Category: Social information processing
Facebook Questions Absent in Search Engines – Facebook launched its Questions service this week but so far the results are not available in search results. Search Engine Land reported that a Facebook spokesperson tells them, “Currently, search engines cannot access questions and answers through our Questions product. That may be something we consider for the future but have no current plans to allow it.” Also, searches on Yahoo, Bing and Google yielded no results for Questions.Continue
Facebook’s in-house business incubator and mini financier, fbFund, appears to be mothballed. After two years of funding companies building on Facebook’s developer platform, the program’s success has been dwarfed by the massive new social gaming market, and by the growing ecosystem of marketing service companies around its performance advertising and Page products.Continue
Following up on years of Facebook saying that it is not planning to make an initial public offering any time soon or not commenting on rumors to that effect, a new report out… basically has that same message. “Facebook Inc. will probably put off its initial public offering until 2012, giving Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg more time to gain users and boost sales, three people familiar with the matter” tell Bloomberg.Continue
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With a background in gift card processing for over 250 top global brands, First Data Corporation is experimenting with a new real-world gifting app, eGift Social, on Facebook. The app is basically a way to buy your friends ice cream.Continue
In Cisco's Mid-Year Security Report, the company cites research finding that 50% of end users admitted to accessing social media tools at work, in spite of company rules, at least once a week. Another 27% have changed the settings on a company device to access prohibited sites or applications. The report notes the security risks, and potential for lost productivity, Facebook and other social media sites present, but doesn't recommend enterprises block social media sites entirely. Continue
This week’s list of emerging Facebook apps, measured as those still growing toward a million monthly active users, is led off for once by something other than a quiz app: Who thinks of you?, a sort of pen-pal finder for Facebook.Continue
There is this concept of virtual currency in the cloud that we explored back in May. It came from IBM and its use of tokens as a virtual currency for customers to use software in the cloud.
The concept draws on the fundamental belief communities work in a social manner. Each member of the community participates through the exchange of currency that has a specific unit of value.Continue
Facebook has long required the largest application developers on its platform to agree to an additional set of terms that, while undisclosed, appear to be aimed at ensuring site performance quality. The company updated these terms this week to set a higher bar for which apps qualify for those terms.
Here’s the update to the developer policy document:
If you exceed, or plan to exceed, any of the following thresholds please contact us as you may be subject to additional terms: (>5M MAU) or (>100M API calls per day) or (>50M impressions per day).
We asked Facebook for more details on the change. The company’s response:Continue
Over the past year, Facebook and privacy are two topics that have become practically joined at the hip. The site has