Facebook Launched its New Subscribe Button For websites/Blog

After recent announcement at LeWeb the social media giant finally introduces its

subscribe button for developers and website owners.



The new subscribe button allows Facebook users to subscribe to updates on

websites with a click of a button and the user starts getting updates from that

website/blog in their News Feed.

This plugin competes directly against RSS feeds and Twitter’s Follow button,

blog owners should consider it seriously.

image via official announcement

 


You can implement it in your website/blog via XFBML code snippet or through

iFrame.You can get the code here



It looks like Google+ is causing lots of problem to social media gaints like

facebook and twitter and they are up for redesign as facebook is about to launch

its new feature called Timeline and twitter has just launched a new version(UI)

on Android and iOS and it will be launched soon for web users.What do you think

about this battle of survival between facebook, twitter and Google+, do share

your thoughts in comment section below.


Read official announcement here

Facebook Confirms Gowalla Acquisition : Gowalla is Going Away

Technicia Blog reported yesterday that Facebook acquires location sharing

service Gowalla To Boost its Timeline Feature.Today The Social Networking Gaint,

Facebook officially announced that they have acquired Gowalla.

Facebook has made it clear that they are not buying location-services technology

from Gowalla but but they are hiring  Gowalla management team which includes CEO

Josh Williams and co-founder Scott Raymond.

 



This Acquisition of Gowalla was also announced by company's CEO Josh Williams in

a blog post.

About two months ago, my co-founder Scott and I attended F8. We were blown away

by Facebook’s new developments. A few weeks later Facebook called, and it became

clear that the way for our team to have the biggest impact was to work together.

So we’re excited to announce that we’ll be making the journey to California to

join Facebook!

Gowalla, as a service, will be winding down at the end of January. We plan to

provide an easy way to export your Passport data, your Stamp and Pin data (along

with your legacy Item data), and your photos as well. Facebook is not acquiring

Gowalla’s user data.

Facebook is not accquiring users data from Gowalla, however you can delete your

user data as it might be used without your permission.

Facebook acquires Gowalla To Boost Timeline Feature

The Social Networking Gaint, Facebook has acquired location sharing service

Gowalla.This News came yesterday and was first reported by CNN.


The biggest question arises here that Why facebook has acquired Gowalla, well

the answer is simple they want complete team of Gowalla to focus on facebook's

most awaited feature Timeline, which will be launching soon.However it is quite

unclear that how Gowalla team can help facebook to booast its Timeline feature.


Note that this news came as rumour and most and Facebook refuses to comment on

the deal.

"We don't comment on rumor and speculation," a Facebook's spokesman said.

What do you think about Facebook's acquisition of Gowalla, do share your

thoughts in comment section below.

The Sims Social Is Now 2nd Most Played Game on Facebook

Newly Launched game on facebook-The Sims Social Is Now second Most

Played Game on Facebook.

    


According to Appdata.com , in the last 24 hours, 9.3 million
people played The Sims Social, while 8.1 million played
FarmVille.CityVille remains most played game on facebook
with 13.6 million daily and 75.4 million monthly users
respectively


The Sims Social Now Has :


* 36,019,969 monthly active users

* 9,481,402 daily active users

   

The Social networking Giant Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews

The Social networking Giant Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews

 


The Social networking Giant Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews

followed by YouTube with 790 million unique visitors and 100 million

pageviews in June.Also Facebook is the most-visited website on the

Internet according to DoubleClick.


Facebook received nearly 870 million unique visitors in June 2011.

Facebook changes privacy settings on Tuesday

Facebook changes privacy settings on Tuesday

 

 



Facebook made significant changes to its privacy settings
on Tuesday.



Major privacy changes to Facebook privacy include :


1.Much Better profile control:


Profile visibility controls now appear next to content
when you edit your facebook profile.




2.Tags :

Tag reviews : now you can approve or reject photo, status or location

tags this seems great as tags are sometimes preaty annoying.



3.Status Updates & Location


Public updates: Now you will see "Public" option when you update your

status instead of  "Everyone".

