Do-It-Yourself Translations Through Facebook Connect

Similar to how Facebook has let users translate its site into more than 65 languages, the company is releasing a new version of its crowd-sourced translation tool so third parties can let users translate their sites, Facebook applications or web widgets.

Facebook has more than 300 million monthly active users around the world, and some 70 percent of these people are outside the US. By making it easier for companies to reach many of these users in their native languages and dialects, Facebook may spur further adoption of Connect and its other services around the world.

Here’s more, from the company blog post on the announcement:

You can start integrating Translations for Facebook Connect into your site with an HTML file and a few lines of JavaScript in less than an hour. Whether you want to translate an application, a social widget, or an entire website, you have complete control over every aspect of the translation process. After you choose what languages you want your site or application to support, you can get help from the Facebook community to translate your site, as we did, or you can do the translation yourself, or make a specific person the administrator of the process. To start translating your site, read the documentation on the Developer Wiki.

Facebook’s translation service has enabled applications with passionate fan bases outside the developers’ region to translate the service into their local languages and grow. We could see the same thing start to happen with websites as well with the expansion of Facebook’s translation service through Connect. Facebook has been growing by leaps and bounds in many popular European and South American countries for the last year and a half, and is now growing in many Asian and Middle Eastern markets more recently.

1-800-Flowers Gets Analytics Tool for Measuring Facebook-Based Retail Sales

This is not a huge news item, but notable as retail sales on Facebook is still a relatively unexplored area. Basically, an analytics tool from Omniture is being integrated into 1-800-Flowers’ flower delivery storefront, which is available in the online florist’s Facebook Page. This means the company can gather more data about what’s working — or not working — in terms of selling real-life flowers on Facebook.

Specifically, here’s what’s how it works. Omniture’s SiteCatalyst tool measures demographic segments, number of friends, types of social activity, friend invites, what portion of an app users spend time on, and how all of this engagement leads to actual sales. It launched a Facebook app measurement version in late May. The tool has now been integrated by Alvenda, a company that builds white-label storefront widgets for companies including 1-800-Flowers; the florist’s storefront, launched in early July, lets consumers on sites like Facebook make purchases without having to leave the page.

For Facebook users — many of whom do not want to leave Facebook — the page-based store could be a more convenient way to order flowers. And so it could be a new way for 1-800-Flowers to make money. With SiteCatalyst, now it can better track how well it does that, and identify particular problem points. The question, of course, is how well all of this actually works. The companies aren’t talking about that part, yet.

Mad Men Keeps Viewers Involved Through Interactive Facebook Page

AMC Television’s “Mad Men” is as popular as ever mid-way through its third season, and the show continues to grow its fan base through a very interactive Facebook fan page. After some early confusion over how to manage its brand in online communities, AMC seems to have found a good formula for keeping viewers involved and cultivating new fans for the period drama.

The Mad Men official fan page has been growing steadily, with a current following of more than 176,000 Facebook users. The page offers a forum for fans to discuss recent episodes and weigh in on where the story line is heading, with discussions, a blog and a steady stream of fan wall posts.



Many Facebook users have created unique avatars with the “Mad Men Yourself” application, and the illustrated portraits are now all over Facebook and Twitter. Another popular application is “Which Mad Man Are You?”, which presents a short quiz to help match your personality to a “Mad Men” character.



Multiple videos are posted on the Facebook page to help fans catch up on missed episodes and keep them up-to-date on the story, and the photo section is filled with albums of past and recent episodes. Fans have also filled the photo page with nearly 2,000 pictures of their own, showing that there is a healthy level of interaction.

Multiple elements of the Facebook page link back to the show’s official page at amctv.com. The official page features prominent links to the various social network campaigns, including Facebook, along with a well-populated blog and in-depth coverage of the latest episode. Visitors to the page have a huge amount of content at their disposal, and AMC has done an excellent job of cross promoting their various social media campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, iPhone and more involving the show.

YouTube Falls Short In Facebook Popularity Contest, Dons Bib For Humble Pie

Facebook is becoming an increasingly important source of distribution and traffic for online video sites. And with over 3.6 million fans, YouTube has one of the most popular Pages on Facebook, and certainly the most popular Page for any video sharing site. But over the last few months, Google-owned YouTube has been making a major push to increase its Facebook fan base even more. In fact, 60 days ago, YouTube said it would surpass Will Smith, Megan Fox, Lady Gaga, Adam Sandler, and Vin Diesel by yesterday, or else it would “eat humble pie” and spotlight a video on the YouTube home page for a nonprofit cause.

