Good news for Emoti fans; the recent issues with its app for the iPhone that had been infected by a bug has been rid of it. The issue as reported now was due to Facebook turning off the old APIs across its platform. This action was taken on Monday and the issue followed the very next day.
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I have had trouble with importing contacts from Facebook and always thought of ways to record my friends’ information like full name, email and contact information as a .CSV file. While I thought that was going to take quite some time, a new app has come as a solution for this ask. The app is rightly called the Export Friends to .csv which has been developed by a lone developer. And while it does help you import that information, it isn’t really that impressive.
The app lets you import information for up to 11 categories like their full names, Facebook ID, their location, gender, etc as a .csv file. And that is where my issue lies with the app. Once you get the file and open it up, it actually gives a very untidy feel, all the categories are flooded within a file separated by colons and the whole concept of importing contacts appears tiring and problematic. While users do have a choice of selecting what categories to actually import, I don’t really see the reason why the developer would include so many categories.
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I never really liked Farmville, the reason for this grudge is perhaps the fact it was one of the major reason why the management at my workplace blocked Facebook. Even for people like me who used it for a very positive purpose. But I will not step back from reporting what’s the latest development on the game. The social gaming phenomena recently came up with an even more fascinating stuff for the users.
The developers are giving Farmville addicts Limited Editions items in Cowprint. These prints are available only for a period of seven days, meaning if you really want your farm to look more dairy. All these are available for free except for the silo which will cost you some Farmville credits. I mean it does cost quite a lot to build one and that too customized to have prints like that of a cow, deserves to have a price.
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Boy o boy, the importance of Facebook is proportional to its growth. The social network is light years beyond the reach of all its competitors combined and it is the same reason why users, brands continue to take advantage of it. Now brands can spend millions to market their products anywhere, but Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer, Chris Kelly is working on the same lines.
The CPO has invested a whopping $2 Million from his own pocket in a bid to leverage the social network’s user base to become the Attorney General for the state of California. There has been quite a stir of Chris being in the run for the Attorney General but this move confirms what otherwise was thought of to be a rumor. I sort of appreciate the move as he might actually get some recognition on a larger scale and perhaps he has learned a lot from the Presidential Campaign [President Obama who now has a group planning to murder him]. Keeping aside the cost, it might just help him in some manner [at least people will get know who is].
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At last the users of iPhone will have even lesser to complain about the Facebook app as it finally got the much awaited Push Notification feature. While the 3.0 version of the application was nothing short of impressive it did lose out on not having the feature. The major reason being that users had to keep the app running in order get updates but that will no longer be the case.
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Lead by example, that is what Facebook’s massively popular Farmville’s creator, Zynga has done and no wonder others are looking up at it and trying to follow. The social game developer bagged a mammoth $180 Million from DST and not other developers are frantically looking for ways to sell their ads. And those efforts include looking forward to third parties for managing ads. This means they will be relying more on the social network’s ad platform, fair enough, I mean why should they focus on creating their own ad solutions when they can make use of those that already exist and market their product much more efficiently?
A major announcement in the same regard broke out today when ONE Media Manager stated that the much famed dating app on Facebook, Zoosk turned over to OMM to avail their expertise. That is just one more app taking advantage of the third party ad solutions, but the investments they would make might be pretty small compared to what Zynga currently spends on ads across the social network. This again lays emphasis on the fragility of the ad management systems that these developers have within their apps, which might very well be quite meaningless to the benefit third party solutions can bring.
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Just as I had thought, it’s not just me who thinks that the countless import tools we have scattered here and there across the Web. Same goes on Facebook’s contact import tool. So what exactly is bad about it? The marketers can tend to utilize the contact import tool to expand their own list. Why? Obviously to randomly mail people on the list.
Isn’t this been happening for quite a long time already? Obviously but hunting down Facebook is perhaps the growing popularity of the social network that currently has 260 billion pageviews a month. And as I mentioned earlier in the post on Facebook Community Council where the need to give users the ability to keep check on anything that goes against its terms of use. Here the issue is with the fear that Facebook’s Friend Finder can be used for such malicious activity. Andrew Noyes of Facebook speaks to protect the feature stating that the team puts up hard work to exercise control over any such malicious activity on the social network. I would like to quote Max Klein on the issue:
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350 million users on Facebook might just make one estimate what massive number of pageviews the social network actually generates. According to stats provided by Royal Pingdom the social network generates a gargantuan 260 billion views a month. That dwarfs almost anyone else in the category of social networking sites and many others that exist. MySpace which is its major competitor generates a meager 26 billion.
I think the social network has taken such a massive lead now that it will be next to impossible for any other competitor to come any where close. The numbers are least surprising given the amount of time each user spends on the social network and amount of data that is being put up the site and exchanged every day. Plus there is so much activity that users can be a part of on the social network and I bet if one puts our time on site Facebook would out hour any site that exists.
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Facebook appears to be taking steps in the right direction as the social network plans to give its community of 350 million users to keep a check on the crowd connected via the social network. While using its users is nothing new, but giving the same users a chance to actively monitor the network. Sounds interesting and quite a positive move from Facebook.
The social network is presently testing Facebook Community Council and as the name suggests would be made up of Facebook users. The purpose? Well for the first time in ages Facebook is actually taking initiatives to put out a more democratic image of itself as it gives users more powers to administer the community. Now isn’t that taking the step beyond and making users have a sense of ownership of the platform and get actively involved in administering (in some manner) the site as Facebook expands into an ever larger network; for which the task of monitoring becomes an impossible task for its workforce of a thousand employees.
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There is surely a need for everyone to be on Facebook, especially if you are already a big brand, being on Facebook would actually help you more. Another one to leverage the powerful social network is TOPPS that feels the urge to expand onto the Web space. The trading cards distributor is launching its own Facebook app called the Wacky Digibles. I am not surprised the least at this step, it had to happen someday, the sooner the better.
One thing however that might just drive users away a bit is that these Digibles aren’t free and they will have to spend $1 to get 100 credits to buy them and send to their friends. The good aspect is that whatever card you purchase, you get a copy for yourself. However I just think that TOPPS is going to have a tough call having a go at spreading like wildfire and they seem to have made it a bit more difficult with the procedure of buying those Digibles.
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