It's time to give your best buddy Chris Kringle the gift of iTunes music on Facebook - straight through the social network's own gift-giving portal. This update brings Facebook Gifts up to a very real existence once again, reminding us that you're able to not just give your friends a bunch of digital stickers, but real-world physical gifts like cookies and ice cream. What better way to tell your buddy you love them than with digital cash given through your favorite social network?
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Adidas teams digitally with Snoop Lion for #bahumbizzle campaign
The online film you're about to witness may very well blow your mind - and not just because it's web exclusive, and made to attach directly to a Facebook app where you'll get un-Scrooge-ified. It's Snoop Lion (aka Snoop Dogg) speaking on behalf of himself, Ebeneezer Snoop, in what the folks at Adidas are calling a "pioneering" Facebook app - one that's sure to get you in the holiday spirit - that spirit where you buy up tons of sportswear and hot sneakers.
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Nokia Asha 205 “Facebook phone” and $62 206 hands-on
Nokia has revealed its first “Facebook phone”, the Nokia Asha 205, along with a colorful candybar, the Nokia 206, borrowing the Lumia colors for a budget market. The new Asha 205 features a full QWERTY keyboard and a dedicated Facebook button, as well as forty free EA games, while the 206 comes in the same black, cyan, magenta, yellow, and white as Nokia’s Lumia Windows Phone 8 handsets, and offers up to 47 days of standby time. Both the Asha 205 and the 206 are available in single- or dual-SIM versions, each keeping both SIMs active simultaneously, and feature Nokia’s new Slam file-swapping system.
Facebook to end user voting on privacy issues
If you've been a long-time Facebook user, then you know how controversial some of the privacy updates have been on the social networking site. The company launched its current site governance model in 2009, which gave users the right to vote on privacy policy issues. However, Facebook is now proposing to get rid of that system, saying that Facebook has outgrown the old model.
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Facebook speeds to slow a bit during HTTPS transition
Security is a paramount issue surrounding Facebook, with the company regularly tweaking its security settings, sometimes to the chagrin of users. The social network began implementing changes to its infrastructure years ago with the goal in mind of eventually transitioning all users to HTTPS connection. The change is opt-out, and has the potential to cause a tad slow down in speeds.
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Facebook launching sales tracking for retail partners
In an attempt to get more marketers to buy up advertising space, Facebook has announced that it will soon be giving retailers feedback on the sales they receive through ads on the social networking site. This new sales tracking tool is currently being tested, so it isn't available to all retailers yet, but Facebook told Reuters that everything should be fully implemented by the end of the month. Just in time for the holiday sales rush, which we're guessing isn't a coincidence.
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Justin Timberlake shows off new Myspace design
While some may think Myspace is dead and long forgotten, the social networking service is still alive. After months of work and a change of owners that includes singer and actor Justin Timberlake, the new and revamped Myspace is ready to invade the internet and attempt to claim some of its lost users back.
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Facebook Mobile gets “share” button
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.
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Facebook launches Social Jobs application
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.
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Facebook Pages Feed ready for action
A brand new feature is being released to your Facebook user interface that'll change the way you interact with the celebrities, brands, and odd interests in your life - that being Pages Feed. This update comes in the form of a little button up and to the left of your regular notifications feed, it allowing you to see a feed of Pages updates completely separate from your standard feed. This in addition to the update earlier this summer allowing you to take your friends out of your standard feed one-by-one should have you cleaned up in no time.
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Facebook testing new ranked comments format
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.
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Twitter compromised accounts overshadow massive election victory
It's not that Twitter was rooting for Obama, but that they survived the entire election day, night, and next morning that the micro-blogging site would be joyous about if it weren't for the massive password-reset blunder occurring today. Twitter has had a bit of a break-down today and over the past 24 hours with some break-ins on accounts both large and small. The funny thing is though that their break-in wasn't nearly as gigantic as their own password reset blast made it seem.
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