34 posts and columns on The Washington Post

Twitter Got Hacked. Expect More Companies to Follow.

in Social on February 2 at 4:06 pm PT

This isn’t over.
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Facebook’s “Social Readers” Still Fading

in Social on May 22, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

The Washington Post and Guardian apps see another steep drop in usage. Great news.
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Developers Get Ready To Tell Facebook About Every “Action” You Take

in Social on January 17, 2012 at 5:00 am PT

These are the apps made by outside developers that “frictionlessly” and continuously share users’ actions back to Facebook after a user has given permission once.
Facebook said these and other partners would be launching Open Graph apps

Facebook’s Timeline Finally Showed Up. So Where Are the Apps?

in Social on December 15, 2011 at 10:36 am PT

Facebook today made its new Timeline pages available to all users, but it didn’t unleash the many “Open Graph” applications that developers have been building to fill in the story of users’ futures.
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Hey Facebook, Where’s That Timeline and Open Graph You Promised?

in Social on December 5, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Two and a half months after Facebook promised that a huge revision of its self-expression and sharing tools were coming soon, users and developers are still waiting.
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News Byte

WashPost Says Its Facebook App Readers Are Younger — And More Indian

in Social on November 28, 2011 at 4:41 pm PT

The Washington Post said today that its social news app — which in my opinion gets far too much play at top of my Facebook newsfeed! — has 3.5 million users. That number is in line with public stats, but the paper also disclosed that it’s reaching a new audience through Facebook: 83 percent of the app users are under 35 years old and 20 percent are based in India. The app will now syndicate stories from the Hindustan Times, GigaOM and ProPublica.

Why Is the Washington Post at the Top of My Facebook Feed Yet Again?

in Social on November 14, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

After uninstalling and hiding the Washington Post Social Reader App but still seeing stories from it front and center, I asked what was going on, and how I could make it stop.
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Voices

Citibank's Snafu Over Gay Site Looks Familiar

in News on February 26, 2010 at 9:40 am PT

Citibank apologized Thursday evening to a gay social-networking service that claimed bank employees had blocked its account for “objectionable content” on the site.

D7 Video: Introduction to Huffington and Weymouth

in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 10:32 am PT

Here is the humorous intro shown prior to the arrival of Katharine Weymouth and Arianna Huffington on the stage at D7 for their session with Kara Swisher.
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