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Upworthy Uses Its Facebook Page, Social Plugins To Grow

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:57:48 +0000

Upworthy wants to share content with the world — and use Facebook to do so. The company is in the developer’s showcase for utilizing social plugins and successfully using its Facebook page to engage its audience. Facebook reported that as Upworthy.com grew to 10.4 million unique users in one year, its Facebook page grew to 1.3 million likes over the same period. Upworthy credits Facebook for a large portion of its traffic.

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Behind Facebook’s Faster Recommendations Plugin

David Cohen — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:34:07 +0000

Facebook continued its efforts to boost the speed of its social plugins, with Software Engineer Stoyan Stefanov detailing in a post on his blog how he was able to double the speed of the social network’s recommendations plugin.

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OpenGraphy, Volkswagen Tap Facebook Open Graph Actions For My Golf Stories App

David Cohen — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:23:30 +0000

Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer OpenGraphy started the engine on a new Facebook application for automaker Volkswagen in Belgium, with the social network’s open graph actions providing the fuel.

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Facebook Clarifies Reports Of Rising Like Totals Due To Links In Private Messages

David Cohen — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:53:08 +0000

Facebook giveth, and Facebook taketh away: Just one week after pages’ like totals began dropping due to the social network’s purge of fake profiles and likes, reports surfaced of like totals increasing due to links sent in private messages, and not to users actually liking pages. Facebook responded that it was working to fix a bug in its social plugins, and that the totals being impacted were actually on counters that measure likes and shares.

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Facebook Scraps Tag Suggest Facial-Recognition Feature In EU, Gets Thumbs Up From Ireland DPC

David Cohen — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:39:56 +0000

Irish eyes (and those of the rest of the European Union) are finally smiling on Facebook, as Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner announced that “the great majority” of the privacy recommendations it made to the social network to keep it in compliance with those of the EU have been “fully implemented to the satisfaction of this office.” The major concession by Facebook: Its tag suggest feature, which enabled facial recognition for Facebook photos, has been turned off for all new users in the EU, with existing users to lose access to the feature by Oct. 15.

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Report: Only 30 Of Top 500 Online Retailers Offer Login With Facebook

David Cohen — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:43:38 +0000

Only 30 of the top 500 online retailers, or just 6 percent, have added the option of logging in with Facebook to their account-creation process, and of those 30, 30 percent are shooting themselves in the foot by requiring users to create separate password for their sites, according to the results of a new study from Sociable Labs.

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Facebook Rolls Out Recommendations Bar Social Plugin

David Cohen — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:59:05 +0000

Facebook wants users to belly up to the bar, as in the social plugin it debuted Thursday, the recommendations bar.

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Facebook Gives Congress Summer Homework

David Cohen — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:08:56 +0000

Does anyone remember having to write “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” essays early in the school year? Facebook is turning the tables on members of Congress, offering them a checklist of what they should be doing on the social network during the summer.

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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 For Business Aims to Boost Advertising

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:54:21 +0000

A new Facebook page offers businesses a how-to guide to marketing and advertising on the social network.
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The 8 Most Important Facebook Features In 2010

Jackie Cohen — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:40:16 +0000

Facebook has dominated news headlines over the past year, especially when the social network reached the 500 million user mark this July.
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MailChimp Integrates Facebook Likes Into Email Campaigns

Nick O'Neill — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:45:58 +0000

Want to add like buttons into your email marketing campaigns? MailChimp, one of the fastest growing email newsletter platforms is preparing to release support for Facebook’s “Like” button as well as detailed analytics which tell you who’s clicking on likes, how many people clicked it, and how many people were referred from the like button. This form of detailed analytics will surely help any active email marketer.
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Facebook Educates Users About Social Plugins

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:20:47 +0000

Yesterday afternoon Facebook released a new video which educates users about the company’s new social plugins service. Most important is that it educates users about the privacy issues surrounding the plugins. Many in the press have inaccurately stated that Facebook’s social plugins share data with website owners. Due to the misunderstanding, Facebook felt that it would be useful to provide users with more information about the ways that social plugins work. The result is the video which is embedded below.
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One Problem With Facebook's Social Plugins

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:55:31 +0000

If you don’t have many Facebook friends, your online world could start feeling increasingly lonely. As Michael Bernstein points out, visiting sites like CNN.com can feel a lot more empty if you don’t have many Facebook friends, since the few Facebook friends you have may not be visiting the site. Bernstein states, “This is a design problem with multiplicities: there are simply too many places on the web for my friends to Like and too few of my friends.”
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100,000 Websites Add Facebook's Social Plugins

Nick O'Neill — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:27:10 +0000

In only a few weeks, the number of websites that have implemented Facebook’s social plugins, including the almost ubiquitous like button, has doubled from 50,000 to 100,000. That news came in a blog post earlier today from Facebook employee, Justin Osofsky. It’s an impressive statistic and it’s one that will only continue to grow. Enabling these “social plugins” (or widgets) was a great tool for Facebook to instantly spread the new Open Graph.
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