Welcome to TechieBytes episode 61 titled The future of social networks (feat. Chrys Bader) Today I’m speaking with Chrys Bader, co-founder of Ikaria,...
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Twitter announced today a new site feature called Custom Timelines, which allows users to generate and populate a story stream of...
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While more and more businesses offer up free Wi-Fi when you drop in for a visit—say, when you’re getting your...
Read ArticleFacebook Graph Search Officially Launches, Ability to Search Posts, Comments, and Mobile Coming Soon
Finally! Eight months after announcing Graph Search to the world, Facebook has just finished rolling out Graph Search to everyone...
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If you’ve used Twitter’s advertising product at all, you’re probably familiar with the fantastic Twitter Analytics tool inside of it. This...
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Read ArticleAt Facebook’s press event today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened by saying that Facebook has three pillars: the News Feed, the Timeline, and a third: “Graph Search,” which is Facebook’s new, super-charged search product. He pointed out that, at this point in time, Facebook users can only search through content that has been shared with them, either by being made public or by those you are “friends” with on the service. Zuckerberg made it a point to differentiate Graph Search from a normal Web search, saying that Graph Search is meant to “return an answer,” instead of a page of links.
And the answers, of course, lie in the rich data that Facebook has stored in its ever-growing fortress.
