Friday, March 08, 2013

News Feed Is Facebook's New Jackpot - Rebecca Greenfield - The Atlantic Wire

Looks like Facebook will be competing more directly with both Google Reader (e.g., check the left-side feed list in the image below) and Twitter

“For the users trying today's rollout of the new News Feed, the bigger images all over the homepage are obvious, but it's the super-sized ads that are truly impossible to ignore. On a test this afternoon, the following sponsored post from Rosetta Stone popped up as the second item in my News Feed. It takes up massive real estate in the main feed, and when combined with the other right-rail ads, that's a full two-thirds of a computer screen of advertising, which accounted for 84 percent of Facebook's revenues last quarter:”

From With new design, Facebook takes a bite out of Twitter (CNet):

“And so the biggest change Facebook announced today, from the perspective of publishers and the people who want to read them on Facebook, is the "following" tab. According to executives at the event, the tab will show "every single post" from the people and publishers you subscribe to. If true, that will go a long way toward building trust in Facebook as a home for breaking news.”

News Feed Is Facebook's New Jackpot - Rebecca Greenfield - The Atlantic Wire

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