Facebook and Instagram might have a new feature up their sleeves.
At its special press event on June 20, Facebook will unveil video support for Instagram, TechCrunch is reporting, citing a person who claims to have knowledge of its plans. Similar to Twitter's Vine, which allows users to post 6-second videos, Instagram's videos would be limited to 5 to 10 seconds.
via news.cnet.com
Looking to shield itself from a growing public backlash over damaging revelations that it turned over user data to the National Security Agency‘s clandestine Internet surveillance program Prism, Facebook said late Friday it had reached an agreement to divulge some details about the government requests it receives for information about its users.
via q13fox.com
Facebook Inc. (FB), owner of the world’s most popular social-networking service, said it got as many as 10,000 data requests from U.S. government entities involving national-security related requests.
The requests, which came from local, state and federal governments, were for the six-month period ended Dec. 31 and “run the gamut,” the company said in a posting on its website.
Facebook is adding support for hashtags to help its members keep track of popular topics being discussed on the social network,
Adding the "#" sign to a word will turn it into a clickable link which brings up a feed of what other people are saying about the same topic.
via www.bbc.co.uk
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Overshadowed by the the bombing at the Boston Marathon, the explosion of the fertilizer plant in West, Texas is to me a much more significant event. The event in Boston is most likel a one off event by a couple of young men who had somehow strayed into the dark side of religion and tried to make their mark with their god that way. Or at least that is the way it appears on the surface. Or I could believe Alex Jones and see terrorists every direction I turn.
Unfortunately for Mr. Jones I do not see terrorists every direction I turn. What I do see every direction I turn, though, is exploited workers. People whose wages have been squeezed, people whose unions have been disbanded, people whose lives are being jerked around by employers and people whose jobs are now being done in Mexico, Bangladesh, Viet Nam or China.
The next time you “like” something on Facebook, you might imagine a little cash register ringing…ca-ching. That’s because new research suggests that every time you “like” or “friend” a brand or business, your actions are worth approximately $174.17 to that brand — a 28 percent increase since 2010.
The research, conducted by social intelligence company Syncapse, studied more than 2,000 Facebook users who had liked a brand, taking into account such factors as product spending, loyalty, propensity to recommend, media value acquisition cost and brand affinity to determine the value of a Facebook fan.
via news.yahoo.com
Ah, those online relationships.
First you’re smitten by a social network or Web service and can’t stop spending time on it. Then it starts asking how you’re feeling, what you like, where you are, with whom, and why you don’t share as much anymore.
Pretty soon, you’re ready to call it quits.
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