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‘Everything you need to know about the changes coming to Facebook’ – ‘Mashable’

Samantha Murphy Kelly says, “Facebook announced a series of features and updates at its annual F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, and while the news is mostly targeted for developers and app designers right now, it could eventually mean big things for Facebook users. CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the two-day long conference with a major update to the Facebook Messenger chatting platform. Users will be able to send photos, GIFs, music and integrate with apps like ESPN and the Weather Channel. Other improvements were made to Facebook’s video player and its app analytics... [...]

‘Facebook Launches New Video Embeds & Comment Syncing From Site To Page’ – ‘Marketing Land’ Article

Martin Beck says, “Have you found the perfect Facebook video to illustrate a blog post? Now you can embed it directly on your site without its supporting post. Facebook also has a beta test that allows comments on publishers’ sites to sync to their Facebook Page and vice versa. Facebook announced the new features today at its F8 developers conference in San Francisco. Previously, if you wanted to embed video on your site, you had to embed the entire Facebook post containing the video. So like Twitter before it, Facebook is enabling YouTube-like video embedding. That will please publishers,... [...]

‘Facebook’s F8 keynote in under 2 minutes’ – ‘Mashable’

Chris Grasinger says, “Facebook’s annual F8 Developer Conference took place today in San Francisco. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team had a slew of announcements from immersive, 360-degree “spherical videos” to embedding Facebook videos directly to websites. Watch all of the highlights in under 2 minutes“. Facebook’s F8 keynote in under 2 minutes Mashable  [...]

‘What to expect at Facebook’s F8 conference’ – ‘Mashable’

JP Mangalindan says, “It’s a big week for Facebook. The company’s employees, developers and observers will descend upon San Francisco for F8, Facebook’s developer conference. Facebook often uses F8 to introduce some notable ideas and tweaks. CEO Mark Zuckerbergintroduced the “social graph” concept in 2007, referring to users’ connections on the social network. Four years later, Facebook unveiled Timeline, a chronology of users’ activity on their profile. Here’s what to expect at this year’s F8. Drones and satellites and lasers, oh my While... [...]

‘Facebook plans to soon add third-party apps to Messenger’ – ‘Mashable’

Karissa Bell says, “Facebook Messenger is slated to get a big overhaul. Mashable has learned Facebook plans to announce that it’s opening up Facebook Messenger to third-party apps during its upcoming F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco next week. The social network is set to announce about 20 third-party services, whose apps will work on top of Messenger when the integration rolls out, according to a person familiar with the matter. It’s not yet clear who the early partners are or what the integration will look like, but Facebook will likely expand the capability to more developers... [...]

‘You can now pay your friends through Facebook Messenger’ – ‘Mashable’

JP Mangalindan says, “Facebook’s long-awaited payments feature is finally here. On Tuesday, the social network announced a new feature for Messenger that lets users send and receive money to one another. The feature will roll out to Facebook users in the U.S. across desktop, Android and iOS over the next few months. SEE ALSO: Facebook Messenger Hack Reveals Mobile Payments Service Users who add their debit card information in Messenger’s settings section can send payments by striking up a conversation with a friend, selecting the “$” icon that will appear in the row... [...]

‘Facebook and HP Show Different Visions for Web-scale’ – Forrester

Richard Fichera says, “Recently we’ve had a chance to look again at two very conflicting views from HP and Facebook on how to do web-scale and cloud computing, both announced at the recent OCP annual event in California. From HP come its new CloudLine systems, the public face of their joint venture with Foxcon. Early details released by HP show a line of cost-optimized servers descended from a conventional engineering lineage and incorporating selected bits of OCP technology to reduce costs. These are minimalist rack servers designed, after stripping away all the announcement verbiage,... [...]

‘Facebook buys shopping search engine TheFind’ – ‘Mashable’

Jason Abbruzzese says, “Facebook has acquired TheFind, an ecommerce search app. TheFind announced the deal Friday on its website. “We are now starting our next chapter by combining forces with Facebook to do even more for consumers. Facebook’s resources and platform give us the opportunity to scale our expertise in product sourcing to the over 1 billion people that use the platform,” the company wrote. In the post, TheFind said many of its employees would be joining Facebook, and work on improving the relevance of the social network’s advertising. TheFind added that its... [...]

‘Facebook targets emerging markets with low-bandwidth ads’ – ‘Mashable’

JP Mangalindan says, “When a company such as Facebook hits $12.5 billion in annual revenues, up 58% year-over-year, sustaining growth becomes top priority. Last quarter, mobile ads accounted for 98% of Facebook’s revenue growth. Keeping the momentum going means capitalizing on new markets — places like India, Turkey and Kenya. In other words, emerging countries where many people skip the traditional computer in favor of smartphones or feature phones. A new Facebook program announced this week called Creative Accelerator helps brands like Coca Cola, Nestlé and Durex advertise in these... [...]

‘Facebook is changing how it counts Likes’ – ‘Mashable’

JP Mangalindan says, “Facebook is changing the way it counts Likes, the company announced on Thursday. Don’t panic, though; the changes only apply to celebrity and business pages. Facebook will no longer factor in Likes from users who have voluntarily deactivated their accounts or users who have passed away, according to a blog post. Facebook said the changes will offer businesses a clearer, more accurate idea of their Facebook audience, since neither of those groups are Facebook users. SEE ALSO: Facebook reaching out to users who might be suicidal “Over the coming weeks, Page admins... [...]


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