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Basketball - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:56:29 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 PageData: Heat Dominate Spurs (On Facebook)

The National Basketball Association Finals tipped off Thursday night, with the San Antonio Spurs shocking the Miami Heat and taking a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. However, according to sister site PageData’s analysis of the two clubs’ Facebook pages, the defending champions, the Heat, win in a landslide.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-060613_b119382#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-060613_b119382 http://allfacebook.com/?p=119382 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:23:13 +0000 PageData: Heat Dominate NBA Likes Added For Week, But Suffer PTAT Drop While Lakers Soar

And then, there were three: The San Antonio Spurs are the National Basketball Association’s 2012-13 Western Conference champions, having swept the Memphis Grizzlies, and the Spurs now await the winner of the Eastern Conference finals, in which the Miami Heat hold a three games to two lead over the Indiana Pacers. But who were this past week’s big winners in the NBA in terms of likes added and gains in people talking about this? Sister site PageData has the answers.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0530_b118747#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0530_b118747 http://allfacebook.com/?p=118747 Fri, 31 May 2013 10:34:03 +0000 PageData: Miami Heat Dominating NBA On The Court And On Facebook

The National Basketball Association is down to its final four teams, with the San Antonio Spurs holding a two games to none lead over the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference finals, while the defending champions, the Miami Heat, lead the Indiana Pacers one game to none in the Eastern Conference finals. According to sister site PageData, the Heat remain the Facebook favorites, as well.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0523_b118194#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0523_b118194 http://allfacebook.com/?p=118194 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:09:28 +0000 PageData NBA PTAT: Miami Heat Soar, Los Angeles Lakers Plunge, New Orleans Pelicans Surprise

Two of the National Basketball Association’s marquee franchises are moving in starkly different directions when it comes to movement in people talking about this on Facebook for the past week, according to sister page PageData, as the defending champions, the Miami Heat, nearly doubled the PTAT gain of its nearest competitor, while the Los Angeles Lakers, after barely qualifying for the playoffs and being swept out of the first round, lost more than double the PTAT of the next team on the list.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0516_b117701#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0516_b117701 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117701 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:47:39 +0000 PageData: Miami Heat On Fire In NBA People Talking About This For This Week

The defending National Basketball Association champions are also this week’s champions in terms of people talking about this, as sister page PageData pegged the Miami Heat’s PTAT for the week at 345,333, dwarfing the total of the second-place club, the Los Angeles Lakers, at 210,817.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0509_b117120#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0509_b117120 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117120 Fri, 10 May 2013 09:54:05 +0000 Facebook Data Science Team: Michigan Popular In More U.S. Counties Than Other Final Four Teams

With the Final Four teams set for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, the Sports on Facebook page offered a look at counties in the U.S. that back Louisville, Michigan, Syracuse, and Wichita State.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/facebook-data-science-team-final-four_b114256#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-data-science-team-final-four_b114256 http://allfacebook.com/?p=114256 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:18:30 +0000 Facebook Loves Cinderella — Florida Gulf Coast Tops Sweet 16 Talk

When little-known Florida Gulf Coast University became the first No. 15 seed to reach the Sweet 16 round in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament, Facebook users took notice. The Eagles are the most-talke d-about remaining college hoops team in the U.S., with fellow underdog Wichita State taking second place. However, in terms of Facebook page popularity, blue bloods Indiana, Kansas, Duke, and Michigan are among the most-liked.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/fgcu-facebook-sweet-16_b113904#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/fgcu-facebook-sweet-16_b113904 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113904 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:43:15 +0000 Duke Tops Facebook’s NCAA Bracket, Too

SocialCode wasn’t the only company to use Facebook data as part of its methodology for selecting the winner of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament and select Duke: Facebook itself chose the Blue Devils, as well, filling out its bracket based on participating teams’ buzz on the social network over the past two weeks.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/duke-facebook-ncaa-bracket_b113363#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/duke-facebook-ncaa-bracket_b113363 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113363 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:08:36 +0000 SocialCode Algorithm Pegs Duke As NCAA Tournament Winner

The 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament tips off later Tuesday night, and fans throughout the country are using various strategies to fill out their brackets, as is social marketing solutions provider SocialCode, which used its own algorithm to determine that Duke will cut down the nets April 8.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/socialcode-brackets_b113347#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/socialcode-brackets_b113347 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113347 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:21:30 +0000 Facebook Apps Bring The March Madness Home

Sunday, 68 teams will be selected to play in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship tournament — a time of year known as March Madness. Monday, people all over the country will be filling out brackets in office pools, picking the winners of all of those college basketball games. But with dozens of games going on, how can the casual fan keep track? There are some great Facebook-integrated applications that allow fans to get closer to the game, whether they’re following their alma maters, or just seeing if their brackets will survive the first round.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-march-madness-apps-2013_b113037#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-march-madness-apps-2013_b113037 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113037 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:45:25 +0000 The AllFacebook Guide To Super Bowl XLVII On Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens will meet in New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII — a topic already hugely popular on Facebook. The 49ers, led by quarterback Colin Kaepernick, are the most-talked-about team on the social network by far. However, the two fan bases have a few things in common on Facebook.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/the-allfacebook-guide-to-super-bowl-xlvii_b109757#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/the-allfacebook-guide-to-super-bowl-xlvii_b109757 http://allfacebook.com/?p=109757 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:34:58 +0000 Facebook, Social Media, And Sports: Natural Teammates

Professional sports teams and leagues are as focused on Facebook and other social media as businesses from other sectors are, and an all-star team of social media executives from the field joined moderator and Movement Strategy Co-Founder Jason Mitchell on a panel at the AllFacebook Marketing Conference in New York Wednesday, “How Professional Sports Are Monetizing through Facebook.”

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/allfacebook-marketing-conference-sports-panel_b106154#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/allfacebook-marketing-conference-sports-panel_b106154 http://allfacebook.com/?p=106154 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:19:10 +0000 Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Straying From Its Original Mission

Billionaire Mark Cuban used his blog on The Huffington Post to clarify his thoughts on Facebook and his dissatisfaction with the social network’s page algorithm, saying that Facebook is behaving more like a search engine in trying to deliver content to its users’ news feeds based on relevancy and engagement.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/cuban-facebook-straying-from-original-mission_b104951#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/cuban-facebook-straying-from-original-mission_b104951 http://allfacebook.com/?p=104951 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:41:31 +0000 Facebook Game Sports Pick ‘Em Opens Playbook To Brands

People love sports. Sports fans love bragging rights. OHK Sports tapped into this sentiment for a fun Facebook game, SportsPicker, which allows users to challenge friends on sports predictions. OHK Sports announced Thursday that it is offering a similar service, Sports Pick ‘Em, to brands on Facebook that want to connect with sports fans.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/sports-pick-em_b104718#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/sports-pick-em_b104718 http://allfacebook.com/?p=104718 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:13:21 +0000 George Takei, Mark Cuban Want More Facebook Fans To See Posts

Brands have constantly been angry with Facebook for generally letting fans only see a fraction of their posts. Now actor George Takei and basketball team owner Mark Cuban are displeased with Facebook’s algorithm. Over the weekend, both posted in anguish over their fans not being able to see all of what they post. Cuban even said he might take his business to MySpace.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/mark-cuban-george-takei-facebook-pages_b103433#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mark-cuban-george-takei-facebook-pages_b103433 http://allfacebook.com/?p=103433 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:07:27 +0000