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Facebook Tweaks Mobile News Feed, Photos

in Social on May 14 at 1:45 pm PT

Facebook on Monday introduced a minor redesign to its News Feed product for mobile phones, changing the way photos and posts are displayed on users’ handheld devices. The tweaks come as Facebook continues to figure out a solid way of monetizing mobile access to its app, a method of entry more and more users are shifting to, according to the company. Among the changes are a 3x increase in photo display, as well as full-bleed status updates and posts.

Social Media Memory App Timehop Adds “Pinterest for Your Past”

in Social on April 2 at 3:14 pm PT

Timehop, which sends daily reminders of where you checked in and what you tweeted a year ago, will now allow you to pin your favorite past posts to its site. Surprise! It looks a lot like Pinterest.
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Web Video Doubter Mark Cuban Invests in Web Video Studio Revision3

in Media on February 1, 2011 at 5:01 am PT

Mark Cuban, Web video skeptic? Meet Mark Cuban, Web video investor. He’s the guy putting money into the company that brings us Diggnation, Tekzilla and Scam School.

As Egypt's Last Internet Connection Goes Down, Alternatives Appear

in Enterprise on January 31, 2011 at 3:50 pm PT

The last significant Internet connection in Egypt has now gone down. The world has responded with numerous clever workarounds to help the people there get their messages out.

Facebook Steps Up Security After Tunisian Hacks

in Social on January 26, 2011 at 10:30 am PT

Facebook is rolling out to all its users the security features it added to stop the Tunisian government from accessing citizens’ passwords.

Hate Ads? You'll Love This Site. Love Ads? You Too.

in Media on January 14, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

A site for people who love to complain about ads. That’s most of you, right? It’s created by an ad guy, of course.

"Hit Me Up" Was Facebook's Breakout Slang in 2010

in Social on December 14, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Other items besides Justin Bieber made it onto Facebook’s list of 2010 trends in status messages. But don’t think for a second that Bieber didn’t earn his spot on yet another year-end roundup.

Flipboard Partners With Web Publishers for Full Content (and Full Disclosure: Including ATD)

in Social on December 2, 2010 at 9:22 am PT

Yesterday, I wrote about Pulse, a news-reading app with innovative design, going social by integrating Facebook. Now Flipboard, a social news-reading app based around Twitter and Facebook, is adding publisher feeds. (Full disclosure: Including from All Things Digital.) One thing’s clear: There’s a lot of excitement and energy going into how the iPad can re-create content consumption.

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Skype and Facebook Announce Partnership

in News on October 14, 2010 at 11:41 am PT

As BoomTown’s Kara Swisher reported here on September 29, Skype and Facebook have announced a significant integration–as of today, users of Skype 5.0 for Windows can sign in using Facebook Connect, which will allow them to SMS, voice chat, make status updates, like and comment on Facebook posts from within the Skype desktop client.

Apple's Ping Wants Rock ‘n’ Roll, but No Sex and Drugs

in Media on October 14, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

When it comes to creating profiles on its would-be social network, Apple doesn’t want music acts thinking that differently.

Naked Brett Favre Won't Make Money for Nick Denton

in Media, October 7, 2010 at 10:27 am PT

Articles About Happy News, Sex Shared More on Facebook

in News, May 3, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

YouTube Gets a Facelift. Here’s the Memo.

in Media, March 31, 2010 at 8:50 am PT

Beijing: “Google is Not God”

in News, March 25, 2010 at 9:41 am PT

Twitter Sees 600 Tweets-Per-Second #OMG #YeahButWheres TheBusinessModel

in Social, February 22, 2010 at 3:00 pm PT

Dear FTC: Is This the Kind of Thing You Want Me to Disclose?

in Media, October 16, 2009 at 9:58 am PT