Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has warned Mark Zuckerberg about the dangers of going public as Facebook counts down to its eagerly awaited share offering. The world’s leading social network is expected to start trading on the tech-heavy Nasdaq on Friday, although the timetable has not been confirmed…
An Australian music festival promoter has served a damages claim against American rapper Flo Rida via Facebook, after a court allowed the social networking site to be used. The 32-year-old singer, whose real name is Tramar Dillard, received a Aus$55,000 (US$56,800) fee to perform at the Fat as Butter…
Starting May 18, anyone will be able to buy shares in Facebook. It may be the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history. The social network giant predicts its value will be about $100 billion. By comparison, Google’s stock debut came in at $1.66 billion. Not bad for a company started only…
Author: Guy Montag
Facebook Relationships:Most students who receive their college education have their own Facebook pages, and many scholars use the social networking site to update their friends on their relationship status.
The popular online tool recently made a prominent change to its relationship options that has garnered national attention. According to CNN, Facebook added “in a civil union” and “in a domestic partnership” to its list of statuses last week in an effort to cater to the gay community.
Although some conservative groups are outraged by the changes, many gay-rights groups are applauding the additions, which are now available for users in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France and Australia.
“By acknowledging the relationships of countless loving and committed same-sex couples in the U.S. and abroad, Facebook has set a new standard of inclusion for social media,” Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation president Jarrett Barrios wrote in a statement, quoted by the media outlet.
While many liberal students at colleges and universities across America are praising the gay-friendly options, some advocacy groups believe that the two new relationship statuses are not enough. For example, Wired.com reported that some users claim that Facebook is supporting anti-gay marriage states by limiting their options to “civil union.”
“[Some people say that] we are not good enough for the word marriage. Now Facebook is agreeing,” said a user of the social website, quoted by the news source.
According to The Huffington Post, Dan Loewenherz has developed a new Facebook application that is designed to inform individuals about other people’s relationship status. The Breakup Notifier allows users to check off the friends they are romantically interested in, but who are off the market because they are “in a relationship.” People who sign up for this app will be notified via email when their crushes change their status to “single.”
For example, students who are busy with college classes may not have access to their Facebook accounts all day. However, if they have a cell phone with Internet capabilities – or they are permitted access to their email accounts – scholars can regularly check if their dream dates are single.
“I hope that people use it for good and not evil – it’s merely practical,” Loewenherz told the news provider via email. “If you’re going to check someone’s profile every day, you might as well get rid of the tedium and have the changes get delivered right to your inbox instead.”
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/college-and-university-articles/facebook-adds-relationship-status-options-for-gay-users-4302993.html
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Guy is a Connecticut-based writer who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in new media from Fairfield University. Following graduation, he was a freelance reporter for several web-based music and news organizations. Guy is particularly interested in the advancement of online education. He is currently taking college courses at New York University (NYU) and pursuing a second degree in education.
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Arizona Governor Jan
Brewer on Thursday used Facebook to criticize President Obama’s recent decision to halt prosecutions of illegal immigrants. Early Friday morning, the post had more than 10,000 Likes, before Facebook removed it.
Brewer’s Facebook post criticized a controversial policy decision by President Barack Obama’s administration to limit deportations of illegal immigrants. It was accompanied by an illustration depicting her as “Rosie the Riveter” and a slogan that read, “Arizona – doing the job the feds won’t do.” In the image (pictured above), here face is superimposed onto the famous character representing American women who worked in factories during World War II.
Facebook told Brewer the image violated its rules: “Facebook censored the post and removed it because the photo apparently violated their ‘Facebook Community Standards,’” Brewer posted on the social network, according to The Arizona Republic. “I just got this automatic email from them at 5:12 AM,” Brewer said, adding that she had been “feeling quite proud about the post, because it had generated so much interest.”
Facebook said it was sorry for deleting the post; the company issued a statement saying that “the post was removed in error. We apologize for the inconvenience.” The social network said it mistakenly removed the post, but did not provide further details, such as whether the removal resulted from complaints by other Facebook users.
Brewer reposted the item later on Friday, saying the original post was “censored” by Facebook. Brewer has posted the illustration in question on Facebook multiple times before, and she did so once again in the new post.
“The photo has been on there a million times,” Brewer said. “I really don’t have a clue. I was just shocked. I am one of their bigger accounts, and I didn’t put anything up there, nor would I ever, that would violate the standards.” The Arizona politician’s Facebook Page has more than 465,000 Likes.
The new post quickly gained over 10,000 Likes as well. “I think many of you will agree with me – Obama’s backdoor amnesty plan violates American standards of following the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution,” Brewer said in her latest post.
