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The AllFacebook Guide To SXSW

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:00:15 +0000

Facebook is at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, both personally and through the myriad smartphones on scene. Everywhere, people are liking, commenting, and sharing. The social network recommended to AllFacebook some applications that festival-goers can use to enhance their experiences, while others are using the event to gain traction.

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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 Timeline Upgrade Doubles Foodspotting Users

David Cohen — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:40:51 +0000

Foodspotting has seen referral traffic from Facebook quadruple and monthly average users double since the upgraded for timeline this January.

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Facebook Sends 60 Million Visitors A Month To Mobile Apps

David Cohen — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:36:32 +0000

Facebook’s revamped mobile application platform enjoys 425 million users on a monthly basis, sends 60 million of them a month to applications and brought in a total of 320 million visits last month.

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Facebook Timeline Applications Enjoy Up To 5-Fold Daily Increase In User Signups

Jackie Cohen — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:17:09 +0000

In just a few weeks, the more than 60 applications upgraded for timeline have managed to increase their new user signups by as much as fivefold.

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Upgraded Facebook App Focuses On Dishes, Not Eateries

Jackie Cohen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:11:40 +0000

Just upgraded: The timeline-ready application Foodspotting, which bills itself as a visual guide to food that focuses on individual dishes rather than on restaurants.

Foodspotting had appeared on the list of 60 different applications in Facebook’s open graph actions announcement almost two weeks ago, and now the mobile application has entered its third release on iPhone and Android.

New features in the upgrade include:

The ability to bookmark dishes you want to try and hide ones you don’t;
Single-click options to show whether you loved a dish, or tried it but didn’t love it, and whether you want to try it.
An activity feed showing friends’ likes and activity;
Publication of your actions onto your own timeline and Facebook news feeds, plus
Recommendations from professional restaurant reviewers.

Combining professional recommendations with feeback from one’s own friends certainly makes Foodspotting seem more palatable than Yelp. Said predecessor has essentially lost its credibility for reviews of restaurants, which now have the ability to pay to prioritize only the best posts.

The company behind Foodspotting has put together a cute video about the upgrade, and we’ve embedded the footage below. Let us know what you think of it.

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