You have to feel bad for Yahoo. The one-time dominate web company now seems to be constantly staving off the thought of bankruptcy as a result of failing to transition into the mobile market as its counterparts have. But that doesn’t mean that it’s giving up on the mobile world. Last year, the company launched [...]
Facebook COO Shifts Europe focus from privacy to economy - At a recent conference in Europe, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the audience that the economy is probably more of a concern than privacy. She said so given an impending … Continue reading →
Developers can now request permission to access lists of users’ subscribers and who they subscribe to via the Graph API. Facebook announced this and a few other changes in a blog post Wednesday. With read permissions for subscriptions, apps can … Continue reading →
California Facebook Ad Lawsuit Proceeds - A U.S. District Judge in California has rejected Facebook’s request to dismiss a lawsuit from people claiming the site’s social advertisements count as unauthorized use of their names and likenesses. Facebook the Top Searched … Continue reading →
Facebook has updated the functionality of typeahead search to direct users straight to applications instead of navigating users to the app’s About Page. This change makes it easier for existing users to find apps they’ve already installed (and perhaps cannot … Continue reading
Search makes up 34% of all external referral traffic to Facebook Pages, with Google 27.5% coming from Google, according to a six month study of 1,000 Pages by analytics provider PageLever. This means Facebook Page admins should be concerned with search engine optimization when naming Pages, filling in fields on the Info tab, posting content, [...]
Facebook users can currently see the usually hidden list of which friends they interact with most by running a line of JavaScript through a bookmarklet created by developer Jeremy Keeshin. When the bookmarklet is clicked while one browses Facebook, an overlay called “Facebook Friend Rankings” appears in which the lower the number next to a [...]
Keyword-based app search engine startup Quixey added the ability to find Facebook apps this week. Users can now type in what they’re trying to do, such as “promote my band” and receive recommendations of apps across mobile operating systems, browsers, social networks, and the web. Quixey does a satisfactory job, returning generally relevant results, but missing some of the [...]
The primary means of app discovery on Facebook is sharing between friends, but the company is today announcing changes to the other options — search, and its Application Directory. “Many developers have been confused about what it means to submit to the App Directory and frustrated by the length of time it took to get [...]
Cost-per-action social media and search advertising service Taykey has just closed a $9 million second round of funding led by Sequoia Capital. The company tracks social media mention and search trends in real-time to take advantage of urgent advertising opportunities and interest-based targeting parameters to power Facebook, Twitter, and search campaigns. Here’s a closer look at [...]
