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Director of Product at Facebook, Peter X. Deng has just posted this image to his Facebook wall. The comment on the post was “Thank you for letting us be a part of your lives.” We all knew this moment in history was coming, but just take a second to...
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The Facebook pages of 2GB sponsors have been flooded with calls for them to drop advertising on the radio network. Many customers posting that they feel so strongly that they won’t buy from that brand until they drop sponsorship from Alan Jones’ show. Change.org have been running a petition...
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If you’re an admin of a Facebook Page, you’ll now have a new option at your disposal. Facebook Offers let you share offers with people who Like your page and they can share them with their friends. Facebook says when a referral comes from a friend, it translates to...
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It’s not every day the CEO of Facebook does an interview, even rarer after the public IPO. Mike Arrington had the chance to grill Zuck at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. During the candid interview Zuckerberg revealed a number of interesting tid bits. It really is a...
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Facebook have introduced a new feature for those managing Pages. Recently we seen the introduction of promoted posts, but bizarrely this was restricted to personal profiles and not brand pages. Today the is being remedied and as you can see from the image above Promoted Posts are now available...
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Over the past 24 hours I’ve seen some pretty ordinary reporting from some high-profile sites like this and this around Facedeals. While most surface-level reporting simply see the colour blue and the word Face in the name and incorrectly join the dots, a little research would make it perfectly...
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We’re all very familiar with Facebook’s notification system. This morning you may notice an important change. Rather than simply saying a friend has commented on your photo, a thumbnail of which photo is shown in-line. Its a neat, useful feature that allows you to tell at a glance if...
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A new Facebook feature that is steadily rolling out to users is comment editing. This is useful when you realise that witty comment was a little hasty or contained a typo. The previous clumbsy resolution was to post a follow up comment with the correction or delete the comment...
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Those of us running WordPress-based sites should check out a new plugin that adds Facebook functionality to your site. The setup is pretty easy, just log into the admin panel of your self-hosted WP site and Add New plugin. Search for Facebook and the first result will be the...
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There aren’t too many Facebook account holders who haven’t rolled over (reluctantly, in most cases) to the latest iteration of the Profile: Timeline. Now, the social networking giant is road testing a new look to users’ Profile Page– on select accounts, at this stage. Take a look; The new...
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Update: While Facebook stock should be trading by now, almost half an hour after the scheduled time, it has been delayed. For how long exactly no-one knows, but TechCrunch are reporting its due to a last minute pop in demand which could have the initial trading price pop to...
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As if there wasn’t quite enough places to play Angry Birds, they’ve just added one more. That’s right, you can now play Angry Birds, right inside Facebook. I first noticed this in my Facebook Wall and yep, sure enough, the flash-driven game can be played right within the timeline...
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Your Facebook wall / timeline began as a clean feed of updates from your friends and family. As business adoption grew, we seen a number of apps publish activities to your wall (mostly opt-in), but now Facebook is adding a little something. Check your Facebook today and you may...
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This morning the world woke to news that Facebook was making its first large-scale, high-priced acquisition, Instagram. The smash hit photography app has garnered serious traction in less than two years and for a significant period was the creation of just two people, Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger....
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Facebook groups are currently receiving an update. The refresh serves dual duty, first of all making a group page much more visual, similar to the new Timeline. The second goal is to surface group members, particularly useful in larger groups where members can often get buried. There doesn’t seem...
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Telstra are currently trailing a Facebook application that allows customers to check their account details through Facebook. Limited to just 1,000 customers you better be fast if you want in on the trial. Telstra may be the number one telecommunications provider in the country, but by integrating with Facebook,...
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It seems that while the company was filing their submission to go public, the engineers and designers haven’t taken their foot off the pedal. Today also marks the release of an updated photo viewer. Photos posted on users walls open to a lightbox when clicked, but instead of comments...
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Facebook has just filed their initial public offering, the first step in taking the company public. For now the figure being raised is $5 Billion, which will turn hundreds of their employees into millionaires. Hopefully their contracts mean they have to stick around for a while after the filing...
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Over the past couple of months, a growing number of buy, swap and sell Facebook groups have started emerging. The second hand good market sure is a lucrative one, something eBay and others have built multi-million dollar businesses on. But times are changing, the transaction of second hand good...
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If you head to Facebook right now, you may see a new feature on your Wall, sorting. After Facebook recently changed the way information on your Wall was ordered (Top stories / Highlighted stories at top), a large number of users were unhappy. This option for sorting solves that...
