VEVO, a music video site co-owned by Sony Music and Universal Music, launched a revamped website today along with new iOS and Android apps, all with greater social elements through integration with Facebook. The redesigned VEVO site features a larger player and continuous playback of videos based on personalized playlists sourced from a user's iTunes library and Facebook activity.
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‘social media’ Stories
Google Doodle celebrates International Women’s Day
Another day, another Google doodle, and it's International Women's Day getting the nod on Google's homepage right now. Celebrated every March 8, the day calls for increased attention toward the rights of women as well as a global acknowledgment for their achievements in society, politics and economics.
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Zynga debuts Zynga.com, invites third-party games
Zynga has launched a beta game portal via its own domain at Zynga.com. This is a significant move for the company, which has so far been delivering games only through social networking sites, in particularly Facebook. The new Zynga.com portal will be the first time the company hosts its games independently and the platform will also host games created by third-party developers.
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Facebook debuts Offers, brings ads to mobile news feed and logout screen
Facebook made a few announcements regarding its advertising developments today during its first Facebook Marketing Conference. The company introduced Offers, a special discounts and promotions sharing feature, along with new premium advertising placement and Sponsored Stories in the site's logout page and mobile news feed. It also previewed a new "Reach Generator" that will help improve the reach of each post for advertisers and Page users.
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Facebook friends Ford to make a “social” car
Facebook and Ford recently held a joint "Hackathon" event aimed at exploring new ways of making cars more social. About 30 engineers from both Ford and Facebook got together for the 24-hour event to rapidly develop prototype apps that would integrate Facebook's social elements with Ford's SYNC platform to create a seamless connected in-car user experience.
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Reddit storm imminent after UK Pirate Bay judgement
This week the British High Court has ruled that The Pirate Bay website and its users have been and continue to engage in “large-scale copyright infringement”, this very possibly leading to a requirement that UK internet providers ban the site outright soon. Should your website “actively promote copyright infringement” you may be facing the same fate in the near future as so-called piracy continues to be an issue throughout the western world amid crackdowns on sites such as Megaupload for uploading and sharing media illegally.
Facebook hacker faces 8 months jail time
This week a British student who'd been found guilty of hacking Facebook's internal network with potentially "disastrous" results was jailed with a sentence of 8 months. This fellow's name is Glenn Mangham, was until today a software development student, and admitted to a series of infiltrations of the Facebook network from his bedroom at his parent's house in York, Northern England. His sentence is being filled due to the potential for serious damage to the network and amid prosecutors fears that the U.S. company was dealing with "major industrial espionage."
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StumbleUpon changes repeat Digg blunders of old
There’s some heavy changes going on out there in the world of content sharing, and StumbleUpon is feeling the sting of taking a gamble on keeping customers. What the content sharing site has done in its most recent update pushed sites to the background while it sticks its own menu bar in the foreground, this effectively taking away the element of freedom that StumbleUpon users had for so long been able to tout over similar sites. What StumbleUpon leaders had hoped to accomplish with this change is a click-retention ratio that would drive their own site into the record books – instead its cutting down their support from all sides.
Facebook Premium Accounts coming says Telsyte
A subscription service may be in Facebook's cash-grabbing future if Australian analyst group Telsyte are to be believed. Speaking with News.com.au, the group via analyst Foad Fadaghi noted changes that may well be coming soon to the group that this week posted its Initial Public Offering looking for a bump in the money market in more ways than one. Better mobile apps, more invasive advertising, and "Facebook Premium" may all be on the plate for you social networkers out there inside the coming months or years.
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Facebook IPO launched officially
The social network known as Facebook has officially signed its Initial Public Offering, authorized by Ernst & Young LLP as having shares of its common stock available to the world today. Facebook seeks to raise $5 billion USD, just about half of what analysts were expecting on the whole. In the filing, its apparent that Facebook’s current cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities totals in at $3,908,000,000 – that’s a lot of bank. Similar numbers can be seen in working capital at $3,705,000,000 and total stockholders’ equity at 4,899,000,000 – that being over 5 billion USD in pro form. Total assets, the biggest of the sets, sits at over 6 billion USD.
PSA: Facebook Timeline absolutely cannot be undone, don’t be fooled
The scammers are coming out on Facebook in force this month, right from the start, to get you Timeline haters in their web and snare not just your Facebook account, but your computer’s contents as well. This is a public service announcement for you dreamers hoping to de-authorize Timeline from your Facebook account: you can’t, no matter what you see in an offer for a plug-in, a simple “like to fix,” or anything of that nature. Do not fall for these scams, ladies and gentlemen, there is no way out.
Obama post-State of Union Google+ hangout tonight
Tonight the President of the United States will rely on the power of Google+ Hangouts to address the people of the internet. This address has previously been billed as a post-State of the Union talk, but now appears to be more of a question and answer session in which questions submitted via the web have been voted upon by non-White House officials - voted upon by Google users, in fact. These questions will be answered by the President one by one in turn while the world watches from their computers, smart TVs, and mobile devices at home.
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