Facebook edges into Foursquare territory with place tips on iOS
Macworld - Foursquare transformed itself last year into a hyper-local concierge always running in the background of your phone--and your life. Now Facebook is taking a cue from the recommendation app...
View ArticleFacebook Is Making News Feed Better By Asking Real People Direct Questions
Wired - It's a well-known fact that Facebook's flagship feature, News Feed, is run by algorithms. But Facebook knows that it can do better than relying solely on these cold computations.
View ArticleFacebook uses human testers to tweak your News Feed
Digital Trends - The world's largest social network uses a small team of testers to get detailed feedback on the News Feed -- and their responses are revealing more about how we make use of social media.
View ArticleFacebook News Feed Has Gotten Better Thanks To Special Focus Groups
Inquisitr - Facebook's news feed has always been the social media site's crowning jewel. This is the function that allows people to stay on the site after they have posted
View ArticleWhen your Facebook "like" is not a like
Quartz - Facebook's not convinced you always mean it when you hit "like." On a continual quest to make news feeds more relevant to users, Facebook has tapped hundreds of people in the US to vet shared...
View ArticleTopface Facepalms As It Surrenders To Data Breach Hacker Blackmail
Forbes - This evening while I was pursuing my news feed I stumbled onto an interesting story about a data breach earlier this week. A large Russian dating site called Topface was compromised in a data...
View ArticleTwitter is going to be much more fun for people who sign up now
UK Independent - Twitter is testing out plans to automatically create a timeline for people when they join the service, avoiding the empty news feed that puts many users off, according to reports.
View ArticleFacebook's News Feed changes have been "catastrophic" for non profits
Business Insider - Reduced engagement is a threat to a community where social interaction is vital.
View ArticleFacebook Organic Reach Decline Called 'Catastrophic' For Nonprofits As News...
International Business Times - Visibility has plummeted, and groups say vital information is being quashed. Does Facebook have a social responsibility to try harder?
View ArticleThe 4 Types of Couples On Social Media
Huffington Post - I was innocently scrolling through my Facebook news feed before bed a few nights ago, and I noticed a friend had checked-in to a location they created called "our bed," with their...
View ArticleHow to block Valentine's Day from Facebook
CNET - For singles, the romance-averse or anyone who just wants to remove cupid's trace from social media, here's how to block Valentine's Day from your Facebook news feed.
View ArticleWhy Brands Want To Know Everything About Your Body
Huffington Post - It's been said that when a technology is free to use, you are not the customer, you are the product. That remains true - but now with apparel company Under Armour's acquisition of...
View ArticleESPN launches a sleek new universal app to replace the aging SportsCenter app
Business Insider - ESPN is overhauling everything this year, but before its website gets a makeover in April to mark its 20th anniversary, the sports giant is launching a new suite of apps with the...
View ArticleFacebook Is Talking to Publishers About Hosting Their Content
ReCode - Facebook product head Chris Cox talks video and News Feed with Re/code at Code/Media.
View ArticleChris Cox on Facebook's Virtual Reality Ambitions
ReCode - Onstage at Re/code's Code/Media conference, Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox talks virtual reality and how it might work in Facebook's News Feed.
View ArticleComcast Gears Up for NASCAR
Broadcasting & Cable - Almost six months after announcing it would take over as the title sponsor of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Comcast said Thursday that it has rolled out enhancements for its X1...
View ArticleMeet the Man Who Fills Your News Feed: Facebook Product Boss Chris Cox (Video)
ReCode - Here's the full video from last week's spotlight interview at Code/Media.
View ArticleWhy do people find it so strange to take photos of your food? - Not About...
CHOW.com - Page 1 of Why do people find it so strange to take photos of your food? - I've wondered this for some time now. I often see people saying things on social media like "Please don't blow up my...
View ArticleYou think Snapchat is for sexting, but it's actually a giant threat to...
SFGate - Like broadcast TV in an era before DVR or VCR, if you miss a story during its 24-hour run, you will never see it again. The second major difference is that Snapchat Stories are not...
View ArticleMeet the Facebook-savvy activist behind Iran's headscarf revolt
The Week - Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad says she got goose bumps when Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg commented a few days ago that her favorite page on the social network is the...
View ArticleMeet the Facebook-savvy activist behind Iran's headscarf revolt
The Week - Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad says she got goose bumps when Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg commented a few days ago that her favorite page on the social network is the...
View ArticleTragic news video is showing up more in Facebook's News Feed
Mashable - More hard news is breaking first on Facebook, right alongside those happy wedding announcements.
View ArticleMWC Day four roundup: LG Watch Urbane LTE, Ford, Samsung and more
Digital Trends - Mobile World Congress is drawing to a close in Barcelona, but announcements of new gadgets and services keep pouring out like a leaky faucet. If you haven't been poring over your news...
View ArticleCarly Harrington: Facebook pilots News Feed program in Knoxville
Knoxville News Sentinel - For seven months, Facebook has been operating a pilot program in Knoxville, where 30 people have been tasked with deciding which stories in the News Feed they like.
View Article6 Must-Have Mobile Apps for Digital Marketers
CIO - There's no shortage of tools for digital marketers, social media consultants, and SEO gurus these days. However, many of the most popular utilities are available only through Web browsers or as...
