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The Washington Post - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:09:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Which Brands’ Facebook Apps Are Tops In MAUs?

The Ad Makeover application from Dove blows away the competition among apps from brands on Facebook in terms of monthly active users, far outdistancing the second-place app, Windows 8 from Microsoft, according to a new report on brand apps from social benchmarking platform Unmetric.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/unmetric-brand-apps_b117913#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/unmetric-brand-apps_b117913 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117913 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:15:23 +0000 Child Safety Groups Take Aim At Instagram

Facebook-owned photo-sharing network Instagram is under fire from advocates for children’s safety, with more than 4,500 signatures having been collected on a petition on Change.org that calls for Instagram to make the default settings private for users aged 13 through 17, and not geotag- and geolocation-enabled.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/child-safety-groups-instagram_b117560#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/child-safety-groups-instagram_b117560 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117560 Wed, 15 May 2013 16:46:38 +0000 Caitlin O’Neill, Chief Of Staff For Nancy Pelosi, Joins Facebook’s Office In Washington, D.C.

Facebook added to its lobbying roster in Washington, D.C., with the addition of Caitlin O’Neill, chief of staff for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), The Washington Post’s In the Loop blog reported.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/caitlin-oneill_b117474#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/caitlin-oneill_b117474 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117474 Wed, 15 May 2013 11:42:52 +0000 Facebook Rejects Credo Mobile Anti-FWD.us Ad Over Use Of Mark Zuckerberg’s Image

Facebook is under fire for rejecting an ad from politically active mobile carrier Credo Mobile that criticizes FWD.us, the political advocacy group spearheaded by Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but the ad included a picture of Zuckerberg, in clear violation of the social network’s advertising policy.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/credo-mobile-ad-rejected_b116339#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/credo-mobile-ad-rejected_b116339 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116339 Wed, 01 May 2013 10:25:17 +0000 Mark Zuckerberg-Led FWD.us Adds Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Brad Smith, Sean Parker

FWD.us, the political advocacy group spearheaded by Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, added some tech muscle, as Microsoft Co-Founder and Non-Executive Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft General Counsel and Executive Vice President Brad Smith, and former Facebook President Sean Parker joined the group.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/fwd-us-bill-gates-steve-ballmer-brad-smith-sean-parker_b115995#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/fwd-us-bill-gates-steve-ballmer-brad-smith-sean-parker_b115995 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115995 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:10:58 +0000 Mark Zuckerberg Featured In ‘Fortune’ Cover Story

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all over newsstands Thursday, having penned an op-ed in The Washington Post to introduce political advocacy group FWD.us, as well as gracing the cover of Fortune for a wide-ranging chat with Senior Writer Jessi Hempel.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-fortune-cover-story_b115044#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-fortune-cover-story_b115044 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115044 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:30:06 +0000 Mark Zuckerberg Officially Announces FWD.us Political Advocacy Group In ‘Washington Post’ Op-Ed

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially announced the launch of his political advocacy group, FWD.us, in an op-ed published in The Washington Post.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/fwd-us_b115034#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/fwd-us_b115034 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115034 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:57:58 +0000 ‘The Guardian’ To Pull The Plug On Its Facebook Social Reader App

U.K. newspaper The Guardian will pull the plug on its Facebook social reader application Monday, sending users who click on its links on the social network directly to its website, rather than to pages within Facebook.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/guardian-scraps-social-reader-app_b106834#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/guardian-scraps-social-reader-app_b106834 http://allfacebook.com/?p=106834 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:16:53 +0000 Facebook Testing News Feed Module Revealing Most Shared Stories From Social Readers Facebook appears to be testing yet another new module in its news feed, this time aggregating the most shared content from social reader applications such as that of The Washington Post.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/most-shared-social-readers_b105142#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/most-shared-social-readers_b105142 http://allfacebook.com/?p=105142 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:01:29 +0000 ‘The Washington Post’ Cranks Up Facebook-Connected Political News App The Issue Engine

The Washington Post enhanced its coverage of the 2012 presidential election with its release of news application The Issue Engine, which allows users who are logged into Facebook to share how and why they endorsed candidates on specific issues with their friends.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/the-washington-post-the-issue-engine_b96526#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/the-washington-post-the-issue-engine_b96526 http://allfacebook.com/?p=96526 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:33:03 +0000 Spotify Searching, Sharing, Stats Added To Musical Artists’ Facebook Pages

Musical artists tied in with Spotify are seeing some new features on their Facebook pages, including the ability by Facebook users to search for and share Spotify links to their songs, as well as statistics for total plays via the application.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/spotify-searching-sharing-stats_b94078#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/spotify-searching-sharing-stats_b94078 http://allfacebook.com/?p=94078 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:25:04 +0000 Facebook Plays Key Part In How People Discover, Share News

It’s apparent that Facebook has changed the way people share information, and not just baby photos and event announcements. According to a study in the United Kingdom by the Reuters Institute, the social network is responsible for 55 percent of the country’s news sharing, beating out email and Twitter.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/reuters-institute-news_b93913#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/reuters-institute-news_b93913 http://allfacebook.com/?p=93913 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:23:26 +0000 Browser Plugin Gives Users End Run Around Facebook Social Sharing

Developer Joe Levy flew from his home in North Carolina to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., for a final round of job interviews a few months ago, but after releasing his Facebook Open Graph Redirect browser plugin for Google Chrome, he may be persona non grata at the social network.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/facebook-open-graph-redirect_b93692#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-open-graph-redirect_b93692 http://allfacebook.com/?p=93692 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:39:47 +0000 The Pitfalls Of Facebook Dependency

There is a lesson to be learned from reports earlier this week about certain Facebook social reader applications shedding users by the thousands: Don’t invest in a product or develop one just on the basis of popularity on Facebook. That’s because there’s a master magician pulling the strings, or, in this case, directing the flow of traffic, and that is the social network itself.

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]]> Julie D. Andrews http://allfacebook.com/social-reader-follow-up_b88392#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/social-reader-follow-up_b88392 http://allfacebook.com/?p=88392 Wed, 09 May 2012 16:21:03 +0000 ‘WaPo,’ ‘Guardian’ Social Readers Bleeding Users

Do you remember all the stories about the success of Facebook social readers, including those of The Washington Post and The Guardian? Stop the presses.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/social-readers-down_b88125#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/social-readers-down_b88125 http://allfacebook.com/?p=88125 Mon, 07 May 2012 18:28:51 +0000