Saturday, September 29, 2012

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News29 new results for Facebook
 
The week in tech: Five must-know things
USA TODAY
The new Myspace, as seen in a new promotional video, looks like it borrows elements from Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, with an image-heavy design and a cleaner main page, the AP says. 5) Comedian Ricky Gervais talks new voice app, Just Sayin' ...
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Facebook gift-giving feature sparks rally
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc. found out yet again Friday that the company's efforts to find new ways to make money from its enormous reach will be rewarded. "Every time Facebook demonstrates that it is focused on revenue, the stock will ...
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How Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix say sorry
MarketWatch
By Quentin Fottrell. Since he took the reins from Steve Jobs, Apple CEO Tim Cook has had his every move compared with that of the company's visionary founder. "What would Steve have done?" many wondered when Apple came under widespread criticism ...
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EU lawmaker calls for tighter data rules after Facebook row
Chicago Tribune
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An EU lawmaker called for tighter control of on-line social networks under a data protection regulation now being debated after some Facebook users said their personal messages appeared on their public profiles. EU regulators are ...
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Here's Roger Federer in a super-tight Brazilian soccer jersey
USA TODAY (blog)
As part of the process, the 17-time Grand Slam champion dressed in Brazilian soccer and volleyball uniforms and the photos delightfully made their way to Federer's Facebook page. The swoosh-to-clothing ratio on that volleyball kit is stunning, even for ...
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Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook: Please, Will The Regulators Stop Worrying ...
Forbes
One of my favourite economists, Lynne Kiesling, has written on why the regulators and bureaucracies really should worry a great deal less about the possibility of monopolies in the tech space. A basic point is that the whole field is simply changing ...
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Facebook video leads to girls' arrest for beating disabled woman
Chicago Tribune
assailants and put on Facebook, police said on Friday. A person who viewed the cell phone video alerted police to the assault in the town of Chester near Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Joseph Bail Jr. said. "It was an absolutely random, savage, ...
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Facebook Messenger for iPhone and Android updated
The Droid Guy
Facebook is the world's most used social networking site with millions of active monthly users. The social network is used so widely that you can find tens of friends on your list online at any given time. But the only problem, or complaint, that ...
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The Droid Guy
I Got Fired From Facebook And Cost Myself $100 Million
Business Insider
Kagan joined Facebook in 2005, about a year after Mark Zuckerberg started the company in his Harvard dorm room. Eight months later, when Facebook had grown from a tiny startup with ~30 people to a global phenomenon with more than 150 employees, ...
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Business Insider
JK Rowling Channels Rihanna, Facebook for 'The Casual Vacancy'
Wall Street Journal (blog)
But with her first novel for adults, Rowling has embraced pop culture in "The Casual Vacancy," with Facebook and Rihanna's popular song "Umbrella" (featuring Jay-Z) included in the storyline. "Umbrella" in particular plays a key role in the book. The ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Qualys completes strong quarter for IPOs in wake of Facebook flop
San Jose Mercury News
REDWOOD CITY -- Cloud security company Qualys took in slightly more than $90 million in the final Silicon Valley IPO of the third quarter, and investors Friday pushed the price higher in another sign that the market for public offerings has rebounded ...
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Facebook Scales the Great Firewall of China
DailyFinance
Facebook's absence in the Middle Kingdom has given opportunities to other local players that play by the government's censorship rules to jump into social media. Renren (NYS: RENN) has earned itself the title of the "Facebook of China" and now boasts ...
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Facebook Marketing Secrets: Buddy Media Report Shows The Best Times To Post
Huffington Post
On Wednesday, the rate at which users "like," share or comment on Facebook brand posts is 7.4 percent below the average daily interaction rate, according to the report by Buddy Media, a social media consulting company. The weekends, however, show a ...
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Facebook bullying catches attention of NM police
San Francisco Chronicle
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Postings on a new Facebook page have prompted police and school officials in one eastern New Mexico community to launch an investigation into online bullying. Authorities described comments on the page as belittling and ...
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RIM, Facebook gains highlight tech action
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Shares of Research In Motion (CA:rim) jumped 12% early Friday after surprising Wall Street with stronger-than-expected BlackBerry sales, while Facebook Inc. (US:fb) gained more than 3% a day after announcing a new ...
