Facebook launched its new-and-improved Like button yesterday, which lets users react with more than a simple thumbs up. They can now love something, or thinks it’s worthy of a wow face, a sad face, an angry face, or a "haha" face.Well, that's how the emoji translate in English. B … | Continue reading
Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today 1pmPT/4pmET. Chat with us live during the show at chat.center/gillmorgang Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE Our LIVE chat on Chat Center (during the LIVE show broa … | Continue reading
Facebook has officially rolled out "Reactions," giving users more ways to offer feedback. How will this impact social media content marketing strategies? | Continue reading
Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft are expected to file a joint motion in support of Apple, as the company fights a ruling forcing it to bypass iPhone security. | Continue reading
Social Media - This week social got serious about customer support: Facebook's plans to improve sentiment tracking and talking to customers directly, Twitter's Customer Feedback, Snapchat's tracking and services, and Foursquare's in-store traffic ... | Continue reading
Facebook has announced that it is finally expanding its live video-streaming tool to Android devices, but only in the U.S. for now. Today’s news comes one month after the social network opened Facebook Live to all iOS users in the U.S., following a short period of limited availab … | Continue reading
After first rolling out to iOS users back in January, Facebook is now getting ready to bring its live video streaming service to Android in an attempt to compete with Periscope. | Continue reading
"Making Cortana (facebooks siri) behave like a human would be like the new skeuomorphism" this and other great insights in the long read about how inclusive design changed the way facebook thinks about design. | Continue reading
Facebook is expanding its live-video feature to Android users, the company announced in a blog post today. This rollout is initially for Android users based in the U.S. next week, but “more countries [are] coming soon,” Facebook confirmed. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook will bring its live video streaming service to Android phones within the next week, the company announced today. The Android rollout will begin with users in the US, before expanding to other countries. The Facebook Live feature, which allows users to broadcast live vide … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg is appearing in Berlin in what he said is his first Q&A livestreamed on Facebook where he has announced that Live Video is coming to Android starting today. “You’ll all have the power to brodcast like a TV in all of your pockets hopefully within the next month,” h … | Continue reading
Derzeit ist ein Townhall Q&A mit Mark Zuckerberg in Berlin und es gibt tatsächlich eine News, die über die Hate-Speach-Probleme hinaus interessant sein könnte. Was auf iOS schon eine Weile für jeden möglich ist, soll ab... | Continue reading
This week's top online marketing news from @toprank: Pinterest Matters, Goodbye Sidebar Ads and Facebook Reacts | Continue reading
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has the highest approval rating of CEOs from the biggest tech companies in the United States, according to polling company Morning Consult, beating out Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, and Larry Page. But despite this positive opinion for its boss, Zuckerbe … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: If there’s one thing the world doesn’t need, it’s another social messaging app. From Facebook Messenger and Snapchat onto WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, and beyond, it’s safe to say that most bases are covered. Right? Well, maybe. A new startup launched out of stealth in th … | Continue reading
Humans have played cards since the 9th century Imperial China, and we might keep doing it even when we upload our brains into virtual reality. Oculus VR, the Facebook subsidiary working on the Rift virtual reality head-mounted display, is teasing a new card battler. In a message … | Continue reading
It looks like Facebook plans to start using ads on their popular Messenger app, and we could see them as early as April. | Continue reading
At the Mountain View Campus of social networking platform Facebook, there’s a longstanding landmark called the signature wall designed to be a visual representation of the growing community at the company. But, according to Gizmodo, it’s also been the site of troubling racial con … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg had strong words for Facebook employees after finding out that someone has been crossing out "Black Lives Matter" on the walls at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters.In an internal message shared with employees and obtained by Gizmodo, the CEO descr … | Continue reading
During a live chat in Berlin today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told viewers he wanted to capture his daughter Max’s first steps in virtual reality. I’ve been thinking about when my daughter takes her first steps, how I want to capture it,” Zuckerberg said. When I took my first … | Continue reading
A group of Isis hackers have posted a video online which includes what looks to be a direct threat against Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to scold his staff after discovering that unidentified employees recently crossed out Black Lives Matter and replaced it with "all lives matter" on the walls at Facebook headquarters — multiple times. Gizmodo obtained an internal memo written by Z … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is asking his employees to stop being ignorant and racist (my words, not his). In an internal memo obtained by Gizmodo, Zuckerberg said he was disappointed by the “several recent instances of people crossing out ‘black lives matter’ and writing ‘all l … | Continue reading
At an event in New York today, Facebook launched its newest product for marketers: interactive mobile ads called Canvas. Facebook needs ads to make money, so getting them right is crucial. Canvas is an evolution of the earlier Carousel ads, which allowed users to swipe through mu … | Continue reading
Instant Articles, meet Instant Ads. Facebook wants to give advertisers an immersive way to reach people without making them leave the social network. So today it officially launched its ad Canvas. When users click a Facebook ad, it opens a full-screen, rich media page inside of F … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg just did a live video stream on Facebook (where else) from Berlin where he detailed plans to give 25 high-power GPU servers to European research labs in order to accelerate advances in intelligent computing. The Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Partnership Program star … | Continue reading
