Users now will have a new way of sorting the News Feed and show the most recent stories first. The other option will be to view the highlighted stories first, followed by recent stories, like it is at the moment. The updates to News Feed are expected to be seen over a few weeks.
Read MoreTwitter announced partnerships with Mass Relevance and Crimson Hexagon in an effort to expand its TV presence. The
two companies help TV outlets reach their auditory through the more than 250
million tweets made each day as they try to find the most relevant comments to
their programing.
An eight-week study titled "The Socialbot Network: When bots socialize for fame and money" evaluated how vulnerable online social networks are to large-scale infiltrations by socialbots. Researchers found that programs designed to mimic real users stole 250GB of personal information in Facebook.
Read MoreWith the Subscribe feature you can choose what types of updates you see from people in News Feed. You can also use the button to hear from someone who is not your friend or let people that are not even on your friend list hear from you. The link will only appear on public comments made by Facebook users who have allowed other users to subscribe their updates.
Read MoreEBay is integrating Facebook's new Open Graph 2.0 functionality into its global commerce systems, which come under the umbrella of a new business unit called X.commerce, which includes eBay, PayPal, and Magento. The partnership was announced at Innovate, eBay's developer conference in San Francisco.
Read MoreNew Facebook application allows the mobile users to enjoy high-res photos, play games and chat on their iPad. With the release Facebook joins the other popular social-networks including Twitter, Flipboard, and Gowalla, that already run on iPad.
Read MoreFacebook has launched a new translation tool that allows people to translate posts and comments directly inline on Facebook pages through Bing Translate. The service makes it easier for users to read any page content regardless of the language it is written in.
Read MoreFacebook has just rolled out new features that both take inspiration from rival social networks and improve on them. The biggest changes come from the way in which we organize friends on Facebook and how we choose to get updates from the pages and people we find most interesting.
Read MoreFacebook announced a bunch of improvements that make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other content with exactly the people you want. The main change is moving most of your controls from a settings page to being inline, right next to the posts, photos and tags they affect. Plus there are several other updates here that will make it easier to understand who can see your stuff in any context.
Google announced that it is following in Facebook’s footsteps yet again by adding games to its Google+ social network. “We want to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to the web,” the company said in a blog post. “That means giving you control over when you see games, how you play them and with whom you share your experiences.”
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