View ArticleThe 15 Apple Watch apps we're most excited to try
Business Insider - The Apple Watch is almost here, and already thousands of apps are being developed for the new device. Apple announced a few new apps during its big Apple Watch event, but we've...
View ArticleFacebook Turning Your News Feed Chatter Into Ad Dollars
PC Magazine - Facebook is sharing more of its data on users' activities with advertisers to help them make decisions on how to market their products on the site.
View ArticleAnthony Weiner's Twitter Lady Snags Another Democrat
American Spectator - It's been all Clinton all the time in my news feed, so we're definitely due for a palate cleanser. While we've all been reliving the most important sex scandal of the 1990s...
View ArticleHow to hack the News Feed for Facebook domination
Daily Dot - Hungry for a little Facebook attention? Here's how to get it
View ArticleWill Yellen Delay Rate Hike on Dollar Strength?
Bloomberg - Saatch & Saatchi Executive Chairman Kevin Roberts and Bloomberg Intelligence's Josh Wright discuss Fed policy, the dollar and Facebook's news feed. They speak on "Bloomberg...
View ArticleWill the Fed Move to a More Normal Policy Rate?
The Business Journals - March 13 -- Saatch & Saatchi Executive Chairman Kevin Roberts and Bloomberg Intelligence's Josh Wright discuss Fed policy, the dollar and Facebook's news feed. They speak on...
View ArticleFacebook Acquires Shopping Search Engine, TheFind
Marketing Land - Facebook says it will use TheFind's technology to make News Feed ads more relevant. TheFind will shut down its search engine in the next few weeks.
View ArticleMan Vapes Semen: 5 BS News Stories That Went Viral
Cracked - It's in uncertain times such as these that we at Cracked must renew our sacred vow to expose the inaccuracies, exaggerations, and flat-out inventions currently filling your news feed.
View ArticleHuman Head Transplants By 2017: 5 BS Stories That Went Viral
Cracked - It's in uncertain times such as these that we at Cracked must renew our sacred vow to expose the inaccuracies, exaggerations, and flat-out inventions currently filling your news feed.
View ArticleEstimated 100,000 Rally for Bibi in Tel Aviv
PJ Media - HAPPENING NOW: Police in Tel Aviv estimate about 100,000 people participating in a pro Likud rally in Rabin square. pic.twitter.com/hv37bEklQeâ Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) March 15,...
View ArticleRoku adds ABC News to its channel lineup
TechHive - Roku announced the addition of ABC News to its catalog of streaming channels Monday. To be found under the "News" section of the U.S. Roku Channel Store, the ABC News streaming channel is...
View ArticleRoku adds ABC News to its channel lineup
PC World - The ABC News streaming channel gives cord-cutters invested in the Roku ecosystem free, uninterrupted access to the news outlet's live news feed.
View ArticleTwitter tried to cripple its newest video rival Meerkat, but Meerkat started...
Business Insider - Meerkat's latest update delivers on Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin's promises to introduce new features to the live-streaming app, and they go a long way in making it easier for people to...
View ArticleLet consumers correct Internet data
San Antonio Express-News - Meinrath is director of X-Lab, a nonprofit that "anticipates the disruptions and dystopian outcomes of tech policy decisions and aims to help humanity change course." [...]...
View ArticleThere's One Big Plot Hole In 'The Little Mermaid' That Changes Everything
Huffington Post - Now hold on just one fin-flipping minute. While scrolling through my Facebook news feed this weekend, I came across a friend's post that posed an interesting question about that...
View ArticleFacebook plans to let users read popular news sites without leaving Facebook
The Verge - Mark Zuckerberg has often described Facebook as a newspaper for its users. A place where the stories that are interesting to them ? the births, the birthdays, the parties, the gossip ? are...
View ArticleThe Other Shoe Drops: Facebook May Soon Host News Sites' Content Inside Facebook
Fast Company - Facebook is persuading news sites to host their content on Facebook. It part of the network's grand plan to keep users within its walls. Last summer, the Gawker website received about 15...
View ArticleFacebook's 'On This Day' lets you take a nostalgia-filled trip to the past
iMore - Facebook announced a new feature for the social platform called "On This Day" that let's users take a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The feature works much like the Timehop posts you've no...
View ArticleFacebook's 'On This Day' lets you take a nostalgia-filled trip to the past
iMore - Facebook announced a new feature for the social platform called "On This Day" that let's users take a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The feature works much like the Timehop posts you've no...
View ArticleFacebook News Feed Is About to Get Real (FB)
Investor Place - FB is reportedly attempting to convince media outlets to hand over their content. What might the future be with Facebook News in control?
View ArticleFacebook To Support Spherical Video In News Feed And Oculus
TechCrunch - Facebook is going to support spherical video in News Feed, and in the Oculus hardware it creates through Oculus VR. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the..
View ArticleBig Changes Are Coming To Facebook. Here's What We Know So Far
Huffington Post - Facebook might be coming for your news, but that's just the beginning. A bunch of new features and services appear to be in the works, as well. Here's what we know so far. First: Your...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg: Facebook News Feed Will Be Mostly Video In Five Years
Hollywood Reporter - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed a big emphasis on video during the opening keynote address at the tech giant's annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
View ArticleFacebook turns Messenger into a platform at F8
The Verge - During his F8, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the next phase in Facebook Messenger: Messenger Platform. According to Zuckerberg, the app can now be used to create and share content in line and...
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