The event scheduled for this Wednesday, Jan. 18, in San Francisco will present new tools for developers.
The decision of the social networking giant came after an internal evaluation of the like button. With these new tools users can share activities without having to endorse them with the like button. If your friend is watching a movie and post it on Facebook, you can say that you have watch or read the same book without the need to like.
In addition to new actions from Gestures the new Open Graph allow some changes:
• The applications will not need to ask permission to post in the user profile each time it is triggered. From now on you will only authorize the application the first time you use it.
• Applications that use the Open Graph will automatically post on ticker (sidebar updates in real time), but will not appear on the timeline, only if they are marked as important events.
• Users can share experiences, listen to music at the same time with Open Graph applications.
What do you think about these changes? Are you eager to share every activity of your day? Leave a comment below.
The South African fast food chain Wimpy decided to create braille menus for its restaurants. In order to disseminate the news, they’ve directed the campaign money they would use in television commercial to produce a video. The video would be shared only through social networks.
In partnership with organizations that help the visually impaired in South Africa, Wimpy prepared some special sandwiches. Each bread sandwich received sesame seeds that formed a Braille sentence, they were served to 15 visually impaired and the action was filmed.
The video went viral and Wimpy received spontaneous media mention and an award for best advertisement. Besides acknowledging clearly that the action was not altruistic, it’s inspiring to see a different, touching and non-conventional ad.
A new measure of integration of GooglePlus starts today. This time Google will make available to the social network users a more dynamic search with pictures, videos and comments from circles.
The Google’s Product Management Director of Search, Jack Menzel, said the search will now be more personalized and social, with media that will be different for each user. The update of the new search is called: Search across your world.
Menzel also said that the GooglePlus indexing information system will be similar to the search engine. Users who upload photos and videos with the original file names created by the camera will not have their information indexed in the search.
How about having a business card that reflects the face of your Facebook profile? Now this is possible, the London company Moo specialized in making different business cards has partnered with Facebook for a integration. The social network users who are using the new Timeline can create a business card on the site with the images used for the home page of the profile. Those interested can still change the information that will appear on cards as: company, location, phone numbers and e-mails.
To let people know about the service, Facebook has negotiated free cards with the new timeline for the first 200,000 registered users. Moo releases every at midnight in London 5000 entries, about 22h in Brazil. Still have not done your personalized card? Go and make yours, delivery to Brazil is free and is scheduled for the second half of February. Click here to be directed to Moo Site.
Inspired by the American TV show The Real Housewives, socialite Narcissa Tamborindeguy, businesswoman Val Marchiori, architect Brunete Fraccaroli, pilot Débora Rodrigues and jeweler Lydia Sayeg expose the day-to-day of work and family at Mulheres Ricas Reality Show. As was already expected, the attraction has divided opinion on the Internet.
The issue that trend last night and still prominent in social media was the debut of the new Band Station Reality Show. The title and terms related to the station new attraction took various positions on Twitter Trending Topics.
The controversial show, which follows the lives of these millionaire women, has generated buzz and audience for Band Station, that’s a fact. All this buzz has took the station in third place in audience chart with the premiere episode. The show will have 10 episodes. Another example that Internet gives boost to television, with TV Shows real-time discussions. We saw this in VMB 2011, remember?
And you? Saw the first episode? Tell us what you think!
