Your Facebook Friends Really Do Care What You Think! (We Think.)
Mashable - Your friends actually do care what you think â or at least Facebook assumes they do You may have noticed a relatively new feature on Facebook lately that allows users to ask friends for...
View ArticleFacebook Launches 'Nearby Friends' Location Feature for Meet-Ups IRL
Mashable - Facebook has always encouraged you to share with your friends â your favorite movies, pictures, and life updates. Now Facebook wants you sharing your location, too. The social network on...
View ArticleNew Facebook for iPhone Lets You Reply to Comments on Pages
Mashable - Facebook has rolled out version 9.0 of its iPhone app, adding the ability to reply to comments on stories on certain Pages For this to work, the Page in question must have this feature...
View ArticleFacebook's Paper app is looking less and less like Facebook
The Verge - With Paper, Facebook set out to prove that it could "think small," rebuilding itself from the ground up for mobile devices. This meant removing lots of clutter, and in some cases, leaving...
View ArticleFacebook Adds Features to Paper, Says Slow Growth Is No Concern
Mashable - Facebook Paper, the standalone news reader app the company launched in January, released its first significant app update Friday â adding a couple new features to the News Feed section of...
View ArticleReport: Facebook mobile ad network launching at month's end
Seeking Alpha - Facebook's (FB +1.8%) anticipated mobile ad network will be launched at its April 30 f8 developer's conference, re/code reports. As expected, the network will leverage Facebook's...
View ArticleUsers Actually Seem To Like Facebook's Auto-Play Videos
Fast Company - The volume of videos played on Facebook increased 134% in the first quarter, and engagement on videos is up 58%.Have people been annoyed with videos that automatically play on Facebook's...
View ArticleHere's Why Your Old High School Friends Are Unfriending You On Facebook
Huffington Post - If you're on Facebook, you probably have at least one former high school classmate who seems to never stop overloading your News Feed with crazy political rants or unnecessarily...
View ArticleFacebook: Auto-Play Video Ads Will Remain Small Scale This Year
Mashable - Facebook doesn't expect its video auto-play News Feed ads to make a "material contribution" to ad revenues this year, COO Sheryl Sandberg said on Wednesday. In a call with analysts following...
View ArticleFacebook to cover your news feed with even more auto-play video ads
TechRadar - Facebook is plummeting further and further down the ad-driven rabbit hole, and in its most recent earnings call the social network said it wants auto-play video ads to be a common sight in...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Immortalized by Madam Tussauds
Mashable - Starting in June, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will spend his days at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco taking pictures with visiting tourists At least, that's what the wax version of...
View ArticleFacebook Launches a Newswire to Surface More Breaking News
Mashable - Facebook wants to be your digital newspaper, and it's not beating around the bush to make that happen The social network added FB Newswire on Thursday, a Facebook Page full of hand-selected...
View ArticleFacebook plans to step up News Feed video advertisements
Digital Spy - Social network says it wants auto-play videos to become a common sight in feeds.
View ArticleWeek in Tech: Week in Tech: Apple TV grows, iPad slows, and Facebook explodes...
TechRadar - This week's been all about the numbers: Apple's sales figures, Facebook's user numbers and Lytro's new camera which delivers 1080 x 1080 pixels of light ray goodness. That's not all: Sony's...
View ArticleWhy Facebook Monitors What You Read In The News (FB)
Business Insider - Most people are dimly aware that Facebook has a way of tracking what you read in the news. If you "like" a story in The New York Times or on Fox News, then Facebook records that like...
View ArticleFacebookâs Mobile Ad Network Is Called âFacebook Audience Networkâ And...
TechCrunch - Â Next week at f8, Facebook will unveil Facebook Audience Network, its mobile ad network that will let developers target both standard banners and custom ad units with Facebook's vast...
View ArticleWatch Out Twitter And Google+, Facebook's News Feed Is Getting Smarter And...
Forbes - Facebook has a difficult problem but all of the financial and technological resources to solve it. The same cannot be said for its competitors Twitter and Google+.
View ArticleHere's The Magic Word That Can Boost Your Post In Facebook's News Feed (FB)
Business Insider - Facebook's News Feed has always been something of a mystery. Some posts show up in the feed, some don't. The feed has become over run with all sorts of content and Facebook uses an...
View ArticleHere's Everything Facebook Just Announced At Its Big Developer Conference (FB)
Business Insider - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just delivered what amounts to a massive cultural change for the social network. Soon, users will be able to utilize an anonymous login function. It will...
View ArticleSnapchat Updated with Text Messaging and Live Video Calls [iOS Blog]
Mac Rumors - Ephemeral photo sharing service Snapchat has released a significant update to its iOS app today, which brings integration of a new "Chat" text messaging feature and "Here" live video chat...
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