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Live blog: Facebook faces the world at F8
Our liveblog from Facebook's F8 developers conference, Wednesday in San Francisco.…
Read MoreMobile and monetization: What to expect at Facebook’s F8 2014
With Facebook's developer conference, F8, just around the corner, here are some things that you should expect.…
Read MoreReport: Facebook is announcing a mobile ad network on April 30
This month, Facebook will announce a mobile ad network that delivers advertisements directly to third-party mobile apps.…
Read MoreCongress struggles with Facebook’s frictionless sharing
Facebook wants to make it easy for users to share which movies or TV shows they're watching online. But a little-known law from the '80s could hold back those ambitions, at least for users who want to seamlessly share what they're watching on Netflix.…
Read MoreSocial networking enters the dreaded “It’s Complicated” stage
What do Belichick defensive schemes, Tom Clancy novels, Google+ and Facebook have in common? The answer is that all are so byzantine that they leave people scratching their heads to figure them out. Somewhere along the way social media lost sight of keeping things simple.…
Read MoreDon Graham, Facebook and the social news
The Washington Post's new Social Reader is an attempt to bring the news to the people, according to CEO Don Graham. The company is taking the bold step of diffusing its own brand in order to reach a wider audience with its content.…
Read MoreWhat do Facebook’s changes mean for Google and Twitter?
The changes that Facebook launched this week have clearly upped the ante for Google, which desperately needs the signals that come from social activity to feed into its search and advertising algorithms. But Twitter is playing a somewhat different game than either Facebook or Google.…
Read More@ F8: Zuckerberg Wants Users’ Whole Lives, But To What End?
Share and share alike. The Mark Zuckerberg philosophy now extends way beyond users' occasional, individual sharing actions. Facebook wants u……
Read More@ F8: Can Facebook’s Social Discovery Set Media Alight?
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) could double its own projected growth rate by feeding out viewers' usage habits to Facebook, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings,……
Read More@ F8: Facebook’s Mobile Strategy Running In Place
It's not that Facebook's F8 conference lacked for news: the company overhauled a key aspect of the Facebook experience in changing the profi……
Read MoreI wonder how other music services are feeling today
Music services such as MOG, Rhapsody and others were expected to be part of the big Facebook re-launch. They were, except as an afterthought. Somewhat predictably, Mark Zuckerberg brought the CEO of Spotify on stage while competitors were relegated to little icons on a single slide.…
Read MoreFacebook gets a big infrastructure boost for Timeline
Facebook is putting its already immense infrastructure through an unprecedented stress test, says the social network's vice president of engineering. That's because the new Timeline feature takes multiple data inputs -- from status updates to your songs on Spotify -- and turns them into a daily journal.…
Read MoreFacebook, Timeline and the power of the past
Timeline is more than a design change: It's a bigger push by Facebook to mine the opportunity in the past. Timeline means there can be a point to all of this sharing: a lasting repository that helps paint a picture of your life.…
Read More@ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’
Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers enc……
Read MoreMedia companies revisit their AOL days with Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social-reading apps the network launched with The Washington Post and other outlets would change the "way the news industry works," but it feels more like those outlets have signed over a big part of their destiny to an AOL-style portal.…
Read MoreUpdate: F8: Links To Our Coverage; Watch The Keynote
Updated: Check out our coverage of Facebook's conference for developers, via the links below. Also, Mark Zuckerberg's keynote presentation c……
Read More@ F8: Highlights From Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote Address
It's Facebook's morning in Silicon Valley, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage for the company's F8 developer conference in San Francisco……
Read MoreThe data visualization geek behind Facebook’s Timeline
Facebook's new Timeline feature tries to make sense of the things you've been sharing to tell the story of your life. To do so, the company turned to someone who became famous for making infographics about the music he likes and the booze he drinks.…
Read MoreFacebook Overload: No Sign Of Letting Up Today
As the tech press converge to hear the latest from Facebook at its f8 developer confab today, millions of Facebook users are already grappli……
Read MoreFacebook links with publishers to make news super social
Facebook has announced partnerships with a host of news publishers that will now allow their content to be viewed within the social networking site. It's a bold move for the news industry, but Facebook will certainly benefit by keeping users even more within its walls.…
Read MoreFacebook teams up with Spotify, Turntable.fm to let users share music
Facebook has partnered with Spotify and more than a dozen other music startups to bring music sharing to its site. Facebook users can now share which songs they're playing and offer their contacts a chance to join in on the fun in real time.…
Read MoreNetflix rolling out Facebook app, but not in the US
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings talked up the company's new Facebook app at f8 today. The feature could help boost viewership on its streaming subscription service, but won't be available in the U.S. at launch due to a decades-old law banning the sharing of video rental information.…
Read MoreFacebook debuts Timeline, a dramatically new kind of profile
Facebook announced on Thursday a dramatic new user interface for profiles called "Timeline." In a keynote speech at the company's f8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Timeline as "a great way to discover all the things people have done their whole life."…
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