France bans Facebook and Twitter from radio and TV

In France, radio and television news anchors are no longer allowed to say the words “Facebook” and “Twitter” on air. The ban forbids the promotion of commercial enterprises on news programs  by the French Govt.

 

This means French news organizations are not allowed to urge their audience to “follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/xx” or “check out my Facebook page at facebook.com/xx” Instead, they will have to say “find us on social networking websites” or tell viewers to “check out our webpage ‘at this URL’ to find links to our pages on social networks.

 

Source: ZDNet

Facebook adds Comments to Like Button

Facebook adds a writable comment space inside the pop-up that appears when visitors Like something out around the web.

 

Messages sent with personal comments tend to get more click. These messages will now also include a longer description of what's being liked.

 

 

Now, when a user adds a comment to the iFrame version of the Like button, a larger, more prominent story will be shared with the user’s friends.

 

Source: Facebook Blog

Facebook: 500 million people, 500 Million Stories

Facebook hit 500 million users this week.

 

           

Facebook, Youtube blocked in Afghanistan

Following Pakistan, Afghanistan also blocked the world’s most popular social networking and video sharing websites, facebook and youtube. Both are now completely blocked. The pages say ‘This Site is Restricted.

 

These websites gained popularity in Afghanistan recently. The sites are facing criticism over a page that asked fans to draw Prophet Mohammad’s caricatures. A court in Pakistan ordered the government to block facebook. Youtube and Wikipedia are also blocked.

Why Your Company Should Have a Facebook Page, Not a Profile

A company's effectiveness on Facebook can be hampered if the account isn't set up properly.

Facebook's terms of service:

"Profiles represent individuals and must be held under an individual name, while Pages allow an organization, business, celebrity, or band to maintain a professional presence on Facebook."

 

Pages Offer Analytics and Like Widgets

Two really crucial advantages of administering a Page are user analytics and easily-embeddable Like buttons and widgets.

 

In Facebook Insights, you can view all kinds of useful data about user activity on your page, including how many likes and comments you received each day and much more.

 

This data can be really useful for understanding the characteristics of your customer base, and knowing which wall posts get the best reaction. This data is not available to individual profiles.

 

Another thing profiles don't offer is the means to embed a Like button and other Open Graph plugins into your own site. This is a major setback for businesses hoping to grow their audience on Facebook.

 

Pages Can Have Unlimited Fans.

On Facebook, individual profiles are limited to 5,000 friends, whereas Pages can have unlimited fans (or likes). Once your profile friend list reaches 5,000, Facebook will encourage you to set up a Page, but doesn't offer a tool to convert your profile to a Page.

Flickr Fixes Facebook Integration With Batch Uploads

Last month, social photo-sharing site Flickr finally added some long-awaited Facebook integration to its service, allowing users to simultaneously post photos on both Flickr and Facebook with one upload.

 

But there was a small problem with the way that the new feature was set up: it basically spammed your Facebook Wall with post after post about your new photos.

But, that problem has been fixed, reports Flickr.

 

For those users who uploaded more than one photo at a time, using the new Facebook integration feature made each and every new Flickr photo uploaded its own individual post on your Facebook Wall and friends' News Feed. After processing a big set of photos, your Facebook page would end up covered in nothing but Flickr posts. That issue has been fixed so that it now identities these multi-picture posts as batches.