As Yahoo! continues to step up their integration with Facebook the company is now enabling users to reply directly to wall posts directly from their email inbox. As the image below illustrates, users are presented with a Facebook-like comment box for responding to status comments or any wall post. Most recently Flickr added full their own integration with Facebook, and it appears that Yahoo! overall integration is continuing.
We previously wrote about a feature that enables users to update their status with Yahoo! mail, yet this is simply an additional feature. Yahoo! also has a special partnership with Facebook which enables users to import their friends’ email addresses, something that Facebook has always been criticized for not letting users easily accomplish.
While this isn’t a huge feature, it’s interesting to see how tightly integrated Yahoo! is becoming with Facebook. Now if only Gmail could add extensive Facebook functionality!
Facebook has been actively testing multiple location products and considering various implementations of some form of location feature, however Twitter has announced their official plans for location. While the implementation of Twitter’s new location feature isn’t exactly surprising, it highlights the company’s ability to push out product iterations quickly, something that Facebook has often touted as one of their competitive advantages. Read the rest of this entry on Social Times »
In a subtle yet significant change for Facebook Page owners, the original creator of Pages can now be removed as an administrator by any other of the administrators of that Page. This was a serious issue for a number of companies who were looking to shift control of their Pages from a third-party company to someone internal. In other cases, Pages have been sold but administrators have been forced to stay the same. Regardless of the rationale for removing an administrator, doing so was never possible, until this weekend.
Facebook Pages have become the center of Facebook marketing campaigns for small, medium, and large businesses alike. Combined with Facebook ad campaigns, custom tabs, and ongoing user-engagement, Facebook Pages serve as a tool for building community, and often times result in more loyal customers, if the most recent surveys about Facebook Page customer conversion are accurate.
While the ability to remove the original Facebook Page administrators may seem like a small upgrade, it’s a feature that many Facebook Page owners have been asking for since Pages first launched. Thankfully, it’s now available. You can manage your administrators by clicking on “Edit Page” on the left-hand sidebar of your Facebook Page and then scroll down on the right to add and remove administrators.
As the 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa on Friday, football fans will be able to connect to and share the experience no matter where they are in the world. Whether commenting live while watching matches or playing virtual games among their friends, you can be part of the action through Facebook and our partners. Here are some of the ways:
Show your passion on the Goal! Leaderboard. Get in the competitive spirit and join more than 2.5 million Facebook users who have liked and supported their favorite teams.
Watch the matches live, over the internet, with your friends. Many official broadcast partners are enabling you to share status updates and comments with your friends while you watch the events live by using Facebook's Live Stream social plugin. Partners, by country, include:
Get closer to the action by connecting with hundreds of authentic news, sports and entertainment voices on Facebook, including media outlets such as The New York Times from the U.S., Bild.de in Germany and the CBC in Canada, as well as opening ceremony performers K'naan and Shakira. You can also connect with players past and present, from Pele and Landon Donovan to Philipp Lahm, Lukas Podolski and Cristiano Ronaldo. Like their Pages on Facebook to get updates from them and share your thoughts.
"Like", "Share" and "Recommend" your favorite stories to your friends through Facebook-enabled websites that are covering the World Cup, such as L'Equipe in France, Veja and Yahoo in Brazil, and RTVE and RNE in Spain.
Support the World Cup charity – 1GOAL. 1GOAL's mission is simple, important and clear: education for all. From 1GOAL's Facebook Page, you can sign up for the campaign and stay updated on its efforts.
Build your own dream team with EA SPORTS FIFA Superstars. Sign the world's best football players to your club in this game on Facebook. Challenge your friends. Train and customize your formation to work your way to the to top.
Over the next few weeks, we will be working directly with many of the partners above to get your thoughts and feedback on the tournament, the players and the passion surrounding the 2010 World Cup.
With so much of the action ready to be shared, liked, commented upon and amplified billions and billions of times over, this will be the first World Cup truly experienced and celebrated through the eyes of friends. So, clear your schedule. The beautiful game is about to begin.
Go world.
Christian, Facebook's head of international business development, is looking forward to watching El Tri win the opening game of the 2010 World Cup.
Earlier today Microsoft announced the new Bing Social which includes top articles shared on Facebook and was reportedly going to launch by the end of the day. It’s now 11:30 PM EST and the product still isn’t live so we haven’t had the opportunity to review it. Fortunately there is already a video available that demos some of the functionality and is included below.
In the announcement, Bing made sure to emphasize that no user data is being exposed through the search product, given the recent coverage of Facebook privacy. The information that’s being shared is “popular shared links from Facebook users in the aggregate form, and only from users who have set their status updates to be shared with ‘everyone.’” Bing has erred on the side of caution for now, deciding not to even share user images or names in the search results.
While it sounds exciting, the bigger question is: where is it? It was supposed to go live this afternoon but now that much of the east coast is going to bed, it’s still not accesible. We’d imagine that by tomorrow it will be up and running and that much of the Bing team is furiously working to get the product launched. In the meantime, you can dream about the interesting ways that search can be improved through integration with Facebook.
As Yahoo! continues to step up their integration with Facebook the company is now enabling users to reply directly to wall posts directly from their email inbox. As the image below illustrates, users are presented with a Facebook-like comment box for responding to status comments or any wall post. Most recently Flickr added full their own integration with Facebook, and it appears that Yahoo! overall integration is continuing.
Facebook has been actively testing multiple location products and considering various implementations of some form of location feature, however Twitter 
In a subtle yet significant change for Facebook Page owners, the original creator of Pages can now be removed as an administrator by any other of the administrators of that Page. This was a serious issue for a number of companies who were looking to shift control of their Pages from a third-party company to someone internal. In other cases, Pages have been sold but administrators have been forced to stay the same. Regardless of the rationale for removing an administrator, doing so was never possible, until this weekend.
Earlier today