Facebook finetunes news feeds from friends

Facebook on Tuesday began rolling out the latest in a rapid-fire series of enhancements to the leading social network as nascent rival Google+ opened its membership to the world.


Facebook's "News Feed" that streams updates from friends will give priority to important posts, images shared at the website will be displayed larger, and a "Ticker" chat column is being added for real-time conversations.

"As Mark (Zuckerberg) put it, this is launching season," Facebook product manager Keith Schacht told AFP while discussing the new features.

"This is an update we have been working on a long time, unrelated to anything else," Schacht responded when asked whether the launch of rival Google+ in June was a factor behind the recent barrage of Facebook features.

In recent weeks, Facebook has focused on ways for members to better control what information gets shared with whom.

Facebook last week began letting members follow strangers Twitter-style with the addition of "Subscribe" buttons that let people hear from people who aren't friends at the network, and share insights with strangers.

Facebook also began letting members be more selective about what kinds of updates from friends make it into their personal news feeds.

"Last week we announced (Smart) List and Subscribe, which were about more control of what members see in the News Feed," Schacht said. "Today, these changes are about letting people see the most important news."

If a Facebook user hasn't visited the social network for a few days, the news feed will prominently display significant posts from friends that may have been missed during that time away.

Someone who frequently checks their Facebook account will have recent happenings at the top of his or her news feed.

"If you didn't read the newspaper for three days, then on Day Four you pick up a newspaper how awesome would it be if the front page summarized the news from the past three days?" Schacht asked.

"Facebook will get better over time at understanding what is important to each person," he said. "If we are wrong, you can tell us."

The latest enhancement to photo viewing at Facebook increases the size of uploaded images. About 250 million photos are uploaded daily to the social network.

The new "Ticker" chat panel in a right-hand column on the screen allows people to engage in text chats focused on freshly uploaded images or other posts.

"News Feed is an historical view of what your friends have shared," Schacht said. "Ticker is about real-time exchanges with friends."

Facebook planned to begin rolling out the new features globally Tuesday and expected them to reach all of its more than 750 million users within a week.

More Facebook announcements are expected at the social network's annual developers conference taking place in San Francisco on Thursday.

The gathering will come just days after Google dropped the need for an invitation to join the Internet giant's challenge to Facebook, Google+.

"For the past 12 weeks we've been in field trial, and during that time we've listened and learned a great deal," Google senior vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said Tuesday.

"We're nowhere near done, but with the improvements we've made so far we're ready to move from field trial to beta... Anyone can visit google.com/+, join the project and connect with the people they care about."

Fresh enhancements to Google+ included letting members take part in video-chat "Hangouts" using camera-enabled smartphones or tablet computers, or broadcast video presentations to groups of watchers using "Hangouts On Air."

Google said it has also woven its Internet search expertise into the social network by adding a query box.

Google+ combined aspects of Facebook and microblogging sensation Twitter, and promised users that sharing aspects of their lives at the social network would reflect levels of confidentiality granted in real life.

Google+ stresses the ability it gives users to separate online friends and family into different "Circles," or networks, and to share information only with members of a particular circle.

Google is hoping its billion users worldwide are drawn into the California-based Internet giant's social network.

Facebook Posts depending on the location and population

Facebook has several options to control and own friends list, photos, biographies you have many options for privacy settings in your profile to ensure visibility in various areas of the profile control of the filter. Well now you can also choose who to show your Posts on Facebook.

In favor of the follower pages you admin, you can choose countries and places where people strength be clever to perceive a post. You can use these options for each update on Facebook. If the status area, click the lock icon and select Customize. Now You’ll have a privacy, with people you like, you can choose the face in particular. You can choose from pop, friends, friends of friends, or just a few. 

The selection of a particular person,lets you enter the names of your friends who will be able to see your post. You can also filter the e-mail from your friends.These characteristics of the target is also very useful for those areas. You can select post to users by country and language. Open the management page and click on the padlock before sending updates to the site. 

You can also set the city or province inside the countries where the post will be visible.  You can also direct users to a specific language. You can add languages that will filter the post only to the speakers of the language within your preferred location.

By customize your posts on your follower pages; you can simply object your particular products by country, constituency or languages.

Hardening from Facebook, Google rolls in the world of social research

Google will be a bit 'controversial features 19 other languages ​​to launch a survey next week the company announced on its official blog. Released in October 2009, social research is a normal feature of the results of publicly available data of your friends joins Social Media operations.

Yes, friends, vaguely defined and are the ones talking buddy list, contacts, Google, People, Buzz and Google Reader below, and others were linked to their profile on Google or a Google Account. Google can be your friends through public networks such as Twitter and Facebook and collect data from their connection.

This function is the subject of recent controversies, such as Facebook and public relations employees of negative stories in the press on the search online for printing. Facebook claims that Google's privacy practices is very important, and it is unfortunate that Google, Facebook share data to support it, without your consent.

For the most part, Google has not commented on the issue, but it is clear that in his recent blog Twitter Social Search, the three times, and Facebook is not visible. Social Search is available in 19 languages ​​in multiple languages, on the road next week. Watch a video preview of the steps below.

Facebook Dislike Button is another hit

Cream of the cream of the technology sector in the Sophos scanner and control over the years. Early last year, sounded the alarm for the treatment showed 70 percent of spam and malware on social networks. It was discovered that the scam last year, Ping and spam services.

