
Facebook’s Photo Focus Continues With Release Of Iphone App Camera



Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg made her first public appearance since the social network’s troubled initial public offering, speaking to graduates of the business school at her alma mater and that of Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard University, but nary a word was spoken about the IPO.
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“Stay focused and keep shipping,” indeed: Facebook appears to be testing another new feature for pages, this time allowing them to customize their appearances in different regions, while maintaining a single tally of likes.

A high school student who created a fake Facebook page and video of a fictitious girl who was bullied on her Facebook page and commits suicide was suspended from school for five days.

When more lendable shares became available than were expected, the cost to borrow Facebook shares for one year, or to “short” shares, fell from 40 percent of the stock’s value Tuesday afternoon to 6 percent Wednesday, according to Astec Analytics, as reported by The Wall Street Journal’s MarketBeat blog.

Facebook continued its focus (pun intended) on photos with today’s release of iPhone application Camera, which aggregates photos from users’ Facebook friends into one feed.

It’s time for Facebook to put serious thought into mobile, and to dedicate a crew of developers to coming up with ways to shift the network. After, that is, the social network gets past the pressing repercussions of last Friday’s sloppy initial public offering.

Busted: We admit to a case of interview envy. David Kirkpatrick, who penned The Facebook Effect in 2010, was in the hot seat yesterday at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012 summit.

Facebook application developers now have the option of restricting access to their open graph stories by age, country, or content type.

Alleged questionable tactics by underwriters prior to Facebook’s initial public offering last Friday continue to surface, with the latest report involving Capital Research and Management.

Facebook is allowing users of its new Pages Manager iPhone application for page administrators to receive push notifications via the app when Facebook users post or comment on their pages.