CoderTakeout - Facebook Development

(SUMMARY) Ticketing site Eventbrite gets more traffic from Facebook than any other source. Since the two forged a partnership in early March , events listed on Eventbrite have doubled in number, and every share of a listing on Facebook has brought in an...

(SUMMARY) Upon reaching 10 million Facebook likes , BBC automotive show Top Gear did what any other brand achieving such a milestone would do: It blew up a caravan. As the Top Gear Facebook page approached 10 million likes, fans were asked what the hosts and...

(SUMMARY) First, there was Take This Lollipop . Then came Facebook’s own Timeline Movie Maker . Now, the latest application to make movies out of users’ Facebook content has arrived from down under. Australian athletic and leisure clothing retailer Lorna Jane...

(SUMMARY) How can you tell if a Facebook account is fake ? Barracuda Labs is on the case. Barracuda Labs analyzed 2,884 active Facebook accounts to determine the differences between authentic ones and fake pages created by scammers and spammers. Among the...

(SUMMARY) A prevailing theme in much of the reaction to Facebook’s initial public offering announcement was uncertainty over how the social network’s advertising business actually works. Several stories about Facebook’s registration to go public focused on the...

(SUMMARY) A new study claims that Facebook users take more than they give to their friends through the number of friend requests received, the use of the like button , the number of messages sent, or tagging people in photos. The phenomenon, identified in a...

(SUMMARY) Facebook shares have surged to their highest closing price ever on SharesPost , to $40 apiece, after the social network already filed its registration to go public. If we assume that the company still has 2.35 billion outstanding shares, as was the...

(SUMMARY) Facebook continued to dominate the social media advertising sector in the fourth quarter, according to Strata , with 89 percent of agencies planning to incorporate the social network into their clients’ campaigns, unchanged from the third quarter....

(SUMMARY) In the extremely unlikely event that you haven’t heard, Super Bowl XLVI kicks off at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, pitting the New York Giants against the New England Patriots. Games are often decided by...

(SUMMARY) Valentine’s Day , the joint venture between Hallmark and Satan, is fast approaching, bringing with it a flurry of Facebook applications. Here are a handful of the Valentine’s Day apps we’ve discovered. We listed them in alphabetical order to make...