http://facebook.mediatrending.com Everything Facebook, aggregated here Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:14:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Facebook marketers and developers should check out two upcoming conferences happening in San Francisco over the next couple weeks. The 3rd annual Widget Summit is happening Nov 3-4 at Hotel Nikito in San Francisco. Sandra Liu Huang from Facebook will be part of one panel discussion Facebook’s App Verification and Great ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/14/widget-summit-and-snap-summit-coming-up-in-sf/ Last week Inside Facebook reported with live notes from Mark Zuckerberg’s Q&A with Ryan Carson at FOWA in London. The video has now been posted below (click here to view if you can’t see it in your feed reader). Mark discusses Facebook’s vision for Connect, payments, changes in user behavior over ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/14/qa-with-mark-zuckerberg-at-fowa-london/ Mark Zuckerberg spoke here at the Future of Web Apps Expo in London earlier today in his first visit to the city in 10 years. As is usual for these PR-controlled events, there were no startling revelations today, but there were a few interesting hints. Generally, the theme of “enabling ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/10/notes-from-mark-zuckerberg-at-future-of-web-apps-expo-in-london/ With all the new changes to the Facebook layout, some previously simple actions such as deleting an application became just a bit more complicated. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30922087@N05/2928015503/ On your Facebook homepage go to the bottom left-hand corner of the page where it says “Applications.” When you click on it a list of all your ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/10/deleting-a-facebook-application/ For Facebook application developers also building for other social platforms, Hi5 announced today that is has officially launched OpenSocial 0.8 on the Hi5 developer platform. This marks the first major launch of OpenSocial 0.8, which has been in the making for many months. The most interesting part of 0.8 is the ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/08/hi5-developer-platform-launches-opensocial-08/ This morning Venturebeat published a story about a new application being promoted by Facebook. According to Eldon, the application “invites people to pay tribute to those who have used Facebook to influence social change and contribute to a more open and connected world.” What appeared most controversial was ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/08/is-germany-that-important-to-facebook/ Appssavvy, a direct sales team for Facebook and other social media app developers, announced yesterday that it has closed a $3.1 million round of funding led by True Ventures. Jon Callaghan led the investment for True. Scott Kurnit, founder of About.com, also participated in the round. Appssavvy has built its business ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/08/appssavvy-raises-31-million-to-sell-integrated-facebook-application-sponsorships/ Facebook launched Microsoft Live Search integration on the public site today, showing off how users will be able to access Live Search within Facebook. (Update: Facebook Web Search powered by Microsoft Live Search is now live again. Earlier, the push appeared to have only been temporary - Live Search integration was ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/07/updated-facebook-launches-microsoft-live-search-integration/ This afternoon Facebook launched the web search tool that’s powered by Microsoft Live. When you search for items within Facebook’s global search box at the top of the site, you receive the option to “Search the Web” if no results show up immediately for contacts in your contact list. ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/07/breaking-facebook-launches-live-search-integration/ According to a new report out from Cloudmark, 20 to 40 percent of new profiles on Facebook could be fake. Neil Cook, the European head of technology services at Cloudmark stated “once set up with a portfolio of fake profiles, virus writers encourage users to click on links to ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/07/report-almost-half-of-new-facebook-profiles-are-fake/ With the US presidential elections now only four weeks away, candidates are stepping up the usual mudslinging soundbites for replay on the evening news. While that type of back and forth has traditionally alienated many voters, Facebook is doing its best to encourage civic participation by launching a voter registration ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/07/facebook-registers-40000-voters-applications-engaging-100000%e2%80%99s-more/ Yesterday I wrote about how brands can succeed on Facebook.  At the time I suggested that success for me personally is having an application within the leaderboard.  Commenters immediately suggested that this position was a flawed one and after thinking about it further, I agree.  