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Facebook For IOS Gets Structured Status Updates, Ability To Edit Privacy Settings Of Shared Content

David Cohen — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:31:37 +0000

Facebook released version 6.2 of its application for iOS devices, adding the structured status updates that were previously available only on desktop or via the social network’s mobile site, as well as the ability to edit who can see content users have shared, even if that content was shared in the past.

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Facebook Apps Draining Your Batteries? Try Uninstalling And Using Its Mobile Site

David Cohen — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:17:46 +0000

Reports continue to circulate that Facebook’s mobile applications are draining the batteries of users’ devices, so Kevin Purdy, who writes the Mobilize! blog for IT World, reminded readers of an old solution — using Facebook’s mobile site as an alternative to its apps.

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Developer Tom Waddington Finds Evidence Of Video In Instagram Code

David Cohen — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:35:17 +0000

Amid all of the intrigue about the new product Facebook will introduce Thursday, developer Tom Waddington has now found evidence to support both of the popular theories, following up his discovery of mentions of RSS in Facebook’s code last week, which potentially signifies some sort of news reader, with his unearthing of mentions of video in Instagram’s code, which could signal Facebook’s introduction of a video-sharing feature for its photo-sharing network.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Campaign Uses Facebook To Entertain, Persuade Voters

Jennifer Moire — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:50:22 +0000

From cat videos to “The Harlem Shake,” the 2012 social election is all but a distant memory, as Republican candidates are taking to Facebook in new and creative ways to stay one step ahead of the competition in the 2014 cycle.

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TripAdvisor Navigates Facebook’s Open Graph Seas

David Cohen — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:25:26 +0000

Facebook’s Open Graph is a popular stop on the itinerary of travel reviews site TripAdvisor, which said engagement on its site is 27 percent higher from users of the social network, adding that one out of three new reviews are posted by users signing in with login with Facebook.

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Facebook College Roommate-Finding App RoomSync Now Available At More Than 50 Schools

David Cohen — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:11:41 +0000

RoomSync, a Facebook application that helps college students find roommates, is now available at more than 50 schools across the U.S., up from four when it launched nearly six years ago, and the company said more than 100,000 students have used the app to choose their roommates.

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IOS App Lets Users Know When Facebook Friends Are ‘OverNear’

David Cohen — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:39:33 +0000

The newest iOS application to take advantage of Facebook’s friends and location features, aptly named OverNear, is aimed at connecting Facebook friends who are “over near” each other.

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The Best Of Facebook, There For The Taking

Guest Writer — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:09:29 +0000

Everyone is on Facebook, truly. Kids complain about their grandparents commenting on their statuses. Colleagues rave about its potential for social business. Sure, your four-year-old nephew hasn’t signed up (yet), but his mother has certainly chronicled his existence from the first ultrasound, and thanks to Timeline, you know all about coworkers’ weekend activities, friends’ anniversaries, and parents’ favorite articles, in addition to the goings on of all of your favorite businesses and brands.

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Facebook Pulling Plug On Sponsored Results

David Cohen — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:00:18 +0000

Sponsored results became a casualty of both Facebook’s moves to simplify its advertising offerings and the rollout of its Graph Search feature, as the social network announced Thursday that advertisers will no longer be able to buy sponsored results starting in July, and that they will disappear from users’ search results around mid to late July.

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Facebook-Owned Cloud App Platform Parse Tops 100K Apps

David Cohen — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:14:34 +0000

Cloud application platform Parse has added more apps on its platform since the end of April than it did in its first year of existence, following its acquisition by Facebook in late April.

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Wrapp Wraps $15M Funding Round

David Cohen — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:30:30 +0000

A series-B funding round totaling $15 million? That’s a Wrapp for the social gift card provider, which announced the closing of the funding round Thursday.

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Can MySpace Rise From The Dead?

David Cohen — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:51:49 +0000

MySpace was Facebook before Facebook was Facebook, and now the social network is attempting to reinvent itself once again with its debut of a thoroughly rebuilt platform and a new iOS application.

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Facebook Dating App Coffee Meets Bagel Puts Big Ten Conference Under A Microscope

David Cohen — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:29:13 +0000

Social dating application and website Coffee Meets Bagel would not be the first name to come up when thinking of analysis of the Big Ten Conference, but it did just that, examining the connections (or lack thereof) between alumni of universities in the conference.

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Facebook v10.2.0 For BlackBerry 10 Brings Redesigned News Feed, New Photo Features

David Cohen — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:52:47 +0000

BlackBerry users can now download an update to their Facebook applications, Facebook v10.2.0 for BlackBerry 10, which brings a redesigned News Feed, as well as several improvements to the process of uploading and viewing photos.

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FACEBOOK ANNUAL MEETING: Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Concerns About Stock Price

David Cohen — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:51:15 +0000

Facebook held its first-ever annual meeting Tuesday at the Westin San Francisco Airport in Millbrae, Calif., and Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed shareholders’ concerns about the company’s stock price, which has never approached its initial public offering mark of $38 per share since its first day of trading last May 18.

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