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Auto-playing video ads arrive in your News Feed

PC World - Facebook is hoping high-quality videos will help you forget all about the auto-playing part.

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Facebook's Auto-Playing Video Ads Have Arrived

Atlantic - Auto-playing video advertisements are officially coming to your Facebook news feed, starting today.    

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Hey, Mr. President! Zuck calls Obama to complain about NSA spying

TechRadar - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pissed. Or at least he's "confused and frustrated," and it's not because of our hate for the news feed's previous redesign. The Zuck took to ... you know ......

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Here's One Facebook Newsfeed Change Brands Can Actually Benefit From

Business Insider - A new study from the social marketing education firm Social Fresh sheds light on a recent change to Facebook's news feed algorithm that actually makes life on the social network...

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Is this Amazon's game controller for a TV box?

CNET - CNET Update goes whale watching: Is this Amazon's game controller for a TV box? In this episode of Update: - Check out the latest clue in the Amazon media box mystery: photos of a Bluetooth...

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TED takes over Facebook Paper’s ‘Ideas’ section with exclusive content

VentureBeat - Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif.?Request an invitation....

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Advertisers 'Are Now Openly Talking About Their Discontent' With Facebook (FB)

Business Insider - Nate Elliott, the Forrester analyst who wrote a controversial report recommending that advertisers "don’t dedicate a paid ad budget for Facebook" last October, has struck again....

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Facebook v8 For iOS Shoots At Snapchat With Extra Private One-To-Few Photo...

TechCrunch - Don't want all your friends to see your photos? That's a big reason Snapchat has become so popular, and now Facebook wants to capitalize on more private sharing. Facebook for iOS 8.0...

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A New App Turns Your Instagrams Into Nail Art

Mashable - Your next selfie could be your next manicure. Nail art enthusiasts will be able to indulge their wildest design dreams with NailSnaps, an app to lets users create nail polish stickers using...

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Co.Design Is Looking For An Editor

Fast Company - Come work for us!The editor helps plan and edit Co.Design's daily news feed, generates story ideas, and handles some site maintenance, such as programming newsletters and populating...

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Marijuana, Health Care, and Putin's Win -- Quickie News!

Huffington Post - Here are three stories filling up your news feed: Congrats to Vladimir Putin! His voter tampering has succeeded! (It's easy to vote the "right" way when you've got a gun pointed at...

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Facebook Has An Ingenious Plan To Make Sure Its New Video Ads Will Actually...

Business Insider - Facebook will launch autoplay video ads very soon. Users will see them in their news feed whether they like them or not, two to three times per day. Normally, that would be a...

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Theneeds is more than ‘yet another personalized news feed’

VentureBeat - Theneeds wants to help you “discover the best of the Web based on your interests." But hold your horses -- there is something interesting to see here.     

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Facebook to marketers: Expect drop in News Feed distribution

CNET - (Credit: CNET) Facebook has been alerting marketers that they will likely see the organic reach of their Page posts decline over time, CNET has confirmed with the company. The social network has...

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Chrome extension lets you save Facebook posts to read later

CNET - One of my least favorite parts of Facebook is combing through my News Feed for a post I skipped past earlier in the day, or worse, earlier in the week that I now want to share or read. If I...

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Facebook for iOS makes it easier to share selectively

CNET - I'm not an organized person. Planning is not my forte. Thus, Facebook expecting me to create a group to which I may later want to share a post or a photo is asking too much. With the latest...

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The REAL Reason Facebook Got Rid Of Its Beautiful Redesign: Its Users Have...

Business Insider - A year ago, Facebook announced it would redesign its News Feed. The new design would feature bigger pictures. It looked like this: But that design never got a full roll-out.  Some...

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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...

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Facebook 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...

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Facebook 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...

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SOCIAL INSIDER: Facebook's Challenge — Eat24 Drops Facebook — 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...

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Eat24 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...

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This '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...

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Technical 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...

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Delivery 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...

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Facebook 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...

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Technical 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...

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Facebook '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...

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You 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....

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Here'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...

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Facebook 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...

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Facebook Overhauls and Limits Those Despised Right-Rail Ads

Mashable - When Facebook rolled out its last desktop redesign last month, it left the right column — the home of many dodgy direct-response ads — alone. Now, however, it's gotten around to cleaning...

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Facebook Rolls Out Bigger Ads On Its Right-Hand Column, Says There Will Be...

TechCrunch -  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...

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Facebook'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...

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Facebook 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...

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Get Ready for a Change in Facebook Ads

ABC News - Facebook ads in the right-hand column — the Siberia of advertising compared to the prime real estate in the news feed — are getting a makeover. “In the coming months, we’ll be...

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Facebook 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...

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Facebook cleaning up spam in News Feed

USA Today - Social network says changes will target spam, 'like-baiting.'

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Why 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...

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Facebook 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...

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Facebook’s Feed Now Punishes Pages That Ask For Likes Or Share Reruns

TechCrunch -  You’re not clever enough to fool Facebook. Asking users to “Like this post!”, sharing the same link or photo over and over, or bait-and-switching people with links to ad-filled...

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Facebook 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...

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Facebook 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...

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No 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...

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Facebook cracks down on News Feed spam — yes, again

VentureBeat - Facebook is getting rid of more cruddy content on your News Feed.

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Facebook 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.

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Facebook 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...

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Your 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...

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Facebook 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.

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Facebook 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,"...

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