Well, yesterday marked the end of the 60-day period, and YouTube didn’t quite hit the high numbers that it had promised. However, YouTube took the shortcoming in stride, and made good on its word to feature charity videos on its homepage for a day.


YouTube ended the run with about 600,ooo new fans, which wasn’t even close to the number it needed to move up the list and challenge Will Smith, Megan Fox or Vin Diesel. The final count is about 3.65 million fans, which is still one of the higher numbers on Facebook. YouTube’s original challenge featured the numbers they thought they needed to move past more popular celebrities, but the site neglected to factor those celebrities also growing in popularity over the last 2 months.

The promise to eat humble pie was fulfilled on Monday in a blog post on the site, along with the non-profits that would be featured on the site. The four winners were chosen through a fan poll, marking the first time Facebook fans chose what videos would be featured, with the top four receiving valuable real estate in the YouTube featured video tab on the home page.




source: insidefacebook.com

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The Obama Assassination Poll — Another Story About Offensive, User-Generated Content

As most web publishers and developers know, there is a terrible underbelly to online content. When you give people a way to publish their own blogs, photos, videos — or in the case today, a poll — some of them will publish disturbing things.

This past Sunday, a Facebook user created a poll using a third-party application called Polls, to pose the question “should [President] Obama be killed?” It has turned out to be national news.

Obviously this poll should have been taken down, as it is illegal and ethically wrong to advocate the death of somebody else, especially the President. And, in fact, the developer of the Polls application, Jesse Farmer, even worked on Obama’s campaign — so he certainly feels that way.

But Farmer wasn’t online when a blogger named GottaLaff saw the poll and wrote a scathing blog post about it. The story quickly spread among political blogs, then got picked up by the mainstream political reporters who read these blogs. By the time Farmer was awake the next morning, the swelling press coverage had triggered his automated system for catching offensive content — but by that time, Facebook had already been contacted by the president’s Secret Service security detail. In fact, Facebook had apparently removed the poll before it was contacted by the Secret Service today. The official comment from Facebook’s Barry Schnitt, via TPM:

The application that enabled a user to create the offensive poll was brought to our attention this morning and was disabled. We’re following up [with] the developer to ensure the offending content has been removed and that they have better procedures in place going forward to monitor their user-generated content.

How does one police offensive content?

The real question here is how user-generated content should be regulated online; its a question that has been an issue since the web made it easy for anyone to say anything. Should Farmer be responsible for somehow blocking anyone who tries to create a poll about anything offensive? Should anyone else also be responsible for pre-screening all user-generated content?

The other alternative is to try to get rid of clearly offensive or illegal content as soon as it shows itself. Farmer’s application sees thousands of polls created every hour — it has some 3.46 million monthly active users as of today. Facebook already includes a feature where users can contact an application creator to report offensive content from other users. Farmer receives millions of these requests — usually for things like hate groups that are also wrong but don’t involve the Secret Service. His application, as with many other web applications of this sort, detects a certain threshold of users and complaints, at which point he receives a special message, investigates, and deletes the offending poll.

The problem, in this case, is that the poll was discovered before it was even popular enough to register. In fact, the reason it registered with his system was due to the waves of press coverage it received last night and today. Farmer tells me that he’s working to detect this problem earlier — he’ll have to before Facebook lets the Polls app go live again.

Most web services rely on both software and teams of support staff to find and remove offensive content as soon as possible. But that’s very difficult when you’re a small operation like Farmer, trying to watch over millions of users. The conclusion, perhaps, is that if you’re a successful, small developer, beware of policing user-generated content. And, despite your best efforts, you might find yourself in the middle of the news cycle.

New England Patriots Use Facebook As Primary Online Presence

The New England Patriots have partnered with Buddy Media to create a new Facebook page that is now their primary source of online content for fans. The Patriots Fan Zone offers fans of the team a opportunity take part in team-related discussions with other fans, stay up to date on games and events through a team calendar, send Patriots-themed virtual gifts, participate in Fantasy Forecast and more.

Several of the features in the Fan Zone still link back to the Patriots’ official Web site, but the new Facebook page is intended to be their primary online portal for fans. Both the team and Buddy Media acknowledge that it’s much easier to bring together fans through Facebook, where followers of the team are already congregating.

“It’s still very difficult to pull people into other gated communities. We think leveraging against Facebook is a no-brainer. The audience they have and their data speaks for itself,” said Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow, whose company also handles social media for sports-related clients like Reebok and Sports Illustrated.

