The Internet As A Media And a Medium
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Facebook is once again experimenting with allowing vendors to sell things on the social network llike it did way back in 2011. According to Online reports, FB is letting certain stores sell their products directly through the social network via a “buy” button on their Pages.
Reports: BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, Engadget, SlashGear
Social network Facebook is experimenting with the transmission of the Web using a laser beam. FB’s Internet.org initiative announced that it was testing a method for delivering the Internet via lasers to help connect people around the world even faster.
Reports: Quartz, Engadget, Inquirer, StreetWise Report
Social network Facebook has decided to tweak its News Feed algorithm that, it says, could affect referral traffic for publishers. Making the announcement on its official blog, FB explained the goal of News Feed was to show users the Content that mattered. This meant pushing the right mix of updates from friends & public figures, publishers, businesses & local organizations that users were connected to.
Reports: media.fb.com, The Verge, Engadget, GeekWire
FB has launched a Web version of Messenger. That’s right, you can log in from your desktop. But wasn’t chat part of FB to begin with? You are right there too. Last year though, the social network had spun off Messenger as a mandatory mobile phone app for those who wanted to chat with Facebook friends on mobile devices. Grr…said most FB users then. Now, Messenger ressurects itself as a standalone desktop version.
Facebook had acquired Cloud company Parse in 2013. Today, it announced Parse for IoT – new line of SDKs for connected devices.
Nostalgia, anyone? Social network Facebook has decided to dish out some “mushy” stuff of their own making to its users. It’s introduced a feature called, ‘On This Day’, which it has described as “a new way to look back at things you have shared” (in the past).