Facebook Rolling Out Emoticons, Actions In Status Updates To More Users. David Cohen on April 9, 2013 12:39 PM Facebook wants to know how more of its users are feeling and what they’re doing, as the emoticons and actions it began testing in status updates in January are being rolled out to more users. More Facebook users are reporting access to the drop-down menu under their status update boxes that offers them a range of actions and emoticons to choose from and add to their status updates.
Readers: Do you have access to this new feature yet? Related Stories Tags Actions Emoticons How Are You Feeling Status Updates What Are You Doing Sponsored Post In our Social Media 101 boot camp, you'll determine the social media sites that matter most to you, based on personal and professional goals. Facebook Will Launch Content-Specific News Feeds, Bigger Photos And Ads On Thursday. At a big press event on Thursday, Facebook plans to launch new ways to filter the news feed. These include a Photos feed of Facebook and Instagram photos, as well as a revamped Music feed of what friends are listening to, concerts, and new albums, according to multiple sources both within and close to Facebook.
Larger images and image-based ads in the web and mobile feeds are coming too. [Update 3/7/2013: Facebook just held its press event and my sources were right. It launched content-specific feeds for Photos, Music, and more, plus increased the size of photos and ads. Read all about it here and check out our hands-on video.] Why is Facebook adding new streams? Because we are information junkies. Facebook has neglected the news feed, which has functioned largely the same since it launched on the web in 2006, and on iPhone in 2009. Evidence Of What’s Cooking Buried Feeds Over the last year, Facebook has been piling up some dedicated, content-specific feeds.
Ads Would, Too. Site Governance - Documents. The RHS 'Naked Garden' Hampton Court July 2011. How To Freak People Out On Facebook. Facebook Old Groups Migration to New Groups – What You Need To Know. Many businesses have been confused as to whether a Facebook Group or a Facebook Page is the best solution when it comes to marketing on the largest online social network. I’ve always recommended Pages because they’re the only feature on Facebook to get indexed on Google.
(Whether someone has an account on Facebook or not, whether a user is logged on or not, they can search and find Facebook Pages on Google). Plus, the content you share on your Page goes out into the News Feed of your fans (depending on the “EdgeRank” score), and you can easily customize your Page with apps. With Old Groups, the content didn’t go into the News Feed of members and you couldn’t add custom apps. One primary advantage of Old Groups was that Admins could send a message to all members in groups with up to 5,000 members, and the email would go right into members’ main inbox (that is, before New Messages came along!). Introducing New Groups The advantage (or disadvantage, depending on how you look at it!) 1. 2. F-commerce statistics roundup: Facebook commerce by the numbers. “It’s a matter of time—within the next five or so years—before more business will be done on Facebook than Amazon” Sumeet Jain, Principal, CMEA Capital “In three to five years, 10 percent to 15 percent of total consumer spending in developed countries may go through sites such as Facebook” Mike Fauscette, Analyst, IDC Consulting “Anyone who still believes in 2010 that Facebook isn’t going directly drive a massive commerce opportunity for merchants and retailers alike on that platform will find themselves this time next year in 2011 wishing for their own Christmas miracle” Karen Webster, President, pymnts.com.
You get the picture; f-commerce – Facebook-enhanced retail – is the new shiny new object for industry players and investors. But beyond the shine, spin and hyperbole – is there any early data to back up the excitement? Of course, the ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ caveat applies here – data is tentative and premature, and often originating from sources with vested interests. 1. 2. Clairehs/Social Media World Forum... Facebook says TV shows should be using Facebook Places check-ins | Technology.
Facebook's Christian Hernandez Gallardo wants the TV industry to think of Facebook as a platform for distributing content. Photograph: Stuart Dredge for the Guardian When Facebook launched the Facebook Places feature in its mobile apps, the focus was on people checking in to locations to let friends know where they were. A recent update let them also check in to events, and according to head of international business development Christian Hernandez Gallardo, those events should include TV shows. Speaking at the Connected Creativity Forum in Cannes on Wednesday, he described the new feature as giving people the ability to check in to "a time and place", and said that broadcasters and TV producers should "think about having a time and a place around every single episode of your series".
"You begin to create these hubs where you can take the passionate screaming and bring them together, because you realise that 10 of your friends are watching Top Gear at the same time," he said.