
Although no one can agree on exactly when this started showing up on Facebook, pop-up windows appear when users hover over the names of friends, pages and places in their news feeds.

Although no one can agree on exactly when this started showing up on Facebook, pop-up windows appear when users hover over the names of friends, pages and places in their news feeds.

The precursor of today’s ticker on Facebook might disappear, possibly replaced by a games-only activity feed aggregating posts by friends or application.

With news feed updates poised to surge as users enable new open graph actions, Facebook has begun grouping together activities within the same application.

Money’s tight so why not leverage marketing efforts to add to the perception that your brand is a powerhouse, while not taking away from the cash coffers.

Brace yourself for the wave of complaints that will surely come: As previously announced, Facebook began to add sponsored stories to users’ news feeds Tuesday.

Facebook announced last month that it would test game stories on its mobile platform, but the screen shot below hints that the social network may have extended its testing.

Photo-sharing service Instagram is now enabling Facebook users to view the big picture, announcing that its photos shared via the social network will appear in users’ news feeds at full sizes.

Facebook’s new timeline profile took about six months to build, from the initial infrastructure-review meeting to successfully turning on the 100 percent back-end load test.

Sponsored stories in both the news feeds and tickers of some Facebook users are starting to move beyond the like and adding new calls to action.

Facebook is getting serious about its games, announcing category updates, more bookmarks, a combined dashboard for applications and games, and testing game stories on its mobile platform.