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Here's My Fix for Facebook: Make Facebook a Subsidiary of Instagram With Zuck ...
Forbes
I argued then that Facebook had already jumped the shark from a coolness factor perspective. Furthermore, I stated that I believe Twitter's already cooler. In my view, it's just a matter of time (maybe 4 – 5 years) until Twitter surpasses Facebook in ...
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Facebook Gifts: Great for friends, bad for privacy?
Christian Science Monitor
According to Facebook's announcement Thursday afternoon, users can first choose a gift and attach a digital card to send to their friend through Facebook. The gift can post on their friend's timeline or in a private message. The friend will then get to ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Small Business Advertisers Like Facebook's Immediacy, But Not Its Metrics
Yahoo! News (blog)
At a conference in New York this week, execs from online eyewear retailer Warby Parker and luxe retailer Gilt Groupe voiced the same sentiment, charging that Facebook doesn't provide an atmosphere that's conducive to sales. Not everyone is down on ...
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Trading at Noon: Tech Tally: RIM, Apple, Cisco & Facebook
Reuters
Flag as inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Sep 28, 2012 by ReutersVideo. Sept 28 - RIM rises on results, Apple 's Cook writes a letter, Cisco gets thumbs up from Goldman & Facebook unwraps ...
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My Semicolon Life: Good news on the cancer front
USA TODAY
I had gotten great pictures, some of which would make wonderful Halloween avatars for my Facebook page, but for some reason it had never occurred to me to look at the report about what my surgeon had found when he cut me open. The report from my CT ...
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Facebook deleting fake likes
The News International
Facebook would not confirm to the BBC that the purge was happening, but could not provide an alternative explanation for the drop in numbers. Earlier this year, an investigation by BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones highlighted some ...
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No, You Can't Have My Facebook Password
PC Magazine
California just passed a law making it illegal for employees and universities to ask that applicants provide the password to their Facebook account. This, to me, is like asking for bank account information and the keys to your safe deposit box. If a ...
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Professor Facebook: Social Network Co-Designs New Course At General ...
TechCrunch
GA_social-product-design_Papercraft. Facebook is dipping its toes into the teaching space with a new class at General Assembly, a popular education venture for startup co-working and vocational training. The new co-designed curriculum will teach ...
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TechCrunch
4000 join Facebook tribute page for teen who dies a week after stabbing
Metro
A Facebook tribute page in memory of a 16-year-old Birmingham stabbing victim has attracted more than 4,000 users as a 23-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murder. Related Tags: Birmingham. Kyle Sheehan, Birmingham 4,000 have joined a ...
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Metro
The Amazing Kreskin Predicts Regime Change At Facebook
Huffington Post
More bad news for Facebook CEO and general wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg: The Amazing Kreskin, arguably the country's most famous self-proclaimed mentalist, predicts Facebook will have a new leader by 2018. "It will reach a point that the present head of ...
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Facebook Pages Better than the Website? Fans Think So
Technorati
When talking to 1000 social media users about how they felt about liking brands on Facebook, market research firm Lab42 found that 50% of them said that the Facebook page is more useful than the website. Sure, that statistic can be interpreted to mean ...
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Technorati
Facebook Rises as 63.5 Million Users in China Skirt Ban
Businessweek
Facebook Inc. (FB) shares advanced after researcher GlobalWebIndex said the social-networking site has seen an eightfold increase in users in China since that nation restricted access to the service in 2009. Facebook users in China, the world's largest ...
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Not a fan of Facebook
Joliet Herald News
D ear Mr. Berko: I bought 500 shares of Facebook the day it came out and paid $44.25 a share because I didn't have the contacts to buy it at the $38 offering price. Now the stock is $21, and I have a $12,000 loss, which is criminal. I blame the ...
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On FaceBook for marketing
TamsBlackBerry
The recent political turmoil has given FaceBook a lot of attention – after all, many popular uprisings have been started on FaceBook. This has caused mobile developers and operators to think about using FaceBook for marketing – the question is if this ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Small Business Advertisers Like Facebook's Immediacy, But Not Its ...