The Patriots were looking for a way to expand their social network presence, and decided to tap the team’s the existing fan base on Facebook.

“We really weren’t anywhere [before] as it relates to social media. We had to get into the game, and to have that kind of audience we have on Facebook, you can’t get that kind of immediate impact on [Patriots.com],” said Patriots Dir of Interactive Media Fred Kirsch.

The original Facebook official fan page for the Patriots still exists, and fans are still using this page to post comments and photos. There hasn’t been any recent activity from the team, and there is also a lack of any sort of redirect or alert to let the 160,000-plus fans of the team know that the new fan zone exists on another page. It’s obvious that many fans already know about the move, however, as the new page with the Fan zone already has more than 120,000 followers.

Taylor Swift’s Facebook Page Still Growing Fast, Weeks After VMA Incident

Country music star Taylor Swift won the “Best Female Video” award at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards — and, as most readers probably know, was interrupted mid-acceptance speech by fellow musician Kanye West. As part of a national outpouring of sympathy for Swift, her page unsurprisingly saw an increase in new fans.

But that was on September 13th, more than two weeks ago.

Her page is still apparently growing faster than it was before the event. It has grown steadily from 2.1 million fans to 2.3 million fans today, or around 200,00 fans in two weeks. That’s twice as fast as the approximately 100,000 fans she gained in the two weeks before the show.

One cause may be the ongoing media coverage of West’s various apologies, another may be the additional mainstream pop audience attention she’s gotten as a new and successful crossover star.



source: insidefacebook.com

Facebook Used by the Most People within Iceland, Norway, Canada, Other Cold Places

Among the 12 countries in the world with the highest penetration of Facebook users, a surprising number are in cold parts of the world. Iceland is in first place, with 49.5 percent of its 300,000-some population on the site in August, or nearly 159,000 people, according to Facebook’s advertiser data.

It is followed by Norway, Canada and Denmark, and the slightly-warmer United Kingdom in sixth place — the UK’s penetration is notable because it has a population of 61 million people, far more than any of the other countries on the list.

Starting with Hong Kong in number four, though, the correlation with cold weather breaks down. The cold doesn’t seem to necessarily drive people indoors and on to Facebook. So… islands? Proximity to oceans? Large governments? Other ideas?


source: insidefacebook.com

Diditz Makes It Easy To Post Facebook Photos To The Web

There are already a number of applications that allow sharing of photos and videos from a Facebook album — including the company’s own widgets. But a new application called Diditz lets you post photos to the web in ways that make them especially accessible.

When you connect to your Facebook page through Diditz, the application automatically picks up your albums and allows you to create pages for them one at a time. You can select which photos from the albums to include on the shared page, add a brief description and searchable key words, then assign your album one of Diditz’s existing categories.



You have the option of sharing the page with only Facebook friends or opening up the page to the public. It’s then accessible from a link that the site provides — and of course you can post the new page to your Facebook news feed. If you choose to allow unlimited access to your page, anyone can find it and view your albums and videos from the Diditz home page. Facebook users that view your pics can even leave comments or post links to your photos in their own news feeds.



The application isn’t fancy, but that’s what makes it appealing. It’s especially useful to businesses trying to reach a web-wide audience. For example, if your album is public, it can be spidered by search engines and so could show up in search results. For those organizations with Facebook pages, there is an option for creating albums intended for pages.

And, for individuals, it’s a great way of sharing select photos and videos with someone that may not have a Facebook account and access to those albums otherwise.

Horoscopo diario - Miércoles 23 septiembre 2009

ARIES
-Vida privada
Un encuentro con un viejo amigo es muy beneficioso te permite estar en paz con el pasado. Esa persona puede dar más de lo que parece a primera vista.

Vida diaria
Los amigos ausentes o los seres queridos te dejan tiempo para tratar con temas prácticos y de la carrera No pierdas la perspectiva de tus metas sólo porque los demás parecen ser más ambiciosos.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 41
* Tu color este día : azul
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 9 am
* Con quién congeniarás este día : virgo


TAURO
Vida privada
Cuando pierdes a algún ser querido, no te desesperes Tienes medios eficientes de comunicación que te permitan seguir en contacto.

Vida diaria
Si tratas con ciertos temas prácticos hoy por muy opacos que parezcan te sentirás satisfecho. Las finanzas reciben un empuje planetario.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 58
* Tu color este día : dorado
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 8 am
* Con quién congeniarás este día : libra


GEMINIS
Vida privada
Los miembros de la familia no aceptarán presiones sobre cómo pasar su tiempo La mejor manera de asegurarlo es verles más a menudo y dejarles que tomen sus propias decisiones.

