How netbooks forced Facebook to scrap its bold redesign
The Verge - A Facebook director has dismissed claims that the social network ditched last year's big redesign because it was bad for ad revenues. Those claims came from Dustin Curtis, a UX designer and...
View ArticleFacebook scrapped last year's redesign because your screen is too small
Engadget - When Facebook scrapped the picture-heavy News Feed redesign from last spring in favor of a more conservative look, it briefly touched on screen size as a factor. As it turns out, displays...
View ArticleFacebook Scrapped Last Year's Redesign Because Your Screen Is Too Small [VIDEO]
Forbes - When Facebook scrapped the picture-heavy News Feed redesign from last spring in favor of a more conservative look, it briefly touched on screen size as a factor. As it turns out, displays...
View ArticleSOCIAL INSIDER: Facebook's Challenge â Eat24 Drops Facebook â Turkey's...
Business Insider - Social Insider is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. FACEBOOK'S SCRAPPED REDESIGN: We now know why Facebook scrapped its bold News...
View ArticleEat24 and Facebook Have a Conscious Uncoupling
Mashable - It's always sad when a relationship goes south. In the case of Eat24 and Facebook, it appears to be a variation on an old story: Both parties just grew apart after an algorithm came between...
View ArticleThis 'Breakup Letter' Describing What It's Like To Advertise On Facebook Is...
Business Insider - Eat24, the food delivery company, will delete its Facebook page at 11.59 p.m., according to this hilarious "breakup letter" it has written to Facebook. The blog post, while tongue in...
View ArticleTechnical limitations led Facebook to scrap its bold News Feed redesign
Los Angeles Times - More than a year ago, Facebook unveiled plans for a drastic redesign of its website's News Feed that would place a greater emphasis on pictures and look a lot more like the social...
View ArticleDelivery service Eat24 slams Facebook, quits network
Investor's Business Daily - Web-based restaurant delivery service Eat24 is the latest company to criticize Facebook (FB) for changing the news feed on its market-leading social networking site. Eat24...
View ArticleFacebook News Feed Changed: Layout Redesigned, Becomes More Compact
Epoch Times - The post Facebook News Feed Changed: Layout Redesigned, Becomes More Compact by Jack Phillips, Epoch Times appeared first on The Epoch Times.Facebook has changed its news feed layout for...
View ArticleTechnical limitations led Facebook to scrap its bold News Feed redesign
San Jose Mercury - More than a year ago, Facebook unveiled plans for a drastic redesign of its website's News Feed that would place a greater emphasis on pictures and look a lot more like the social...
View ArticleFacebook 'News Feed' creator talks to 4-H youth in DC
WTTG FOX Washington DC - You may not recognize him just by looking at him, but it's likely you use something he created on a daily, well, let's be honest, hourly basis. Andrew Bosworth the creator of...
View ArticleYou Don't Say: The Origins of the Internet's Favorite Memes
Mashable - Think you know where "Overly Attached Girlfriend" and "I Should Buy a Boat" first came from? If you assumed they just popped onto your News Feed out of nowhere, you've made a huge mistake....
View ArticleHere's One Way Facebook's Big Algorithm Change Is Starting To Pay Off [THE...
Business Insider - Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you know today: Adweek is reporting that Facebook's advertising inventory has become 10% more expensive this quarter than last, according to what...
View ArticleFacebook jumps on bullish notes; Sandberg refutes political speculation
Seeking Alpha - Facebook (FB +5.5%) should soundly beat Q1 estimates when it reports on April 23, predicts Susquehanna, reiterating a Positive. Meanwhile, SunTrust (Buy) reports an exec with Facebook...
View ArticleFacebook Overhauls and Limits Those Despised Right-Rail Ads
Mashable - When Facebook rolled out its last desktop redesign last month, it left the right column â the home of many dodgy direct-response ads â alone. Now, however, it's gotten around to cleaning...
View ArticleFacebook Rolls Out Bigger Ads On Its Right-Hand Column, Says There Will Be...
TechCrunch - Â The ads that you see on the right-hand column of Facebook's website are about to get bigger, the company says. Facebook is announcing today that it's rolling out a new design for those...
View ArticleFacebook's starboard ads are getting bigger but less numerous
TechRadar - Like most Facebook users you've probably learned to ignore whatever is in the site's right-hand column, because it's usually creepy ads targeted at random snippets from your profile or...
View ArticleFacebook Is Tweaking Its Privacy Settings. Again
TIME - Just weeks after rolling out a redesigned News Feed, Facebook is making more changes to its service by making its privacy settings easier to understand. On Tuesday the company announced a number...
View ArticleGet Ready for a Change in Facebook Ads
ABC News - Facebook ads in the right-hand column â the Siberia of advertising compared to the prime real estate in the news feed â are getting a makeover. âIn the coming months, weâll be...
View ArticleFacebook to make side-bar ads much bigger, similar aspect ratio to News Feed ads
United Press International - Ananth BaligaMENLO PARK, Calif., April 9 (UPI) -- Facebook has said it will update and increase the size of ads appearing in the right-hand column of its Web site, hoping...
View ArticleFacebook cleaning up spam in News Feed
USA Today - Social network says changes will target spam, 'like-baiting.'
View ArticleWhy more businesses are unfriending Facebook
PC World - In space, they say, no one can hear you scream. Some marketers feel the same way about Facebook.The social network has come to play a vital role for many of the million-plus businesses that...
View ArticleFacebook will punish publishers who ask for Likes and Shares
The Verge - In its continued efforts to clean up and optimize your News Feed, Facebook today announced plans to start penalizing pages that bait users into liking and sharing content. Facebook...
