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ZZ Ward Harmonizes With Facebook’s Open Graph

David Cohen — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:17:14 +0000

The most innovative use of Facebook’s Open Graph by a musical artist goes to … ZZ Ward, for her 365 Days of ZZ Ward application.

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REPORT: Facebook Home Can Be Installed On All Android Devices Running 4.0 And Up

David Cohen — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:51:48 +0000

The good news: Facebook Home can now be run on all Android devices running version 4.0 of the mobile operating system or higher, even if they are not on the social network’s list of officially supported devices. The bad news: In order to run Home on non-supported devices, users must first uninstall (and later reinstall) the flagship Facebook application and Facebook Messenger, and then side-load Home.

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Facebook Matchmaking: Bang With Friends Launches IOS, Android Apps; YouShouldTotallyMeet Debuts

David Cohen — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:18:20 +0000

Facebook users tapping the social network to get, well, really social will likely be heartened by news that Bang with Friends released applications for the iOS and Android platforms, while a more subtle Facebook app, YouShouldTotallyMeet, is aimed at bringing the matchmaking process to users’ networks of friends.

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Facebook Testing Button That Allows Users To Post To Their Timelines From Anywhere

David Cohen — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:51:24 +0000

Facebook appears to be testing a button on the top, right-hand side of the screen that allows users to post directly to their Timelines from anywhere within the social network.

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Facebook Pushes IOS Users To Post More

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:05:54 +0000

Are you an iPhone user who hasn’t posted to Facebook in a bit? Facebook wants to change that. Spark Capital General Partner Bijan Sabet tweeted that Facebook pushed a notification to his iPhone, asking him to post something. According to Mashable, this is something Facebook is testing.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Can Graph Search Make You Money?

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:21:00 +0000

Facebook’s Graph Search has several uses, such as looking up restaurants in Tokyo that your friends like, or seeing photos that they’ve posted from San Francisco. You can also use it as a dating site, looking up men or women who are friends of friends and meet your criteria. But can Graph Search make you money? That’s what Neo Mammalian Studios and Advantage Capital Funds wanted to find out, in an infographic posted on sister site SocialTimes.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Most Instagrammed Venues Of SXSW 2013

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:48:52 +0000

Facebook and its photo-sharing network, Instagram, were all over the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. Stephan Alber, a social engineer for young-adult-focused marketing agency Noise, put together an infographic looking at the festival through Instagram’s lens.

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Facebook Acquires Storytelling Social Network Storylane

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:11:55 +0000

In what some people are calling a challenge to blogging site Tumblr, Facebook has acquired storytelling social network Storylane. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Storylane announced the acquisition Friday. According to Mashable, the Storylane team will join Facebook’s timeline team, but Facebook will not gain any data from Storylane.

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INFOGRAPHIC: How The Harlem Shake Shook Up Facebook, YouTube

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:44:29 +0000

Facebook loves the Harlem Shake, and we don’t just mean the company’s employees. Various renditions of the dance are plentiful both on YouTube and Facebook. Unmetric and the Shorty Awards recently took a look at how the Harlem Shake spread throughout both sites in an infographic, posted on Mashable. While Jeff Gordon’s version rocked YouTube, the dances done by Lego, Beats by Dre, and Nerium Int. were among the most popular on Facebook.

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Facebook’s Entity Graph Brings Real-World Relevance To Graph Search

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:08:44 +0000

What is that makes Facebook’s graph search tick? The entity graph — Facebook’s set of place-specific data. Every time users are prompted to describe a little more about places where they checked in, that’s the entity graph at work. It’s Facebook’s way of making sure the real world comes across accurately on the social network. Mashable recently took a look at what the entity graph is and how it fits into graph search.

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Facebook Is The Most Popular Mobile App In The U.S.

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:43:55 +0000

We know that more and more users around the world are accessing Facebook through their phones, but new statistics released Wednesday by comScore show that Facebook’s native application has surpassed Google Maps and is now the most widely used mobile utility in the U.S.

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Avoid Facebook Co-Founder And CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Other’ Messages Folder — For $100

David Cohen — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:54:44 +0000

The “Other” folder in the inbox of Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is probably not the most efficient place to be for Facebook users who want to reach him via messages on the social network. The good news is that there may be a way to avoid being banished to the Other folder. The bad news: It’ll cost you — $100, to be exact.

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INFOGRAPHIC: The Social Wedding

Justin Lafferty — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:21:46 +0000

You may have noticed that whenever a Facebook friend gets married, it sets off a flurry of activity throughout the social network. Friends post photos from the wedding, and there’s the creation of a life event and the notification on the top-right corner of the screen. Mashable and TheKnot.com recently studied how entwined Facebook is in users’ nuptials, finding that 8 percent of people are updating their Facebook relationship status to engaged just minutes after saying yes.

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Facebook Testing Ranked Comments

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:02:46 +0000

In recent days, Facebook has been tweaking the format of its comments. Earlier, we reported that Facebook is testing threaded comments, making it easier to reply to a specific comment. Now, Facebook is trying out ranked comments for pages, meaning that the ones with the most engagement will float to the top.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook At 1 Billion

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:36:15 +0000

Facebook announced last week that it reached 1 billion users — roughly one-seventh of the worldwide population — all of whom are sharing photos, posting stories, and making friends. There’s an incredible history recorded on Facebook, one that Mashable’s Chris Taylor quantified in a fascinating infographic.

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