Facebook Testing Automatic 'Photo Syncing' Feature For Android Phones. Six Reasons Facebook is a $7 Stock. 5 Facebook Marketing Resources You’re Not Using Yet. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
While we recommend you turn to reliable blogs and media outlets for social media marketing advice, sometimes it's best to target the source itself. That's why we've collected five official Facebook marketing tools created by the social network. Facebook, Twitter and the economics of attention. Gabi Is a New Way to Visualize and Interact With Facebook. How you view your Facebook feed just got a little different.
Gabi is a new way to visualize and interact with the world's largest social network. Unlike other apps and sites that simply display your feed in different ways, Gabi lets you sort content on Facebook by things that are relevant to you. The app sorts that content by letting you create and ask questions from a Mad-Libs style template of options. World Map Of Social Networks Shows Facebook's Global Dominance. (Click here for a larger version of the world map of social networks) Twice a year (in June and in December), social media strategist Vincenzo Cosenza updates his ‘world map of social networks’, in which he shows what the most popular social network is in now 137 countries worldwide – at least according to a combination of Alexa and Google Trends for Websites traffic data.
The edition for June 2012 was published by Cosenza earlier this afternoon, and it shows just how dominant Facebook has become in almost all of the world. Funny caveat: Google+ stats are not displayed by Google Trends for Websites. According to the traffic data examined by Cosenza, Facebook is numero uno in 126 out of the 137 countries that were analyzed. Facebook goes Open Source (kind of) Facebook adds scheduled posts and administrator roles for Pages. A pair of features has been added to Facebook Pages — the social network's service for businesses, organizations, and brands — to help users manage time and participant duties.
Through the "Admin Roles" option from the Page's settings, managers can assign administrators one of five roles, each with different levels of access for updating pages, adding and removing posts and comments, viewing Insights, and more. Additionally, those with appropriate Page access can schedule posts for a future time and date. By clicking the clock icon when adding a post, updates can be scheduled at least 10 minutes out, are limited to 15-minute intervals, and can be placed on the calender up to 6 months in advance. This particular feature has been available through third-party options like Hootsuite, but it's nice to know that something as simple as scheduling posts has been finally been built into the service.
Facebook Rumored To Be In Talks to Acquire Opera to Create "Facebook Browser" What Facebook's Flop Means For Technology IPOs Later This Year. Facebook's 4 Biggest Risks. Facebook, whose stock is trading on public markets for the first time today, has had an incredible rise - from zero to 900 million users in just over eight years.
7 Reasons Why Facebook IPO Was A Bust. Facebook Highlights: The beginning of paid social networking? What’s Facebook mean for early developers? Huge traffic, apparently. A screenshot of Facebook's Timeline interface (click to enlarge) Facebook released some metricsaround early partners for its app platform, showing how the apps affect their traffic.
The results? Partners like Pinterest, Fab.com, Artfinder, Foodspotting and Foodily are seeing large increases in the number of users connecting to their sites. The Timeline apps platform was first announced at Facebook’s f8 developer conference last September, with 60 apps going live just a few weeks ago. But despite the newness of the apps, many partners are already seeing a significant uptick in traffic. In the fashion vertical, virtual pinboard site Pinterest, for instance, has seen the number of Facebook users visiting the increase by more than 60 percent. Food sharing app Foodspotting reported a 3x increase in the number of visits and activities, while recipe site Foodily touted a 4x increase in new users since its Timeline sharing app was released. Facebook Gives a Rare Look Into Its Technology. MENLO PARK, Calif.
(TheStreet) -- Facebook, which is planning for the biggest technology IPO later this year, gave a rare glimpse into its tech infrastructure in its regulatory filing. The social networker explained that it stores more than 100 petabytes of photos and videos within its IT systems. By way of comparison, a single petabye stored on CD-ROMs would create a pile of discs more than a mile high, according to the Library of Congress. Facebook’s Revenue Growth Strategy: Ad Targeting By In-App Behavior. Facebook has an answer to those wondering how it will justify its IPO price and keep revenues growing as it saturates key markets: a new behavioral ad targeting system.
Facebook has been quietly rolling out the beta of “Open Graph action spec targeting” which allows advertisers to target users by what they listen to, where they travel, what they buy, and other in-app activity. These behaviors can more accurately denote conversion potential than a user’s biography or interests, That means Open Graph action spec ad targeting could turn finding a needle in a haystack into shooting fish in a barrel.
The targeting options could improve the ROI of Facebook ads, and thereby attract a new class of advertisers, get existing ones to spend more, and pull in dollars from search, display, and offline channels. Since Facebook has already exhausted much of the supply of highly monetizable first world users, it will need to make more money per user to grow revenue. Personal Data’s Value? Facebook Is Set to Find Out. Robert Galbraith/Reuters An employee at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
The company, founded in 2004, now has some 800 million users. Robert Galbraith/Reuters A global operations area at the Menlo Park headquarters. The company has been busily collecting that data for seven years, compiling the information that its more than 800 million users freely share about themselves and their desires.
As the biggest offering of a social networking company, the sale is the clearest evidence yet that investors believe there is a lot of money to be made from the social Web. Facebook is considered so valuable because it is more than the sum of its users. Personal Data’s Value? Facebook Is Set to Find Out. Robert Galbraith/Reuters An employee at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
The company, founded in 2004, now has some 800 million users. Robert Galbraith/Reuters. Nick Kristof: Facebook Subscribers Are More Valuable Than Twitter Users. Mashable's Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore sat down at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof to talk about the future of journalism, his favorite social media tools and how he's using social games to increase activism. 10 Ways Facebook Is Integrating Into Your TV, Music, Games, Cars & Cameras. Researchers Flood Facebook With Bots, Collect 250GB Of User Data. In an experiment that reveals as much about the people on Facebook as it does about Facebook itself, researchers from the Unversity of British Columbia Vancouver infiltrated the social network with bots and made off with information from thousands of users.