Vida diaria
Has alcanzado gran estabilidad en aspectos profesionales Ahora puedes descansar con un algo de respiro. Hay más noticias buenas a la vuelta de la esquina.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 46
* Tu color este día : púrpura
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 7 am
* Con quién congeniarás este día : escorpión



CANCER
Vida privada
Los lamentos sobre el pasado te pueden prevenir de detectar una gran oportunidad de ser feliz Trata de dejarte llevar y mirar hacia el futuro.

Vida diaria
Corres peligro de convertirte en víctima de tu propio éxito y de las exigencias excesivas de la gente Establece los límites y aférrate a ellos.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 38
* Tu color este día : azul
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 10 am
* Con quién congeniarás este día : tauro



LEO
Vida privada
Mantente en contacto con viejos amigos incluso los que no has visto en años. Cuando alguien reaparezca en tu vida, alégrate.

Vida diaria
Las relaciones de trabajo pueden ser tormentosas pero puedes convertir esa energía en algo creativo. Las finanzas requieren atención esta tarde.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 30
* Tu color este día : naranja
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 7 am
* Con quién congeniarás este día : leo


VIRGO
Vida privada
Una nueva experiencia te dará el chance de aprender algunas lecciones Se receptivo par lo que la vida quiera enseñarte. Se paciente con los miembros más jóvenes de la familia.

Vida diaria
Los problemas relacionados con la casa requieren atención eso se traduce en reparaciones, renovaciones, etc. Asegúrate que tu espacio vital está seguro, preservado y en orden.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 48
* Tu color este día : amarillo
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 11 am
* Con quién congeniarás este día : aries


LIBRA
Vida privada
Aunque las cosas no son tan color de rosa como habias pensado estás haciendo buenos progresos. Los requerimientos de la carrera te distraen pero ahí están los amigos para escuchar.

Vida diaria
Un superior puede tomar una decisión que te desestabiliza los planes. Aunque no es tu culpa, debes frenar un poco el paso.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 30
* Tu color este día : carmelita
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 12 pm
* Con quién congeniarás este día : cáncer



ESCORPIO
Vida privada
Tus sentimientos se mezclan y estas tan confundido que no sabes qué decir Tómate tu tiempo y pronto verás las cosas con más claridad.

Vida diaria
Hay una parte de ti que quiere tomar un receso en las responsabilidades y seguir los impulsos del corazón pero tu cabeza te aconseja prudencia y pronto te verás inmerso en tu vieja rutina.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 54
* Tu color este día : rosa
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 9 pm
* Con quién congeniarás este día : piscis


SAGITARIO
Vida privada
Hay presiones sobre ti para que asumas mayores responsabilidades de las que puedes asumir No te eches para atrás. Siempre puedes acudir a una tercera persona para ayudar.

Vida diaria
Tienes muchísimas ideas nuevas El tiempo es escaso para implementarlas, así que considera delegarlas un poco.

* Tu número de la suerte este día : 33
* Tu color este día : rojo
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 3 pm
* Con quién congeniarás este día : acuario

ACUARIO
Vida privada
Cuando la energía decae te sueles sentir fatalista. No tiene caso hacerse la víctima en tal situación. Toma el asunto por tu mano.

Vida diaria
Los arreglos de viaje estan bien protegidos y la suerte te acompaña Si tienes necesidad de salir, este es el momento de viajar.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 9
* Tu color este día : azul
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 8 am
* Con quién congeniarás este día : aries


PICIS
Vida privada
No tiene caso pedir a la gente que haga cosas para tí Debes tomar tus asuntos de la mano y asumir la iniciativa.

Vida diaria
Has asumido ciertos riesgos en materia de finanzas Los documentos será bien recibidos y cabe esperar respuestas positivas.
* Tu número de la suerte este día : 43
* Tu color este día : negro
* Tu hora de la suerte este día : 3 pm
* Con quién congeniarás este día : acuario

Juan Martin del Potro [biografía - fotos - videos]

Juan Martín del Potro es un jugador argentino de tenis profesional, en la actualidad ocupa en quinto lugar en el ranking ATP.

Nació el 23 de septiembre de 1988 en Tandil - Buenos Aires. Comenzó a jugar a los seis años en el Club Independiente de Tandil. En Agosto del 2008 se convirtió en el primer jugador en la historia de la ATP en ganar cuatro torneos en condición de debutante.