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Article source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-removes-arizona-governors-post-criticizing-obama/2865
Author: Facebook Fan Geek
How do you Get Facebook Likes for your Fanpage?
Facebook has now become a powerful tool in Marketing. It’s an effective way to get customers and introduce businesses to the world. Having a Facebook Fanpage for your business gives you the edge from others, but it’s not just about your Facebook Fanpage, you also need to Get Facebook Likes to be effective in Facebook Marketing. How are you going to do that? Here are some tips:
1. Grow your Fans So Your Facebook Fan Page Can Be Popular
Come on, you already know that. If you have a Facebook Fanpage, you need to have Fans. Who would like your Contents if you don’t have Fans? There are many ways to Get more fans on Facebook and if you want to Get Facebook Likes, you should start growing your Facebook Fans right away.
2. Post Quality Contents On Your Facebook Page
When I say QUALITY, it means the whole package. Grammar and Consistency are included. Make sure that when you post something; check it first before hitting the SHARE Button. Your Fans are checking your page almost every minute so if you want them to follow you and your page, make your Moves right. You are what you say, and people are judgmental by nature.
3. Be Powerful
Okay, in this part you need to work your brain. You have to brainstorm and think of ways how to make your page Interesting and Popular, make a research, be creative in making your title. Be Controversial, Mysterious and Fun if you want to Get Facebook Likes , after all, who would want to be part of a Boring Community. (wink)
4. Share, Share and Share To Grow Your Facebook Fans
There’s no better way to Get Facebook Likes than sharing. Let the world know you have something that would change their lives for the better. Share a good content you have found in the internet or maybe an interesting video. Reach out to related groups to grow your Facebook Fans, engage in a topic discussion and SHARE your thoughts. SHARE Button is not created by Facebook Developers for you to just look at it, it is developed for a purpose and that’s what you call SHARE.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook finally has a serious competitor. At least, that’s what social-media investor Sergio Monsalve thinks.
Venture capitalists such as Monsalve see early signs that Google+, which has picked up more than 25 million users since launching in June, is headed down the right path.
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Google Inc’s infant social network, which counts Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a member, has met skepticism so far. Some are waiting to see if it can maintain the rapid momentum of its first months.
Others see reason to be optimistic. Monsalve, who has invested in various consumer-Internet start-ups, is among a group of VCs who see promise.
the instinctive categorizing of friends that occurs in real life –
fulfills its early promise, it will come at a pivotal moment for its
bigger rival.
Facebook is widely expected to go public as early as 2011, barring
further market ructions. The emergence of a serious challenger — when
it now has none — will almost certainly give some investors pause,
maybe even hurt its valuation.
“It’s much richer, much more interesting pieces of content” compared to
what he typically sees on Facebook, says Monsalve, who invested in
recently-acquired MyYearbook.com and worked closely with MySpace in its
heyday when he headed marketing at Photobucket.
The stakes are high. Facebook should pull in advertising revenue of
$4.05 billion this year, according to eMarketer. Rival research house
ComScore says its US users spend 434 minutes a month each on the site.
It has 750 million users globally.
That makes each minute spent on Facebook today worth roughly about 10
cents, excluding revenue earned from peripheral sources such as
third-party games or people buying Facebook credits.
And marketers are pouring more money into online advertising overall;
eMarketer says Facebook’s take should grow to $5.74 billion next year.
The question in the near future will be how much — if at all — Google+ cannibalizes time on Facebook.
“It’s not like for every minute on Google+, you spend a minute less on
Facebook,” says Lou Kerner, an analyst at Wedbush who owns Facebook
shares and likes various features in Google+, including that it is an
open network with much of its information available to anybody. “You
might even spend more” in a recommitment to social networking in
general, he argues.
WHAT’S TO LIKE?
Just two months after its launch, the impact of Google+ on Facebook is
hard to gauge. If a sense develops that Google+ keeps gaining serious
momentum, that’s when it could hit Facebook’s valuation, venture
capitalists say,
Signs are emerging that Facebook’s valuation on the secondary market has
peaked, although that may have less to do with Google+ than with the
external environment. Interpublic Group of Cos Inc reportedly sold half
its Facebook stake at a valuation around $10 billion to $12 billion
lower than recent private-market transactions at around $80 billion.
Watch out, some say. Among the things venture capitalists like about the
new service: the longer-term ability to integrate search — Google’s
core strength — into social streams, so for example, a favorite search
result could be shared with the click of a button.
Also, the 5 percent fee Google charges game developers for transactions on Google+ compared with Facebook’s 30 percent.
And circles, perhaps the most-discussed feature.
“For some time now I have been pitched on businesses that attempt to
solve the groups problem: how do you share information efficiently with
small groups of people,” David Hornik, a partner at August Capital, told
Reuters.
