TripAdvisor today expanded the personalization of its travel site to highlight reviews from friends of users’ Facebook friends. When people research hotels, attractions or other vacation information on the site, they will see reviews first from their friends, followed by … Continue reading →
About 20 percent of Instagram users connect to Facebook through the mobile photo sharing app each month, according to an analysis using our AppData tracking service. This is up from 15 percent last year, and numbers related to Instagram’s Android … Continue reading →
Facebook and Instagram have been working together for weeks on an Open Graph integration for the mobile photo sharing app, Inside Facebook has discovered. Facebook, which announced today that it acquired Instagram for $1 billion in cash and Facebook stock, … Continue reading →
A report from marketing services company Experian says Pinterest is the third most popular social network in the U.S. after Facebook and Twitter. In past years when a social platform started to get traction as Pinterest has, Facebook responded by … Continue reading →
Facebook today shared stats that show how Open Graph integration has increased traffic, sign-ups and activity among video applications like Vevo, Viddy, Izlesene and Dailymotion. These apps mostly live off-Facebook, but the addition of automatic publishing to Ticker, Timeline and … Continue reading →
The Guardian reached a new record of unique visitors and page impressions for Guardian.co.uk in February, and the news organization attributes 30 percent of referral traffic to Facebook. That’s up from 2 percent only six months ago. The change is largely the result of a … Continue reading →
Six years since Twitter founders sent the first tweet, we wonder how the microblogging network might build on Facebook’s Open Graph. As Facebook encroaches on Twitter’s territory with the subscribe feature and interest lists, Twitter should consider ways to use … Continue reading →
Companies that create tab applications for artists’ Facebook pages are employing new tactics like Open Graph integration to counter the loss of landing tabs. Most page applications have experienced significant drops in daily and monthly active users now that Facebook … Continue reading →
Facebook today announced developers can build Open Graph applications that let users tag their friends and add locations to actions they take from the app. For example, Hulu could enable users to indicate whether they are watching a show with … Continue reading →
Facebook seeks larger credit line, adds more banks for IPO - Reuters reports that Facebook is set to increase its $2.5 billion credit line ahead of the financial blow the company will suffer after employee stock awards vest. As such, it has hired Deutsche Bank, … Continue reading →
