Category: Facebook
Facebook Messenger Desktop App – Win7
Facebook is beta testing a new Windows 7 Desktop Application that lets you chat to your friends without being on the Facebook.com website. Similar to Windows Live Messenger, the application will let you: – Message and Chat with your Facebook friends – Get notifications as they happen on Facebook, eg someone liking your photo – […]
Read More | ShareSponsored Stories in Ticker
There are rumors floating around that Facebook will be adding sponsored stories to the ticker news-stream in the top-right of their site. This is a highly visible area and expected to increase CTR and prominence of sponsored stories. This change is expected to rollout tonight Australia time and we will keep an eye on the […]
Read More | SharePayPal launches Facebook App
Social Payments have advanced as PayPal launch their own Facebook Application. This will let you send money to your friends over the Facebook site. Facebook has been speculating new forms of social payments will be coming to the site as part of the new timeline profiles and apps, and it seems PayPal has jumped right […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Newsfeed Change Rolled-Out
We reported previously that Facebook is updating their Newsfeed so that you can sort your newsfeed by either highlighted stories, or most recent stores. This change has been scheduled because many users didn’t want highlighted stories first, they wanted the old format of most recent items first. Facebook has now started rolling this change out […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Updating Newsfeed again
Facebook is making an update to the site so you are able to reorganise your newsfeed. At the moment you will have highlighted stories displaying first in your newsfeed. When this rolled out many users wanted a way to revert back to the old layout of most recent stories first. Facebook is making a change […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Ad changes roll out to Australia
Facebook has made a tweak to the ads displayed on their site. Specifically on the profile and newsfeed pages, Facebook ads have been moved ads to the top right of the page above the realtime ticker. It seems they may have done this for a number of reasons: Increase presence/impressions Location next to ticker gets […]
Read More | ShareVideo: Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg last night did an interview with US TV personality Charlie Rose. I always like watching new videos of Mark and seeing his insights. Mark specifically said Google is being competitive trying to build their own ‘little Facebook’ 🙂 Mark and Sheryl go on to explain how they […]
Read More | ShareTop 10 Australian Facebook Fanpages
Wondering who are the most popular Facebook Fanpages in Australia? We have compiled a list of the Fanpages in Australia with the most fans. Lots of these are managed and run by some of Australia’s best Social Media Agencies – check out how they are using custom tabs, look at the sort of status updates […]
Read More | ShareFacebook building Data Centre in North Pole
Facebook has decided they will be building a new data centre near the North Pole to increase performance of the site for European users. Currently Facebook has server farms in California, Virginia, Oregon and building another data centre in North Carolina. The site will specifically be at Lule, Sweeden which is not far from the […]
Read More | ShareLatest Facebook Global Stats
Looking for an overview on global Facebook statistics. We’ve been compiling stats as we read them across the internet, mainly stats released by Facebook themselves – here they are: – 800 million users, half of which login daily. – 250 million photos uploaded every day – 2 billion pieces of content liked or commented on […]
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