Facebook offers real-time feed of user data to online and TV news

Facebook revealed a new tool that enables news organisations to tap into user comments and display them online or on TV in real-time. The social network launched two tools on Monday, the Keyword Insights API (application programming interface) and the Public Feed API, it said in a blog post. The Public Feed API displays a real-time feed of public posts for a specific word, while the Keyword Insights API aggregates the total number of posts that mention a specific term in a given period, Facebook said. The keyword API is also able to display anonymous, aggregated results based on gender, age and location, the company added. A TV show can for instance use this option to include how many people on Facebook talked about a topic and show where they are located while showing if it is most popular among men or women and in which age groups, Facebook said. The public feed API will only gather public posts. If a post is not public it will not be shown, a Facebook spokeswoman said in an email. She compared the feed to similar services provided by Twitter. News channels often use public Twitter messages during their broadcasts. If someone doesn't want a Facebook message to be used in the new feed, the proper audience for the message can be selected when posting it, she said. Access to the APIs is starting today for a limited selection of news organizations including Buzzfeed, CNN, NBC's Today Show, The Economist, Slate, and Sky TV in the U.K., Facebook said. "For example, CNN's New Day can now easily incorporate what people on Facebook have to say about the latest, breaking news event during their show," Facebook said. Facebook will also offer the service to some of its "preferred marketing developers." It named the first of those as Mass Relevance, a social engagement platform for discovering and filtering content, which will use the new tool to highlight trends and conversations for its media clients, according to Facebook. The tool will be made available to additional partners in the coming weeks, the spokeswoman said, but she declined to say who those additional partners are. Facebook has been rolling out a series of products over the past few months to track popular conversations on its platform, including hashtags, embedded posts and trending topics. Last week's kick-off of the National Football League (NFL) season in the U.S. for instance garnered over 20 million likes, comments, and shares on Facebook by over 8 million people, it said.gothic 3 save game 100 oki s900 scanner driver plants vs zombies adventure 2 3 fantastic ferrari screensaver with sound asrock 945gcm s drivers intel 845 motherboard drivers book of mormon musical script asus eax1600pro driver turkish dc unlocker setup

Snapchat seen overmatched in fight with Facebook

Social startup Snapchat may be batting out of its league if it plans to take on social behemoth Facebook. Snapchat, a photo messaging app that pioneered self-destructing messages and became a teen phenom, announced on Thursday that it's updating the app with a new feature dubbed Stories that lets users share photos and videos for a day before they disappear. The company released the updates for iOS- and Android-based devices. With the new feature, called Stories, users can choose which photos and videos they want to add to that day's Story and to whom the package should be sent. It's the first time the two-year-old company has veered away from its trademark of having content disappear in 10 seconds or less. By focusing on pictures and video that self-destruct in a matter of seconds, users have felt free to share images they wouldn't want to remain permanently on a friend's device. The new Stories feature lets Snapchat users share the experiences of their days with friends a bit longer. Analysts say the update gives Snapchat a very Facebook-like quality, comparing the Stories feature to Facebook's News Feed. The popular Facebook feature lets users keep up to date on what friends are doing with their day. The question for Snapchat is whether it has the muscle to worm in on some of Facebook's vast territory. "Snapchat is a phenomenon with teenagers, who incessantly send short videos and pictures to their friends," said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy. "Now Snapchat is attempting to out-Facebook Facebook. This is a neat test, but Snapchat is getting into dangerous territory muddying their core value proposition, which is immediacy and privacy," Moorhead added. "If your claim to fame is pictures that have very limited shelf life, you'd think extending that shelf life would be counter strategic," said Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group. Thus, the company is in dangerous territory taking on Facebook, he said. "[Snapchat is] a very specialized service going after a more comprehensive and powerful offering. That switches them from being unique to being overmatched. In their own area they were unmatched. In Facebook's they are insignificant," Enderle said.roulette bot plus 2 microsoft richcopy windows 7 marvell lan driver v6 30 whql minolta di350 driver lego digital designer 5 free skype for sony ericsson w995 skype sony ericsson zylo post air quality checker brazilian v gear mobidtv drivers compaq presario sr1000 video drivers

Irish High Court to review Facebook Prism complaint

The Irish High Court is going to review whether the Irish Data Protection Commissioner's refusal to investigate Facebook's involvement with the U.S. government surveillance program Prism was lawful. In June, the Austrian student group Europe-v-Facebook filed a complaint with the Irish DPC against Facebook Ireland, which is responsible for the data of the company's users outside the U.S. and Canada. When Facebook collects user data, exports it to the U.S. and by doing this giving the National Security Agency (NSA) the opportunity to use it for massive surveillance of personal information without probable cause, Facebook is violating European privacy laws, according to the group. The Irish DPC however argued that there were no grounds to start an investigation under the Irish Data Protection Act because "safe harbor" requirements have been met. Europe-v-Facebook maintained that the Irish privacy regulator should start an investigation and applied for a judicial review of this refusal with the Irish High Court in late August. The High Court decided to start such a review on Monday, according to a court document that was published by Europe-v-Facebook on Thursday. In Ireland, a judicial review can be used to supervise lower courts, tribunals and other administrative bodies to ensure that they make their decisions properly and in accordance with the law. If such a decision was unconstitutional or illegal the High Court can choose to quash the decision. If Europe-v-Facebook's complaint is successful, Facebook could eventually "be forced to limit the access of the NSA to Europeans' data or would otherwise need to keep Europeans' data within the E.U.," the group said in a news release. Europe-v-Facebook filed a similar complaint against Apple in Ireland which was denied on the same grounds. Currently, the group is only pursuing the case against Facebook in Ireland. While the Irish privacy regulator appears reluctant to investigate Facebook and Apple, other European privacy regulators did start investigations on the basis of similar complaints filed by Europe-v-Facebook and others. The Luxembourg data protection authority, for instance, is investigating Microsoft-owned Skype for its alleged links to the Prism spying program. It will probably publish its findings before the end of next week, said a spokesman for the authority. Meanwhile, Yahoo is under investigation by the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, said Juliane Heinrich, a spokeswoman for the Commissioner, in an email on Tuesday. "Yahoo has submitted a first statement that raised further questions," she said, adding that she could not share Yahoo's statement or give more detailed information during the examination phase. She expects the investigation to be finished in December.amplitube metal full registry reviver license key alaris wee cam driver 003400 ip1880 driver windows skype for samsung star 3 duos net framework 2 0 offline airport mania 2 hd apk hp laserjet 1536dnf mfp driver for linux nvidia geforce 4 mx420 driver facebook hacking software for windows 7