Hiyalife Release An iPhone App For Its Privacy-Aware Memories Platform
TechCrunch - Back in the day a few startups came along to bring the interface of a time-line to our memories. We're all familiar with the Facebook news-feed approach, though in fairness, timelines are...
View ArticleWhy Every Social Network Should Be Betting On In-Stream, Native Advertising
Business Insider - The native-social rush is on. BIA/Kelsey estimates that social ad spend will reach over $10 billion by 2017 and that up to 40% or more of those outlays will go to native ads. In the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Webscape: Tailoring your news feed
BBC News - Kate Russell reviews a site which selects news based on your social media accounts plus other sites and apps.
View ArticleHere's Why Native Advertising Will Rescue The Mobile Advertising Industry
Business Insider - A native ad is conceived for specific sites or apps and are a natural part of the experience. One example is the Facebook ads that show up in your news feed, another is the...
View ArticleTwitter's New Look: Pictures And Video Now Appear Automatically On Newsfeed
Huffington Post - Twitter has a new look - and it's probably really going to annoy a lot of people. The change means that pictures and image previews appear automatically on your news feed, in the same...
View ArticleFacebook contemplates tracking your every move
CNET - (Credit: Screenshot/Jennifer Van Grove/CNET) Facebook is testing new Web and mobile tracking methods to better understand member behavior and determine things such as how long people hover over...
View ArticleFacebook earnings top expectations
San Francisco Chronicle - Facebook posted stronger-than-expected earnings Wednesday as advertising revenue grew 66 percent and the company continued to tap into the growing market of mobile users....
View ArticleAdvertising: It Slices, It Dices, It Looks Great in Your News Feed
New York Times - An online campaign for the kitchen appliance maker Bella encourages young people to use smartphones to post about it to social networks.   Â
View ArticleFacebook fizzle?
CNBC - Channing Smith, Capital Advisors Growth Fund, and Jordan Rohan, Stifel, discuss how fickle teenagers are impacting Facebook's shares. Ad inventory in news feed is a worry for investors, says Smith.
View ArticleAnalysts Are Pounding The Table Telling Investors To Buy Facebook Amid...
Business Insider - Facebook posted extremely healthy financial results yesterday. It's recently non-existent mobile ad business is huge, and accelerating. Then, during a conference call to discuss the...
View ArticleTwitter silent on when it'll turn a profit
San Francisco Chronicle - Investors are looking for sustainable business models after Internet companies such as Groupon saw their shares crater when they went public without profits. Groupon started...
View ArticleFacebook shares close at $50.21 after sales report
San Francisco Chronicle - The social networking service reported sales of $2.02 billion in the third quarter, beating analysts' estimates as marketers spent more on advertisements targeting smartphone...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Is Finally Updating Yahoo Finance, Though Today's Launch Has...
Business Insider - Yahoo planned to roll-out a redesigned version of Yahoo Finance this morning, but the launch has been delayed. The Wall Street Journal's Douglas MacMillan broke the news. MacMillan...
View ArticleYahoo updates iOS Finance app to make it more personal
CNET - The Yahoo Finance app now lets you track your favorite stocks. (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Yahoo has revamped its iOS Finance app to help you keep better track of your portfolio....
View ArticleNikki Finke out at Deadline Hollywood
Politico - Nikki Finke, the blogger whose name is synonymous with Hollywood scoops and gossip, has finally parted ways with Deadline.com after a year of feuding with the site's owner, Jay Penske. "Jay...
View ArticleTrending Now: Facebook plugs buzzy posts in News Feed
CNET - @jbruin - Facebook has moved "trending topics" from the sidebar to the news feed: pic.twitter.com/wde5HHFbbuâ Nicholas Zahn (@nzahn1) November 6, 2013 Facebook is showing some members stories...
View ArticleOpen pages in Chrome as panels with PIP Viewer extension
CNET - You can juggle multiple tabs in Chrome, and you can juggle multiple windows. With Chrome extension Picture in Picture Viewer, you gain a third option: the ability to open a Web page as a Chrome...
View ArticleThe 10 funniest Twitter parody videos online
Investor's Business Daily - Newly public Twitter (TWTR) proved popular with investors this week, but it has long been a favorite target of comedians. The San Francisco-based microblogging service and...
View ArticleFacebook's redesigned Messenger takes aim at WhatsApp, Snapchat
PC World - Facebook is hoping to gain a stronger foothold in the competitive mobile messaging space with an updated version of its Messenger app, which now lets people message each other even if they...
View ArticleWeâd Double Tap That: The 25 Hottest Instagram Accounts
New York Observer - Instagram is notoriously puritanical when it comes to steamy content. Searching for hashtags like #hot and #sexy will yield zero results because the photo sharing app blocks them....
View ArticleTwitter, Internet company valuations spur bubble talk
Investor's Business Daily - With money-losing Internet companies getting sky-high valuations, some investors are feeling deja vu from the dot-com bubble. Talk of a new tech stock bubble is increasing....
View ArticleDoes Facebook need a cemetery?
CNET - Your own Facebook memorial. Does death disrupt your day? By "your day," I of course mean your Facebook news feed, the place where all news happens and all feelings are expressed. Some people...
View ArticleHeroes of the Storm Dev Apologizes for Sexualized Character Designs Comments
Electronic Gaming Monthly - Posting on the Heroes of the Storm news feed yesterday, game director Dustin Browder apologized for comments made during a recent Rock, Paper, Shotgun interview concerning...
View ArticleLike our Cleveland Browns news page on Facebook
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Get the latest Browns news right in your Facebook news feed.
