Posts Tagged ‘News’

What non-profits can take away from Facebook’s organ donation initiative and past activism efforts

Many non-profit organizations already use Facebook pages and apps to raise awareness and money for their causes, but yesterday’s organ donation initiative is another example of the social network’s willingness to work more directly with non-profits on broad social issues and the sort of impact that can result. To promote organ donation, Facebook added a simple “life event” feature in the Timeline publisher

Read more...

Socialcam, Viddy, Instagram, Metacafe, Candy Crush Saga, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages by MAU

Social video apps were very popular on our list of growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. Mobile video apps Socialcam and Viddy topped our list, with web integrations from Metacafe, Siz.net and Dailymotion also making appearances. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 700,000 and 13.5 million MAU, based on  AppData , our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook

Read more...

Native Android apps can now get distribution through Facebook discovery channels

Facebook today announced that native Android apps will now be able to benefit from the same social discovery channels as web apps and native iOS apps that integrate with the social network. Previously native Android apps that used Facebook login couldn’t get distribution through mobile News Feed, Timeline, bookmarks and requests. These channels have been available to HTML5 and iOS apps since October 2011 ; in February, Facebook told us that 60 million monthly active users navigated to mobile apps from the social network

Read more...

Facebook roundup: Instagram, IPO, pages, Google+, Pinterest

Facebook’s Instagram acquisition was all Zuckerberg – The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg basically acted independently when pursuing the company’s latest acquisition of photo app Instagram. The board was “told” that the company would be bought

Read more...

Facebook pages for artists now include ‘listen’ button

Facebook has implemented a “listen” button on artists’ fan pages that lets users instantly stream songs from an artist’s catalog.

Read more...

Facebook tests new way to let users know which links come from social readers and whether their activity will be shared

Facebook appears to be testing a new feature to make users aware of their social reader privacy settings before they click on links that could end up being shared on their profiles. Articles from social readers like the Huffington Post, Digg, ESPN, Yahoo News and others now include an icon to designate whether users’ friends will be able to see that they read the article.

Read more...

Facebook tests new way to let users know which links come from social readers and whether their activity will be shared

Facebook appears to be testing a new feature to make users aware of their social reader privacy settings before they click on links that could end up being shared on their profiles. Articles from social readers like the Huffington Post, Digg, ESPN, Yahoo News and others now include an icon to designate whether users’ friends will be able to see that they read the article. A green circle with a check mark means social reader activity is on

Read more...

Santorum loses fans; competition heats up between Obama and Romney this week on Inside Facebook’s Election Tracker

With Rick Santorum dropping out of the Republican presidential primary race on Tuesday, his Facebook page has begun to lose Likes, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker . Mitt Romney’s page experienced a large surge following Santorum’s announcement, as Romney has essentially clinched the nomination to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency

Read more...

Digg, games, Social Video, virtual gifts, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU

Digg topped our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week.

Read more...

Yahoo, Scribd, Draw Something, Instagram, Pandora, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU

Yahoo’s news reader application topped our list of apps growing by monthly active users this week. The Washington Post’s Social Reader, as well as games, a few video apps, professional networking apps and others made up the list

Read more...