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Facebook Pages Get A Global Passport

Guest Writer on November 2, 2012 8:32 AM

Just last year, Facebook launched the parent/child relationship manager, giving companies and brands the opportunity to manage all of their individual locations or franchises. The addition of the parent/child relationship manager had marketers, agencies, and brand managers the world over scratching their heads — if we could connect all of our pages so intricately within a franchise, why couldn’t we do the same internationally? As of Oct. 17, brands that have global presences can officially stop scratching their heads: Facebook announced the rollout of global pages, allowing brands to seamlessly establish one centralized, global identity.

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Facebook May Not Host An F8 Conference This Year

Justin Lafferty on September 17, 2012 5:47 PM

Every now and then, Facebook holds an event called f8, where it presents developers and entrepreneurs with the social network’s latest and greatest. At last year’s f8 in San Francisco, Facebook announced timeline to the world. According to AllThingsD, there won’t be an event this year, although Facebook will neither confirm nor deny this.

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Chinese Company Sues Facebook, Claiming It Stole Timeline Idea

Justin Lafferty on August 21, 2012 3:10 PM

Many Facebook users are still angry with the site for implementing timeline. They’re not alone. According to TechRadar, a Chinese Pinterest-like site — Cubic Network — has sued Facebook, claiming that the company stole the idea for timeline.

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Facebook's F8 Changes Boost Traffic To Media Sites

David Cohen on January 31, 2012 4:14 PM

Media companies are continuing to embrace Facebook, but based on raw data released by celebrity news site Wetpaint Entertainment, they might want to step up their efforts even more.

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Facebook Timeline Doesn’t Support Internet Explorer 7

David Cohen on December 30, 2011 3:17 PM

Everyone with Facebook’s new timeline profile, take one step forward. Internet Explorer 7 users: Not so fast.

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What Is Eye-Catching On Facebook Timeline?

David Cohen on December 30, 2011 12:33 PM

Eye-tracking startup EyeTrackShop turned its eyes toward Facebook’s new timeline profile and came up with three observations on how users view it.

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Facebook’s Time Frame For IPad Timeline: January

David Cohen on December 28, 2011 11:55 AM

Quit banging your iPad and hoping that Facebook’s new timeline profile will appear: You’ll have to wait until sometime in January.

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Does Timeline Work For Facebook Business Pages?

Brian Carter on December 27, 2011 1:15 PM

Ever since Facebook announced the new timeline profile at f8, people have been asking when business pages will get the same treatment. Should they? What will it look like? And when is it coming?

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Public Status Updates Plunged 93% Since Facebook Moved Privacy Controls Inline

Guest Blogger on December 22, 2011 3:27 PM

Facebook’s changes to privacy settings have resulted in a 93 percent drop in the number of status updates shared publicly — in the English language, that is.

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Schweppes Cover Quenches Facebook Timeline Thirst

David Cohen on December 20, 2011 8:41 PM

The beverage industry is seizing the opportunities presented by Facebook’s new timeline profile, as Schweppes followed Mountain Dew’s lead by launching an application to help users create their own cover images.

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