View ArticleFacebook Is Replacing Its âHide Allâ Button With âUnfollowâ
TechCrunch - Here's a new tweak to how Facebook users can filter their News Feeds: The company says it's rolling out a button that allows you "unfollow" other users. To be clear, it sounds like the...
View ArticleFacebook to deliver more news, fewer memes in News Feed
CNET - Facebook said Monday that it will start showing members more links to news articles when they visit the social-networking site, especially when they do so from their smartphones. The...
View ArticleFacebook's Feed Adds More Links And âRelated Articlesâ To Battle News...
TechCrunch - Facebook is determined to be your top content discovery destination, so it's making several tweaks to its News Feed, including showing more links to articles, displaying a "related...
View ArticleFacebook pushes news to the top -- literally
Macworld - So long, Lil Bub: A Monday News Feed update will feature news articles more prominently than memes.
View ArticleExtra! Extra! Facebook now highlighting the news with updated rankings
PC World - Facebook is retooling its ranking system to make some news articles appear more prominently at the expense of other content such as certain photos, the company announced Monday.No longer...
View ArticleFacebook tweaks News Feed to share 'high quality articles' more than memes
UK Independent - Facebook is changing the way its News Feed algorithms sort shared content in order to better promote high quality content.   Â
View ArticleBooting Up: Darth Vader Joins Instagram But His Selfie Technique Is Pretty Weird
New York Observer - Not how this works! (Photo: Instagram) Cyber Monday sales exploded 20 percent higher than last year as more shoppers prefer the Internet over the mall. [Bloomberg] Apple purchased...
View ArticleWonkblog: How Facebook could kill the new wave of viral media
Washington Post - On Monday, I wrote about what the media can learn from the massive traffic generated by the viral hitmakers at Gawker, Buzzfeed, Upworthy, Viral Nova, and so on. That same day,...
View ArticleHow Facebook's News Feed Changes Will Hurt Twitter
Business Insider - Yesterday, Facebook announced major changes to its News Feed to show more news articles and high-quality content and fewer LOLCats, meme photos, and boring status updates (Business...
View ArticleUnderstanding Facebook's FBX â Social Media's First Ad Exchange
Business Insider - KEY POINTS Facebook Exchange or FBX is the platform digital advertisers use in order to target Facebook users in real-time within Facebook, with ads based on their past Web browsing...
View ArticleFacebook Introduces An 'Unfollow' Button
Huffington Post - (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has replaced its "Hide All" button with the more succinct "Unfollow," letting users block all messages and posts from selected friends. As with the previous...
View ArticleComing to Facebook: An 'Unfollow' button
Christian Science Monitor - Facebook is also tweaking its News Feed algorithm to focus on more actual news, according to reports.
View ArticleFacebook Tweaks News Feed - Analyst Blog
Nasdaq - Facebook Inc. ( FB ) continues to add features to its News Feed to make it the top live events content provider. These tweaks include links to different articles, which would be displayed in a...
View ArticleDon't Want To Unfriend Someone On Facebook? Now You Can Unfollow Them Instead
Forbes - I've had Facebook for almost 10 years, and as a result have amassed quite a few "friends." At one point in time, these "friends" may have actually been real, close friends that I spent time in...
View ArticleFacebook dominates mobile apps, survey says
CNET - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Facebook is tops among mobile users, at least based on the results of a recent survey. Related posts Snapchat poaches Facebook exec for...
View ArticleFacebook to promote high-quality content on News Feed
Digital Spy - The social network will use sources to determine high and low-quality content.   Â
View Article7 keyboard shortcuts for Google+ notifications
CNET - (Credit: Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET) Related stories Tips for navigating the new Google+ stream How to use Feedly Web with keyboard shortcuts Navigate your Facebook News Feed with keyboard...
View ArticleFacebook rolls out auto-play videos on mobile
Digital Spy - The feature means native videos will play automatically from the News Feed.   Â
View ArticleGet ready to 'sympathize' with your Facebook friends
WDIV NBC Detroit - Tired of awkwardly clicking 'like' on sad status updates on your Facebook news feed?
View ArticleThis Facebook Exec Doesn't Like Buzzfeed, And That's Very Bad News For...
Business Insider - In Buzzfeed, Huffington Post veteran Jonah Peretti has created a massive new media property with 130 million monthly unique visitors. Buzzfeed got huge by creating (and...
View ArticleFacebook reportedly tables release of new News Feed
CNET - This version of News Feed, unveiled in early March, is one you'll likely never get. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) Facebook's new News Feed, unveiled with pomp and circumstance back in March,...
View ArticleBooting Up: Facebook Wants News Feed To Be More Like a Newspaper Since Those...
New York Observer - Not happening. (Photo: Facebook) If Facebook's VP of Product Chris Cox has his way with the redesigned News Feed, content from viral aggregators like BuzzFeed won't be surfaced as...
View ArticleSpotify mobile music is free - with a catch
CNET - CNET Update has a message for Santa: Spotify mobile music is free - with a catch In this episode of CNET Update: - Stream Spotify for free on your phone, but you'll have limited control over...
View ArticleFacebook's trite News Feed hits crisis mode
San Francisco Chronicle - Active users of Facebook likely already suspect what has emerged as a topic of intense discussion in the technology blogosphere this week. News Feed, the social network's most...
View ArticleFacebook Puts Its Web Feed In Motion With Auto-Playing Videos
TechCrunch - The News Feed is about to get a lot more lively. Just days after pushing its auto-play feature for videos to all mobile users, today we spotted auto-playing videos on Facebook.com, and the...
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