MySpace was Facebook before Facebook was Facebook, and now the social network is attempting to reinvent itself once again with its debut of a thoroughly rebuilt platform and a new iOS application.
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Mediabistro Webcast
Vine has added sound and motion to the popular microblogging website, Twitter. Learn how to bring your information to life in our Vine webcast on Wednesday, June 19 from 4-5 pm ET. In this one-hour webcast, Gemma Craven (left), EVP, New York group director at Social@Ogilvy will discuss best practices for using the visual social platform and share some of her team's successful vine videos. Register here.
"Vine: Create Quick Social Videos To Market Your Brand" Webcast
Vine has added sound and motion to the popular microblogging website, Twitter. Learn how to bring your information to life in our Vine webcast on Wednesday, June 19 from 4-5 pm ET. In this one-hour webcast, Gemma Craven (left), EVP, New York group director at Social@Ogilvy will discuss best practices for using the visual social platform and share some of her team's successful vine videos. Register here. Through Pipe, Facebook Users Can Send 1 GB Files To Each Other
Facebook’s messaging system isn’t optimal for transferring large files. Pipe looks to solve that problem. Pipe, an application that is set to launch Wednesday, allows Facebook users to easily send files of up to 1 gigabit to each other. If the person receiving the file isn’t on Facebook, users can still send 100-megabit files to be received once their Facebook friend logs on.
Visualizing Music’s Popularity On Facebook
People love listening to music through Facebook-connected applications such as Pandora, Songza, and Spotify. As Facebook noted in a Stories post Tuesday, more than 110 million songs, albums, and radio stations have been played 40 billion times through apps that use Facebook’s Open Graph. Facebook took a highly visual at how songs trend across the country.
ZZ Ward Harmonizes With Facebook’s Open Graph
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.
Pandora Enables Automatic Sharing To Music Section On Facebook’s Revamped Timeline
Internet radio provider Pandora deepened its integration with Facebook, introducing the ability for its users to automatically publish their activity to the music section on the social network’s redesigned Timeline via Pandora.com or its applications for the iPhone and Android devices.
Eminem Publisher Files Suit Vs. Facebook, Wieden & Kennedy Over Music In Home Ad
Did Facebook’s ad agency, Wieden & Kennedy, lose itself in the music of hip-hop star Eminem while creating “Airplane,” a commercial for Facebook’s recently introduced Home overlay for Android? 8 Mile Style, Eminem’s song publisher, filed suit in federal court in Detroit against the social network and the agency, alleging that the ad used music from the rapper’s 2000 song, “Under the Influence.”
Facebook Announces Global Rollout Of Sections On Timeline, Best Practices For App Developers
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
Visualizing Facebook’s Social Graph
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.
HOW TO: See More (Or Less) Of Your Friend’s Facebook Posts
Not everyone is a fan of Facebook’s post-sorting algorithm, which determines News Feed placement based on with whom users would be most likely to engage. But if you’re trying to see more of your best friend’s Facebook posts, or fewer from a habitual oversharer, there is a way to set these preferences.
Users Of Facebook’s Android App Can Scroll Through Multiple Open Graph Actions In Posts
Users of Facebook’s Android application are seeing a new way to browse content created by Open Graph actions generated by their friends’ app usage.
