Facebook Beefs Up With Acqhire Of Storylane Because It’s Time To Fight Tumblr

Facebook Storylanduken TumblrFacebook’s no blogging platform, but Tumblr is and it’s eating the social network’s young. If Facebook wants to host our digital lives, it needs richer sharing. That’s Storylane’s specialty, so Facebook’s acqhire of its team sounds like a smart staff-up. The startup’s Chief Executive Story Teller Jonathan Gheller and crew could convince us to share our quick memes and long opinions on Facebook.

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Facebook Redesign Kills Ticker, Almost

Facebook Ticker Gone Dead DoneTired of seeing every inane detail of yours friends lives pop up in that annoying Facebook sidebar ? Well apparently Facebook was too as the redesign announced yesterday eliminates Ticker for some, and banishes it to the bottom of the left Chat sidebar as a one-story tall blip for others. The real-time Ticker feed launched 2011 that’s best known for outing your friends as Britney Spears fans.

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Facebook’s Riskiest Bet Yet. Can It Uproot A Billion People’s Behavior?

Facebook butterfly Effect“Fortune Favors The Bold” reads a 20-foot-tall poster in the room where Facebook unveiled its redesigned news feed. It’s possibly the most looked-at page on the Internet, and if we don’t like the changes, traffic and ad revenue could plummet. Despite a slow rollout where it will watch for our reactions and make tweaks, Facebook’s never put it all on the line like this.

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Hands-On With The New Facebook And Its Boredom-Killing Feeds [TCTV]

Facebook TourThere’s always something else to browse on the redesigned Facebook unveiled today. Instead of churning through the main feed until you hit reruns and leave, Facebook hopes to keep you switching between Photos, Music, and All Friends feeds so you stick around. The design previewed at Facebook’s HQ today was actually stripped down, but I got the roll out early, so here’s what it really looks like.

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Facebook Launches Multiple Topic-Based Feeds Including Photos, Bigger Images, And A Consistent Design Across Devices

New FeedToday at Facebook HQ, Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled a new look for news feed that uses a “mobile-inspired” consistent design across devices, lets you drill into specific content type feeds, and offers larger images. Photo albums have gotten a facelift as well to be more immersive, and links shared will have longer blurb to preview what you’re about to click to.

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To Earn Trust, Facebook Could Declare News Feed Changes Like Google PageRank

facebook-transparentToo much bad press and too many confused users. That’s what Facebook got from silently tinkering with the news feed. BiltonGate was the last straw. Signs now point to Facebook beginning to announce news feed algorithm changes the way Google does for PageRank. Combined with education, Facebook could use transparency to try to convince people it tweaks the feed to help users, not sell more ads.

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Facebook Will Launch Content-Specific News Feeds, Bigger Photos And Ads On Thursday

fb-feedAt a big press event on Thursday, Facebook plans to launch new ways to filter the news feed. These include a Photos feed of Facebook and Instagram photos, as well as a revamped Music feed of what friends are listening to, concerts, and new albums, according to multiple sources both within and close to Facebook. Larger images and image-based ads in the web and mobile feeds are coming too.

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Score Tickets To Free, Paid And Even Sold-Out Events With Applauze By Band Of The Day’s 955 Dreams

Applauze FeatureAnswering “What should I do this weekend?” just got a whole lot easier. 955 Dreams is following up its hit Band Of The Day with the launch of Applauze. The app helps you discover nearby events, then RSVP or buy tickets, even if they’re sold out. With a fresh, rubbery interface and tons of concerts, sports, and street festivals in 20 cities, Applauze makes it fun to find reasons to leave the house.

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Facebook Admits Likes Are Down For Some Celebrities’ Posts, But Claims Up 34% For Most

url-22Facebook today confirmed dwindling engagement with public posts to subscribers cited by The New York Times’ Nick Bilton, other journalists, and I, but calls us isolated cases, noting public figures with more than 10,000 fans are now getting 34% more Likes and comments than a year ago. While Facebook often changes the news feed to improve the user experience, the inconsistency is irksome.

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Facebook Pushes Plot To Kill Your “Phone” App By Giving Messenger For Android VoIP In Canada

Facebook Mobile Statistics DoneLater today, Facebook will wage its war against your phone’s “phone” application on a new front with an update to Messenger For Android that adds VoIP calling to US iOS users and Canadian iOS and Androiders. It’s also improving group messaging. By combining voice-over-data calling with unified instant, asynchronous, and email messaging, Facebook could dominate communication in the developing world

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