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What Others Are Predicting About Facebook’s 1Q Earnings Call

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:27:59 +0000

Facebook will announce Wednesday afternoon how well it did financially in the first quarter of this fiscal year. The company has been aggressive about rolling out ad products, and it deepened its relationship with firms such as Datalogix to give advertisers better purchasing data. Let’s take a look at what others think ahead of Wednesday’s earnings call.

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Facebook Wants To Know How You Feel About App Center

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:25:09 +0000

Facebook’s App Center is approaching its one-year anniversary, and the company wants to know what you think about it. The social network published a survey Thursday, asking users for their opinions about App Center.

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Mobile Bookmarks To Be Limited To Games That Work With Both Facebook Canvas, Mobile

David Cohen — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:25:31 +0000

Facebook announced a change in how bookmarks for applications will be displayed, saying in a post on its developer blog that only games that work on both the social network’s canvas and mobile will appear on mobile bookmarks, starting June 5.

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Facebook Testing ‘Send To Mobile’ Button On Game Stories In News Feed

David Cohen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:59:16 +0000

Facebook added a “send to mobile” button to its app center last May in an effort to help drive application installs, and last August, the social network tested a similar option in the hover card that appears when users move their cursors over app-related stories in their News Feeds. Now, it appears that the social network is testing a send to mobile button directly within News Feed.

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What’s Ahead For Facebook Games In 2013?

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:29:04 +0000

Games are an important part of the Facebook ecosystem. As the games market diversifies, with new developers entering the mix, so do the titles available on the social network. At a media event for Berlin-based developer Wooga in San Francisco Thursday, Facebook Director of Games Partnerships Sean Ryan discussed the future of social games with AllFacebook, pointing out that Facebook is working to offer a more diverse array of games to users, as well as to make it easier for gamers to have a continuous experience on desktops, phones, and tablets.

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Facebook Updates App Center Game Categories, Spotlights Bingo Blitz, Vostu

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:26:28 +0000

Facebook recently tweaked the categories in its app center, allowing users to more easily find games and bring more fun applications to the forefront. The site also highlighted developer Vostu and a popular game from Buffalo Studios, Bingo Blitz.

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Facebook Developer Alerts Can Now Be Customized

David Cohen — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:44:34 +0000

Facebook completed the rollout of its developer alerts feature in late November, and now, the social network announced an updated settings menu to allow developers to manage how they receive those alerts.

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness’ Is A Must

Will M — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:54:36 +0000

Newton Lee’s book, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness, is a great book for social media experts, offering a comprehensive look at Facebook in the context of social media, and covering privacy well.

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Facebook Scraps Specific App Metrics, Moves To Tiers

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:22:02 +0000

It’s not just Instagram: Facebook plans to change the way all applications are measured. In a post on its developer blog Wednesday, Facebook noted that instead of revealing specific metrics such as apps’ actual monthly active user and daily active user totals, the social network will instead rank apps and place them in tiers.

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A Look Back At The Year Of Facebook Developments

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:14:59 +0000

Even a casual Facebook user can see that the site has changed dramatically over the past year. On Thursday, Facebook’s developers team took some time to reflect on some of the highlights that made the social network what it is today. continued…

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Developers Can Now Link App Pages With App Detail Pages In Facebook App Center

David Cohen — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:17:47 +0000

Facebook is now allowing developers to link pages associated with the applications to the detail pages for their apps in app center.

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Facebook Adds ‘Apps For Gift Ideas’ Section To App Center

David Cohen — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:14:19 +0000

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, Facebook added a section to its app center, Apps for Gift Ideas, aimed at helping users with their gift decisions.

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German Consumer Group Takes Aim At Data Sharing Via Facebook’s App Center

David Cohen — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:29:47 +0000

Facebook is facing more privacy issues in Germany, as the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZBV) filed suit against the social network, claiming that applications available via its app center automatically access users’ data without consent.

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Facebook Adds App Center Sections To Search Results

David Cohen — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:04:33 +0000

Facebook continued its push to back application developers and promote usage of its app center by including categories from app center in its search results, where applicable.

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Facebook Director of Engineering Mike Vernal Talks All Things Open Graph

David Cohen — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:12:42 +0000

Facebook Director of Engineering Mike Vernal, who oversees the social network’s open graph platform, spoke with Ryan Tate of Wired about his goals for open graph, mobile usage of Facebook, and its app center.

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