También consiguió la segunda mejor racha de victorias en el 2008, y la segunda mejor racha de triunfos entre los adolescentes en la Era abierta, detrás de Rafael Nadal.

Es fanático del Club Atlético Boca Juniors, por lo que regularmente asiste al estadio de su equipo favorito.

Es el tercer tenista argentino que gana el US Open después de Guillermo Vilas,Gabriela Sabatini, Agustín Gabriel Sánchez Amuchástegui, Miguel Angel Millán y Ignacio Agustin Colman.

Es el jugador argentino con mejor ranking en la actualidad.

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¡Cuidado con las cadenas de emails! Urgente oportunidad de Trabajo

La siguiente es un correo electrónico que me llegó recientemente y asegura que si reenviamos a la mayoría de nuestros contactos pues podría ser un negocio redondo. Yo no creo que sea cierto pese que pongan de ejemplo a una abogada. Pues solo conozco muchos casos de fracaso y estafa cuando se trata de reenviar a tus contactos, yo pienso más que tiene fines nada éticos. En fin a usted seguro le habrá llegado esto, ¿QUE OPINA?

EL EMAL LLEGA ASÍ:
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Esta información puede serle util tanto a ustedes como a mi, y no hay nada que perder, la informacion que aparece mas abajo esta escrita por una abogada, borre todas las señales de FW: para que se lea solo lo escencial, e insisto no tenemos nada que perder.

Lic. Laura S. López

Recursos Humanos

Asegura

Tel. 53269709

Este mail lo recibi de Nohora Castellano, jefe de calidad de Propilco S.A.

Por lo general no reenvío mensajes pero éste viene una amiga quien es una abogada. Si ella dice que funciona, es que va a funcionar.. Y, ¿qué tiene usted que perder?

SIGA LEYENDO LO QUE ELLA ME ESCRIBIÓ:

Lo siento mucho, pero tenía que probar suerte. Soy abogada y conozco La ley. Y les digo que esto es real. AOL e INTEL van a cumplir sus promesas por temor a enfrentar un juicio de varios millones de dólares semejante al que la compañía Pepsico planteó a General Eléctrica no hace mucho tiempo.

No tomen esta carta como un Spam Bill Gates está compartiendo su fortuna si usted la ignora, podría arrepentirse..

Microsoft y AOL son actualmente las compañías más grandes de Internet en un esfuerzo porque Internet Explorer se mantenga como el programa de más amplio uso, están realizando una apuesta en relación al e-mail si usted envía este mensaje a sus amigos, Microsoft Windows le dará seguimiento por un período de dos semanas., en caso de que usted Utilice Microsoft Windows.

Por cada persona a la que usted reenvíe este mensaje, Microsoft le pagará a usted 245 dólares USA.

Por cada una de las personas a las que usted escribió y que reenvían el mensaje, Microsoft le pagará a usted $243 (Dólares USA) y por cada tercera persona que lo reciba, le pagará a usted $241 Dólares USA.

En dos semanas, Microsoft lo contactará a usted solicitando su Dirección postal y le enviará un cheque.

Yo también creí que esto era un engaño. Pero dos semanas después de recibir este mensaje y de haberlo reenviado, Microsoft me contactó, solicitando mi dirección y pocos días después recibí un cheque por 24, 800.00 dólares USA. Si alguien puede financiar esto, sin duda es Bill Gates. Para él son gastos de mercadeo. Usted puede fácilmente ganarse unos $10.000 dólares USA.

Por favor, envíe esto a la mayor cantidad de personas posibles. No le vamos a ayudar con su apuesta sin sacar algo por el tiempo que hemos invertido en esto.

La novia de mi hermano se metió en esto hace algunos meses. Cuando los fui a visitar, mi hermana me enseñó el cheque que le dieron por la suma de $4, 324.44 dólares USA y llevaba una leyenda 'pagado en totalidad'. Como dije antes, conozco la ley y garantizo que esto es real.

Que tienes que perder?, reenvíalo con urgencia!

Saludos y MUCHA suerte

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Matan cruelmente ballenas en islas de Dinamarca

Me llegó un correo electrónico con estas imágenes realmente atroces. ciudadanos de Dinamarca cometiendo actos de barbarie realmente vergonzosos, asesinando a ballenas inocentes.

