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Facebook Paid Game Developers $1.4 Billion In 2011
Facebook has paid developers over $1.4 billion in 2011. Facebook games product manager Matt Wyndowe made the milestone announcement at the Game Developers Conference. Wyndowe said that Facebook has gotten very serious about supporting games on Facebook despite the market being
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Categories Bret Taylor, Facebook, Jens Begemann, Kixeye, Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Wyndowe, Will Harbin, Wooga
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Facebook Users Watch About 500 Years Of YouTube Video Every Day
Facebook users spend 500 years of time watching YouTube videos every day. In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views (video playbacks) and 60 hours of video is being uploaded per minute. A couple of months ago, this number was 48 hours. Over 3 billion hours of video are watched per month on YouTube. Their website receives about 800 million uniques per month. [Labnol]
Categories Facebook, YouTube
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Facebook and Ford Develop Automatic Event Check-In Concept At Hackathon
Facebook and Ford recently came together at a joint Hackathin event to come up with ideas to make cars more social. About 30 engineers from Ford and Facebook got together for 24 hours to rapidly develop prototype apps that would integrate Facebook’s social elements into Ford SYNC.
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Categories Facebook, Ford, Ford Motor Company
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KLM Meet & Seat Allows Passengers To Social Network With Each Other [VIDEO]
KLM is working on a new feature for flights that allows you to view other passengers’ Facebook or LinkedIn profile details to see where they’ll be sitting long before your flight leaves the ground. KLM’s Meet & Seat allows you to also find out which other passengers are attending the same event at your destination. To set it up, enter your Facebook or LinkedIn profile through “Manage my Booking.” Currently the feature is available for KLM flights between Amsterdam and New York, San Francisco, and Sao Paulo.
Categories Facebook, KLM, LinkedIn
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Alleged Ohio Chardon High School Shooter TJ Lane Left Cryptic Facebook Status In December
Thomas “T.J.” Lane is the 17-year old suspect of killing three high school students and wounding 3 others in a shooting early this week in Ohio. He was described as a loner by students and his lawyer. TJ Lane was expected to be arraigned yesterday after the shooting at Chardon High. He came from a violent family too.
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Facebook May Help Digg’s Traffic, But Overall Engagement Is Still Down
The pageviews for news aggregation website Digg.com is up 35% in January and they have seen their highest traffic numbers since October 2010. The main reason for the jump is because of the Digg Social Reader application, which pushes stories read by users to Facebook automatically. Essentially Facebook referral traffic was up 67% in January. This app is similar to the Washington Post Social Reader and the Yahoo! Social Bar.
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Facebook Unveiling New Ad Product On February 29th
Facebook’s newest advertising product is expected to launch on February 29th and a presentation of the new product was leaked on the web yesterday. Facebook is replacing their Classic Premium Ads to new upgraded Premium Ads. According to financial analysts, the Premium Ads is a last-ditch effort on Facebook’s part to meet ad revenue budget goals for the first quarter of the year.
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Categories Facebook, Sam Hamadeh
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Facebook Starts Building Their Own Storage Hardware
Facebook already has built a couple of their own data centers and their own servers. Now Facebook is building their own storage hardware for keeping all of the digital content uploaded by their 800+ million users. “We store a few photos here and there,” stated the Facebook hardware design head Frank Frankovsky in an interview with Wired. Facebook is estimated to be storing about 140 billion digital photos.
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Categories Facebook, Frank Frankovsky
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Ben Affleck Joins Facebook
Oscar-winning actor Ben Affleck has joined Facebook. Currently he is using the social network to promote his philanthropic work. He has well over 28,000 subscribers. His Facebook Timeline is actually set up to showcase pictures of the causes he is involved in and movies that he filmed in 2010 like The Town and The Company Men. I highly recommend subscribing to him.
Categories Ben Affleck, Facebook
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Facebook Said That They Are Bypassing IE Privacy Settings Because P3P Is Outdated
Microsoft blamed Google for bypassing the privacy settings of Internet Explorer, but it turns out that Facebook is also doing the same. Facebook and thousands of other websites are doing the same thing by writing incorrectly formatted compact policies (CPs) for the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P). IE is the only major browser to support P3P.
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Categories Facebook, W3C
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