facebook application development

06, Apr, 11

Following Problems with Profile to Business Page Migrations, Facebook Introduces Appeals Process

Posted by Josh Constine, under Facebook, Pages, Policy, Profile

Last week, Facebook released a tool allowing users who had created a personal profile for a business venture to convert that profile into a Page and change their friends into fans. However, some users didn’t fully understand the consequences of conversion while others had their profile deleted but no new Page created due to a [...]

05, Apr, 11

Reppler Scans Your Facebook Profile for Objectionable Content and Security Risks

Posted by Josh Constine, under Connect, Facebook, Privacy, Profile, Safety, Security

Reppler is a new online reputation management tool that scans a user’s Facebook profile for objectionable content, privacy leaks, and security threats. The free tool can help users, especially young adults in the job market, ensure that their Facebook profiles don’t jeopardize their future prospects. This first iteration of Reppler has some deficiencies, most notably [...]

30, Mar, 11

Facebook Now Allows Personal Profiles To Be Converted Into Business Pages

Posted by Josh Constine, under Facebook, Pages, Profile

For the first time, Facebook now allows personal user profiles to be converted into official business Pages, turning all their friends into fans. The “Profile To Business Page Migration” tool will help people who either created a personal profile for a business before Pages existed, or accidentally started accumulating fans as friends instead of Likes. [...]

09, Mar, 11

Facebook Videos Moved to the Profile’s Photos Tab

Posted by Sara Inés Calderón, under Facebook, Photos, Profile, Video

A thread on Quora from Evan Priestley, an engineer with Facebook, outlines how the company has moved videos from its own separate tab to the photos tab on profiles. Pages continue to have a separate video tab with the new layout. The change may temporarily make videos difficult to find for some users. Priestley responded [...]

18, Jan, 11

Facebook Pushes Users to List Their Current City, Which Helps Advertisers

Posted by Josh Constine, under Advertising, Facebook, location, Marketing, Modules, Monetization, Profile

Facebook is using a new “Which city do you live in?” sidebar module to prompt users to list more personal information in their profile. The module suggests a city based on a user’s other data and connections, and allows them to add that city to their profile with a single click. Current city is one [...]

10, Jan, 11

Facebook Rolls Out December 2010 Profile Redesign to All Users

Posted by Josh Constine, under Facebook, Profile

Today Facebook began forcibly migrating users to the profile redesign which was launched as an optional upgrade on December 6th, 2010. The redesign puts more focus on a user’s profile information such as their work, current city, and relationship status, and displays recently tagged photos, family members, and selected Groups or friend lists on the [...]

04, Jan, 11

Facebook Promotes Friend Lists with Notification When Added to Featured People

Posted by Josh Constine, under Facebook, friend lists, Notifications, Profile

Facebook has been generating a new notification since the user profile redesign: It alerts a user when a friend list they’re a member of is added to the Featured People section of a friend’s redesigned profile. The notification is designed to promote awareness of friend lists which Facebook has said only 5% of users create. [...]

16, Dec, 10

Facebook Memories Shows Users a Year by Year Summary of their Activity

Posted by Josh Constine, under Facebook, Memories, Profile

Facebook users got an early look at a new feature this morning called Memories which lets users browse Facebook activity for each year since they joined. One of the accidentally revealed prototypes, Memories utilizes a navigation bar to lets user jump between years and view counts of each year’s status updates, added friends, Likes, and Events. Details [...]

07, Dec, 10

How the Redesigned Profile’s Recently Tagged Photos Panel Can Be Abused

Posted by Josh Constine, under Facebook, Photos, Profile, ViralCulture

An emergent behavior is demonstrating the unprecedented power users have over the profiles of friends who’ve opted into the new redesign. The five photos a user was most recently tagged in are displayed in a panel at the top of the profile. A user’s friends can therefore tag them in a sequence of photos to [...]

07, Dec, 10

How the New Profile Redesign Will Affect Facebook Monetization

Posted by Josh Constine, under Advertising, Development, Facebook, Marketing, Monetization, Pages, Profile

The user profile redesign released yesterday alters how Pages are discovered, and will provide more user information for advertisers to target. User Likes have been moved off of the primary tab, but reinforced with images, and users are prompted explicitly and socially to enter more biographical information. Better ad targeting will increase revenues for Facebook, [...]

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