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CASE STUDY: Using Facebook To Connect Babysitters With Families

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:04:17 +0000

An enterprising mom in California had an idea for an application that would be similar to OpenTable or Yelp, but for babysitters. Using Facebook’s platform as a vehicle, Lynn Perkins started UrbanSitter about a year-and-a-half ago. So far, there are 15,000 babysitters in the program and 50,000 families — a number that grows as the platform rolls out to more cities. The app and website allow families (largely in areas such as San Francisco, New York, and Boston), to find college-aged babysitters, and to see who their Facebook friends have hired to take care of their kids.

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Google Plus Takes Aim At Facebook Connect With Launch Of Google Plus Sign-In

David Cohen — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:12:45 +0000

The Facebook Connect button that appears on websites throughout the Internet may soon have company, as rival social network Google Plus Tuesday rolled out Google Plus Sign-In, which performs similar functions to Facebook Connect by allowing users of Google Plus, Gmail, YouTube, and other Google services to use their credentials to sign into applications.

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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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Yahoo Homepage Redesign Incorporates Facebook

David Cohen — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:14:36 +0000

Just last week, Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer announced plans to align the Internet company more closely with Facebook. Wednesday’s introduction of a new Yahoo homepage does just that.

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How Facebook Can Break Into The Markets Of Craigslist And Ebay

Guest Writer — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:46:34 +0000

Facebook is moving to position itself as the hub of all interest-based communities (Pinterest, Spotify, Foodspotting, and Goodreads, for example) with its open graph platform. The people we follow in these networks are not necessarily our friends, but people whose content interests us. At the end of the day, all of these communities are peer-to-peer. Facebook can reimagine two big peer-to-peer markets with real identity, discovery, and imitation enabled by open graph at the center.

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Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Unified Debuts Fall 2012 Social Operating Platform

David Cohen — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:40:43 +0000

Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Unified launched the fall 2012 edition of its Social Operating Platform Monday, with its adMonitor application highlighting the list of new features.

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The New MySpace: Now With More Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:40:21 +0000

Justin Timberlake is bringing MySpace back, as the singer/actor was featured in a promotional video for the former top social network, but it’s a cameo by the Facebook logo that may raise eyebrows, as well. Details haven’t been released yet, but it appears that the new MySpace will continue to have some kind of Facebook integration.

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As 2012 Election Nears, New Social Organizing Tool For Facebook Launches

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:30:33 +0000

As the nation heads into the final stretch of the 2012 election cycle, Democratic technology vendor NGP VAN introduced Social Organizing, a tool that adds a social layer to a campaign’s website and matches Facebook friends with information from voter registration records.

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Compared To Yahoo And Formspring, Is Facebook A Secure Network?

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:53:03 +0000

Facebook may play fast and loose with most of your personal information, but at least it has never had a major password breach — like Yahoo or Formspring. That got a writer for The Verge wondering: Is Facebook actually safer when it comes to the security of your password?

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Yap.TV Connects Facebook With Television

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:17:52 +0000

Want to see what television shows your friends are into right now? Yap.TV just made that a little bit easier with Facebook integration, TechCrunch reported. Now when users log into Yap.TV using Facebook Connect, the app imports their favorite shows, as well as those of their friends.

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Facebook Named One Of The Most Prolific Online Trackers

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:13:47 +0000

If you’ve ever been surfing Facebook and got the feeling that somebody’s watching you, you might be right. The Evidon Global Tracker Report, a semiannual analysis of the ad tracking agency, listed Facebook among the top companies tracking users.

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Facebook-Connected Users 9X More Likely To Engage With, Share From E-Commerce Sites

David Cohen — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:46:27 +0000

Shoppers who log onto Facebook while on commerce websites are nine times more likely to engage with those sites’ social features and share content with friends.

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Yahoo Social TV IPad App Taps Facebook Connect

David Cohen — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:56:11 +0000

Yahoo debuted an iPad app called IntoNow, which uses Facebook Connect to help create a social television-viewing experience.

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TV Genius Integrates Facebook Connect With Guide

David Cohen — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:42:19 +0000

The latest tech company to integrate Facebook into an online television guide is TV Genius, as the London-based outfit announced the integration of Facebook Connect with its content discovery platform.

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Facebook Connect Used By 250 Million People Per Month

Meredith Singer — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:25:22 +0000

During an interview at Le Web, the internet conference in Paris, Facebook’s Developer Network Director, Ethan Beard, told the group more than 250 million people are using Facebook Connect every month.
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