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 […]
It has been more than two years since Facebook made it possible for users to enable a secure “https” connection for their account, something that had the side-effect of slightly longer loading times and reduced chances of hackery on public networks. Starting today, the social network will be making secure browsing its default following work […]
Facebook has launched Embedded Posts, allowing public posts on the social network to be included elsewhere online, just as Twitter, Vine, and Instagram already offer. The new feature, which is currently limited to a select number of company pages, along with individual and “Pages” posts, but will eventually be opened up to any publicly-shared company
Love music? Want to share what you are listening to with your friends on Facebook? Muzik smart headphones have the unique ability to share the track you are listening to on social networks.
These over the ear headphones have touch controls on the right earcup that let you control several functions. You can increase or decrease volume, change tracks or post what you’re listening to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. Just press the share button the headphones will post the track information to your social networks. Pretty cool huh?
The Muzik headphones will retail for $299(USD) and will arrive in the fourth quarter of the year. They even have an accelerometer, so that when you take your headphones off, they stop playing music.
[via SlashGear]
Let people in the real world know how popular you are in real life with Fliike. It’s a physical counter that shows off how many “Likes” your page has received on Facebook in real time.
The Fliike was created by Smiirl, which is a design studio start-up based in France.
The Fliike basically connects to your Facebook page via Wi-Fi and transmits every “like” that you’ve received onto the flipboard-like counter. Personal pages won’t have much use for it, but pages for commercial purposes might, just so that establishment can show people that they’ve got a strong virtual presence.
A limited number of Fliikes are available for pre-order for $390(USD) (yes, $390!) If you’re more popular than 99,999 likes, Smiirl can add an extra numerical column to your Fliike to accommodate your massive popularity. The first batch ships out this November.
[via C|NET]
Facebook Graph Search will begin rolling out to US users from today, offering complex filtering and search features that will allow users to hunt through their friends based on combinations of location, interests, Likes, and more. Announced back in January, Graph Search attempts to let Facebook users pare through their friends lists using complex queries, such as “people who like football and live in Miami”, with results coming up based on where users have checked into, what they’ve liked, where they are, and more.
Initial reactions to the Graph Search system were mixed. On the one hand, there’s an obvious technological and social advantage to being able to use more complex, natural-language queries to hunt through the ever-increasing amount of information Facebook users are sharing. The social site argued that it would help users make more meaningful connections by highlighting overlapping interests that might not have been normally recognized, for instance.
However, privacy advocates proved unsurprisingly wary of the amount of information – and the ease of its discovery – that Graph Search would unearth. Facebook responded by arguing that the same privacy tools and settings that had always been in place would continue to protect private data from Graph Search, however.
Facebook Graph Search privacy:
For Facebook, the goal is to better shape advertising so that users are more likely to click, as well as drive adoption of its various features with members hopefully wanting to increase the amount of information about themselves available so that they show up more accurately in search results. Initially, Graph Search only works on the desktop, rather than mobile, but Facebook tells the NYTimes that it intends to address that this year.
Also on track to be added is better data mining of status updates, picking out keywords rather than relying on explicit Likes and other indicators of interests. Facebook will also use third-party app data – not currently integrated in Graph Search – and is working on predictions.
That could end up promoting movies, books, places to eat, and other suggestions based on similar interests from other friends, something Facebook believes will increase the success rate since users are more likely to trust the data.
There’s more on Facebook Graph Search in our SlashGear 101.
Facebook Graph Search brings deep search to US today is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Facebook has added stickers support to its web chat, carrying the jumbo emoticons over from the mobile apps to the desktop interface. The popular images – which some IM users love, while others find them infuriating – have been featured in Facebook’s mobile chat service for some time, but have quietly been added to conversations in the desktop browser.
The oversized images – which range from larger versions of traditional emoticons, through to huge cartoon characters – are found in the existing emoticons pane in the IM interface. However, they’re not yet available to all users, it seems; the company is apparently rolling support out progressively.
Eventually, though, there’ll be support for downloading extra “packs” of stickers. A basket icon will take users to the stickers “store” of sorts, while the different tabs in the interface will allow them to switch between the various packs they have.
For the moment, the stickers are all free of charge. However, there’s precedence for charging for the emoticons, and it’s a path Facebook might opt to follow.
Wildly popular IM service LINE offers its own paid stickers store, for instance, and it’s been a considerable source of income for the company. The most recent numbers LINE released, roughly a year ago, suggested users were spending $3.75m per month on stickers.
Given Facebook’s attempts to monetize its users, mobile particularly, that seems like a potential source of income that the social site couldn’t afford to ignore.
Facebook stickers hit web chat is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Twitter’s trialling a new "Embedded on these websites" notification system, which shows a list of articles that appear in popular tweets. That means you can quickly see the sources lurking behind a post—which is kinda neat.
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