Popularity brings attention to equitable distribution of good and bad, and Facebook are the reasons for their fans is growing, and some issues were considered inseparable. This time, Sophos on your blog in Facebook fraud, spread rapidly, attracting users click on the link highlighted the reluctance of the Enable button. ;


Do not activate the button is not displayed in the main message is to establish links and opinions and come to reality. But this is not true. Facebook is the home of spam, worms Ask such as the recent video in which she was known to be necessary. This form of fraud, which was effective last week and will be managed by a team of Facebook.

Facebook five free applications for Android phones

Although it is relatively easy to find and list to go to the Android Market for you, you want a small task. If you're looking for and Facebook Fan androids This list can be useful for you. I was five Facebook application that can be used to download and it's worth.

Facebook for Android With this application you can do updates on the main screen to display messages and view events. Listen to your friends walls', the information about you and talking with friends. You can also upload photos, check-in on a busy film to watch and see if the incoming messages. This free application had 10000000-50000000 objects.



This management application Seesmic social media to find updates on Facebook, other social networks like Twitter, Buzz, too. You can also update their Facebook pages to admin





Go! Chat with this user-friendly interface, Facebook Chat is very easy to use and easier. You can share pictures and videos as well as the location, pictures and voice messages via chat. Other features include emoticons, Facebook groups, favorites, etc. registration





Video on Facebook application to download video download video clips from your phone to your Facebook profile. When the movie is downloaded, will be updated on a wall. So do not feel that the measures are characteristic of those who download movies, you can still find interesting.




SyncMyPix not really apply, but hey, if you want pictures of your contacts from your phone. The application synchronizes contacts from Facebook photos with the contacts of their camera phone.



This does not apply to all applications that can be used to improve management. Send us your thoughts about the questions that we think a lot about Facebook. Then download the application to think that they deserve, and work safely.

Incredible Zynga took market share from 39% in 2010

Able to increase his lead over other leading market shares, based on the success of the city and the town of Farmville, and the search for new IHS Screen Digest Zynga. Consumer spending on PC games Zynga social networks and their income from advertising and lead generation activities of 544 million U.S. dollars in 2010, making it a 39.1 percent share in the global market, 4.2 percentage points more than in 2009. It 's the biggest increase in the top 5 vendors.
 

In 2010, the central role in expanding the scope of the Zynga network social actor gaming market, which attracts millions of new users of the popular titles available on Facebook, it says Piers Harding-Rolls, director of games for IHS. , The end of the year, the company offers a new title, city, city reports monthly active users (MAU) exploded.

The success of the urban city has a positive impact on other Zynga games, especially Farmville, increase the number of customers at the end of 2010, after a steady decline in the rest of the year. Meanwhile, the strategy is to make the bid more aggressively Zynga engine design and analysis of users of other games now. ;

Global social network PC games, including micro-transactions for the consumer and the product of the operator of lead generation and advertising expenses amounted to $1.4 billion in 2010 to 116, 4 percent to 636 million U.S. dollars in 2009.

So why are online games show an increase in market share?

Market growth has been achieved through changes in operational policy for access to Facebook acclimation, which promotes the success of viral marketing, low prices on the market so high, driven by the disease in 2009. The carriers have concentrated their efforts to improve user engagement and monetization of the effect of targeting was achieved better value for the life of existing users, growth purely commercial, market expansion. Apart from the increase approved by Facebook continuous playback of content from other social networks in all regions is the result. These changes have allowed more than market forecasts.

7 rules for marketing content

In the marketing world, content is king and market Kingmaker. E 'fair to say that social media marketing is the content landscape changed forever. Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter allow greater Kingmaker, the content of lead in the market to new heights.

From a commercial point of view, marketing is content to keep you informed about their customers and are happy with their products and services. The idea is to create and publish content to help their customers and prospects. As a marketer of content, I think there are these 7 golden rules for marketing content to follow.

1 – Be original

Best thing to do is copy what the competition is a success. Although this may lead to an increase in the short term, I do not think this is the best marketing strategy for any company in the long term. If anything, reflects a lack of innovation in marketing. Of course, draw inspiration from others, and encourage companies to develop these ideas to the original content.

2 – Insight

The content must not only original, informative, instructive and interesting. It makes no sense to publish their own content, the complaint is deficient, and does not offer any knowledge of the products / services. If you have a great product, most point to offer useful content, useful information.

3 – Know your customers

As a marketer of content, it is important to customers and how that can impress your knowledge. The quality of the content is as important as the speed and amount of content. As a company, you should try to present information in an interesting way that readers will respond.

4 – Pictures

A picture is worth a thousand words - content marketing is no exception to this rule. Picture you can take a lot of words. So, do not indicate the use of images, if any. Add images, marketing campaigns, the WOW factor, not only so to use it. Instead, the content of marketing campaigns with a great combination of text and graphics in general, most of the talks.

5 – Videos

If a picture is worth a thousand words, video is worth a thousand words. Movies are a great way to display content in an intuitive way. For example, a demo of the product is well illustrated by video instead of plain text. channel on YouTube is a great way to supplement their video marketing liquid.

6 – Tone

I have seen many marketing campaigns, content can go wrong, why he chose the wrong signal. Nobody likes to read the content and promotional intrusive. Shameless sales pitch is never used something good for his campaign, paying attention to the sound of its content.

7 – Interactivity

content marketing is a dialogue between the customer and the company. If it is a means of communication between the company and no response from the customer that does not work. Reach your customers in the communications necessary for the real interest for your products and services it generates. Remember - marketing the content of two-way street and if traffic is blocked in both directions, it becomes a different song automatically disabled.