Facebook’s Rumored Read, Listened, and Watched Buttons: A Money-Making Fit With Broad Category Ad Targeting

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Sep 202011
 

 

 

Facebook will add new feedback buttons to stories in the news feed, according a TechCrunch source. Starting with “Read”, “Listened”, and “Watched” buttons, users will be able to indicate that they’ve already consumed a piece of content. This will allow them to provide more specific information about how they’re related to different types of content, which could help Facebook refine the news feed to show them more of similar types of content. The tip matches with the tagline “Read, Watch, Listen” which AllThingsD heard will be used for the f8 conference.

via Facebook’s Rumored Read, Listened, and Watched Buttons: A Money-Making Fit With Broad Category Ad Targeting.

Google+ Adds 9 New Features, Opens to the World

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Sep 202011
 

 

 

Look out Facebook, here comes Google+. After three months as an invite-only service, Google+ has thrown open its door to the world and rolled out a slew of new features. The announcement comes just days before Facebook’s annual f8 developer conference and seems clearly aimed as a shot across the social network giant’s bow. Let the social wars begin.

Of course Facebook has already weathered at least one of Google’s attempts at a social network, the now marginalized Buzz (two if you include Wave). But this time around Google has done more than roll out a Facebook clone. As part of Google’s attempt to carve a unique spot for Plus, the company is rolling out several new features, including mobile support for the Google+ video chat feature known as “Hangouts.”

via Google+ Adds 9 New Features, Opens to the World | Webmonkey | Wired.com.

Cool Site of the Week: DocumentaryHeaven

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Sep 192011
 

 

 

With subscription services like Netflix and Hulu Plus, downloadable content from iTunes and Amazon, and freebies from Crackle or YouTube It’s getting harder to justify paying for cable. For those of us who prefer our time in front of the tube stimulate, rather than rot our brains, DocumentaryHeaven may be the final push we need to usher our cable TV and satellite subscriptions out the door.

via Maximum PC | Cool Site of the Week: DocumentaryHeaven.

Behind Boston Globe’s responsive layout

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Sep 162011
 

 

Boston Globe has launched a snazzy new website, in an attempt to create a more immersive news-reading experience, on a platform that appropriately features long-format journalism and better promotes a subscription-based business model. That’s all lovely for readers, but the site also has a modern, adaptive design that will make many web designers swoon (or go green with envy).

Load up the site and drag the window about; note how the newspapery and readable design effortlessly reworks its columns, and how the navigation works in its narrowest form. Lovely. We wanted to find out more, so quizzed some of the people behind the build: Filament Group’s partner Patty Toland and two designer/developers, Scott Jehl and Mat Marquis.

via Behind Boston Globe’s responsive layout | News | .net magazine.

Google’s Gripe Against Paginated Content

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Sep 162011
 

Google is giving preference to single-page versions of a web page as opposed to component pages that contain only a portion of the information, forcing the user to click to “next” and load another URL.

Paginated content, in other words, can be counted as another factor it likely considers in search rankings.

via Google’s Gripe Against Paginated Content – MarketingVOX.

Haven’t Seen The ‘Webcam 101 For Seniors’ Video Yet? Here It Is

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Sep 162011
 

Oregon senior citizens Bruce and Esther Huffman were playing with their new laptop and trying to figure out how to use its camera function. They ended up inadvertently making a video that’s been watched more than 4 million times since a granddaughter put it on YouTube last month.

He sings, burps and makes faces — and gets a little frisky. She keeps trying to find out how the dang thing works.

via Haven’t Seen The ‘Webcam 101 For Seniors’ Video Yet? Here It Is : The Two-Way : NPR.

New cloud service gives you ‘infinite’ HD space for $10/mo

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Sep 162011
 

 

 

Hard drives are getting bigger and faster every year, but they’re just barely keeping pace with the rate at which our data are expanding. A new service called Bitcasa wants to be the last hard drive you ever need, by offering seamless and infinite (infinite!) cloud-based storage for all of your data.

Bitcasa is a simple concept: a little piece of software lives on your computer and creates a virtual drive by connecting to Bitcasa’s servers. Every time you save something to that drive, it goes off to live in the cloud, and you never run out of drive space. Bitcasa will figure out what files you use most often and keep them local for fast access, but in general, you’re simply not storing any data on your computer.

via New cloud service gives you ‘infinite’ HD space for $10/mo | DVICE.

.net Awards 2011: top 10 podcasts

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Sep 162011
 

This week we profile the top 10 podcasts for web designers and developers that you have nominated in the .net Awards 2011. Which one’s your favourite show?

Whether video or audio, you have nominated 10 podcasts in the .net Awards 2011 that cover the subjects that web designers and developers are passionate about with energy, enthusiasm and authority. But only one of them can be our Podcast of the Year. Who is it going to be?

Our shortlist consists of some heavyweight long-running shows, but there’s also a few new names.

via .net Awards 2011: top 10 podcasts | Feature | .net magazine.

Online Video at Work: Here’s What You’re Watching [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Sep 162011
 

 

 

Is “Hey, it’s for work!” the new “I read it for the articles”?

According to this infographic, based on data from Harris Interactive, lots of us are watching online videos at work — and a good deal of them aren’t work-related.

The 3% who are watching porn probably isn’t surprising (and is most likely under-reported), but 4% are watching feature films? As Jerry Seinfeld might ask, “Who are these people?”

via Online Video at Work: Here’s What You’re Watching [INFOGRAPHIC].

What’s the Deal With Daily Deals? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Sep 162011
 

 

 

Daily Deals sites are attracting millions of customers. It’s a lively marketplace with hundreds of companies competing for a limited number of users and businesses willing to give them a try.

How lively? It’s hot. According to researchers at Lab42, there are more than 660 deals sites online today. But is this sustainable? Certainly not all those sites will survive. Some of us here at Mashable are questioning whether the Daily Deals era is coming to a close.

via What’s the Deal With Daily Deals? [INFOGRAPHIC].

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