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Facebook Search Now Displaying Top “Liked” Stories from Across the Web
In today’s world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results — for Facebook and web content — based on “Likes” and shares.
Facebook appears to have quietly rolled out the beefed-up… »
A Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Insights
Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy.
You have created a Facebook Fan Page. Now what? I bet these questions come to mind: “Is my page a success?” “Who is… »
Project Dance Party: Facebook’s Secret Twitter-Like Follow Feature
Yesterday, news broke about a new feature Facebook is testing out called “Subscribe.” For a second, I thought it might be the equivalent of Twitter’s “follow” ability — that is, a feature which would let you follow the updates of someone that you’re not technically “friends” with on Facebook. Sadly, that’s not the case. Instead, this is… »
Project Dance Party: Facebook’s Secret Twitter-Like Follow Feature
Yesterday, news broke about a new feature Facebook is testing out called “Subscribe.” For a second, I thought it might be the equivalent of Twitter’s “follow” ability — that is, a feature which would let you follow the updates of someone that you’re not technically “friends” with on Facebook. Sadly, that’s not the case. Instead, this is… »
How Tagged Found A 100 Million User Path Post Facebookocalypse (Video)
Heard of Tagged? Back in 2005 it was a teenager-only social network, catering primarily to U.S. high school students as Facebook charged through the college crowds. By 2007 they were profitable and worth over $100 million.
Just one problem though. Facebook eventually started letting high school students in, and then everyone else. Tagged responded by opening… »
Facebook Wants To Be In A Relationship With The Big Boys — They Want To Be Just Friends
Yesterday, Apple launched iTunes Ping, their new music social network. Part of that launch was a very basic implementation of Facebook Connect, simply to hook in and find out which of your Facebook friends were also using Ping. I tried it yesterday and it worked fine. But this morning the option vanished and everyone was… »
Facebook Testing a “Stalker Button”
Facebook is apparently testing a new subscription feature that would allow users to receive alerts any time a specific friend takes certain actions on the social network.
AllFacebook reports that it has noticed the new feature popping up on friends’ profiles. Facebook told the blog, “This feature is being tested with a small percent of users…. »
Facebook Beefs Up Security with Remote Logout Feature
Facebook is bolstering the security of user accounts through the launch of a new feature that gives users the ability to see their overall account activity and remotely log out of active sessions.
Have you ever logged into your Facebook at a public computer, but forgot to log out when you left? What if you left… »
Facebook Connect Disappears from iTunes Ping
Late last evening, Apple released iTunes 10 and its new Ping social network to the public. Assuming you were able to access the service, you may have noticed the ability to add friends via Facebook Connect, a feature we mentioned in our first-impressions post last night.
That feature disappeared earlier this morning, as first noted by… »
Facebook Testing “Subscribe”, Their Version Of Follow — Well Sort Of, Maybe
I feel like all I’ve written about the past few weeks is Facebook’s need for a new social dynamic. Specifically, I want Facebook to break their social graph into two: those people who you are friends with, and those who you follow — for sharing purposes. It seems that Facebook may be testing something like that… »

