Mark Zuckerberg’s Big Surprise Weekend Wedding

Mark Zuckerberg got married, everyone! A day after taking Facebook public, Zuck tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan and announced it the only way he knows how: through his Facebook timeline.

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How the ceremony came together is actually adorable. Zuckerberg and Chen had been planning the wedding in secret for five months months leading up to this weekend, according to All Things D. The timing of the wedding lining up with Facebook’s IPO was just a coincidence. The date of the IPO was a “moving target” and just happened to coincide with the wedding. The ceremony was held in the backyard of Zuckerberg’s California home. He even designed the ring himself!

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The 100 attendees thought they were attending a party for celebrating Chen’s recent graduation from med school, and Mark’s birthday, which was on May 14. The couple didn’t tell their wedding guests they were attending a wedding until everyone had arrived. “Everyone was shocked,” a source told The Associated Press, who were the first to report the story.

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Congratulations, guys!

 

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General Motors Pulls $10 Million Ad Campaign From Facebook [REPORT]

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In a big vote of no confidence before Facebook’s IPO, General Motors is pulling its ads from the platform, calling them “ineffective,” according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The automaker determined that its ads on the platform “had little impact on consumers,” according to the report, which cites “people familiar with the matter.” GM will continue to market via Facebook’s brand Pages, which, of course, are free.

Reps from GM and Facebook could not be reached for comment.

More to come…

Image courtesy of iStockphotoblackred

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Popular Search Engine In The World To Climb Number 1?

by Benjamin Maltbie on May 14, 2012

Popular Search Engine In The World To Climb Number 1?

Can the number 2 search engine in the world plan to climb to the number one spot?
Integrating social media seems to be key.

Bing.com has been reinvented, now offering enhanced search results that harness the power of social media sites to populate a “social column” on the right side of the screen. To do this, profiles from Facebook, Twitter, Google + and Quora will be pulled from the normal search results. Users will even be able to ask questions on their favorite social network without leaving the comfort of Bing.

“What Your Friends May Know,” —the name for social column— currently only integrates Facebook. When a query is entered, Bing populates this list with your friends and other topic experts. In order to find people to assist you in your queries, simply sign into Facebook and install the Bing App.

And how does Bing build these lists? Microsoft execs explain that they are leveraging as much publicly available data as they can from Social Media sites. If someone has posted a status, tweet, picture or liked a link on the topic, then they have a stronger likelihood of appearing in your search.

Microsoft admits that a large reason for this update was to clean clutter from the main search. How do you feel about the integration of social sites into Bing?

By Benjamin Maltbie

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Facebook Messenger Update Delivers Read Receipts And More

by Aldrin Calimlim for

Gradually entering a level on a par with BlackBerry Messenger and Apple’s iMessage, Facebook Messengerhas just been updated with some neat additional features.

Facebook’s dedicated messaging app for iPhone, which is independent of the official Facebook app, has gained the ability to display read receipts. In one-on-one messages, the app displays “Seen” followed by the time when the message was read. In group chats, it displays the same plus the names of the ones in the group who have read it.

But unlike iMessage, which offers read receipts as an opt-in feature, Facebook Messenger provides no way to opt out of them in case you don’t want others knowing exactly when you you’ve read their messages. In line with this, the app has also replaced its three-dot real-time typing symbol in group conversations with as simple as the name of the person currently typing a reply. The updated app now also attaches location data to each message, provided that the sender has granted permission for the app to do so. Here’s a screen shot:

 

Notably absent in the update is the long overdue support for video chat. Upon its launch in August last year, a “hidden” video component was discovered in the app. That component remains untapped. Rest assured that video chat is underway, along with an iPad version of Facebook Messenger.

The free Facebook Messenger is available in the App Store. Now that it’s enhanced with more features, do you see any clear advantages of using Facebook Messenger over working with messages in the all-inclusive Facebook app?

This article originally published at AppAdvice here.

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Apple Unveils New iPad are you getting one?

by Scott March 8, 2012 apple

Apple Unveils New iPad are you getting one?

The New iPad Details Hit Apple.com

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Pinterest Drives More Traffic to Blogs Than Twitter [STUDY] (Mashable)

by Scott March 8, 2012 +1

Pinterest Drives More Traffic to Blogs Than Twitter [STUDY] (Mashable)

Pinterest drove more traffic to online publishers in February than Twitter, according to third-party measurement data. That’s an impressive figure, given that the two-year-old site has an estimated 11.7 million active registered users compared to Twitter’s more than 100 million. The data was provided by Shareholic, whose sharing widgets are used across more than 200,000 online publishers, mostly independent bloggers. [...]

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Facebook Brand Timelines: 6 Big Changes Every Marketer Needs to Understand (Mashable)

by Scott March 1, 2012 Facebook

Facebook Brand Timelines: 6 Big Changes Every Marketer Needs to Understand (Mashable)

Victoria Ransom is founder and CEO of Wildfire Interactive, the global leader in social media marketing software. Victoria and Wildfire will host a free webinar on March 2 at 10 a.m. PT, entitled “Timeline for Brands: How to Make the Switch,” further outlining best practices for brands in transitioning to Facebook’s new Timeline format.

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How Facebook Fan Pages Are Changing and Timeline is HERE!

by Scott February 29, 2012 Facebook

How Facebook Fan Pages Are Changing and Timeline is HERE!

With Facebook Timeline‘s takeover of personal profiles complete, the social networking giant is unleashing its latest greatest invention upon brand Pages, too.

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22 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue [Infographic]

by Scott February 28, 2012 Blog

22 Ways to Create Compelling Content  When You Don’t Have a Clue [Infographic]

Yep, we’re introducing the first-ever Copyblogger infographic. It’s about our favorite topic — creating great content. And, as has been our style since the beginning, we’re practicing what we preach. This infographic demonstrates how to repurpose existing content in a different media format, get more bang from your archives, and reach new and different audiences [...]

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YouTube Upgrades this week!

by Scott February 27, 2012 YouTube

YouTube Upgrades this week!

Recent updates on YouTube include “a new way to promote your Google+ profile on YouTube, more options in the Annotations Editor” and more options to post Channel Bulletins to your Channel Feed. Add a Google+ button to your YouTube channel. You can now share videos and playlists in your YouTube Channel Feed by posting a [...]

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