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Facebook recently argued in court that the “Like” feature is an integral part of free speech. A lawyer for the company argued that “Likes” are “vital” to the 500m people who use Facebook every day and that they should be protected by the US Constitution.“Any suggestion that such communication has less than full constitutional protection would result in chilling the very valued means for communication the Internet has made possible,” Aaron Panner, Facebook Inc. (FB)’s lawyer said.The court ruling ...
What do you get when you combine a Facebook app with data about human rights abuses? That would be Trial by Timeline. Following in the wake of a number of similar interactive Take-this-Lollipop-style sites, this campaign by advertising agency Colenso BBDO for the New Zealand arm of Amnesty International scans your Facebook profile for 'crimes' that could get you lashed, stoned, imprisoned or beheaded in countries around the world.The site, which was originally launched late last year, has been gaining ...
Just as Google has a set of complex algorithms that determine where your website or content ranks in its search results, Facebook has its own set of algorithms that determine what content shows up in a user’s newsfeed. These algorithms have become what is now known as EdgeRank. While we can’t be exactly sure what Facebook takes into consideration, it has provided us with three elements that it claims determine EdgeRank.Affinity or the relationship the user has with the ...
Err. So. Facebook's big mobile app-slash-operating system bet doesn't seem to be paying off as yet. It's been a month since Facebook Home was released, but only around 0.1% of the social network's 1.11-billion monthly active users have installed the app -- and the hype seems to be fading fast.Home, the free Android launcher which is designed to bring your friend's updates to your lockscreen and let Facebook messenger chatheads follow you around your phone, hit half a million ...
Facebook's latest update to its Android app has seen it bringing in stickers, new-look business pages and what it calls "ongoing notifications".Stickers, the cute-meets-creepy animated emojii, were previously the reserve of Facebook Messenger but have now been baked into the full app. Also new is the ability to delete unwanted comments from your posts.The redesigned business pages meanwhile allow you to get directions, check in, and call businesses from the top of the page. This particular feature of ...
Facebook is rumored to be lining up another billion dollar buy with social traffic app Waze the target this time around.According to a number of Israeli publications, the social networking giant has been in talks with the navigation startup and is in the advanced due diligence phase of a deal set to be worth between US$800-million and US$1-billion. The two have apparently been in negotiations for the past six months.TechCrunch is meanwhile reporting and independent source has confirmed that ...Want proof that the market is a fickle creature? Despite reporting increased user numbers, income and revenue, Facebook's stock still fell slightly in after-hours trading.The social networking giant's Q1 results were positive and beat Wall Street's estimates. Revenue for the quarter totaled US$1.46-billion, an increase of 38%, compared with US$1.06-billion in the first quarter of 2012. Given that people have been worried about how well Facebook makes use of its advertising products, the news that ad revenue was up ...
It's no secret that Facebook has been furiously working to silence the critics who keep talking about its "mobile problem": the social network has revamped its mobile apps, started rolling out a more mobile-centric look to News Feed and launched its new 'apperating' system, Facebook Home, to cement its place on your phone. Why is this all so important? Because more and more of its users are Facebooking on the move.According to the social network's Q1 financial report, it ...
Look, can we all stop writing panicked articles about Facebook losing millions of users based on Socialbakers stats? It seldom turns out well.The social analytics service has, for the second time, written a blog distancing itself from an article written by The Guardian which suggests that Facebook has lost large numbers of users in its largest markets.Using stats from Socialbakers, the article suggests that Facebook has lost nearly nine-million US users over the past six months along with ...
Whatever its other effects, there's no denying the fact that alcohol is a pretty effective social lubricant. Trouble is, a few too many social lubricants will see you forgetting all the people they've helped you meet.Enter the Buddy Cup. It's a pretty cool real world meets social campaign from American brewing giant Budweiser's Brazilian arm. The Buddy Cup is a pretty standard beer drinking vessel, except it contains "high-tech chip technology integrated with Facebook". People connect to Facebook with ...
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