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20 Mar 2015
How to Use Social Media Dashboards
How to Use Social Media Dashboards An assortment of useful reports are available through Hootsuite’s free version, including Facebook Insights, which shows Likes by demographic, for example; and Twitter Engagement, which shows Twitter mentions and retweets. Some more elaborate reports require a subscription upgrade to $9.99 per month, while others mean purchasing analytics credits. Social
16 Mar 2015
Online photo sharing may be killing your social life
Online photo sharing may be killing your social life NEW YORK: Is your penchant for sharing photos on social networking sites preventing you from enjoying real life experiences? May be, suggests a new study. The study has found that 58% of people believe that “posting the perfect picture has prevented them from enjoying life’s experiences.”
16 Mar 2015
Facebook finally opens its data firehose to select advertisers
Facebook finally opens its data firehose to select advertisers But now, the social media giant is finally making its firehose available to a select group through Topic Data, a new analytics tool developed with DataSift, an analytics company. For now, Topic Data will only be available in the U.S. and U.K. to a “limited number
07 Mar 2015
Facebook releases Stetho, a powerful debugging tool for Android
Facebook releases Stetho, a powerful debugging tool for Android Developers often struggle with quickly discovering problems in large native code bases and figuring out how to fix them, particularly when developing for Android. Facebook might have a solution. Today, the company announced a new tool for debugging Android code called Stetho. Developers can use Stetho to get
07 Mar 2015
Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law, says watchdog
Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law, says watchdog cebook’s privacy policy violates European law, according to a study commissioned by the Belgian privacy commission, and released today, The Guardian reports. Conducted by the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT at the University of Leuven, the report says the social network’s updated policies, which came into effect last month,
07 Mar 2015
Facebook and Internet.org release the 2014 State of Global Connectivity report
Facebook and Internet.org release the 2014 State of Global Connectivity report Internet.org is Facebook’s push to offer internet access globally especially to developing nations. Today, it released its 2014 State of Connectivity. The report shows that only 37.9 percent of the global population use the internet at least once a year. The largest percentage of
07 Mar 2015
Facebook launches interactive design tool, Origami Live for iOS
Facebook launches interactive design tool, Origami Live for iOS Last year Facebook releasedOrigami for OS X for designing interactive user interfaces. But, for some reason you couldn’t actually prototype those interfaces on iOS. Today, the company fixed that. Origami Live for iOS lets you run those prototypes on the device you’re probably building those interfaces
07 Mar 2015
Facebook’s Bug Bounty program paid $1.3 million last year, with Oculus and Moves now included
Facebook’s Bug Bounty program paid $1.3 million last year, with Oculus and Moves now included Facebook has announced that it paid 321 hackers worldwide last year over $1 million to help spot security flaws in the social network’s software. That brings the total amount of money awarded since the program started in 2011 to over
07 Mar 2015
Facebook is adding a new feature to help with suicide prevention in the US
Facebook is adding a new feature to help with suicide prevention in the US Facebook is rolling out a new mechanism to help combat suicide in the US. This means that posts on the social networking site that appear to be suicidal will trigger a series of notifications offering help. The announcement, made in a post on
07 Mar 2015
Facebook now allows custom gender options
Facebook now allows custom gender options Facebook now allows its users to enter any term they want to describe their gender, and also indicate how they’d like to be addressed. The social network previously offered a list of gender identities to choose from, but now allows users to add their own preferred terms. A