Archives: August 2010

Come See The First Facebook Movie This Thursday In San Franicsco For Free

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-Catfish Logo-While it may not have as much hype as “The Social Network”, the soon-to-be-released movie “Catfish” has received a lot of positive reviews, including one from us. Universal Pictures has kindly agreed to let us do a free screening which will actually take place in the same theatre as the screening being held by Techmeme, our favorite tech news resource. If you are based in San Francisco, or will happen to be in the city on Thursday, you should come to this movie!
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Facebook Awarded A Social Search Patent

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-Facebook Search Icon-Today Facebook was awarded a patent for “ranking search results based on the frequency of clicks on the search results by members of a social network who are within a predetermined degree of separation”. The patent, which was first filed by in 2004, emphasizes that Facebook has been working on a number of algorithms to improve their search results, one of which is a tool that Google employs in their own search results: the number of clicks.
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What Hotel Towels Can Teach You About Facebook Fans

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Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to grow as fast as that one Facebook Page which is adding thousands of fans a day with little effort? The secret isn’t actually much of a secret. It’s called “social proof”. According to this theory, people will do things that they see other people doing. Thankfully, Facebook has provided you with tools which fully take advantage of this and help you dramatically boost your fan base.
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This Week's 10 Most Explosive Facebook Apps

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Games, Psych tests, and more in this weeks roundup of Facebook Applications that have had impressive weekly growth numbers. As many of the same applications appear in higher positions on a regular basis, we tried to pick out ten different applications for you to try out. Remember to check out all of Facebook Statistics here. This week’s applications are below!
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NYTimes.com Gets A Facebook Makeover

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Latest In NetworkThe New York Times has completed a major integration with Facebook directly into the publication’s extremely popular homepage. The functionality appears to be similar to Facebook’s recommended articles social plugin, with users being required to opt-in to the service. The most notable aspect of this new service however is that the typically design-conscious company, has a plugin which doesn’t align with the rest of the site. I’d expect them to resolve this issue eventually though.
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Facebook Gives Questions A Subtle Facelift

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Facebook has apparently pushed out some much needed changes to the company’s questions product. Most significant is the addition of a new button which enables you to return back to the home area of questions, something that I’m not sure why it was missing for so long. Facebook has also redesigned the look of tags (not surprisingly more like Quora), and a cleaner overall look of the page. While the product is still in Beta, many have been wondering why there were so many bugs to start with.
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