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Facebook Gifts gains more partners, hundreds of gift options

, Nov 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook has announced the addition of hundreds of new gifts users can buy and send to friends on Facebook. The new items are from a variety of retailers who have partnered with the social network, including babyGap and Brookstone. Now the next time a Facebook notification pops up letting you know it's someone's birthday, you can send them a gift ASAP from the comfort of your computer. Read The Full Story

Facebook Mobile gets “share” button

, Nov 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook Mobile is finally, after countless requests and far too long, getting a Share button. This feature has been available on the desktop version of Facebook, allowing users to share statuses and images from other users on their own walls. Until now, the feature has been missing from Facebook mobile, however, a serious lack in an otherwise pretty decent app. Read The Full Story

Facebook launches Social Jobs application

, Nov 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

In 2011, Facebook partnered with several organizations and agencies to create the Social Jobs Partnership, which faded the line between jobs and social media. Now, taking the partnership further, the social network has announced the launch of its Social Jobs Partnership app. Users can access more than 1.7 million jobs. Read The Full Story

Facebook testing new ranked comments format

, Nov 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Last week, we reported that Facebook was testing nested comments with select users, a long-awaited feature that helps keep comments organized and easier to follow. Apparently the social network isn't stopping there, with Mashable reporting that the company is also testing ranked comments, moving more engaging responses higher up in the stream. The new format is currently being run on Pages posts. Read The Full Story

Facebook testing nested comments, makes conversations easier

, Nov 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you've spent any decent amount of time on Facebook, you've no doubt noticed the inefficient means by which people are forced to carry on conversations in the comments section. Namely, if there are more than a handful of comments, users are forced to respond by tagging the user's name, or using the clunky "@Name" for those not on their friends list. Now Facebook is testing nested comments that will solve this issue, but it's only available for some users. Read The Full Story

Pinterest launches Secret Boards for private pinning

, Nov 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Pinterest, the online board where users can pin images for other users to see and share, has finally added private boards. Secret Boards, as the new feature is called, allows users to set up private, user-restricted boards where images can rest safely knowing they're not open to public scrutiny. The feature is being "gradually rolled out." Read The Full Story

Obama sets Twitter record

, Nov 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

US president Barack Obama wasn’t just clinching his second term in office yesterday, he was also setting a new Twitter record for the most retweets. The message – “Four more years” and a photo of Obama embracing wife Michelle – quickly smashed through the half-million retweets mark, and at time of writing is at over 630,000, collecting over 200,000 favorites along the way.

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Hurricane Sandy was Instagram’s “biggest event” ever

, Nov 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

All throughout last week, we saw images of the devastation from Hurricane Sandy all over social networking sites. Social networks helped people stay in touch and gave those outside of the storm's path a way to see what kind of havoc Sandy was wreaking. Instragram was one of these sites people on the East Coast used to show the impact of Sandy, and it turns out that the Hurricane ended up being a pretty big event for the photo sharing network. Read The Full Story

Facebook adds photo filters to iOS 5.1 app

, Nov 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook's version 5.1 iOS mobile app includes multiple new features, such as Gift giving, as well as one they seemingly forgot to mention: photo filters. This, of course, comes a few days after sources stated that Twitter is planning on adding photo filters to its own mobile app in competition of Instagram, which Facebook owns. The photo filters addition wasn't mentioned in the app's "What's New" details. Read The Full Story

Twitter copyright policy change promises “transparency” through censorship

, Nov 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

Twitter has prompted user confusion by implementing a new copyright policy that censors contentious tweets rather than deleting them altogether, a shift that the microblogging service argues is more transparent. According to Twitter's legal policy chief, Jeremy Kessel, the change offers "more transparency by processing copyright reports by withholding Tweets, not removing," though some users have still criticized the approach for  potentially censoring first and investigating second. Read The Full Story

Facebook offers new users a privacy education tour

, Nov 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

As of today, new Facebook members will now be offered a virtual privacy education tour, which offers step-by-step instructions on Facebook's various security settings and tools. This move comes after a variety of criticism over Facebook's constantly changing settings, some of which are difficult to locate. Also contributing was an audit by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner's Office. Read The Full Story

Facebook testing Pages Feed that aggregates page statuses

, Nov 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook is a crowded place any more, with statuses from what is often hundreds of friends and pages vying for the limited space within your daily news feed. Because there is more info than can be reasonably displayed, users often miss out on certain statuses and updates. To help de-clutter things a bit, Facebook is testing out a new Pages Feed, which is a news stream of status updates from pages you've liked. Read The Full Story
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