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Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet. No, Facebook news reader apps aren’t declining because users suddenly got fed up with auto-sharing.

Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet

The user loss is likely due to the transition to “trending articles”, a new way of surfacing recently read articles in the news feed that Facebook is testing. Update: The Washington Post confirms my hypothesis: “Social reader “collapse” is b/c of evolving FB modules. Before: “double-double,” 4-5 stories down in a list, w/ friend icon – drove growth.” Previously, Facebook had been driving huge numbers of installs and re-engagements to news reader apps with a “recently read articles” box that would often appear at the top of the news feed.

But in mid-April following a massive reader app user count spike it replaced this with a redesigned “trending articles” box that shows fewer articles, and that seems to appear less prominently. Facebook social reader app contributes to record traffic for U.K. news site. The Guardian reached a new record of unique visitors and page impressions for Guardian.co.uk in February, and the news organization attributes 30 percent of referral traffic to Facebook.

Facebook social reader app contributes to record traffic for U.K. news site

That’s up from 2 percent only six months ago. The change is largely the result of a Facebook canvas application that lets users read Guardian stories and share them automatically via Ticker, Timeline and News Feed. This is yet another example of Open Graph driving significant traffic to third-party apps and websites. For a few days in February, Facebook even surpassed Google in referral percentage to the Guardian, though it hasn’t maintained the lead. “I believe it is only a matter of time before it [Facebook] becomes the main driver of traffic to many core Guardian products,” said Tanya Cordrey, director of digital development for the Guardian, at the Guardian Changing Media Summit on Wednesday. Cordrey also discussed statistics and trends related to the company’s social news app. 50,000 Websites Have Already Integrated Facebook’s New Social Pl. There’s no question that Facebook’s new social plugins — which include a ‘Like’ button for the web and an array of other widgets — have been adopted at a pretty amazing rate (we had our ‘Like’ buttons live the day they were announced).

50,000 Websites Have Already Integrated Facebook’s New Social Pl

Facebook has just given us an idea of how quickly these widgets are being adopted: a week after f8, 50,000 websites now feature the Like button and the other new plugins. CNN: Facebook and not Fox News is our biggest competitor. At the two-day Bloomberg BusinessWeek media summit in New York, CNN president Jon Klein had a Q&A with BusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel.

CNN: Facebook and not Fox News is our biggest competitor

Asked about the competition with Fox News, Klein answered: "The competition I'm really afraid of is social nets. We want to be the most trusted source. #LeWeb : Sean Parker veut se racheter avec Spotify. Entrepreneurs : La génération Facebook succède à la Paypal mafia. Les entrepreneurs qui ont accompagné les début du Web 2.0 cèdent peu à peu la place à ceux qui ont participé à l'aventure Facebook alors que le réseau social n'était pas encore une superpuissance de la Toile.

Entrepreneurs : La génération Facebook succède à la Paypal mafia

La «Paypal mafia» est une légende dans la Silicon Valley. Ses membres, anciens dirigeants du service de paiement en ligne Paypal, ont accompagné l'essor du Web 2.0. Google vs Facebook : le match va se corser. Facebook Reveals Most Shared Articles in 2011. Facebook has posted a Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011 Page that links more often to parenting-related topics, human interest pieces and odd trivia stories than it does to the major news stories of the year.

Facebook Reveals Most Shared Articles in 2011

The story type that appears most often on the list of 40 articles is parenting advice and parenting-related stories reported by CNN, The Washington Post, Yahoo News, The Wall Street Journal, and The Huffington Post. Another popular theme is the change in zodiac sings, which first gained media traction in late 2010 before spilling over into early 2011. A slightly less popular theme is the late Steve Jobs — but given that it’s a more recent development in the year, it comes as no surprise that people had less time to circulate the story through Facebook. The number one most-shared story, however, was a top news item — a New York Times photo gallery of Japan before and after the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Here’s the full list: 1. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Articles About Happy News, Sex Shared More on Facebook - Digits. Study: Twitter Beats Facebook for Media Attention in 2011. Study: Twitter Beats Facebook for Media Attention in 2011 Facebook was the second most-covered social site of the year with about 45% of all media hits, according to a report by HighBeam Research.

Study: Twitter Beats Facebook for Media Attention in 2011

Twitter was the media darling this year, earning nearly half of all the combined social media attention in the press and leading every month except for two when Facebook edged the other network. Facebook often makes headlines for its legal and privacy issues in addition to product changes that affect the social network’s 800 million users. Twitter, on the other hand, gets a lot of mentions in the press because of the celebrities and other notable people breaking news and feeding gossip on the site. Facebook has started to make a push with its Subscribe feature to get high profile people using the site as themselves rather than less personal pages.

According to data from HighBeam, Twitter received between 46 and 51% of media attention about social sites each month in 2011. Broadcast TV And Web Media Sites Winning In Online Video, Twitte. You can hardly run into a media site these days that no longer includes online video (even we are getting ready to launch TechCrunch TV).

Broadcast TV And Web Media Sites Winning In Online Video, Twitte

But which kinds of media sites are getting the most views? In a joint report put out today by Brightcove and Tubemogul (embedded below), the non-YouTube sites seeing the most success with online video are those of the broadcast TV networks and Web-only media brands, followed by magazine sites and music labels.

Newspaper sites are lagging when it comes to both total video views and growth. In terms of how people are finding these videos, a little more than half (51.75 percent) are navigating directly from the publisher’s main site. Following that, Google search is the next biggest source of video-viewing traffic (38.92 percent), followed by Yahoo (5.58 percent), Bing (2.29 percent) and Facebook barely registers (with only 0.40 percent).