Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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News29 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook's advertising strategy cannot win
USA TODAY
Have you heard about the latest blowup over a Facebook (FB) money-making scheme? It seems that the company is offering some users preferential placement of posts on the news feeds of other people for a $7 fee. Or, taking it just a step further ...
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Study: Facebook Users More Protective Even as They Reveal More About ...
New York Times (blog)
Facebook users became much more protective about who sees sensitive information about them, even as they were urged to share more about themselves on the social network, according to an unusual seven-year study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon ...
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Facebook News Feed Draws More Criticism
New York Times (blog)
In my column this week, I wrote about how content I shared on Facebook saw a paltry amount of interaction unless I paid Facebook to highlight it on the company's signature news feed. Other reporters and bloggers said they had seen a similar drop in ...
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New York Times (blog)
Study: Hospitals With More Facebook 'Likes' Have Lower Mortality Rates
The Atlantic
Instead of finding new ways of collecting and reporting quality, why not use something that we already know to be powerfully effective: the social force that is Facebook. As a study on friendship similarly showed, Facebook is not best seen as a purely ...
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The Atlantic
Will Facebook go bye-bye when teens do?
CBS News
Why should it matter if U.S. teens turn their noses up at Facebook, which after all has more than 1 billion users? Because the U.S. is the company's biggest source of revenue. More broadly, when you consider adoption of social technology, the emphasis ...
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Twitter to Take TweetDeck Web-Only, Axe Facebook Integration
TIME
Your ability to show me my Twitter feed and Facebook feed in a single column, combined with the ability to post work-related updates to both Facebook and Twitter at the same time while converting our URLs to custom ti.me Bitly shortlinks on the fly ...
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Facebook to bring free data access to messaging service
ZDNet
In a blog post Monday, the social network announced it had partnered at least 18 mobile operators in 14 countries to give free or discounted data access to the Facebook messaging services, through its messaging apps for Google Android and Apple iOS, ...
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Facebook hit with fresh IPO-related lawsuit
Reuters
The lawsuit by Gaye Jones alleges that the company's directors knew that Facebook did not disclose weaker revenue trends as more users accessed the website through mobile devices. The complaint alleges that information had been selectively shared with ...
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How Facebook dug deep within Android to fix its mobile app
Ars Technica
MENLO PARK, CA—When Facebook's mobile app began misbehaving on an older version of Android in late 2012, Facebook engineers had to dive deep into Android's code to figure out what was causing the mishap. In a whiteboard session today at ...
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Former Facebook VP Wants to Make Tech Startups Cool in the UK
Forbes
Shields, who's only recently come to head the organization after stepping down as vice-president of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), responsible for business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is understandably vague—she's getting a lay of the land before ...
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Why I Hate Facebook
Business Insider
Perception is reality: Facebook can't just exist, it needs to be liked. The experience of being on Facebook needs to be enjoyable. There is no law that says established social networking sites must always stay in business, forever. Consider MySpace ...
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Business Insider
Facebook served new lawsuit over bungled IPO
CNET
Investor Gaye Jones filed a new case against Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and the company's underwriters today, according to Reuters. Like several other investors that have sued Facebook, Jones claims that the social network knew about its ...
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Facebook Pushes Plot To Kill Your "Phone" App By Giving Messenger For ...
TechCrunch
Facebook today will wage its war against your phone's "phone" application on a new front with an update to Messenger For Android that adds VoIP calling for Canadians. It's also improving group messaging. By combining voice-over-data calling with ...
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TechCrunch
Facebook Admits Likes Are Down For Some Celebrities' Posts, But Claims Up 34 ...
TechCrunch
Facebook today confirmed dwindling engagement with public posts to subscribers cited by The New York Times' Nick Bilton, other journalists, and I, but calls us isolated cases, noting public figures with more than 10,000 fans are now getting 34 percent ...
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TechCrunch
Facebook And Google Bury The Hatchet (Temporarily) To Kill A Core Problem In ...
TechCrunch
When Facebook hit a limitation in Android's virtual machine, Dalvik, that would halt its app development, Google and Facebook worked together to create a patch for Gingerbread. "We're a significant app to them, and they're a significant platform for us ...
