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Facebook Shows Your Likes in Common on Profiles of Other Users

Facebook has been quietly adding a “Likes in Common” link to personal profiles in recent weeks. Located in the Likes box beneath Friends and above Photos in the left sidebar, it pops up a window showing which Pages both you and another user are connected to.

Visibility of the Likes panel can be controlled in the… »

Involver Customizes the Facebook Marketing Experience

Involver was founded in Palo Alto, Calif. in 2007 by Rahim Fazal and Noah Horton and provides software and custom development services to its clients. The company aims to help brands and agencies solve four central issues through social media: engage customers, get attention through earned media, automate this process… »

New Security Features Lets Users End Active Facebook Sessions Remotely

Facebook is rolling out a new security allowing users to remotely log out of any Facebook session active on another device. If a user logs in to Facebook on a public computer or a friend’s mobile device and forgets to log out when they’re done, they can visit their Account->Account … »

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,… »

How The Top 10 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… »

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… »