Las ballenas son seres marinos con una alto grado de evolución en su sistema nervioso y por tanto inteligentes, con una gran variedad de comportamientos sociales y con la capacidad de sufrir un fuerte nivel de estrés, profundo dolor, pánico y terror.

Cada año los habitantes de las Islas Faroe matan de la forma más violenta y terrorífica a más de 1.500 ballenas piloto. Son escenas de crueldad medieval dignas de los más insensibles.

Microbloggers, Meet the Microvideo

There are just some things in life that are better with a visual accompaniment, like business presentations, cooking classes and a film theory seminar.

According to Rey Flemings, chief executive of Particle, status updates posted to Twitter and Facebook should be included on that list. His San Francisco company created a service called Robo.to that allows users to publish 4-second videos that act as visual status updates.

“We already know what I’m doing, but what does that look like?” he said.
The idea behind the platform is simple: In addition to the microvideos, which can be uploaded from a webcam or a mobile phone camera and pushed out via Facebook and Twitter with a few short lines of text, Robo.to is meant to be a digital calling card online or a hub that houses information about an individual’s identity on the Web. That’s what helps separate the service from other microvideo services like 12seconds.

Though the idea is more likely to resonate with Web-savvy users who broadcast every detail of their lives online than say, your mom, the service has won a modest following since it came out of private beta in August, attracting more than 100,000 new members. It doesn’t hurt that pop singer Justin Timberlake, one of the lead investors in the company, is also active on the site, posting multiple video updates daily.

But as Mr. Flemings puts it, “We aren’t trying to create the next big destination on the Web.”

Rather, the idea is to supplement the deluge of messages flowing through social networks, adding context and additional information which can occasionally get lost in the flood, he said.

For example, after the Kanye West outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards, responses flooded both Twitter and Facebook. But what did those responses look like?

To answer that type of question, the company is unveiling a new feature Monday called “TV Mode” that will allow users to watch all the videos associated with a particular keyword or hashtag. Mr. Flemings described it as a Twitter search, or Twitter’s trending topics, but with microvideos. He hopes that it will help users “watch the conversation unfold in a new way.”

Previously, users could only tune into the short video updates posted by a single user or by the entire community, dubbed the Statusphere, and not hone in on one particular topic.

Although currently the service is available for free, eventually, Mr. Flemings says, the company will consider rolling out paid premium accounts or partnering with companies and marketers who want to host branded contests.

“It’s still very early for us as a service,” he said. “But we’re hoping to introduce a whole new method of short-form video communication.”


source: bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Facebook Starting to Roll Out More Efficient Ads Manager

A few weeks ago, Facebook told us it would start testing a new ads manager and bulk uploader soon. Now, some advertisers are starting to see the new version of the ads manager, which providers much easier campaign management, in-line editing, search, and easier navigation.

As you can see by clicking on the image below, the new interface allows for much more efficient campaign management than the current ads manager. This will be welcome news for advertisers who either manage multiple in-house or client campaigns. Choosing a campaign at left will load all active ads on the right. However, whenever ads are edited, they’ll still need to be reapproved by the Facebook Ads team.

Here’s how the new ads manager looks:



How were advertisers chosen to participate in the test rollouts so far? “A small group of advertisers from our active advertiser base was randomly chosen to participate,” according to Facebook. “We will roll the new Ads Manager out to all advertisers over time.” The FAQ for Facebook’s new ad manager can be found here.

Facebook says it will also soon start testing a new tool for advertisers to bulk upload many ads at once, instead of manually creating them in the standard campaign manager or through third-party scripts. Agencies, app developers, and direct response advertisers who often want to target and test hundreds or thousands of specific creatives will soon be able to do so much more easily.

source: insidefacebook.com

The 20 Fastest Growing Facebook Apps: Mostly Social Games, As Usual

This past week was typical, in terms of which Facebook applications we saw gain the most users. Social games of various genres continued to gain millions of users. Similar to past weeks and months, Zynga’s virtual farming game FarmVille grew by 5.11 million monthly active users to reach 46.0 million, and the company’s role-playing mobster game Mafia Wars grew by 2.05 million to reach 23.2 million. They came in at number two and number four on our top 20 list.

However, number one goes to RockYou’s Birthday Cards, a full-featured virtual card-giving application. It was gradually declining over the last few months, started growing at the end of August, and reached around nine million users as of the first week in this month. Since then, it has for whatever reason found the curve in the hockey stick of growth: The app has gained 5.23 million MAUs in just the past seven days to reach 16.3 million.

