Facebook has revealed “Story Bumping”, a new jolt of intelligence to the News Feed which the social network claims will do better at flagging up older stories friends have posted which it believes you’ll still be interested in. Aiming to sift through the masses of links and content heavy Facebook users have to scroll past […]
At an event at its headquarters, Facebook explained how exactly stories are ranked in your news feed. It also showed off new changes that are coming, which are designed to help you discover older content in your feed.
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Have a love/hate relationship with your Facebook news feed? Sure, that feed serves up plenty of photos and posts from friends and family that you want to see, but there are also plenty of posts you could do with out, or posts you wish had been assigned greater importance. Facebook knows this, and is constantly tinkering and iterating its news feed post ranking processes to provide the most relevant stories possible to each individual user. To that end, Facebook’s rolling out a new feature, called story bumping, to better percolate the stuff you care about to the top of your feed. Story bumping has already been launched on the web, and will be rolling out to mobile in the coming weeks.
Previously, Facebook evaluated the most recent posts on the social network by assigning each post a score based upon a series of factors including: number of likes and comments, the relationship between you and the poster, the type of content, etc. Using those signals, Facebook runs them through a proprietary algorithm to determine a post’s score. News feed then displays the posts with the highest score at the top of the feed. However, this method often resulted in relevant posts being relegated below the fold, and those posts would forever be lost in the never-ending social story avalanche. Story bumping provides a way for such posts to be seen by tweaking the recency logic previously used. Instead of picking from the most recent posts, the system now looks for the most recent posts that have not been viewed by the user, so that those older, yet relevant posts get a second crack at showing up in the top of your feed.
Filed under: Internet, Facebook
Source: Facebook for Business
Modern times have not been kind to Zynga, the maker of online video games that once enjoyed wealth and prosperity as the top dog in the world of Facebook-centric games. Now others have arisen to fill the company’s shoes (King of Candy Crush fame being one of them), and Zynga has been steadily suffering since. […]
To celebrate having scored 5 million followers on Facebook, Porsche gave those followers the chance to provide input on a special edition 911 Carrera 4S called the 5M Porsche 911. After quite a bit of input, the vehicle has been built and shown off on Facebook in a gallery of images. Now those same users […]
Facebook wants you to know it’s taking security seriously — enough for Zuckerberg and Co. to pay out over $1 million in reward within two years for its Bug Bounty program. According to a recent blog post, it’s awarded a total of 329 digital bounty hunters at least $500 for discovering and reporting security issues to the social network. The participants came from all walks of life across the globe (the youngest being a 13-year-old), and the most resourceful ones have already made more than a hundred grand each. Facebook isn’t alone in exchanging big money for bug reports — Microsoft, for one, is offering up to $100,000 to anyone who discovers security exploits on the preview version of Windows 8.1. Despite Facebook’s success, however, over 6 million accounts were still exposed in June… proving that when it comes to security, tech companies can never sit on their hands.
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Source: Facebook
Sean Parker’s wedding is the gift that keeps on giving. For those that were enraptured by the 364 beautiful costumes
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Millions of people have the Facebook app on their Android phone. Far fewer users have installed Facebook Home, the apperating system that debuted on the HTC First, the phone nobody bought. So now you can get Home on a wider array …
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Facebook for Android has been updated to bring the Facebook Home cover feed over to the main app, where it can now be set as the Android lock screen. The feature, which pulls photos and posts from the user’s friends list on Facebook and cycles through them, was previously limited to the Facebook Home app, […]
Customization — that’s the big story revolving around today’s Moto X reveal. When Motorola’s breezy, made-to-order Moto Maker site goes live later this summer, AT&T users will be able to sift through a bevy of color options to put their individual stamp on the device. But that’s just part one of the new Motorola’s trailblazing direction, the next is making that design social. At some unspecified future point, the company plans to launch a Facebook polling page littered with numerous colored and patterned variants (e.g., one of the options we saw, a gold brown hue, was labeled “The Dude”) that users can vote on via existing social means. While Motorola’s still working out the specifics of the polling process and potential launch window, it’s safe to assume users will be able to pin (via Pinterest), like, or even +1 design candidates. Not much more detail was given — again this is merely an indicator of the company’s revamped product portfolio approach. For sure, it has a built-in hook: user engagement. And what company doesn’t love a user base that’s paying very close attention?
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Google, Facebook
Source: Motorola
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