Protest Group Gives Turkish Official a List of Demands (The New York Times)
With a measure of calm returning to a city that for days has been a caldron of antigovernment passions, representatives of a group that helped incite protests that have been roiling Turkey opened dialogue on Wednesday with the government. It gave a list of demands to the country’s deputy prime minister as the police expanded security operations.
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In its ongoing efforts to police how its data is used by third-party apps, Twitter this week shut down mobile TweetDeck apps, Facebook integration with TweetDeck and use of the social commerce app Flattr on its platform.
Apple Hit By Hackers Who Struck Facebook (The Wall Street Journal)
Apple said Tuesday that some of its employees’ Mac computers were attacked by hackers, a rare admission for a company that has long touted its security over PCs running Windows software. The malicious code in the latest attack is believed to have been the same discovered by Facebook, which said on Friday that its employees’ computers were breached by hackers last month.
iPad Mini Retina Rumor Arrives Early (CNET)
Just days after the iPad Mini landed at stores and doorsteps, we have a tantalizing rumor from the Asia supply chain about a future Retina version of the 7.9-inch tablet. Chinese-language DoNews said in a story dated Nov. 7 that iPad Mini display maker AUO is working on a 2,048×1,536 pixel resolution display for the next iPad Mini.
The social dashboard HootSuite has reached the 5 million user mark, the company announced today. The company grew from 4 million users in just two months, fueled largely by expansion into Europe and Asia.
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eBay President Reveals How the Site Will Get Social [VIDEO] (Mashable)
eBay unveiled a Pinterest-inspired redesign, which gives every user a personalized “feed” of products up for sale, on Wednesday at an event in New York City’s Meatpacking district. Devin Wenig, president of eBay Marketplaces, said it’s one part of the site’s new features to make shopping more personal and social. eBay also rolled out a new logo and deals. USA Today The Feed lists brands that users follow and makes suggestions based on their browsing history and past purchases. It rolls out to U.S. customers over the next 100 days, with international launches beginning in early 2013. CNET In addition, eBay launched a new app, eBay Now, for same-day delivery service. It’s currently available only in San Francisco, Calif., but more cities will follow, a spokesman said. Shoppers can order items from a variety of retailers — Finish Line, GNC, Home Depot, Macy’s, Office Depot, RadioShack, Target, Toys R Us and Walgreens — and get them delivered to their door, usually within an hour. The Next Web As for the site redesign, it’s live, but certain aspects, including the new product pages, should become available soon. Noteworthy site improvements include the new one-page checkout process, much deeper PayPal integration and a generally clearer visual hierarchy. Fast Company eBay has come a long way from its origins as a destination for collectors of the kitschy, nichey and hard-to-find. Today, its competitors include everyone from Amazon to Etsy to Fab, and it drives more than $70 billion in sales annually. Read more
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Twitter Policy’s Latest Victim: If This, Then That (Mashable)
The online service IFTTT is the latest company to suffer because of Twitter‘s new API policy. The service sent a note to users on Thursday afternoon saying it would be removing some abilities with how it interacts with Twitter due to the new rules. AllThingsD The way the email was worded made it seem like IFTTT was the latest in a string of companies affected by Twitter’s recent overhaul of its developer guidelines (currently a hotbed of contention in the tech community that relies upon Twitter’s platform to power their services). “In recent weeks, Twitter has announced policy changes that will affect how applications and users like yourself can interact with Twitter’s data. As a result of these changes, on Sept. 27 we will be removing all Twitter triggers, disabling your ability to push tweets to places like email, Evernote and Facebook.” BuzzFeed Animated GIFs don’t display in most Twitter apps, including the official clients for iPhone, Android and Mac OS. They do display in Tweetdeck and on Twitter’s website, but they’ve been officially unsupported for years, according to Twitter’s support pages. Yahoo Chelsea confirmed that Jon Obi Mikel has closed his account on social networking website Twitter after receiving racial abuse following the 2-2 draw with Juventus on Wednesday evening. That error led to several racist tweets being directed at the Nigeria international, something which the west London club has now condemned. The Next Web Twitter is making what many of us feel to be mistakes with its beloved service. A service with a legacy of robust developer support and user-created community. But Twitter is not evil. Read more
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Facebook Down, Google+ Up With Customers (San Francisco Chronicle)
Changes Facebook has made to its user experience, such as Timeline, along with concerns over privacy, have brought down the social network’s consumer satisfaction score, according to a new report. Meanwhile, Google’s social network, Google+, scored fairly high in an annual survey of 70,000 customers by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index and analytics firm ForeSee. The Huffington Post Facebook scored a lowly 61 out of 100 in customer satisfaction among active users, an eight-point drop from 2011. Twitter and LinkedIn fared only slightly better with 64 and 63, respectively. Pinterest received a score of 69, while YouTube had 73. Google+ topped all these with 78. Daily Mail Because social media so frequently involves the sharing of personal information, privacy remains a major concern for users. The sheer volume of advertising on these sites is another contributor to low satisfaction. The Atlantic Wire The user contraction news was enough to put Facebook stock below the 30 mark — above which it had stabilized over the last month — because people are exactly what Facebook sells. If we learned anything from the recent sale of Digg, which went for the dismal price of $500,000, it’s that a social network is only as valuable as its users. TIME.com/Techland It’s important to remember that Facebook has more than 900 million users compared to Google+’s 250 million, with reports in the past claiming that Google+ users engaged very little with the site. Still, the people who actually do use Google+ seem to like it. Read more
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Facebook Delves Deeper Into Search (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Searching the social network could get a lot better in the near future. About two dozen Facebook engineers, led by a former Google engineer named Lars Rasmussen, are working on an improved search engine, say two people familiar with the project who did not want to be named because the company is in a quiet period ahead of its IPO. AllFacebook Speaking of the IPO, speculation about Facebook’s search initiatives heated up when the social network announced its intentions to go public February 1. That week co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture of his desk, in which a MacBook displaying what looked like a Facebook page with a large search box was visible. SocialTimes Google, which owns 67 percent of the search market in the U.S., has a clear advantage in being able to index sites from across the Web, while Facebook appears to be working internally with pages and profiles. Mashable Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has consistently downplayed the level of direct competition between Facebook and Google. “I don’t think that this is going to be the type of situation when one company wins all this stuff,” he told Charlie Rose of PBS last fall. Tom’s Guide So how will this new search engine affect Facebook’s relationship with Microsoft? Zuckerberg still meets every few months with Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s online services division, sources claim. There may be no ruffling of feathers at all, but rather a huge opportunity for two separate types of search engines to work together in harmony to create a huge Google rival, loaded with data Google probably still covets. Read more