Around 250GB of data was stolen during the study, including personal and marketable information, and around three thousand users were targeted. Only one in five of the profiles were flagged by the Facebook Immune System, which clearly needs a boost. The fake UBC accounts, which they call “socialbots,” were created from a few simple scripts, which submitted a the requisite account information: names, pictures, and status updates were trawled from the open web, eventually producing 102 fairly believable accounts. The intelligence organizing this effort is referred to evocatively as the “botherder” or “adversary.” Next, they sent friend requests to random people. You can download the full report here. Where In The World People Do Not Use Facebook.
Way back in December of last year, Facebook released its connections map. FlowingData.com recently released an inverse of the Facebook friendship map, showing where in the world people don't use the social network. Facebook has not been able to adequately penetrate the non-Western markets of China, Russia, South Korea and Japan. Where In The World People Do Not Use Facebook. Facebook, Ticker, and Timeline: What did Facebook Change at F8. One utterly confounding and intriguing question lies at the very heart of 'Mad Men': How many women can one married man sleep with over the course of 92 hour-long episodes?
Mad Men, the ambitious, award-winning AMC series, is embarking upon its seventh and final season this Sunday. Throughout its epic run, Mad Men has attempted to answer a myriad of fascinating and complex questions. They include: what is the American Dream? What does it mean to be a man? Can anyone ever be truly happy? But one utterly confounding and intriguing question lies at the very heart of the series: How many women can one married man sleep with over the course of 92 hour-long episodes? According to our count, the current number stands at over a dozen—and we still have all of Season 7 to go. Betty Draper Francis (January Jones) Betty Draper burst onto the small screen with an undeniable presence befitting the wife of the enigmatic Don Draper.
Midge Daniels (Rosemarie DeWitt) Rachel Menken (Maggie Siff) Facebook Says 600,000 Accounts Compromises Per Day. How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates. Over the past few years, we've seen social media used in the job market in a number of ways — startups, small businesses and large corporations alike are diving into the socialverse to find top talent, and job seekers are likewise getting creative with social media. Social media monitoring service Reppler recently surveyed more than 300 hiring professionals to determine when and how job recruiters are screening job candidates on different social networks.
The study found that more than 90% of recruiters and hiring managers have visited a potential candidate's profile on a social network as part of the screening process. And a whopping 69% of recruiters have rejected a candidate based on content found on his or her social networking profiles — an almost equal proportion of recruiters (68%), though, have hired a candidate based on his or her presence on those networks. What Facebook's Changes Mean for Marketers.
Facebook Unveils Tools for Sharing Music. Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg unveiled new ways for members to use the social network to share music, movies, TV shows, news and activities such as cooking and exercising. Facebook: Hot, Not, Or Lukewarm? [OPINION] Facebook's Eerie Goal: Why Timeline Changes Everything. For those out of the loop, Facebook just introduced the Timeline at its recent F8 Conference. Besides the obvious changes in aesthetics thanks to the Sofa acquisition, Timeline alters everything from the purpose of the Facebook profile, to the way Facebook is pushing users to rethink their own privacy. TechCrunch recently published an article about Why The Timeline Changes Nothing. Facebook Facing a $138,000 Fine For Holding Deleted User Data. How to Find Out Who Looks at Your Facebook Profile. Facebook, Privacy and Health. 10 Facebook Timeline Designs That Will Blow You Away [PICS] Facebook Is Getting Too Damn Complicated [OPINION] This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication.
How Facebook Mobile Will Evolve With HTML5. Yesterday we took a look at the history of Facebook mobile and how the company has taken a browser-based approach since almost the beginning of its mobile Web development. Keep that in mind with the announcements that Facebook is reportedly ready to make next week concerning its HTML5-based Web apps platform, the so-called Project Spartan. Facebook's Eerie Goal: Why Timeline Changes Everything. Client Infographic: Facebook, Privacy and Health. For the Path of the Blue Eye Project, InfoNewt (my company) recently designed the infographic: What You Need To Know: Facebook, Privacy and Health. The group at the Path of the Blue Eye Project has done some fantastic, primary research about online users’ willingness and attitudes about sharing health information online, and specifically Facebook. The answer is overwhelmingly “NO”. If Facebook is so popular (Pew reports that 62% of Web users frequent sites like Facebook and MySpace), why are people shying away from sharing health content with others on the site?
To answer this question, the Path of the Blue Eye Project commissioned a national survey designed to tease out some of the reasons why Americans are reluctant to exchange health information on Facebook. Facebook Launches New In-Line Translation Tool. Facebook engineers reveal details of the company's new joiner bootcamp. Social TV Just Got Real With Hulu On Facebook. Facebook: Hot, Not, Or Lukewarm? [OPINION] U.S. spent 53 billion minutes on Facebook in May : The Technology Chronicles. Facebook Begins Auto-Grouping Friends Into Smart Lists. Cool Infographics - Blog. Facebook makes its privacy settings act more like Google+ Where Are Your Facebook Friends Sitting? Ticketmaster Tells You. Exclusive: Facebook opens up about open-source software.
Is the future of social commerce on Facebook? How to Build Your Own Facebook App. Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia - Josh Sternberg - Technology.