Facebook’s Unannounced Like Button Extension for Chrome Is Live and Waiting for Users

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Sep 062011
 

 

 

Facebook quietly launched a Like button browser extension for Chrome a couple months ago, TechCrunch has discovered today. The extension appears as a button to the right of the search and address box in the Chrome interface, and as an option in the right-click menu. As one might expect, it lets you like any web page, share content and your commentary back to Facebook, and see the number of other Facebook users who have liked a post.

via Facebook’s Unannounced Like Button Extension for Chrome Is Live and Waiting for Users.

RootMusic Raises $16 Million Second Round, Following Hit BandPage Facebook App for Musicians

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Aug 312011
 

 

 

Over the last twelve months, its BandPage application has grown from around 3 million monthly active users and 150,000 daily active users to 32.4 million MAU and 1.56 million DAU, according to our AppData tracking service. On Facebook, it is by far the largest Page app for musicians, and the seventh-largest app overall. By some measures, it is now bigger than long-time leading music fan site MySpace.

via RootMusic Raises $16 Million Second Round, Following Hit BandPage Facebook App for Musicians.

13 Best Practices for Restaurants on Facebook

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Aug 312011
 

 

 

Naturally, there are a lot of restaurants on the world’s largest social network, though there could be a lot more, and many of the ones that do have Facebook Pages could be better. To that end, Mashable spoke with social media stars from the hospitality industry about some best practices when it comes to Facebooking food.

via 13 Best Practices for Restaurants on Facebook.

Facebook paid $40,000 to bug hunters in three weeks

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Aug 302011
 

Facebook said today it has paid more than $40,000 to people who have uncovered bugs on its Web site in the first three weeks of its Bug Bounty program.

The company launched its bug bounty program at the end of last month as a way to compensate people who find and report bugs that might otherwise go unfixed or be exploited by malicious hackers. Bug hunters can make upwards of $500 per bug reported.

via Facebook paid $40,000 to bug hunters in three weeks | InSecurity Complex – CNET News.

Only 50% of U.S. Adults Use Social Media

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Aug 262011
 

 

 

Social media is not ubiquitous. In fact, says a Pew Internet survey released on Friday, just half of U.S. adults are logged on to sites like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn.In Pew’s phone survey of 2,277 adults, 65% of Internet users said they use social media. For the first time, 50% of respondents — regardless of whether they use the Internet — said that they did the same.

via Only 50% of U.S. Adults Use Social Media.

Study: Social Networking Teens More Likely to Smoke, Drink, Use Pot

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Aug 242011
 

Researchers at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University just released a study that’s sure to ruffle a few feathers, and may freak out parents of Facebooking teens. What the study found is that teens who regularly hop onto Facebook, MySpace, or other social networking sites are much more likely to do things they shouldn’t be doing, like drinking alcohol and smoking pot.

Compared to teens that don’t spend any time on social networking sites, regular users are five times more likely to smoke or chew tobacco, three times as likely to drink alcohol, and twice as likely to use marijuana, according to the “National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVI: Teens and Parents.”

via Maximum PC | Study: Social Networking Teens More Likely to Smoke, Drink, Use Pot.

Facebook’s Big Privacy Changes: An Overview [PICS]

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Aug 242011
 

 

 

Facebook unveiled a massive wave of privacy changes on Tuesday. It’s one of the biggest privacy overhauls in the company’s history, one that includes more than a dozen changes to profiles, status updates, locations and tags.

via Facebook’s Big Privacy Changes: An Overview [PICS].

Facebook’s spam program catches activists

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Aug 202011
 

Facebook has sent notes of apology and is changing automated systems that blocked environmental activists and other people from posting on like-minded Facebook pages.

The activists weren’t victims of censorship, but rather an anti-spam computer algorithm that was impersonally doing what it was designed to do.

via Facebook’s spam program catches activists – Technology & science – Tech and gadgets – msnbc.com.

 

This highlights the importance of building your own space, and not relying on mega companies to look after your interests. -JA

Facebook Tries Replacing “Most Recent” with a “Ticker” Real-Time Feed Atop the Chat Sidebar

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Aug 202011
 

For the past few months, Facebook has been testing several home page redesigns that add a second, real-time news feed to the right of the central Top News feed. In the latest tested design, Facebook has removed the Most Recent tab of the news feed and replaced it with a real-time activity feed that is displayed at the top of the Chat sidebar.

via Facebook Tries Replacing “Most Recent” with a “Ticker” Real-Time Feed Atop the Chat Sidebar.

Facebook Opens Viral Growth Channel for Pages, Delivering Invites to Like as Notifications

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Jul 192011
 

Facebook Opens Viral Growth Channel for Pages, Delivering Invites to Like as Notifications…

Admins of new Pages looking to establish an initial fan base should use the new “Invite Friends” link that appears on their Page. Adding a large number of admins that can all use the feature on their own friends could be an effective growth strategy for smaller Pages.

via Facebook Opens Viral Growth Channel for Pages, Delivering Invites to Like as Notifications.

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