Users can assign their contacts to one or many circles– from family and
work to hobby groups such as book clubs — and select which comments to
share with specific circles.
“Google+ does a nice job of allowing more purposeful sharing,” Hornik
said. While Facebook also allows users to segment friends, it’s a less
straightforward process.
Hornik says it will take until the end of the year to see how strongly Google+ is catching on.
Others point to social-networking essentials such as group chat — on
Google+, that includes video — and just last week, a roll-out of games.
Monsalve likes Google+’s “Sparks” feature, which lets him set up lists
of topics that interest him, then see related articles or videos. His
Sparks topics are heavy on his portfolio companies.
Facebook boasts 750 million members, but sheer numbers are no guarantee
of eventual success. In late 2006, MySpace had three times Facebook’s
users — but Zuckerberg’s invention had reached critical mass and was
growing much faster than MySpace. The rest is Internet lore.
One key metric some VCs are looking for is how long it takes Google+ to
reach 75 million users who spend significant amounts of time on the
network — say 10-15 minutes a day. If that happens in the next couple
of months, the service “starts to become pretty interesting,” Monsalve
told Reuters.
However, some say Google has already made a few missteps. Last week,
Google+ banned the use of pseudonyms and nicknames on the service, which
some investors say could limit its acceptance among the free-wheeling
cyberspace crowd.
David Cowan, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners whose investments
include social-networking sites such as LinkedIn Corp, believes Google+
is missing an opportunity.
“Think about someone who is challenging her government, or his
employer,” he told Reuters. “People want to be social in contexts that
do not and should not demand transparency of identity.”
Others, such as Dave Whorton of Tugboat Ventures, believes competition
from an unexpected source — perhaps even what he calls “sharing
fatigue” — may prove more disruptive to Facebook than any rival social
network.
With a proliferation of social media sites, including Twitter, Facebook,
Linked In and Tumblr, many people might shy away from adding another
social network to the mix. Those that do may have limited time to devote
to it.
ComScore says social networking overall continues to grow strongly for
now, with U.S. users spending 385 minutes in July on such sites.
There is one wild card: with its acquisition of Motorola Mobility
Holdings Inc, coupled with Android, Google may have landed an important
weapon to help Google+ go mobile more deeply than Facebook.
“Ultimately, we move more and more toward mobile,” Greg Gottesman, a partner at Madrona Venture Group, told Reuters.
He believes advances in social networking on phones could be key to
winning over teenagers, which eventually is “where the battle will be
won or lost.”
Article source: http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=234769
Miramax Films is making 20 of its movies available to rent on Facebook, even as new research shows the social network has yet to become a formidable competitor in the digital movie market.
The independent studio that spun out of Walt Disney Co. last year is offering films, including “Pulp Fiction,” “Kill Bill,” “Clerks” and “Swingers,” on a new Facebook page called Miramax eXperience. Each movie costs $3 to rent for 48 hours.
It’s not the first time movies have been made available to rent on Facebook, as studios seek to capitalize on the word’s most popular social network. Warner Bros. began the trend with “The Dark Knight” in March, followed by others, including Universal Pictures’ “The Big Lebowski.” However, no other studio has launched its own Facebook page with so many movies offered together.
In addition, Miramax eXperience is available on iPads and Google TV.
That could prove valuable, as the inability to watch movies rented or purchased via Facebook off PCs has been an impediment to their success, according to Arash Amel, digital media research director for IHS Screen Digest.
IHS recently released data on Internet movie distribution in the first half of the year and found that Facebook Inc. did not register among the top five distributors. Apple Inc.’s iTunes continued to dominate the market, with 65.8% of revenue, up from 64.9% in the first half of 2010.
Vudu, owned by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., leaped from 1% to 5%. Microsoft Corp.’s Zune (available on computers and the Xbox 360 video game console) and Sony Corp.’s Playstation store each lost ground, falling to 16.2% from 18.5% and 4.4% from 8.2%, respectively. Amazon.com Inc. stayed roughly constant at 4%.
Vudu has made aggressive moves to expand its distribution on tables, televisions and the Wal-Mart website, which accounted for much of its growth.
“Movies on Facebook will struggle to even get near the top five without a TV-based or device-based ecosystem presence,” Amel said. “It’s no more than a marketing gimmick right now for studios.”
Miramax’s Chief Executive Mike Lang has been aggressive in putting his studio’s library of about 700 titles online, forging digital distribution deals with outlets including Netflix and Hulu.
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– Ben Fritz
Image: A screen shot of Miramax eXperience on Facebook.
Article source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/08/miramax-facebook-movies.html
