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Sports - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:00:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 5 Changes That Would Greatly Improve Facebook Many of Facebook’s more than 1 billion monthly active users would agree — the site is great, but could use some improvement. As users complain about ads, a cluttered and confusing interface, and several other things, there are a few things that Facebook could implement to make the site much more palatable. Here are five innovations (some possible, some rather imaginative) that we think would improve Facebook.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/5-changes-that-would-greatly-improve-facebook_b117727#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/5-changes-that-would-greatly-improve-facebook_b117727 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117727 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:58 +0000 PageData NBA PTAT: Miami Heat Soar, Los Angeles Lakers Plunge, New Orleans Pelicans Surprise

Two of the National Basketball Association’s marquee franchises are moving in starkly different directions when it comes to movement in people talking about this on Facebook for the past week, according to sister page PageData, as the defending champions, the Miami Heat, nearly doubled the PTAT gain of its nearest competitor, while the Los Angeles Lakers, after barely qualifying for the playoffs and being swept out of the first round, lost more than double the PTAT of the next team on the list.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0516_b117701#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0516_b117701 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117701 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:47:39 +0000 PageData: New York Yankees Gaining The Most MLB Likes This Week While most baseball fans either love or hate the New York Yankees, the team is growing in Facebook popularity. Already the most-liked baseball team on Facebook, the Yankees have added the most likes this past week of any Major League Baseball team, and by a wide margin. The team that has gained the second-most likes this week is the Los Angeles Dodgers, followed by the Boston Red Sox, and the Atlanta Braves.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-new-york-yankees-gaining-the-most-likes-this-week_b117544#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-new-york-yankees-gaining-the-most-likes-this-week_b117544 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117544 Wed, 15 May 2013 15:56:55 +0000 PageData: Miami Heat On Fire In NBA People Talking About This For This Week

The defending National Basketball Association champions are also this week’s champions in terms of people talking about this, as sister page PageData pegged the Miami Heat’s PTAT for the week at 345,333, dwarfing the total of the second-place club, the Los Angeles Lakers, at 210,817.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0509_b117120#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pagedata-nba-0509_b117120 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117120 Fri, 10 May 2013 09:54:05 +0000 Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants Most-Talked-About MLB Teams This Week

The Major League Baseball team atop PageData‘s people talking about this leader board happens to be at the bottom of its division. The Los Angeles Dodgers, who are in last place in the National League West, are the most-talked-about team on Facebook right now, with an increase in 79,737 people discussing the club this week. In second place are divisional rivals the San Francisco Giants.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/dodgers-giants-page-data-ptat_b116799#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/dodgers-giants-page-data-ptat_b116799 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116799 Tue, 07 May 2013 15:36:51 +0000 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.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/visualizing-facebook-s-social-graph_b116114#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/visualizing-facebook-s-social-graph_b116114 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116114 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:47:21 +0000 INFOGRAPHIC: Major League Baseball Facebook Standings At Opening Of 2013 Season

The New York Yankees may be injury-plagued and off to a sluggish start to the 2013 Major League Baseball season, but when it comes to Facebook and overall social media, the club is running away with the pennant race.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/silverpop-mlb-infographic_b114653#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/silverpop-mlb-infographic_b114653 http://allfacebook.com/?p=114653 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:30:22 +0000 HootSuite Hoots About Its First Quarter

Social media management system HootSuite did some hooting about its accomplishments in the first quarter of 2013, reporting a 272 percent increase in corporate sales (companies valued at less than $10 billion) compared with the year-earlier period, along with a 900 percent jump in international strategic sales (companies valued at more than $10 billion).

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/hootsuite-first-quarter_b114488#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/hootsuite-first-quarter_b114488 http://allfacebook.com/?p=114488 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:31:37 +0000 Facebook Data Science Team: Michigan Popular In More U.S. Counties Than Other Final Four Teams

With the Final Four teams set for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, the Sports on Facebook page offered a look at counties in the U.S. that back Louisville, Michigan, Syracuse, and Wichita State.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/facebook-data-science-team-final-four_b114256#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-data-science-team-final-four_b114256 http://allfacebook.com/?p=114256 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:18:30 +0000 Facebook Loves Cinderella — Florida Gulf Coast Tops Sweet 16 Talk

When little-known Florida Gulf Coast University became the first No. 15 seed to reach the Sweet 16 round in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament, Facebook users took notice. The Eagles are the most-talke d-about remaining college hoops team in the U.S., with fellow underdog Wichita State taking second place. However, in terms of Facebook page popularity, blue bloods Indiana, Kansas, Duke, and Michigan are among the most-liked.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/fgcu-facebook-sweet-16_b113904#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/fgcu-facebook-sweet-16_b113904 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113904 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:43:15 +0000 Duke Tops Facebook’s NCAA Bracket, Too

SocialCode wasn’t the only company to use Facebook data as part of its methodology for selecting the winner of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament and select Duke: Facebook itself chose the Blue Devils, as well, filling out its bracket based on participating teams’ buzz on the social network over the past two weeks.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/duke-facebook-ncaa-bracket_b113363#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/duke-facebook-ncaa-bracket_b113363 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113363 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:08:36 +0000 SocialCode Algorithm Pegs Duke As NCAA Tournament Winner

The 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament tips off later Tuesday night, and fans throughout the country are using various strategies to fill out their brackets, as is social marketing solutions provider SocialCode, which used its own algorithm to determine that Duke will cut down the nets April 8.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/socialcode-brackets_b113347#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/socialcode-brackets_b113347 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113347 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:21:30 +0000 Tiger Woods, Lindsey Vonn Use Facebook To Confirm That They Are Dating

The rumored relationship between golfer Tiger Woods and injured skier Lindsey Vonn is now official, as both sports stars posted about it on Facebook — a rare move for the notoriously private Woods.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/tiger-woods-lindsey-vonn_b113186#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/tiger-woods-lindsey-vonn_b113186 http://allfacebook.com/?p=113186 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:23:19 +0000 How Do The World’s Top Tennis Pros Perform On Facebook?

Tennis stars Serena Williams and Roger Federer may be two of the top athletes in the world on clay or grass, but how well can they do on Facebook? Quintly (formerly AllFacebook Stats) wanted to find out. The social analytics firm put the Facebook pages of the top 10 men’s and women’s tennis players to the test, finding that while the men have bigger fan bases, the women are better about interaction.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/quintly-tennis-facebook_b110372#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/quintly-tennis-facebook_b110372 http://allfacebook.com/?p=110372 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:09:34 +0000 Super Bowl XLVII: Beyoncé, Destiny’s Child, Superdome Blackout Join Ravens, 49ers In Terms Of Facebook Mentions

The Baltimore Ravens edged the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 Sunday night to win Super Bowl XLVII, and while the Ravens’ victory was the top moment on Facebook during the game, according to the Facebook Data Science Team, the halftime performance by Beyoncé edged out the blackout in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome that delayed play for 34 minutes for second place.

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