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab today announced a new partnership program that will benefit academic researchers in Europe. It’s not just that Facebook will work in lock step with the academics; Facebook will actually giving out 25 powerful servers powere … | Continue reading
ticketscript have recently launched their new ticketshop, which is optimized for mobile ticket purchasing and works with your event brand. Here is our review. ticketshop: What Is It? The new ticketshop is the front end ticketing platform that can be integrated with an event websi … | Continue reading
Facebook just got a lot more emotionalThe social network rolled out its long awaited redesign of the like button Wednesday, which added five new sentiments you can use to respond to posts in your News FeedSee also: The 10 Facebook reactions we actually neededBut with such a big c … | Continue reading
Facebook will reach a key milestone this year, with more than half of the UK population using the social network on a regular basis, according to eMarketer’s latest social network usage forecast. | Continue reading
The new Facebook reactions are here and gone are the days of the simple "Like." You can now express your love, anger, laughter, surprise and sadness on your friends' posts. SEE ALSO: With Facebook Reactions, life just got a lot more complicatedHere are a few dos and don'ts for ho … | Continue reading
Facebook and Twitter, it seems, are indeed having an impact in the fight against ISIS, at least online. Last week we reported on a George Washington University study that concluded the Islamic State was having a difficult time spreading propaganda, or recruiting, on Twitter. This … | Continue reading
By my reckoning, the history of digital technology can be broken up into four distinct epochs. So far we’ve experienced three, but the fourth, virtual reality, is just around the corner. It all began with the personal computer, a paradigm-shifting platform that added efficiency t … | Continue reading
Kesha thanked her fans and wrote about the larger societal implications of her contract dispute with former producer Dr. Luke (aka Lukasz Gottwald) in a note on Facebook this afternoon. The post is arriving in the wake of the rejection of a pivotal motion in Kesha's case, one tha … | Continue reading
If the goal of Facebook Reactions was complexity, then Facebook has succeeded in spades. Certainly they deserve a “Like.” Or is it a “Love?”Reactions, which finally rolled out globally on Wednesday, are Facebook's response to a growing desire for more choices than just “Likes” (a … | Continue reading
Instagram has attracted more than 200,000 advertisers, the company announced Wednesday, a clear sign of its potential for significantly contributing to Facebook’s revenue. | Continue reading
Facebook versucht sich weiterhin in der Öffnung nach Innen. Nutzer können ab sofort nicht nur Beiträge liken, sondern auch lieben, belachen, be-wtf-en, betrauern oder schlecht finden. "Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry" heißen... | Continue reading
Instagram announced today that it has 200,000 monthly active advertisers. To compare, Facebook said a year go that it had more than 2 million active advertisers, while Twitter says it has 140,000. Probably the most impressive thing about the Instagram number is the fact that the … | Continue reading
Facebook has finally upgraded the Like button with Reactions, an emoji-like tool that expands how we respond non-verbally to posts that don't warrant a comment, but would benefit from the least impactful acknowledgement available. Unlike familiar emoji tools for GChat, Slack, or … | Continue reading
The new Facebook reactions are finally here — which means you can respond to someone's status with Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry in addition to the familiar, original LikeIf you're not seeing those options in your News Feed yet, though, we're here to helpOn desktopOn the browser … | Continue reading
Smartphones and networks are constantly getting faster, but somehow the mobile web now feels slower than it ever did. That’s largely thanks to all the ads and trackers that most sites now use (and maybe the abundance of large GIFs, too).A few months ago, Google set out to change … | Continue reading
Last fall Google announced Accelerated Mobile Pages — an open-source project to speed up the mobile web by changing how web pages are built and displayed. The project, which followed similar efforts from Facebook and Apple, promises to result in pages that load four times as fast … | Continue reading
After announcing that Facebook users would soon be able to express a wider range of emotions on the platform through emoji, the company is now delivering on that promise by rolling it out to all users. The new ‘Reactions’ give you buttons for ‘Like,’ Love,’ Haha,’ Wow,’ ‘Sad’ or … | Continue reading
Humanity has been boiled down to six emotions. Today after tests in a few countries, Facebook is rolling out its augmented Like button “Reactions” to all users. This article has been boiled down to six emotions too. Like – Facebook designed Reactions so Liking is still as easy ev … | Continue reading
How you respond to your friends on Facebook is about to change, as the social networking company begins rolling out its new Reactions worldwide. The new feedback “emotions” offer you more ways to react to someone’s post by including responses such as love, laughter, excitement, s … | Continue reading
Facebook's redesigned Like button is finally here.After months of testing, the social network is finally rolling out reactions to everyone, Facebook announced Wednesday. The update, which includes four new reactions — Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry — will be available to all user … | Continue reading
After more than a year in development, Facebook's expanded Like button "reactions" are now coming to a News Feed near you. For the first time, you'll be able to react to friends' posts with something other than a gesture of pure positivity. Long press on the Like button and you'l … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: A Facebook executive said yesterday that Facebook’s Messenger would be opening itself up to marketing, but he avoided using the word “ads” to describe the service, in what appeared to be a subtle correction of a report released last week saying Facebook will soon “laun … | Continue reading