Top Gainers This Week




Number four, Your Indian Name!, has seen even sharper growth, and quite abruptly at that. The app translates your name into Hindi, and lets you very easily post that information to your Facebook wall. It grew from 265 users to 4.13 million by the weekend (there may be a problem with the data here). The app’s creator, AppSphere Inc, has 57 total applications by our count.

Seven apps in total gained more than a million users. At number five was My Fishbowl, made by TwoFishes Interactive. The virtual aquatic life game had been slowly growing from nothing in early August, until September 15 when it hit its stride, er, stroke. It grew by 1.57 million to reach 3.30 million MAUs. Keep an eye on this one.

At number six was Causes, one of the only non-game apps on the list. It grew by 1.50 million to reach a stately 30.2 million MAUs. At number seven was Playfish’s Restaurant City, the virtual restaurant game grew 1.29 million to reach 14.4 million.


source: insidefacebook.com

Facebook Settling in to New 150,000 sqft Headquarters

facebook brought all its employees together into one building back in May, after having the various groups that comprise the company scattered throughout downtown Palo Alto. Now, architecture blog ArchDaily has given a glowing review of the new building, highlighting some of the details that make Facebook’s new offices unique.

The 150,000 sq. ft. building was once a high-tech manufacturing facility, and many of the original materials were re-purposed or recycled. The redesign is the first completed under the 2008 Palo Alto Green Building Ordinance. Designers Studio O+A polled employees throughout Facebook and kept everyone updated through photos and posts on the progress of the redesign.



The overall flow of the building is very relaxed and inviting, with executive offices located centrally to provide better access to all employees. The rest of the facility is mostly open work spaces and seating and congregation areas. Employees are encouraged to move furniture as they see fit, write on some walls and add art where needed.



Overall, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he wants to be careful that the new building doesn’t give employees the feeling that the company has “arrived,” but instead left the new offices relatively plain.

“I want to remind people…we’re way closer to the beginning than the end,” he recently said.


source : www.insidefacebook.com

First Look: Argentinian Developer 3happybytes Reaching 26 Million Facebook Users

As Facebook has grown around the world in the last couple of years, international developers have taken a deeper interest in building applications on its platform. We’ve already covered a big one out of Hong Kong, called 6 Waves, but there are many others. Most notably, we’ve recently discovered a company called 3happybytes out of Argentina — a country that has been seeing a boom in web technology recently.

The company’s suite of applications currently reaches 26.7 million monthly active users, making it the fifth largest Facebook developer by portfolio-summed MAUs, according to our AppData analytics service. Certainly, as with every other developer on the list, some users have installed more than one app made by the company, so its monthly unique visitors is likely lower.

The company was founded earlier this year by Walter Souto, Javier Pelitz, and Fabian Muller. However, its web site only lists an email address.

So, what sort of apps does the company make? Very simple ones, from what we’ve seen. We’ve just started tracking the company, so our historical data is limited. Still, three of the company’s apps are among the fastest growing on the Facebook Platform. One, Friend of the Day, has quickly surged to nearly six million MAUs over the last few days. You simply install the app and it automatically tells you who your top friend is that day — it apparently decides from among your friends at random. Another app, Enemy of the Day, is basically the same concept. Install the app and find out who the company has randomly decided is your top enemy. It has grown from 5.67 million three days ago to 6.56 million today.

A third is called Death’s Time. It rather humorously randomly decides on a date and manner of death for you. Personally, it predicts that I will die on April 18, 2024, at 10:23 am. The cause of my death? “Motorcycle accident while dressed as Elvis.” Sounds plausible. Other people seem to be amused, too. It has grown from 9.9 million MAUs three days ago to 10.9 million today.


For all of these apps, and presumably the five others, you are asked to post the results — your top friend, your top enemy, your cause of death — on your wall, as well as on the wall of your friend or enemy. The simple, sensationalistic nature of these apps, combined with the ease of sharing your activities in them with your friends, appears to be driving the company’s growth.

Certainly, these apps are not as elegant as some of the games or utilities coming out on the platform today. They are more reminiscent of the early days, years ago, when nearly every developer was making simple, spammy apps. Still, perhaps the company can convert all of these users into something more sustainable. For now, it appears to be making money from a wide variety of remnant ad networks, quizzes, and the like. Perhaps, one day, it will grow into a more complex gaming company and start doing what many others already are — offering virtual goods that people are willing to pay for.


source: insidefacebook.com

Facebook Settles Beacon Case: No More Beacon, But There’s a $9.5M “Privacy Fund

Facebook tried to create a new form of advertising in 2007 with the launch of Beacon. In conjunction with a number of big-name brands, Beacon automatically tracked Facebook users’ actions on other sites, then displayed that information to their friends back on Facebook. The program is now officially dead.

