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Quit banging your iPad and hoping that Facebook’s new timeline profile will appear: You’ll have to wait until sometime in January. 9to5Mac reported that the social network is shooting for a mid- to late-January launch of timeline on its application for the Apple iPad tablet, after postponing the originally planned December release due to last-minute bugs. The iPad [...]
Social-media-management platform Conversocial tapped Facebook’s new application-programming interface to offer page managers near-real-time access to comments and posts on their pages. Conversocial said the previous Facebook API allowed it to pull data for its customers every 5-10 minutes, and it can now do so within 12 seconds. Users of the Conversocial platform can also delete filtered comments nearly [...]
This is the third time in the last few months that Facebook has helped in tracking criminals and proved useful in prevention of a crime twice. Recently, the lives of a Utah woman and her 17-month-old son were saved thanks to Facebook status update. The woman and her son were held hostage at a home for five [...]
Facebook was the most frequently searched term by British and American internet users in 2011, according to a new report. In the UK and US, Facebook topped the list of most-searched-for terms on the web, followed by YouTube and “Facebook login”. This makes Facebook the most searched for word overall for the third consecutive year. Facebook [...]
Facebook advertising developer Nanigans is thinking global, examining three key metrics in 20 countries to highlight where opportunities lie for advertising on the social network. Nanigans analyzed some 80 billion Facebook ad impressions managed by its Ad Engine platform during the third quarter, measuring: Reach: How many targetable users are in each country? Cost-per-click: How much will it [...]
Most people associate LinkedIn with job searches more than Facebook, but the latter site helped almost twice as many people find jobs than the former — 18.4 million compared to 10 million. To optimize your profile on the leading social network, post your qualifications in a note, which remains visible on your profile longer than other types [...]
Facebook Inc. has reached a settlement with federal trade regulators over charges it engaged in deceptive behavior when changing its privacy settings, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday. The settlement bars the social networking site from making any “further deceptive privacy claims” and requires the company to “get consumers’ approval before it changes the way it shares [...]
Facebook accounted for barely half a percent of total online sales during Cyber Monday, the busiest day of the year for online shopping, but IBM arrived at that figure and found that Cyber Monday chatter on social networks more than doubled (up 115 percent) compared with 2010. Our guess: People talk about shopping on Facebook without [...]
Yahoo News, The Washington Post,The Independent, and The Guardianhave amassed millions of readers for social editions of the publicationsthat launched in September. These publications are all sending large numbers of posts into Facebook news feeds, often to the point of eclipsing other types of content — until users start hiding or deleting them. Here’s how the social readers are faring. [...]
It’s the bane of modern life: the two-headed monster of identity theft and identity fraud. Though the terms are often used interchangeably, there is a difference. ID theft occurs when someone steals personal information about you- Social Security number, address, bank account numbers, etc. When they actually use that information for their own gain-like opening a [...]