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TechCrunch
Facebook: No, We're Not Suppressing Posts To Force You To Pay For Promoting ...
Forbes
Facebook has just responded to a New York Times article Mar. 3 that suggested the company might be suppressing posts from appearing in followers' news feeds as a way to force them to pay to have them distributed widely. Facebook's answer: No, we aren't ...
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For New York Detectives, Facebook-Stalking Teens Is A Full-time Job
Forbes
Detectives spend hours, day and night, monitoring the Facebook pages and Twitter accounts of teenagers in the program, known as the Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program, or J-RIP, and of their criminal associates. To do so, detectives create a dummy ...
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Breaking News from CNBC's Julia Boorstin: Facebook to Acquire Atlas Solutions ...
CNBC.com
JULIA BOORSTIN: SOURCES TELL ME THAT SOMETIME THIS AFTERNOON FACEBOOK WILL ANNOUNCE THAT IT IS ACQUIRING A COMPANY CALLED ATLAS SOLUTIONS FROM MICROSOFT AND THAT THE DEAL WILL BE VALUED IN THE BALL ...
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Charity Bids Unveils its Next Generation Charity Auctions Facebook App for Non ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Charity Bids' Charity Auctions Facebook application enables non-profits to set up and operate an auction in just a few simple steps. By using the Charity Auctions app, non-profits and their sponsors can engage supporters and run auctions directly from ...
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Half the Sky Facebook game launches with women's empowerment at core
The Guardian
A Facebook game that lets users do more than harvest digital crops and care for online animals launched on Monday, instead giving players the option to invest in micro-loans and create women's empowerment groups. Inspired by married authors Nicholas ...
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The Guardian
Remember, Facebook isn't a platform for you to use — you are a platform for ...
GigaOM
Facebook seems to be making users upset and/or confused again with the way it handles its news feed. A few months ago, it was actor George Takei and billionaire Mark Cuban who were upset with what they saw as changes to the Facebook algorithm that ...
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GigaOM
Facebook threat at El Camino High taken seriously; youth arrested
Sacramento Bee
The swift arrest Sunday of a local teenager who threatened a campus shooting on Facebook underscored how seriously communities take online comments in the wake of violent school incidents. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department found no ...
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Facebook Hits Back at New York Times' Bilton Over Post-Suppression Claim
Forbes
Bilton voiced what has been an increasingly frequent complaint from Facebook users, brands and people alike: that it's harder than it used to be to get content noticed by other users, unless you're willing to pay for promotion. "It seems as if Facebook ...
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Following Facebook & Apple hacking, Oracle issues emergency Java update
VentureBeat
Oracle has issued an emergency patch for its Java software after a string of high-profile hacking incidents at companies including Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft. Java has become a persistent thorn in the side of major companies. A small ...
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VentureBeat
Why Facebook Is Sending Its People to Mobile Coding Camp (And Not Just ...
All Things Digital
facebook_mobile Do me a favor — listen to Facebook's next earnings call and count the number of times CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the word "mobile." If you played it as a drinking game, you'd be blotto before CFO David Ebersman even got on the line.
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NMMI investigating facebook post
KRQE
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - An offensive Facebook post popped up on a New Mexico Military Institute cadet's page over the weekend and the use of the n-word caught the attention of school officials pretty quickly. "Somebody hacked into a cadet's ...
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Facebook pages fight cyberbullying
Albany Times Union
Cyberbullying may have met its match. Students at area schools are using the Internet not to bury each other, but to praise one another. Without the influence of parents, teachers or principals, students have started Facebook pages to encourage posting ...
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Rikers Island Visitor Traumatized by Face Slashing, Facebook Post
New York Magazine
Chad Seegars, 20, was in a Rikers Island visitor area in February 2012 when a stranger grabbed him and cut his face, leaving an eight-inch cut that required 90 stitches on his right cheek. According to a new lawsuit, a correction officer found a way to ...
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New York Magazine
Facing Facebook
Huffington Post
Turns out that Facebook isn't exactly permanently changing the world like everyone thought - or feared. Not if you pay attention to what college students, the originally intended audience for Facebook, are saying. At least some of them are deciding to ...
