Archive | December 16th, 2010

Facebook’s New User Registration Tool for Websites: Implementation Details and Impact

Posted on 16 December 2010

Facebook has officially launched its new “ registration tool ” for third-party websites. This powerful plugin allows websites to insert a single line of code to create a registration form which pre-populates fields with a user’s Facebook data. We expect widespread adoption of the tool because it will reduce drop off during registration and provide sites with data including a verified email address which has been historically difficult to get users to provide.

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ChompOn Turns Display Ads Into Deals

Posted on 16 December 2010

White label daily deals platform and TC Disrupt finalist Chompon today launches what it is calling an “Adsense platform for daily deals.” Rolling out today is a new Chompon affiliate functionality that makes it easy for publishers to drop in a deals widget where they’d normally show an ad unit, enabling them to sell targeted deals instead of ads. Niche websites can now get the monetization of ecommerce sites like Groupon applied to the scale of a display ad with ChompOn’s embeds. The ChompOn platform also allows deal providers to bid on getting their ads sold and automatically tracks sales and other analytics for both merchants and publishers.

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Facebook Accidentally Pushes New Page Layout, Page Accounts, and Removes Landing Tabs

Posted on 16 December 2010

Today, many Facebook users saw several changes to Pages, most visibly a new layout which moved to the left side the navigation tabs for switching between the wall, info, and other in-house and third-party apps.

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Some Users Briefly See New Layout for Facebook Pages

Posted on 16 December 2010

Today, many Facebook users saw a new layout for Pages that rearranges the user interface to function much more like the way recently updated user profiles and Places pages now appear. While Facebook Pages have retained the same tabs layout across the top in recent weeks, the new version that users saw moved those tabs to the left of the page

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Note to Estranged Co-Founders: Settle Your Baggage First, Pitch Reporters Second

Posted on 16 December 2010

I posted a story earlier today about a cool company called Bonobos, which makes better-fitting hipster pants and just raised $18.5 million in funding. I did an extensive interview with the founder and CEO Andy Dunn last night and asked a lot of detailed questions about how the company was founded and the early days. At the end, I asked if there was anything else I didn’t ask that I should know.

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Don’t Know What Gifts To Get Your Hipster Friends? Make Them Take The Etsy Taste Test

Posted on 16 December 2010

Gift giving can be so hard , especially if you have a bunch of hipster friends who turn their noses at anything even slightly pedestrian.

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Big Day For Facebook: New Pages, Memories, And Downtime

Posted on 16 December 2010

Facebook’s having a pretty interesting day. This morning the site pushed out a nifty new registration widget for third party sites. In the last few hours it’s also pushed out a revamped version of its Pages, which brings the UI more in line with its updated profiles design , which launched earlier this month

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Foodspotting Swallows Food Sharing Community Eat.ly

Posted on 16 December 2010

Foodspotting , the service that allows you to take pictures of your food to share with others, is acquiring a competitor in the space: Eat.ly. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Eat.ly’s team writes: With a best-in-class iPhone app, awesome integration with the Foursquare API and a number of other exciting moves ahead, Foodspotting will be a great place for the Eat.ly community.

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Now You Can Follow Other Commenters On Disqus

Posted on 16 December 2010

Popular commenting platform Disqus is adding a big upgrade to its central dashboard today that makes the service feel much more like a social network — sort of like a Twitter for comments. For those who haven’t used Disqus, the service lets you create one profile for all of your comments across any of the hundreds of thousands of sites that support it (we use it on TechCrunch). The Disqus Dashboard gives you a central hub to view all the discussions you’ve participated in, but until now it hasn’t done such a great job helping you find your friends’ comments, or letting you discover users that you may enjoy following.

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CVS Express Photo App Offers 1-Hour Printing and Pickup for Facebook Photos

Posted on 16 December 2010

Today, CVS launched its CVS Express Photo App through a tab on its Page. It allows users to choose photos from their Facebook albums and have them printed and available for pickup at their local CVS in an hour

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