Facebook - 33 articles found

Have you already tried the redesigned Facebook Groups? Well, I was curious to check it out and try creating a “secret” group with a few of my friends, just for fun and to see how Groups work, but I found a funny warning message that made creating the group impossible: “User is a member of too many Groups. Ask them t...

Website: Facebook Developer Garage

Overview: It’s been a while since the last Facebook Developer Garage in NYC. Come meet with fellow developers, marketers and agencies, members of the Facebook team, and your hosts from Syncapse. We’re planning a full evening of speakers and demos so bring your questions. The them...

Rumors about Google Me, the new social network that would compete with Facebook, never cease to spread, and one of the features that could make it a serious challenger is social gaming integration. A standalone Google Games platform could be in the plans, considering the investment in Zynga and the acquisition of Sl...

Tomorrow Google will announce the acquisition of Slide, a social gaming apps and virtual communities developer, that marks another cornerstone in Google’s strategy to build a social gaming network that could challenge Facebook’s domination.

After the $100-200 million investment in Zynga, the biggest online social ga...

Earlier today I was reading a Local SEO Guide article on small businesses that prefer creating a Facebook Page instead of (or before) a Google Place Page.

The advantage of a Facebook Page vs. a Place Page is clear: You can promote your products or services on a platform with a large user base that facilitates conve...

Facebook Questions is a new Q&A feature, similar to Yahoo! Answers, that is currently being released to a small portion of users on Facebook. This new application aims to exploit Facebook’s huge user base to provide crowdsourced answers to users asking for opinions, advice and recommendations on any subject.

Answe...

Website: Social Developer Summit

Overview: Social news, social games, social discovery, social search, and other social solutions are charging developers with building instantly scalable products. As new technologies continue to emerge to address these challenges, it’s increasingly important to come together as a co...

According to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Google is contacting publishers in Italy to test a micropayment system for newspapers, called Newspass.

The platform will be launched by the end of the year and users will be able to access content behind paywalls with a single click, directly from the search engine resu...

Simply Hired’s Facebook open graph integration makes job searches more social: Users who log-in with Facebook on Simply Hired can search for available jobs in companies where their Facebook friends work, and eventually send them a private message directly from the job search results page.

You can directly browse j...

Facebook won’t be happy to learn about the new partnership between Yahoo! and social gaming giant Zynga.

After signing a new five year deal with Facebook, Zynga is expanding the distribution of casual browser games like Farmville, Mafia Wars and Treasure Island on Yahoo!: Users will be able to share statuses and u...