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Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook's Uncool (Comic) - Nitrozac and Snaggy - Voices ...
By Nitrozac and Snaggy
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
AllThingsD
The Truth About Facebook's EdgeRank - Business Insider
By Owen Thomas
That's going to once again disrupt the established patterns and habits people have learned to get their content to go viral on Facebook. It's probably going to be hardest on journalists who produce a lot of textual content, and great for people ...
Advertising
Facebook's move to mobile powered by intensive internal training
By Michael Gorman
Facebook\'s made no bones about the fact that its focus has shifted from a desktop web- to a mobile-focused company. Today, Director of Mobile.
Engadget RSS Feed
Facebook responds to New York Times writer's claims about News ...
By Brittany Darwell
news feed Facebook today issued a response to a recent article by a New York Times writer who claimed that the lower amount of engagement he's seeing on personal posts is the result of the social network suppressing organic content in ...
Inside Facebook
New Facebook game raises awareness to women's challenges ...
By Essa Yip
Facebook launched a groundbreaking new game Monday that looks to raise awareness and money to empower women and girls globally. Inspired by the best-seller "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide," ...
MSNBC
Woman finds siblings through viral Facebook post | Fox 59 News ...
By rebachenowethfox59
A Sheridan woman who searched for her half-siblings for years found them within hours after her plea went viral on Facebook. Dawn Price was adopted when she was five years old and only believed she had one brother. When she found her ...
Fox 59 News - fox59.com
Facebook Ads - Which Option's Best for You? | VR Marketing Blog
By Derek Overbey
There are 3 different types of Facebook ad options to promote your business, product or service. Which one's best for you? Let's break it down.
VR Marketing Blog
New Facebook lawsuit filed by shareholder | MyFOX8.com ...
By Web Staff
A Facebook shareholder filed a new lawsuit over the social networking company's botched initial public offering and is seeking to hold Mark Zuckerberg and others responsible for the damage, Reuters is reporting.
MyFOX8.com – Greensboro, High-Point...
Window Phone connect facebook emulator - Stack Overflow
By Nich
I have no idea why if I'm using the emulator Emulator WVGA 512mb and the following series, when I tried to login to facebook, it should redirect to the login page, but it dont show the page instead it error page 'We 're having trouble displaying ...
Recent Questions - Stack Overflow
Facebook Reveals Teens Getting Bored of the Site | NBC Bay Area
By PATRICK HICKEY JR.
Nearly a decade after then 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook from his Harvard dorm room as a way for college students to communicate, an integral audience, teenagers, now find the social media platfor...
NBC Bay Area - Top Stories
Joe. My. God.: Viral Today On Facebook
By Joe
Joe. My. God. Quantcast. JMG: Blog Year Nine JoeMyGod@gmail.com. Gay culture, short stories, politics, and fabulous disco trivia. Follow JMG on Twitter! Facebook page. RSS Feed.
Joe. My. God.
Facebook's Kay Madati and Monetization Panel Added to Lost ...
By Alex Weprin
Facebook's Kay Madati and Monetization Panel Added to Lost Remote Show Lineup.
TVNewser
Facebook focuses on mobile with new intensive training program ...
By Cory Gunther
The social network giant Facebook surely isn't slowing down anytime soon, but they have recognized the shift to mobile is the future and are adapting quite.
Android Community

Web3 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook - CNET News
eyes in the sky. DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones. Homeland Security's specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a ...
news.cnet.com/?keyword=facebook
Free calling moves from Messenger to main Facebook iOS app ...
Facebook released an update on Friday that will allow users to place calls through the app as long as both parties have the most recently updated version.
gigaom.com/.../free-calling-moves-from-messenger-to-main-f...
Downton Abbey Facebook Recap Season 3 Episode 7 | Happy Place
If Downton Abbey took place entirely on Facebook: Season 3, Episode 7. TV ... The most humiliating accidental status updates ever posted on Facebook.
www.happyplace.com/.../downton-abbey-facebook-recap-seas...


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