By Todd Wasserman
Small businesses weigh the pros and cons of Facebook's advertising and analytics products.
Mashable!
Facebook Rolls Out Another New Feature « CBS Philly
By Chelsea Karnash
Facebook is once again revolutionizing the way we communicate with social media. It's unveiled a new feature that will let you send real, tangible gifts to your friends.
CBS Philly
Klout now scores Facebook Pages | Digital Trends
By Francis Bea
Klout has added support for Facebook Page signals and now incorporates these metrics into the Klout score.
Facebook personalizes pages browser, prompts users to Like pages ...
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook is testing a new design for a section of its site formerly called "Discover Facebook's Popular Pages" where users can find new pages to Like. Now called "Like Your Favorite Pages," the site focuses on helping users connect to pages ...
Inside Facebook
Facebook probes bug that creates 'undeletable' wall posts | SciTech ...
Facebook is now investigating a possible bug that allows users to post messages on their friends' walls that cannot be deleted, a tech site said this week.
GMA News Online
Klout Begins Scoring Facebook Pages « The Official Klout Blog | Klout
By Adithya Rao and Girish Lingappa
We're excited to announce that starting today, Facebook Pages are integrated into the Klout Score! Facebook Pages are an extremely popular and important platform, where people, brands, and organizations actively engage with their ...
The Official Klout Blog
PDF to Facebook | drupal.org
By jobjol
Press the connect button; Accept that we will own all your photo's and post permissions of your timeline; Choose the desired album name; Upload one or more PDF files; Press "Upload to Facebook"; Wait till the progress bar is finished ...
drupal.org - Show off your Drupal site
Facebook Messenger for iPhone redesigned with iPhone 5 - 9to5Mac
By Mark Gurman
Facebook has updated its Facebook Messenger application for iPhone with support for the iPhone 5, an improved design, a Favorites feature, and more. The new design is cleaner and the chat view looks more like the Twitter Direct Message ...
9to5Mac
Klout Adds Facebook Pages Into Its Scoring Mix
By Matt McGee
Klout's mix of influence scoring signals finally includes Facebook Pages. Klout announced today that its users are now able to connect Facebook Pages t.
Marketing Land - Internet Marketing...
Why RIM Finally Approved Facebook Messenger
By Emil Protalinski
Yet there's something few people know: while RIM only built the Facebook app for the BlackBerry, Facebook Messenger is available on its platform too. In fact, it's been available since October 2011. There are two big reasons why this isn't ...
The Next Web
Facebook Messenger v2.0 For iPhone Released, Features A ...
By Paul Morris
Following hot on the heels of their previous update for their main iOS app, Facebook has taken the opportunity to push out a new update for their extremely popular Messenger app for the iPhone. Rather than just being an incremental update, ...
Redmond Pie
See Media Day photos on our Facebook Page - CelticsBlog
By Jeff Clark
See Media Day photos on our Facebook Page. ... Our Facebook page has been updated with photos from Media Day. Check them out here. (and don't forget to LIKE our Facebook page please). Share On Facebook. Share on Twitter ...
CelticsBlog - All Posts
Facebook unveils Bango operator billing in US, UK and Germany
By Dusan Belic
Mobile payments company Bango has gone live with its direct operator billing technology for Facebook in Germany, the UK and US. As a result, users can purchase digital content directly through Facebook without using SMS or credit cards, ...
IntoMobile
Friday Wrap #18: Facebook brand pages, mobile-friendly suites ...
By shel@holtz.com
As companies began promoting their Facebook pages a couple years ago, a chorus of criticism arose arguing that a property someone else owned was a poor choice for your business's online presence. Results of a new study suggest that ...
Holtz Communications + Technology | Blog

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
Getting Started with the Facebook SDK for iOS v3.1 - Facebook ...
The Facebook SDK for iOS is designed to be easy to install and use. This guide walks you through the basics of setting up the development and project ...
developers.facebook.com/docs/getting-started/...sdk.../3.1/
Facebook Gifts | Facebook
Buy gifts for your friends to celebrate birthdays, new jobs and other big moments.
https://www.facebook.com/about/gifts


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