Facebook Upgrades Events, Integrates Wall Publisher
The publisher is rapidly becoming the central tool for publishing information through Facebook to the feed, with events being the latest product to integrate the feature. This evening Facebook began rolling out an upgraded version of events which places a publisher directly within the wall, enabling event administrators to publish content with tags. We believe that all confirmed attendees will also see the content within their stream.
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Yahoo! Mail Increases Integration With Facebook
Yahoo! continues to increase their level of integration with Facebook, with the latest implementation enabling users to update their Facebook status from Yahoo! Mail as well as view their contacts profile photos when they’re emailed. While these new features are only being rolled out to a few select markets initially, it will be pushed out more broadly over the coming weeks and months.
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Facebook Wants You To “Like” Everything On The Web
More details are emerging about Facebook’s plans to develop a Like button for the entire web, and part of that involves moving away from “Become A Fan” for Facebook Pages to “Like”. This message was sent to advertisers via a confidential document (which was subsequently leaked to multiple outlets) and highlights initial rumors of a “Like” button for the entire web.
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ALERT: Facebook Antivirus Is Completely Fake
While protecting your computer from potential hazards on Facebook is a great idea, the latest Facebook Antivirus application is completely fake. The application automatically tags your friends walls with antivirus-like images but doesn’t really accomplish anything. Ironically it doesn’t even appear to manipulate its results, it just reuses the same image (pictured to the right) over and over again.
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5 Tips For Finding Long-Lost Friends on Facebook
You might be familiar with the concept of Six Degrees of Separation, which refers to how closely connected we are with other random human beings, but did you ever think to leverage this connectivity to find long-lost friends on Facebook? An online friend of mine mentioned the other day that he was trying to find an old crew of friends whose surnames he had never known, and to whom he had no current connections. Now that’s quite a challenge, but it’s not impossible. If you’re looking to find forgotten friends on Facebook, there are a few simple techniques discussed below, after a quick overview of Six Degrees of Separation.
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YouTube Increases Facebook Connect Functionality
While YouTube first implemented Facebook Connect on their site last June, the company has since increased the functionality, including the ability to find what YouTube videos your Facebook friends are sharing. According to the official YouTube blog, “knowing which videos your friends are sharing on social platforms is one of the best ways to discover those clips that you, in turn, just might feel compelled to pass along.”
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Facebook Summarized In A Single Picture
Infographics always serve as great eye-candy and the latest Facebook infographic produced by website-monitoring.com is no exception. The chart breaks down Facebook’s history as well as some of the most important facts and figures from the company. Included in the chart is information about the site’s user base as well as the impressive engagement levels that Facebook is able to maintain. Check out the chart below to see Facebook summarize in a single image.
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7 Better Ways To Wish Someone Happy Birthday On Facebook
With every passing day, the number of friends on our social graphs increases, and our daily “birthday” list increases proportionally as well. Unfortunately, this means that we may sometimes just shoot out the standard “Happy Birthday” message on someone’s wall when we mean to show them a bit a more attention. I came up with a few interesting ways to better wish someone a happy birthday on Facebook.
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Facebook Creates An Application User Creativity Contest
This afternoon Facebook began requesting feedback from users about which applications they like to use the most. Some of those videos will then be included in a video at the company’s annual f8 even that is taking place less than a month from now. While it’s not exactly a formal awards program, Facebook is soliciting developers to encourage their users to submit their own videos about why they use certain applications.
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This Week In Social Games - March 27, 2010
This week we had a chance to interview Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts and Digital Chocolate about his new NanoStar platform, Nick wrote a report from SXSW about the economics of Facebook Games, we looked at 3 ways social gaming is mimicking the Atari games revolution, we reviewed Gangster City and Friends for Sale and published a report that suggests Users Buy More Virtual Goods on New Years and Valentines Day Than Christmas.
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