Facebook to share data with Instagram, loosen email rules. The Facebook Mobile Plot Thickens: Orange To Offer ‘Party Call’, A Social Calling Service Starting Summer 2013. Facebook Phone it may not be, but today we have one more example of how users will be able to use Facebook on their phones — and in place of traditional phone services. Today, multinational French carrier Orange announced that it would offer “Party Call,” a “social calling” service on the social network.
Available on both mobile and desktop versions of the social network, users will be able to call each other, and make “group calls”, without needing to know or use each other’s mobile numbers to do it. The deal was announced at Hello, and innovation event organized by Orange owner France Telecom. Party Call was described by the carrier today as “A partnership with Facebook, to introduce more communication tools into social networks, with a first public teleconference service coming in summer 2013.” Orange will power the service, which it will run in conjunction with Orange’s new IP-based calling and messaging app, Libon (short for “life is better on,” one of the company’s slogans). Facebook Gives New Mobile Page Ads More Color And Context To Make Every Pixel Count. You scrolled right past the old design for Facebook’s “Pages You Might Like” mobile ads. Too much gray, not enough description. But they just got updated to show colorful banners and explain what a business does.
Their designer Jeff Kanter thinks you’ll stop to give them a look. Maybe even a tap. With style and targeting, Facebook is turning limited mobile ad space into its secret weapon. As a product manager for the news feed ads team, Kanter’s job is to convey the messages of Facebook’s advertisers in a way that doesn’t interrupt the Facebook experience. To make sure he’s on the right track, Kanter tells me “we dogfood all these different ad experiences with employees first. Next, Facebook watches to make sure they don’t anger the users. Facebook only started showing ads on mobile in March, so it’s still figuring things out. Overall, the ads business is doing well, and Facebook is poised to rake in a ton of sales over the holidays. But the future hinges on mobile. Facebook Claimant Ceglia Indicted for Wire, Mail Fraud. Paul Ceglia was indicted on charges he faked evidence to support his claims that he signed a contract with Facebook Inc.
(FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg giving him a multibillion-dollar share in the world’s biggest social network, Ceglia was arrested and charged last month in a criminal complaint with one count each of wire fraud and mail fraud, and was accused of the same crimes by a New York federal grand jury, according to an indictment released yesterday by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan. Ceglia, 39, doctored a legitimate 2003 contract with Zuckerberg, in which the future CEO agreed to perform coding work for Ceglia’s website, into a phony contract “in which Zuckerberg agreed to provide Ceglia with at least a 50 percent interest in Facebook,” according to the indictment.
Prosecutors say Ceglia also fabricated e-mails and destroyed evidence in the case. The indictment is necessary to bring the western New York man’s case to trial. The contract case is Ceglia v. Facebook Reschedules "Gifts" Press Event In New York - Mike Isaac - Social. Commenters push Facebook policy changes to public vote | Internet & Media. Facebook is about to take its policy changes to an official vote among its users. And if history is any guide, turnout will be low and Facebook will proceed to make the changes it wants. That includes how it collects data from Instagram users, which has privacy advocates protesting and urging CEO Mark Zuckerberg to reverse course.
Facebook last week proposed a series of policy changes that, along with changes to how it handles your data, would abolish the social network's practice of allowing users to vote on policy changes. That's right. Facebook wants to do away with your right to vote -- a right most members clearly don't realize they have. In April 2009, Facebook instituted its own democracy of sorts through a vote that was put before but largely ignored by Facebook's 200 million users at the time (665,654 votes were cast). But the company now argues that the system no longer makes sense because Facebook has become so large and is a publicly traded company.
Instagram Launches Web Profiles, Looking Much Like Facebook Timeline - Mike Isaac - Social. Welcome to the new era of Instagram. Brought to you by Facebook. Instagram launched Web profiles on Monday morning, the first true attempt from the photo-sharing service to provide users with a more complete version of user identity accessible through the Web. Simply put, it’s most everything you know about your profile page from your Instagram mobile app, but available on the Web.
Until now, users could only access Instagram photos on the Web through a simple landing page, only including the photograph and the comments alongside the post. Beneath that, all your photos are laid out on the page, organized chronologically and grouped by month. The company plans to introduce the new Web profiles over the next few days. Most interesting, however, are the design choices Instagram has made; the new Web profiles seem like something straight from Facebook’s visual identity playbook. Instagram chief Kevin Systrom acknowledges as much. But the continuity between the two services makes sense. Two consumer groups urge Facebook to back off privacy changes. SAN FRANCISCO -- Two consumer watchdogs are urging Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to back off proposed changes to its policies that they say would curb the rights of its 1 billion-plus users and make more personal information available to advertisers without users' explicit consent in violation of a privacy settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.
In a letter sent to Zuckerberg on Monday, the groups asked Facebook to be "responsive to the rights of Facebook users to control their personal information and to participate in the governance of Facebook. " European regulators also said Monday that they expect Facebook to give European users the right to accept or reject whether they want to share their personal information with Facebook affiliates such as photo-sharing service Instagram. A Facebook spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment on the letter. "As our company grows, we acquire businesses that become a legal part of our organization. mBank unveils Facebook banking - Software - Technology - Video. How Facebook's Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind | Wired Business.
It’s been a great year for the Facebook platform, but Mike Vernal wants more. Facebook’s director of engineering tells us the social network is trying to pump up user posts, favoring longer stories and content and adding data that will help Facebook and its partners repurpose even the simplest status updates. Vernal oversees Facebook’s Open Graph, the platform apps and websites use to take the data connected to your collection of friends out of Facebook and to push content into it – like what Spotify playlists your friends have assembled for New Year’s Eve. Open Graph has proven enormously popular with developers, but Vernal keeps pushing for ever richer, ever deeper sharing between Facebook and the outside world.
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