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Legit Co-Founders Jeremy Barton, Rob Boyle Join Facebook

David Cohen — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:46:19 +0000

Facebook’s acquisition appetite was fed by gobbling up another management and development team, as Jeremy Barton and Rob Boyle, co-founders of universal reputation system Legit, have joined the social network.

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Former Facebook Director Of Engineering Mike Curtis Joins Airbnb As VP, Engineering

David Cohen — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:24:54 +0000

Former Facebook Director of Engineering Mike Curtis booked a reservation through Airbnb to become the accommodations booking service’s new vice president of engineering.

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How Facebook Can Break Into The Markets Of Craigslist And Ebay

Guest Writer — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:46:34 +0000

Facebook is moving to position itself as the hub of all interest-based communities (Pinterest, Spotify, Foodspotting, and Goodreads, for example) with its open graph platform. The people we follow in these networks are not necessarily our friends, but people whose content interests us. At the end of the day, all of these communities are peer-to-peer. Facebook can reimagine two big peer-to-peer markets with real identity, discovery, and imitation enabled by open graph at the center.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Among Crunchies Awards Winners

David Cohen — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:31:54 +0000

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram Co-Founder Kevin Systrom were among those who took home hardware at TechCrunch’s Sixth Annual Crunchies Awards Wednesday night in San Francisco.

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Out for Undergraduate Technology Conference To Be Held At Facebook HQ Feb. 2 And 3

David Cohen — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:50:54 +0000

Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., will host the second annual meeting of the Out for Undergraduate Technology Conference Feb 2 and 3.

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Keep Your New Year’s Resolution With The Help Of Facebook Apps

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:27:05 +0000

What’s the biggest resolution everyone makes on Jan. 1? Lose weight and be healthier. There are several Facebook applications that can help with this goal and other popular New Year’s resolutions, such as traveling, finding a new job, and reading more.

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Mark Zuckerberg No. 2 On ‘Fortune’ 40 Under 40

David Cohen — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:44:56 +0000

Facebook finished second to Google, at least on the annual 40 Under 40 list from Fortune, as Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg came in at No. 2, trailing only Google Co-Founder and CEO Larry Page.

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Facebook Rolls Out Shared Activity Plugin For Apps

David Cohen — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:15:07 +0000

Facebook launched a new plugin Thursday that allows users of applications to manage their default privacy settings, as well as the settings for individual posts, directly via the apps, without having to return to the Facebook environment.

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Facebook Turns Listen, Read, Watch Into Advertisements

David Cohen — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:18:42 +0000

Facebook told us in an email Monday that it is allowing advertisers to pay for more exposure of its open graph action stories such as listen, read, and watch by converting them into a new type of advertisement, which will be clearly labeled as such.

“Facebook is allowing advertisers to pay for more exposure of listen, read, or watch stories that mention them by turning the stories into a new form of sponsored story social ads,” said a spokesperson for the company via email.

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Travel Sites Put Over 1.5 Billion Facebook Places On Map

David Cohen — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:41:15 +0000

The holiday season is a vital time of year for the travel industry, and continuing improvements to Facebook’s Open Graph are ramping up business for sites like TripAdvisor, Airbnb, and Gogobot.

TripAdvisor

Since TripAdvisor launched its Facebook integration, 57 million users have personalized their planning via the social network, and 1.5 billion Facebook places pins have been placed by TripAdvisor users.
In terms of page views per session, TripAdvisor users on Facebook are 27 percent more engaged than average TripAdvisor users.
Users connecting to TripAdvisor via Facebook were twice as likely to contribute content as those who connected via other means.

Airbnb

Since launching its Social Connections service via Login with Facebook in May, community marketplace Airbnb saw the number of users skyrocket from 16 million to more than 32 million in four weeks and to 123 million currently.
Hosts who connected via their Facebook accounts were 45 percent more likely to have active listings, and they received 28 percent more requests on those listings.
On the flip side, guests who connected via Facebook averaged 85 percent more bookings and were 10 percent more likely to leave reviews for their hosts.

Gogobot

Social travel site Gogobot launched its travel guides in July, allowing users to share photos, reviews, and other details about hotels, restaurants, and other destinations in a scrapbook format, as well as to integrate their activities from social media sites like Facebook and foursquare.
85 percent of Gogobot users are connected via Facebook, and they:
Log in 45 percent more often; and
Are 40 percent more likely to write reviews, and write 60 percent more of them than non-Facebook users.
28 percent of new sign-ups every month are the result of Facebook-connected users inviting their friends.

Readers: Have you used TripAdvisor, Airbnb, Gogobot, or any other Facebook-connected online travel destination?

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