View ArticleFacebookâs Feed Now Punishes Pages That Ask For Likes Or Share Reruns
TechCrunch - Â Youâre not clever enough to fool Facebook. Asking users to âLike this post!â, sharing the same link or photo over and over, or bait-and-switching people with links to ad-filled...
View ArticleFacebook Tweaks News Feed Algorithm To Combat 'Spammy' Posts
Mashable - Facebook is tweaking its news feed algorithm again, this time to combat posts that contains "like-baiting," duplicate content and "spammy links." Facebook says the algorithm change is in...
View ArticleFacebook Is About To Inflict Further Punishment On Lazy, Boring Brands Who...
Business Insider - Facebook has made yet another change to its News Feed in order to reduce the amount of "spam" in your news feed. As with previous changes, this one is intended to reduce the amount...
View ArticleNo More Like-Baiting: Facebook Tries To Clean Up Your News Feed
Forbes - The No. 1 complaint I hear from people on Facebook is that they hate their close friends' posts getting buried in their news feed by stuff they don't care about--the equivalent of spam in...
View ArticleFacebook cracks down on News Feed spam â yes, again
VentureBeat - Facebook is getting rid of more cruddy content on your News Feed.
View ArticleFacebook wants to free your News Feed from spam
PC World - The network is again tweaking its News Feed algorithm to show more of the stuff you want to see.
View ArticleFacebook wants to clean up spam in your News Feed
Engadget - "1 like = $1." "1 like = 1 Respect." "If you don't share this, you're literally the devil." We'll bet you've seen the above way too often on Facebook. Thankfully, the social network's now...
View ArticleYour Facebook News Feed Is About To Get A Lot Less Annoying
Huffington Post - Your News Feed is getting a major overhaul, according to a post on the Facebook Newsroom blog Thursday. The company announced several improvements to "reduce stories that people...
View ArticleFacebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
Computerworld - Posts on Facebook that repeatedly urge users to like, share or comment on them are being targeted in a new effort to reduce News Feed spam, Facebook said.
View ArticleFacebook looks to cut the spam from your news feed
TechRadar - Facebook is on the hunt for spam and has introduced three measures to combat the irrelevant content that clogs many users' news feeds. The first targets what Facebook calls "like-baiting,"...
View ArticleFacebook squashes marketers' 'like'-bait in News Feed update
CNET - Say goodbye to spammy stories in your News Feed -- or at least the social network's definition of spammy stories. Marketers may beg to differ.
View ArticleFacebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
PC World - Changes to the site's filtering algorithm will de-emphasize posts that repeatedly ask for 'likes'(techhive.com)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
View ArticleFacebook is getting more aggressive with hiding News Feed spam
Digital Trends - Attempting to squash Facebook's problem of user-generated spam, the social network has rolled out new guidelines that will tweak the News Feed algorithm in order to feature more high...
View ArticleFacebook's cleaning up your News Feed a little, ripping out Like-baiting...
Gizmodo - Facebook's cleaning up your News Feed a little, ripping out Like-baiting posts, repeated content, and spammy links.Read more...
View Article10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning (MSFT, GOOG, FB, AMZN)
Business Insider - Good morning! Happy Friday! Only two more days left in the work week. Here's the news you need: Amazon acquired digital Comic book company ComiXology. ComicXology is sort of like a...
View ArticleFacebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
InfoWorld - Posts on Facebook that repeatedly urge users to like, share or comment on them are being targeted in a new effort to reduce News Feed spam, Facebook said Thursday. Many of those posts are...
View ArticleRapid Reaction: Businesses unfriend Facebook
TechHive - Puzzled by Facebook's news feed algorithm some businesses are dropping their presence on the social network in frustration. Zach Miners of IDG News Service breaks it down.
View ArticleFacebook: Begging for Likes Is a No-No Now
TIME - The social network is rolling out new policies to help cut down on spam showing up in the News Feed, including one that lessens the visibility of posts by Pages that ask for Likes and Shares,...
View ArticleFacebook cleaning up spam in News Feed
KING NBC Seattle - Facebook is performing its version of spring cleaning.
View ArticleFacebook Wants To Kill Your News Feed's Spam
Fast Company - Heads up, digital marketers.Today Facebook pulled back the curtains a bit, allowing outsiders a glimpse into some of the changes it has made to its News Feed algorithm. The move, which...
View ArticleNow That Facebook Is Making Right-Rail Ads A Lot More Compelling, FBX Is...
Business Insider - Facebook just announced that it's desktop right-rail ads will soon be relevant once again. The social network is going to make the ads much bigger, but it will also surface fewer of...
View ArticleFacebook's latest government report reveals which countries censor its News Feed
The Verge - Facebook today released its second global government transparency report, covering the period between July and December of last year. Apart from the regular numbers pertaining to government...
View ArticleFacebook cracks down on âlink-baitingâ
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Facebookâs latest tweak to its ever-evolving news feed: a purge of âlink bait.â Link bait, the Menlo Park social networking giant says, includes content that...
View ArticleFacebook Promises Less Junk in Your News Feed
NBC News - In todayâs world, âgoing viralâ is actually a good thing, and it usually involves people sharing stuff on Facebook.
View ArticleStudy: Facebook Continues to Make People Sad
New York Magazine - Recent studies in the field of Facebook science have revealed that the site diminishes our quality of life. Constantly staring at the lives of others via news feed, in fact, has...
View ArticleFacebook to make the News Feed less 'spammy,' punish pages that ask for 'Likes'
United Press International - Ananth BaligaMENLO PARK, Calif., April 11 (UPI) -- Facebook will target Pages that coerce users for Shares or Likes, which users have complained are 'spammy' posts they...
View ArticleFacebook squashes marketers' "like"-bait in News Feed update
CBS News - Say goodbye to spammy stories in your News Feed -- or at least the social network's definition of spammy stories
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