Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

When David Marcus joined Facebook last year from PayPal to run its Messenger business, many people speculated that it would herald the social network getting much more serious about payments and commerce in general. Now the company has poached another exec from the business that recently spun out from eBay: Christina Smedley — who had been PayPal’s VP of global brand and… Read More... →

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that “the craziest Oculus experience I’ve had recently is playing ping pong in virtual reality.” Facebook famously bought virtual reality startups Oculus VR last year for $2 billion, and since then it’s been pushing hard into the VR space. “You feel like you’re right there with your friend even […]... →

We’ve heard rumours for some time that Facebook is working on a breaking-news app (possibly known internally as “Notify”) that will go head-to-head with Twitter. Facebook’s algorithms — which initially push out stories from news publications to just a few users, and then an increasing number depending on performance — are such that it hasn’t managed to become a go-to […]... →

Venky Harinarayan, is an e-commerce veteran who co-founded comparison shopping engine Junglee (acquired by Amazon in 1998), worked closely with Jeff Bezos to create Amazon Marketplace, created topical guide to the Web Kosmix (now known as Walmart Labs), and served as angel investor in companies such as Facebook and Lyft. He has just launched Rocketship Ventures, a seed-stage firm which uses… Read More... →

Facebook, Google, Yahoo — the pillars of the social revolution were all started by college students in their dorms. This was 10, 20 years ago. In the past decade, the proliferation of youth-centric startups prevails — and even flourishes. A constantly increasing 54 percent of millennials desire to start a business, according to the Kauffman Foundation, and the number of new… Read More... →

Новый скринридер сможет распознавать образы на фотографиях в соцсетях и рассказывать пользователю, что на них изображено... →

Социальная сеть предложит пользователям интересные ролики и сделает просмотр более удобным ... →

Теперь пользователи могут удалить неприятные воспоминания, связанные с конкретным днем или человеком... →

WhatsApp is huge in India. The Facebook-owned messaging service has probably passed 100 million monthly active users in the country — it crossed 70 million in November of last year — and is used by families, merchants, media and more. But WhatsApp isn’t a platform — it will probably never be one — and that leaves opportunities for services that want to offer… Read More... →

У Алены Владимирской в фейсбуке развернулось интересное обсуждение с игроделами всея рунета. Началось все с поста самой Владимирской, с которым, в целом, все основные комментаторы согласились: О трудных годах геймдева. которые наступают (да, за хлебушком пойдете) Рассказывала вчера о рынке труда в геймдеве на White Nights Conference/ Понимаю, что сейчас закидают меня тухлыми помидорами, потому что рассказывала неприятно, но за ной цифирки Итак, несколько циферок, почему все плохо: Сначала общий тезис: сейча... →

Facebook тестирует ряд новых опций, призванных помочь пользователям легче находить, просматривать и делиться видео. В их числе – отдельный видеораздел, рекомендуемые и «плавающие» видео. «Мы тестируем несколько новых опций, которые дадут пользователям больше гибкости при просмотре видео – как на ходу в новостной ленте, так и наслаждаясь несколькими видео подряд, сидя дома», - комментирует запуск тестов вице-президент компании Уилл Кэткарт (Will Cathcart). Первый тест связан с рекомендуемыми видео. Более р... →

Facebook обновил функцию «В этот день», позволяющую пользователям вспомнить важные события, которые произошли у него в этот день в прошлом и были опубликованы в социальной сети. Теперь они смогут отфильтровать плохие воспоминания, связанные с конкретным днём или человеком. Для этого достаточно зайти на страницу «В этот день» и нажать на «Предпочтения» («Preferences»). После чего можно ввести дату или пользователя, чтобы напоминания о них больше не появлялись в этом разделе. В русскоязычной версии сервиса ... →

Who won tonight’s presidential debate? That depends on who you ask. Judging by popularity points and #engagement attributed to each candidate, there was a clear winner tonight, according to Google and Facebook data. That winner? Bernie Sanders. The stats A Facebook-endorsed poll published by CNN ranks Sanders in the top 80 percent of Democratic candidates at the time […]... →

Facebook's video experience has been designed to more closely resemble YouTube than ever before. The post Facebook Enhances Video with Multitasking, Suggested Vids, and More by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Posted by RobBeirneWe need to talk about bounce rate. Now, before I begin ranting, I'd just like to put on the record that bounce rate can, in certain cases, be a useful metric that can, when viewed in the context of other metrics, give you insights on the performance of the content on your website. I accept that. However, it is also a metric which is often misinterpreted and is, in a lot of cases, misleading. We've gone on the record with our thoughts on bounce rate as a metric, but it's still something th... →

Venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has brought in a slew of new hires (and made some promotions) to its investment team, including the addition of alumni Eric Feng. Other notables include naming Arielle Zuckerberg associate partner — many may recognize her as the sister of Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, but she’s cut her […]... →

There are plenty of people who’d happily become shareholders in companies like Apple and Facebook if the process of buying stock were simpler. They are plenty of people who’d prefer to give the gift of stock but who hand out money or retailers’ gift cards for the same reason. Stockpile, a five-year-old, 15-person Palo Alto, Ca.-based brokerage services firm has a solution… Read More... →

Facebook connects 1.5 billion people all over the world, but for the blind and visually impaired, it can be difficult to gain access to what has become a vast platform for connectivity. That’s where Facebook’s accessibility team, led by Jeff Wieland, comes in. The sole purpose of the accessibility team is to help people with disabilities have a seamless experience on Facebook,… Read More... →

If you’ve ever seen the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” then you’re familiar with the concept of proactively scrubbing certain memories from your brain. Things that you record online constantly spark our memories and there are even services that do it on purpose. Timehop and Google Photos have elements of it and so does Facebook’s “On This… Read More... →

Facebook is testing out new video options on its social network aimed at helping you better “discover, watch, and share videos” that you might find interesting. Included in the updates are the general availability of suggested videos within Facebook’s iOS app, and an experiment to see the response to a dedicated place just for videos. […]... →