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.
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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.

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.

A new social network targeted toward Muslims was launched by a “25-year-old Pakistani man” in response to the offensive Facebook group that resulted in Pakistan banning Facebook for over a week. While the concept isn’t a bad one, there are a couple things going against this company. First, their name includes the word “Facebook”, so good luck not getting a letter from Facebook’s lawyers.

Second, they failed to copy Facebook’s well-optimized call-to-actions. For example on the Facebook homepage, any user can immediately begin registering by entering their name, email, password, sex, and birthday. On millatfacebook they need to click a link first. Granted, this isn’t the most significant hurdle and thanks to press there’s a good chance that the site could get some traction.

Unfortunately for Omer Zaheer Meertold, the company’s CEO, Pakistan restored access to Facebook. Despite the odds against Meertold, he has a legitimate idea. The only problem that he has started off on the wrong foot. The site even comes with its own anti-West content. As NYDailyNews.com points out:

There are also music videos and personal photos, but the site is not without its anti-West propaganda.

“All Muslims must get to gather(sic) and we easily can remove Bloody Israel from the map of the World !” reads a post by the user Paiman.

Another post urges members to unite and defeat the “Zionist-owned” Facebook.

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