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Facebook Announces Global Rollout Of Sections On Timeline, Best Practices For App Developers

David Cohen — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:55:12 +0000

Facebook announced Tuesday that the application modules it introduced for Timeline in March have now been rolled out to all users, encouraging app developers in a post on its developer blog to incorporate these sections into their apps.

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Visualizing Facebook’s Social Graph

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:47:21 +0000

It’s probably not surprising that when Facebook users are 21, most of their friends are also in that same age bracket. It’s also not a shocker to say that men talk about sports on Facebook more than women. But how do trends change over time? Do 30-year-olds tend to talk about health more than new high-school graduates? A highly visual set of data from Wolfram Alpha brings Facebook’s social graph to life, showing how people connect and relate to each other on the social network.

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Ex-Facebook Employees Katherine Losse, Brandee Barker Exchange Pleasantries

David Cohen — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:42:38 +0000

A war of words broke out between Katherine Losse, an early Facebook employee and author of The Boy Kings, and former Facebook Head of Public Relations Brandee Barker.

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Random House’s BookScout App Adds New Features For Facebook’s Timeline Redesign

David Cohen — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:52:32 +0000

Publisher Random House pounced on the opportunities for its BookScout book-centric application afforded by the new Timeline design Facebook introduced Wednesday, announcing updates to the app to coincide with Timeline’s new features.

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Facebook Begins Rolling Out New, Customizable Timeline

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:44:32 +0000

The redesign for Timeline has been tested in New Zealand and other parts of the world, but Facebook announced Wednesday that it will start officially rolling out the new look to select users immediately. Much like Facebook’s updated News Feed, the goal for Timeline is to reduce clutter and place more options in the hands of users. The new design has about content and open graph actions on the left side of the page, with posts on the right side.

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Sheryl Sandberg Talks ‘Lean In,’ Women In The Workplace At Introduction Of Her Book

David Cohen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:18:04 +0000

“There are Facebook employees we’ve never met,” Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in response to a question about Yahoo’s recent announcement that it would eliminate telecommuting as an option for its employees, but that was one of the few times Sandberg discussed the social network during a fireside chat Monday evening with Time Deputy Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs to introduce her book that was released earlier that day, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.

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Facebook At SXSW: More Than 1 Billion Instances Of App Activity Shared Daily

David Cohen — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:46:27 +0000

More than 1 billion instances of application activity are shared via Facebook on a daily basis, and a total of more than 400 billion open graph actions have been shared on the social network, Facebook announced at SXSW 2013 Sunday.

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Facebook Adds Open Graph Actions Such As Run, Quote, Want To Watch

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:03:22 +0000

Facebook has been experimenting with ways that allow users to be more expressive — such as structured status updates and more info in the “about” section. The social network Friday announced new open graph actions that let people tell a little more about what they’ve done through Facebook-connected applications.

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It’s Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Time’

David Cohen — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:36:03 +0000

The Sheryl Sandberg frenzy continues unabated, as Facebook’s chief operating officer is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Time, and she spoke with the magazine’s Belinda Luscombe over a three-day period for the cover story.

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Announces Formation Of ‘Lean In’ Online Community

David Cohen — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:27:07 +0000

March has been a busy month for Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, as her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, will be released Monday, but first, she announced the formation of the Lean In online community Wednesday in a post on the group’s Facebook page.

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STUDY: Confusing Facebook Privacy Settings Lead To More Public Information

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:51:35 +0000

Even though Facebook’s privacy settings change often, a study by Carnegie Mellon University shows that more users are becoming better at keeping sensitive information off the social network. According to a study of more than 5,000 Facebook profiles, fewer users are making public information such as date of birth and political affiliation. However, confusion over Facebook’s privacy settings has led to an increase in posting of interests such as favorite movies, books, and music — as well as sharing to applications and advertisers.

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Three Tips From ‘The Facebook Guide To Small Business Marketing’

David Cohen — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:49:14 +0000

Facebook shared three tips from recently published book The Facebook Guide to Small Business Marketing, by Smallbiztechnology.com Producer Ramon Ray, in a post on its Facebook Studio blog.

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Facebook Testing More Open Graph Actions

David Cohen — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:21:18 +0000

Facebook is testing a host of new open graph actions for content involving subjects like books, movies, and television, including “rate,” “quote,” “wants to read,” and “wants to watch,” developer Tom Waddington pointed out to sister blog Inside Facebook.

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Randi Zuckerberg Signs Two-Book Deal With HarperCollins

David Cohen — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:31:59 +0000

The Facebook family is producing another author, as Randi Zuckerberg, former marketing director at the social network and sister of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, inked a two-book pact with HarperCollins.

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Random House Launches BookScout Facebook App

David Cohen — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:28:15 +0000

Publisher Random House created a Facebook application to aid users in sharing and discovering their favorite books and authors via the social network.

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