Anonymous Hackers Group Planning To Destroy Facebook on Nov. 5

Anonymous Hackers Group Planning To Destroy Facebook on Nov. 5

Anonymous Hackers Group is Planning To Destroy Facebook on Nov. 5
due to lack of privacy on facebook.

They also claim that facebook is selling user's data to government
and private organisation.



Video released by Anonymous on YouTube :

 

The Sims Social - New Facebook Game To Be Released Soon

The Sims Social - New Facebook Game To Be Released Soon




The Sims Social will be a Facebook addition to the famous Sims series

and it was announced during EA's 2011 E3 press conference.

The Sims Social Producer Interview :

   




The Sims Social is supposed to be more realistic according to makers of this game.The game is about managing your relationship with your friends just like in real world.



 
The game was announced in June with official trailer :

   

Randi Zuckerberg leaves Facebook to start her own company

Randi Zuckerberg leaves Facebook to start her own company


         

Randi Zuckerberg,sister of facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (one of

the most powerfull people in web world) leaves Facebook to start her

own company.

  

Randi Zuckerberg,facebook's Director of Marketing is starting her new

company,RtoZ Media according to AllThingsD.Also,she was recently

nominated for an Emmy for her work with Facebook Live.

 She tweeted :

  

Facebook confirmed this news :

“We can confirm Randi has decided to leave Facebook to start her own

company. We are all grateful for her important service.”

Google+ Ad is Banned On Facebook

Google+ Ad is Banned On Facebook

      



Web developer Michael Lee Johnson found that out the hard way. He was running a Facebook ad asking people to add him to their Circles on Google+. Facebook, actually, did not like him using thier site to build his own social network somewhere else. So they pulled his ads.


He writes on Google+ :

I recently ran a Google+ advertisement on Facebook that got all of my campaigns suspended, Great.


So even facebook admits that they are in danger of losing thier active users.

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Asked About Google+ [COMIC]

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Asked About Google+ [COMIC]



This is a funny comic from The Joy of Tech illustrating Mark Zuckerberg being asked about Google+.

Now Facebook Developers can See Their Spam Scores

Now  Facebook Developers  can See Their Spam Scores

http://techniciablog.blogspot.com/2011/07/now-developers-can-see-their-spamscores.html

  

 Two weeks ago numerous Facebook developers logged into thier account and came across to terrible news: their applications had unexpectedly been disabled without warning. The offender was Facebook’s spam-fighting bot, which automatically tracks the amount of negative feedback an application receives from users and blocks apps that are faring especially poorly. But the bot was acting more aggressive, and developers didn’t have a way to tell how often users were blocking their app updates in the first place.

Today, Facebook is rolling out some new features to address this.

In a blog post announcing the news, Facebook engineer Mike Vernal writes that developers will now have access to a ‘News Feed’ tab as part of Facebook Insights (their analytics product). Developers will now be able to track how frequently the posts their applications generate are hidden or marked as spam by users (the more they have, the worse standing they’re in).

the biggest news, though, comes at the bottom of the post:

In the coming months, we will be moving from per-channel enforcements to a more sophisticated ranking model where the amount of distribution that content gets will be a direct function of its quality. Good content will be seen by more people, poor content will be seen by fewer people (and potentially no one). We think this is the right long-term model, as it rewards apps that focus on great social experiences while minimizing negative experiences.

Facebook adds Skype video chat feature

Facebook adds Skype video chat feature

As expected, the “awesome” product launch hinted at by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week turned out to be the incorporation of Skype video chat into its social network.

  

Today’s declaration also brought the attention back to Facebook, after Google Inc. has hogged the social media attention for the last week.Facebook's new chat feature will show up on the site as a "call" button at the top of users' profile pages. By clicking that button or finding someone in a new "buddy list" sidebar, Facebook users can talk to each other via webcams. The company began turning that service on for millions of users on Wednesday and will add it to more accounts over time.

Facebook engineer Philip Su said at the news conference here. The Seattle programmer was Facebook's only full-time engineer working on development, along with Skype, a Facebook spokeswoman said.Facebook also introduced a change to its instant-messaging service to allow people to perform group chat.

One takeaway from the press event that did, indeed, sound “awesome:”  Facebook now has 750 million users.