The first step in launching ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/07/how-do-brands-define-success-on-facebook/ As a sign of Facebook’s growing international reach, the Facebook crowd-sourced translation tool released earlier this year is now being pushed to an increasing number of users as they log into Facebook. Many people logging in will see the one-time message like this one below: The tool allows users to translate ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/07/facebook-encouraging-more-users-to-translate-as-international-growth-increases/ For users and app developers, the migration from the old to the new Facebook is now complete. The “www.new.facebook.com” domain is a thing of the past, though not without a hiccup - Facebook temporarily disabled apps.new.facebook.com a few times this weekend without notifying developers ahead of time, causing many app developers ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/07/the-facebook-migration-is-now-complete/ This evening Facebook stopped redirecting users to the URL www.new.facebook.com and has begun redirecting all users to the default www.facebook.com. The result is that the old design appears to be no longer accessible. The change in URLs has resulted in some applications breaking over the past 24 hours ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/06/new-facebook-design-shift-appears-final/ The London Facebook Developer Garage is coming up on Wednesday 8th October at Sun Microsystems, 45 King William Street, London. Sun are generously sponsoring the event again and are also providing free beer and pizza. As well as the usual networking opportunities there’s a busy line-up of speakers: Phil Clandillon and Steve ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/06/london-facebook-developer-garage-coming-wednesday-9th-october/ Over breakfast this morning I was talking with someone from a large media company who was trying to determine their social media strategy. During the conversation the individual inquired about what the best strategy is for launching new applications on Facebook and what their overall general social media strategy ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/06/how-can-brands-really-succeed-on-facebook/ Cellular-news reported today that “Telefónica has inked a gloabal agreement with internet social networking site, Facebook to integrate access to Facebook’s mobile service and applications from all of Telefónica’s mobile portals.” This means Telefónica subscribers in Europe and Latin America will soon have access to Facebook. This comes at a ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/06/telfonica-to-roll-out-facebook-services-in-europe-and-latin-america/ Yesterday Seth Goldstein, CEO of SocialMedia posted an interesting note on Facebook about the paradox of social advertising. As you’ll see in his note, it is summed up with “This is the paradox of social advertising: unlimited inventory of impressions that users have come to ignore, but very limited ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/06/seth-goldstein-on-social-advertising-it-ain%e2%80%99t-easy-2/ When people think Open Source and social networking, usually the first thing that comes to mind is Google and OpenSocial. What most don’t know however is that Facebook is almost as much, if not more Open Source focused as Google is. One unknown fact about the Facebook Platform is that ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/06/yes-facebook-is-open-source-too/ A few months ago we wrote that Facebook should give developers access to (and votes on) user reputations: For developers, spammers and trolls can be just as much a problem as they are for Facebook itself. However, most developers lack the resources to implement effective spam detection/user reputation systems. Rather than ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/06/facebook-working-with-app-developers-to-weed-out-fake-accounts/ For those interested in a primer on the state of the social gaming market, the news this week at Inside Social Games reflects a smattering of trends happening in the space. As platforms and services are becoming social: Microsoft Giving the Xbox 360 a Social Overhaul Challenge Games is a New Developer of ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/05/this-week-inside-social-games-for-october-5-2008/ This tutorial covers how to find your friends on Facebook and how do go about adding them to your friends list. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30922087@N05/2910987597/ One way to find your friends is through the contact importer. Go to ‘Friends’ on the banner at the top of the page and choose ‘Find Friends’ at the ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/04/facebook-tutorial-part-two-finding-friends-2/ This tutorial covers how to find your friends on Facebook and how do go about adding them to your friends list. One way to find your friends is through the contact importer. Go to ‘Friends’ on the banner at the top of the page and choose ‘Find Friends’ at the ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/04/facebook-tutorial-part-two-finding-friends/ This afternoon word that Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, was leaving to start a new venture start to spread and within a short period of time, a number of blogs had access to a Facebook note posted by Moskovitz’s developer companion, Justin Rosenstein. Apparently Rosenstein and Moskovitz are leaving ... http://facebook.mediatrending.com/2008/10/03/co-founder-moskovitz-leaves-facebook/