Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer is suing Facebook over its ‘Like’ button. Companies get sued all the time! Why do we care? Well, aside from having an A+ name, van Der Meer is actually… dead. He passed away in 2004, just as Facebook was beginning to take over the world. Why is he suing now? More »
Facebook is reported to have started testing a Buy Tickets button (according to AllFacebook), where users can now buy tickets to events they feel like attending. The flip side, the button does not lead to any place within Facebook. Instead users are still directed to third party websites. The button appears within News Feed stories of the event and within the upcoming events section.
However it is a possibility that Facebook might change the way the buy ticket button functions and might start taking the transactions in its own hands. If this does happen, online marketing trends will shift heavily towards Facebook, since the ease with which events can be created and tickets sold will attract a lot of viewership. This could also help in viewing user trends for a particular event or series of events. It is not known when the functionality will be rolled out, but when it is rolled out, Facebook events will see higher traffic.
At present, individual users do not have the capability to add the option of adding a ticket link. However Facebook pages can create events with links to tickets. These links then become a “buy tickets” button.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Target Launches Year-Round Price Match Of Online Retailers, Amazon Launches ‘Friends & Family Gifting’ Program To Help Track Special Occassions,
Buy tickets for the Rihanna tour on Facebook? Maybe soon. Facebook is reportedly testing a feature that would let you do just that. More »
Facebook has a lot of data about us, but that’s not necessarily their fault. It’s more our faults since we willingly post all sorts of information to our profiles. However, in Facebook’s most recent data collection case study, they showed off various regions in the US and what football team had the most fans in a particular region of the country. The results are quite impressive.
Facebook based their findings on the “likes” of football teams, and approximately 35 million Facebook users have “liked” at least one of the 32 NFL teams. With that, they put together a heat map of sorts to show off all of the loyal football fans in the country. Obviously, it looks fairly typical, with most Facebook users liking the team associated with the state they live in.
However, some portions of the map are rather interesting to look at. Deadspin went in-depth to analyze some of the more interesting fan pockets throughout the US. For instance, you’ll notice that there are quite a few Dallas Cowboy fans in the south and along the lower East coast, mostly since many of the southern NFL teams didn’t arrive until later on in the league, and the Washington Redskins weren’t very liked at the time.
Another interesting statistic is that Hawaii is a big Pittsburgh Steelers state, mostly since Troy Polamalu, one of the league’s top defenders, is of Pacific Islander descent. The Pittsburgh Steelers also take up most of Ohio, which is quite interesting considering that Ohio has the Cleveland Browns. While Ohio borders Pennsylvania and is only a short drive from Pittsburgh, we’re frankly not surprised that the Browns aren’t getting much love.
Facebook data shows football fan statistics across the US is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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There are a lot of things you can do with Facebook: make new friends, re-connect with old acquaintances, meet your match, and even find your biological parents.
That last one seems to be a bit out there, but it’s something that Jenessa Simons of Salt Lake City actually did through Facebook.
Of course, there’s no guarantee it’ll work, and you might even elicit some bogus responses from online pranksters, but what Jenessa did just goes to show Facebook’s seemingly boundless reach.
What Jenessa did was take a picture of herself beside a sign, where she wrote down information about her birth and about her parents. She then posted it on Facebook and asked people to Like and Share her post. Jenessa published her photo at the end of 2012, and things just took off from there.
As a result of her photo being shared over 100,000 times, Jenesse has been contacted by a woman who claims to be her biological mother. Here’s to hoping that it’s her actual mom.
[via Softpedia]
Emoticons have wholly integrated into modern language. Tweens communicate in nothing but nonsensical strings of emojis, and artists use them to create entire tales. But even with widespread use, emoticons’ emotions have remained relatively 1-dimensional since their inception. More »
It’s official: Facebook has a hold on the internet, and when the social network has a problem, the entire internet will suffer. Case in point: Facebook’s Connect feature experienced issues yesterday that affected thousands of other website who use Facebook’s integrated “Like” button system on their websites.
The error would occur when users tried to access certain websites and were automatically redirected to Facebook with an error page. This made it so that users couldn’t get access to a website unless they were logged out of Facebook. Some of the websites that were affected include CNN, Washington Post, Gawker Media sites, Yelp, and ESPN.
The bug seemed to only last a few minutes, but that didn’t stop the shortage of reports of users trying to access a certain website. Facebook didn’t say what caused the bug, nor did they provide any vague answers, but they simply announced that they were aware of the problem and made sure that the issue was “quickly resolved.”
This isn’t the only time that one service has taken down an entire network of websites. Amazon’s web services are used by a number of popular websites, including Reddit and Netflix. When Amazon experienced an outage back in October, all of the website that ran off the the company’s web servers were taken down. It just goes to show that there are a lot of websites that rely on one single service, and if something minor happens, it can cause major results.
[via The Washington Post]
Facebook Connect bug takes down entire internet (almost) is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
If you thought the Internet freaked out for a little bit and every site you went to was down, you’re not alone. Major websites were down: CNN, Huffington Post, ESPN, Gawker, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, etc. were all broken. Why? Because of a glitch with Facebook. More »
After landing itself in hot water with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and Hamburg’s Data Protection Authority (DPA), Facebook has deleted all of its European photo tagging facial recognition data. After reviewing the company’s source code and deletion process, DPC spokesperson Ciara O’Sullivan confirmed today that the regulatory agency was satisfied with the social network’s compliance. Additional removal confirmation came from Hamburg’s DPC’s technical department, which also reviewed the firm’s software to ensure that its standards were met. In a recent comment to CFO World, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed that the data had been deleted and that the social network has no plans to reinstate facial recognition software in Europe anytime soon. No word on whether Facebook will now purchase sadface.com for… oh, $80 million or so.
Filed under: Software, Facebook
Source: CFO World
If you share the same name as Redditor CasinoRoy, then chances are you’ve already been pranked by him. You see, what he does is search for people who share his name (“Ryan Roy”) on Facebook. After checking out the profile photo of his would-be targets, he re-does their picture and copies their hair, clothes, poses, and location.
Then he uploads it to his own profile and sends his same-name counterpart a friend request. Everything sounds pretty funny to the rest of us, but I think it’s safe to assume that those who got his friend requests were beyond creeped out.
According to Roy, the reactions he got were mostly along the lines of “What the hell?” or “Who the f*ck are you?”
[Reddit via Sad & Useless & Charlie Todd via Laughing Squid]
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