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Tony Blair’s Autobiography Gets Filed Under “Crime” Thanks To Facebook

A new group on Facebook which calls on users to move Tony Blair’s new autobiography to the “Crime” section, has attracted thousands of members in hours. According to the Metro, “Bookshops have reported finding copies of A Journey moved to the crime section, as well as to the fantasy section.”

While the group, “Subversively move… »

Puppy Throwing Girl Arrested After Thousands Protest Her On Facebook

Talk about a week of animal abuse. Following one woman who was placed under police protection after thousands of Facebook users protested her for throwing a cat in a trash bin, comes a girl who has been arrested for throwing puppies in a river. The Bosnian girl was arrested following another Facebook protest… »

The Most Common Facebook Advertising Mistake

I’ve had the opportunity to work with a number of individuals in the past who are responsible for the marketing within an organization. As soon as the concept of Facebook advertising is introduced they get excited, however more often than not, they end up disappointed by their advertising performance. The reason isn’t that… »

Facebook Roundup: Search, Revenue, Traffic, Music, Plixi, Egypt, and Prineville

Facebook Integrates News Stories Into Search – Facebook now displays items friends have Liked on third-party web sites within the suggested matches drop-down menu of its top search bar. Articles are not surfaced solely on the number of Likes a given article receives, the company explains, and adds that the feature launched to all users… »

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… »

BREAKING: Facebook Now Displaying All Liked News Articles In Search Results

Another big upgrade from Facebook: the company is currently testing search results which display articles ranked by likes. Additionally, the results for searches now shows the results from all around the web based on two things: the number of likes and the number of friends who liked that object, most likely leveraging some of… »

How the top U.S. airlines use Facebook

We all know that social media, and Facebook in particular, are increasingly important marketing channels. The travel industry, which I take a close interest in, has been one of the early adopters for social media marketing. Travel tech website Tnooz recently had a story about how the top 10 airlines worldwide used Facebook.

The Tnooz list was… »

PlacePop Facebook App Brings Places Check-Ins Feed To The Web Interface

PlacePop, maker of a digital loyalty card iPhone app, released a Facebook app this week for monitoring activity in Facebook’s location product Places. It includes a Places activity feed for viewing the recent check-ins by your friends, a feature included in the touch.facebook.com and Facebook for iPhone versions of Places,… »

PlacePop Facebook App Brings Places Check-Ins Feed To The Web Interface

PlacePop, maker of a digital loyalty card iPhone app, released a Facebook app this week for monitoring activity in Facebook’s location product Places. It includes a Places activity feed for viewing the recent check-ins by your friends, a feature included in the touch.facebook.com and Facebook for iPhone versions of Places,… »

Facebook Tests New “Subscribe To” Option for Friends and Pages

Facebook is testing out another way of keeping track of your friends or Pages: an option to “subscribe to” them, then see all of their updates within your notifications list, accessible at the top of the Facebook interface. The feature, at least as it has appeared in the wild, could be especially useful if there’s… »