A class-action lawsuit filed in 2008 has been settled today. There are two parts. One is that Beacon, as it has been, will be fully shut down — only a few accounts are still open and those will be closed. The other part is that Facebook will, from our understanding, fund an independent foundation to the tune of $9.5 million. The foundation will itself fund projects and initiatives that promote privacy, safety, and security causes.


The case was settled, not lost by Facebook. Here’s what a company spokesperson told me when I asked for more detail:

While we don’t admit any wrongdoing in this matter, we did want to get the episode behind us. And, we were particularly interested in an agreement that creates a foundation that has value for all users rather than just a few individuals.

The settlement has not yet been approved by the judge, and the case was just filed. It took place in the Northern District of California part of the US District Court, San Jose Division. We’ll update with a link to the settlement when it becomes available.

The original filing described some elements of Beacon that were particularly troublesome to the plaintiffs, per the original lawsuit. From that filing, via Justia:

Plaintiffs alleged that Defendant Facebook, Inc. and Defendants Facebook Beacon Activated Affiliates (i.e., Blockbuster, Inc., Fandango, Inc., Hotwire, Inc., STA Travel, Inc., Overstock.com, Inc., Zappos.com, Inc. and Gamefly, Inc.) violated their privacy.

More on the original lawsuit, via CNET:

If the user was not a member (of Facebook), Facebook still obtained the notification from the Facebook Beacon Activated Affiliate. Information regarding user activities was sent in real time to a third party Web site–one which was not open or active in the user’s browser, and one which, in many cases, the user may never even have visited or heard of.

Facebook’s side of the story is that the company made a number of adjustments to Beacon in the weeks and months following the launch that met many user demands. This case was filed long after much of the outcry about Beacon had ebbed.

Future plans

I asked about the impact of this ruling on Facebook’s current efforts to share data with third-parties, including Facebook Connect. Here was the response.

Beacon was about our users’ actions on third-party sites. Facebook Connect is about using Facebook infrastructure to give users significant control over how they extend their Facebook identity on the web, and share their experience back to friends on Facebook

More statements, these from Barry Schnitt, Facebook’s Director of Policy Communications.

We learned a great deal from the Beacon experience. For one, it was underscored how critical it is to provide extensive user control over how information is shared. We also learned how to effectively communicate changes that we make to the user experience. The introduction of Facebook Connect – a product that gives users significant control over how they extend their Facebook identity on the Web and share experiences back to friends on Facebook – is an example of this. We look forward to the creation of the foundation and its work to educate Internet users on how best to control their privacy; engage in safe social networking practices; and, generally, enjoy themselves more online by having knowledge that gives them a greater sense of control. We fully expect the foundation to team with other leading online safety and privacy experts and organizations that have been working diligently in these fields.


source: www.insidefacebook.com

Log in to Facebook with Your Username Instead of Your Email Address

This is a very small update, but shows how Facebook is trying to make itself a more central part of people’s lives. You can now log in to the site by entering your username and password instead of your email address and password like before.

Sure, many other sites let you do this. But the more interesting part is that Facebook has been promoting usernames for months, having let people get usernames in vanity URLs earlier this year. For example, my personal profile is now at www.facebook.com/EricEldon. Now, I can log in as EricEldon. The significance, or what there is of it, is that Facebook wants you thinking about using the site on its terms, rather than, say, in terms of the Gmail or Yahoo account you’ve been logging in through in the past.



source: insidefacebook.com

Prepare Yerselves for Pirate Day on Facebook This Saturday

It’s that time of year again. No, I don’t mean the onset of autumn, nor Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday coming up next week. It’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day this Saturday, September 19 — an odd meme from the 1990’s that has found millions of new fans this decade through the internet. If you want
to read Facebook in Pirate English, here’s how.



Facebook has translated its site into Pirate English. Last year, you were able to access the dialect within the normal language chooser available in your account settings. But Pirate English doesn’t appear to be on the list at this point (although maybe Facebook will make it available on Saturday?). For now, if you want to read Pirate, follow this link to Facebook’s ajax language-picker page.

“English (Pirate)” is visible as one of the English dialect options, along with US, UK and “Upside Down” English. Just pick the pirate option and you’ll see Facebook’s masterful site translation go into effect.




source: insidefacebook.com