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Expion Unleashes Suite Of New Social Marketing Tools

David Cohen — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:28:58 +0000

Social media software company Expion released a suite of new tools Monday, expanding its users’ ability to control their messages across Facebook and other social networks.

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Can Your Facebook Likes Give Away Your Identity?

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:54:25 +0000

Many Facebook users worry about their personal identities being compromised on the social network through unfortunate photos or tagged posts. But a University of Cambridge study shows that it’s possible to gain information such as political affiliation and ethnicity just from seeing Facebook users’ likes. Social security firm Secure.me also published a top 10 list of the Facebook applications that require this information when users connect to them.

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Facebook Continues To Improve Notifications

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:01:19 +0000

Facebook wants to push more notifications, alerting users that there are games to be played and applications with which to be interacted, but it wants to make sure that it doesn’t spam people. The site announced Friday that is putting more controls in place to ensure that users aren’t bombarded with notifications that will only be ignored or hidden.

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Lobbying Group The Internet Association Reveals Full Roster, Platform

David Cohen — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:48:43 +0000

Initially announced in July, lobbying group and trade association The Internet Association announced its full membership, which includes Facebook, as well as its policy platform.

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Is Facebook Changing How We Travel?

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:13:28 +0000

When one of your Facebook friends posts a photo album of their trip to Maui, they’re not just showing off — they might also be acting as a travel agent. Forbes reports that Facebook is becoming a popular travel motivator, because when people see photos and posts from their friends’ vacations, it inspires them to book a flight there, too.

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TripAdvisor Facebook App Local Picks Provides Food For Thought From Facebook Friends, Locals

David Cohen — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:03:18 +0000

Hungry Facebook users pondering dining options: Wouldn’t it be great if you could combine input from your friends on the social network with reviews from locals in whatever city you happen to be in? Now you can, thanks to Local Picks, a new Facebook application from TripAdvisor.

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TripAdvisor Updates Its Timeline App On Facebook

David Cohen — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:01:13 +0000

TripAdvisor launched a new feature today for Facebook users, Friend of a Friend, and its title provides a perfect description of its functions.

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Timeline Makes TripAdvisor Facebook App Grow Tenfold

David Cohen — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:24:31 +0000

TripAdvisor‘s Cities I’ve Visited application is enjoying ten times as many visitors since upgrading for timeline.

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60 Companies Unveil Open Graph Applications For Facebook Timeline

Jackie Cohen — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:15:36 +0000

Today 60 companies have unveiled open graph applications upgraded to populate the right-hand column of the timeline on Facebook.

Carl Sjogreen, director of platform products at Facebook, said that the social network has streamlined the process for submitting and obtaining approval of new open graph actions, which are variations on the like plugin.

The 60 applications unveiled today include add to the open graph such actions as “want,” “buy,” “taste,” “love,” and “spot.”

That said, the 60 are largely upgrades of apps that have previously existed on Facebook before the advent of timeline and the revamped open graph, said Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships.

The apps all publish a user’s activity to Facebook upon being granted permission to do so.

The 60 apps unveiled tonight travel, food and wine, fashion and retail, fitness, entertainment (including games), charity, fitness, entertainment, games, charitable donations, job searches, education, two books, ticketing, art, application discovery and cars.

The full list of upgraded apps unveiled tonight is:

Travel

* Gogobot
* Airbnb
* TripAdvisor
* Wipolo
* Where I’ve Been

Food and Wine

* Foodspotting
* Cookpad
* Snooth (wine)
* Urbanspoon
* Yummly
* Foodily

Shopping and Fashion

* Pose
* Pinterest
* Polyvore
* Oodle
* Fab.com
* eBay
* Giftrocket
* Payvment
* Livingsocial

Fitness

* MapMyRun
* Runkeeper

Entertainment

* Rotten Tomatoes
* Dailymotion (French video site)
* Cinemur (French video site)
* Metacafe (videos)
* Ford (game)
* Wooga (Bubble Island, Diamond Dash)
* OMGPOP (Draw My Thing)
* Zynga (Words with Friends, Castleville

Giving

* Causes
* Fundrazr
* Artez.com

Job Search

* BranchOut
* Monster

Photo And Video Sharing

* Color

Education

* Courserank
* Grockit

Books

* Goodreads
* Kobo

Ticketing

* StubHub
* Ticketmaster
* Ticketfly
* ScoreBig

App Discovery

* Appsfire

Art

* Artfinder

Cars

* Autotrader

Location

* Foursquare

The announcement has a decidedly more relaxed atmosphere than what the social network typically puts on for the press. Facebook media events usually take place earlier in the day and have more structure than this what we’re seeing here, where we’re seated in the dark basement lounge of 25 Lusk.

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Travel Sites Put Over 1.5 Billion Facebook Places On Map

David Cohen — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:41:15 +0000

The holiday season is a vital time of year for the travel industry, and continuing improvements to Facebook’s Open Graph are ramping up business for sites like TripAdvisor, Airbnb, and Gogobot.

TripAdvisor

Since TripAdvisor launched its Facebook integration, 57 million users have personalized their planning via the social network, and 1.5 billion Facebook places pins have been placed by TripAdvisor users.
In terms of page views per session, TripAdvisor users on Facebook are 27 percent more engaged than average TripAdvisor users.
Users connecting to TripAdvisor via Facebook were twice as likely to contribute content as those who connected via other means.

Airbnb

Since launching its Social Connections service via Login with Facebook in May, community marketplace Airbnb saw the number of users skyrocket from 16 million to more than 32 million in four weeks and to 123 million currently.
Hosts who connected via their Facebook accounts were 45 percent more likely to have active listings, and they received 28 percent more requests on those listings.
On the flip side, guests who connected via Facebook averaged 85 percent more bookings and were 10 percent more likely to leave reviews for their hosts.

Gogobot

Social travel site Gogobot launched its travel guides in July, allowing users to share photos, reviews, and other details about hotels, restaurants, and other destinations in a scrapbook format, as well as to integrate their activities from social media sites like Facebook and foursquare.
85 percent of Gogobot users are connected via Facebook, and they:
Log in 45 percent more often; and
Are 40 percent more likely to write reviews, and write 60 percent more of them than non-Facebook users.
28 percent of new sign-ups every month are the result of Facebook-connected users inviting their friends.

Readers: Have you used TripAdvisor, Airbnb, Gogobot, or any other Facebook-connected online travel destination?

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TripAdvisor Suggests Trips Based On Your Friends Facebook Profiles

Jackie Cohen — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:11:51 +0000

TripAdvisor has had a presence on Facebook for a while now, but recently improved the way it makes travel suggestions based on friends’ profiles.
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TripAdvisor Launches Social Q&A Service Powered By Facebook

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:24:32 +0000

Leveraging Facebook’s current API features, TripAdvisor has released a new service which enables Facebook users to ask their friends questions about specific cities. The product, which resembles other Facebook-owned widgets, is a simple location-focused Q&A service. While Facebook is working on their own questions product, this service operates within the context of the TripAdvisor site, which currently has over 45 million monthly users.
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