facebook group: Desirism
By Alonzo Fyfe
Facebook group: Desirism. I have created a facebook group for Desirism. I am hoping to draw people to this who would be willing to link to items of relevance to the theory - articles in neuroscience, moral philosophy, and application in the real ...
Atheist Ethicist
Facebook Ads: What Are You Really Paying For? | Search Engine ...
By Jake Filan
About three weeks ago, I ran an ad campaign on Facebook for a fanpage that resulted in an increase of Likes from 100 to around 900. Success! …or so I thought. After a week of posting content designed to engage the new audience and ...
Search Engine Journal
Companies Are Asking Facebook Fans For Ideas - AllFacebook
By Justin Lafferty
Want to tell a company its product would be great if it just did one little thing differently? Just tell the company on its Facebook page. It's listening.
AllFacebook
New Feature On Facebook Groups Shows Who Has Seen The ...
By Saikat Basu
The latest update unveiled by Facebook allows Facebook Group members to see who has visited the Group page and seen the latest post or status update. Each member can now see the name and exact time that a post has been viewed by ...
MakeUseOf » Facebook & Twitter


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