Facebook’s Pinteresque Collections feature began its second phase of testing today after debuting in October and disappearing 17 days later to be redesigned. As part of the test, 11 retailers are sharing product photos that users can Want, Save, Add, Collect or Wishlist, depending on the version of the test they see.
No so Pinteresting after all. Facebook began testing Collections on October 8th. But today I found that photos users collected had disappeared and so had posts with Collect or Want buttons . I asked Facebook and it confirmed that indeed, “the test is now complete”. Maybe no one got hooked on it. Maybe Facebook will try breaking into commerce discovery some other way.
I’ve never really been a fan of tapping a “Like” button on Facebook. Mostly because it doesn’t always mean that I like something. I use that button as a way to say “hey I looked at this and it meant something”, but maybe I use Facebook incorrectly.
Don’t be evil? If that’s the unofficial Google motto, then the company has failed to deliver today. Among the products Google just announced it plans to sunset (read: kill off), beloved feed-reading service Google Reader is now on the chopping block.
“*$%#” wrote at least one TechCrunch staffer upon hearing the news.
The VAR Guy loves social media. You might even say he lives or dies by social media. But when it comes to the looming Facebook IPO (stock symbol: FB), The VAR Guy plans to skip the party. As Yogi Berra might say: “Facebook? Nobody goes there anymore.
Beauty ecommerce site Coterie is today announcing a seed raise of $1.5 million from SoftTech VC, Javelin Venture Partners and Michael Jung.
Coterie allows women to sign up for exclusive limited deals on beauty brands like Kevyn Aucoin and Butter London, “All of our offers are exclusive collections, meaning you can’t get them anywhere else,” co-founder Catherine Magee tells me, &#
Lying’s a lot harder than it used to be. Examples — Boss: “Where are you?” Employee: “On my way to the office.” Boss: “Show me.” ||| Mom: “Where are you?” Son: “At Jimmy’s house” Mom: “Show me.”
With geo-coded messages, you have to be where you say you are.
Many people have already know iThoughts can open .xmind file and save the map as .xmind file. This blog wants to share another better news. From iThoughts HD v2.2, it can upload and download maps to and from the XMind Share service.
This is a tutorial video offered by iThoughts.
“Home is the first product we’ve released that’s really about ‘mobile-best’ and the transition beyond ‘mobile first’” said Facebook’s VP Cory Ondrejka. To further that, Facebook previewed some new features Home will get eventually including a “Dash Bar” buddy list for starting chats, an improved “Dock” for your favorite
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