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| <p><h2>With more than 1 billion users, <a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank">Facebook</a> is the world’s largest social network. Founder Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004 while he was an undergraduate computer science student at Harvard University.</h2> <h3><p>For the latest news, inspiration, resources and entertainment, like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mashable"><em>Mashable</em> on Facebook</a>.</p</h3> <p><h2>Some of Our Favorite Facebook Resources:</h2></p> <ul> <h3><p><li><a href="http://mashable.com/2013/06/08/facebook-search-history/">How to Delete Your Creeper Facebook Search History</a></li></p> <p><li><a href="http://mashable.com/2012/05/16/facebook-for-beginners/">The Beginner's Guide to Facebook</a></li></p> <p><li><a href="http://mashable.com/2013/10/26/facebook-statuses-to-retire/">12 Facebook Statuses You Need to Retire</a></li></p> <p><li><a href="http://mashable.com/2012/08/14/facebook-annoying/">20 Things Your Most Annoying Friends Do on Facebook</a></li></p> <p><li><a href="http://mashable.com/2012/01/31/facebook-iphone-app-tips-tricks/">10 Tips and Tricks for the Facebook iPhone App</a></li></p></h3> </ul></p> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Jessica Catcher</span></div> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>It's no easy task to find that "special someone." We think couples are great, and we're really happy for anyone who has. Also, we'd love it if you stopped talking about it so much. See also: Oscar the Grouch and Grumpy Cat Finally Meet in Epic Face-Off | |
| We understand that sometimes you're so filled with love you want to scream it from the rooftops, a.k.a. your Facebook profile. That's wonderful, honestly.</p> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Todd Wasserman</span></div> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>Facebook's reported $3 billion bid for Snapchat has a lot of industry watchers scratching their heads. But if you look at the performance of Facebook's would-be Snapchat killer, Poke, the overture makes more sense. Facebook released Poke, a messaging app that mimicked Snapchat's self-destruct feature, last December. Thanks to the social network's imprimatur, it zoomed to the top of the download charts, according to App Annie.</p> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Kurt Wagner</span></div> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>The Facebook Messenger app update the company announced in late October is now available to all iOS and Android mobile users. The update was originally rolled out to a small group of Android users only. See also: Inside Facebook's Mobile Strategy | |
| The most notable update to the app allows users to message anyone in their contacts who has the Messenger app, not just those they are Facebook friends with.</p> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Kurt Wagner</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:35:35 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>Facebook chief financial officer David Ebersman cashed in more than 900,000 shares of Facebook stock Wednesday, a transaction that netted the exec nearly $43 million, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The sale was pre-arranged as part of Ebersman's automatic trading plan, which means it does not necessarily reflect on the current status of Facebook, according to a company spokesperson.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/13/facebook-haiyan-survivor/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/13/facebook-haiyan-survivor/'> | |
| 'It's Really a Miracle': How a Typhoon Haiyan Survivor Found His Way Home</a> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Bianca Consunji</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:21:35 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>On the morning Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines, 56-year-old Peter Borromeo fell off the grid. Days before the typhoon was scheduled for landfall in Tacloban City, meteorologists had already called it "one of the strongest storms ever recorded in modern history." But Borromeo, a real-estate agent, had experienced his share of natural disasters in central Philippines and saw little reason to evacuate.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/13/snapchat-facebook-acquisition/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/13/snapchat-facebook-acquisition/'> | |
| Report: Snapchat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook</a> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Adario Strange</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:00:54 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>The messaging app Snapchat is once again the focus of acquisition rumors as a new report claims that the company recently turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook. According to sources in contact with The Wall Street Journal, Facebook made an offer of “$3 billion or more,” but Snapchat cofounder Evan Spiegel is opting to wait until 2014 in hopes of a better valuation for the company.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/11/mariah-carey-the-art-of-letting-go-facebook/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/11/mariah-carey-the-art-of-letting-go-facebook/'> | |
| Why Mariah Carey Planned a Facebook Party for 'The Art of Letting Go'</a> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Brian Anthony Hernandez</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:01:57 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>Mariah Carey plays with a lump of lavender clay in New York City on Sunday, one day before she premieres "The Art of Letting Go" during a listening party on Facebook. The five-time Grammy winner is using the clay as a form of physical therapy; she had dislocated her shoulder, experienced nerve damage and fractured a rib in July at a video shoot for "#Beautiful." The injuries required her to wear arm slings, until now.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/10/military-innovative-soldiers/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/10/military-innovative-soldiers/'> | |
| The Military Is Struggling to Keep Its Most Innovative Soldiers</a> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Colin Daileda</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Mon, 11 Nov 2013 03:15:07 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>Sean Maday, fresh out of Michigan State University and already the head of his own profitable T-shirt making company, was excited to be an officer in the U.S. Air Force.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/10/humans-of-facebook/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/10/humans-of-facebook/'> | |
| Facebook Spreads Global 'Humans of' Photography Movement</a> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Sara Afzal</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:03:29 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>It's a simple idea: Take a candid portrait of someone on the street, and tell an authentic story about his or her life. The idea first came from the Humans of New York Facebook page, which was created by Brandon Stanton in 2010. Since then, "Humans of" pages from around the world have been cropping up online since 2012. Each collecting more than 50,000 likes, "Humans of" Rome, Amsterdam, Karachi, Tehran and India are prime examples of sites modeled after HONY.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/08/technical-issue-facebook/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/08/technical-issue-facebook/'> | |
| Facebook Tackling Technical Difficulties With Profile Pages</a> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Kurt Wagner</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:44:19 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>Update: Nov. 8, 1:00 p.m. ET -- Facebook has resolved this issue. A spokesperson released the following statement: | |
| "Earlier today, we experienced an issue that prevented some people from loading Timeline or Pages content for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and content is back to normal. We're sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused." | |
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| Facebook is experiencing technical issues, leaving users unable to load content from their profiles and Pages.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/08/twitter-public-brief/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/08/twitter-public-brief/'> | |
| Twitter Stock Soars on Day 1 and Other News You Need to Know</a> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Stan Schroeder</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:45:43 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. The first day on the New York Stock Exchange was a promising one for Twitter. The publicly traded stock opened at 73% up from its IPO price of $26 per share. Facebook is still all about the Likes, but the social network is also experimenting with five-star ratings, according to a report.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/07/facebook-returns-to-boston/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/07/facebook-returns-to-boston/'> | |
| Facebook Returns Home With New Boston Engineering Office</a> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Kurt Wagner</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:49:05 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>Facebook on Thursday announced the opening of its first engineering office in Boston, Mass., not far from where Mark Zuckerberg started the social network from his Harvard dorm room. The Boston office is Facebook's fifth engineering office worldwide, joining Seattle, London, New York, and of course, Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The Boston-based engineering team will consist of employees currently working remotely in Boston, as well as engineers the company recently hired.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/07/mobile-advertising-wins/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/07/mobile-advertising-wins/'> | |
| 4 Businesses Winning With Mobile Advertising</a> | |
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| <div class='article-byline'><span class='byline-meta'>Written by</span> <span class='byline-author'>Tracey Wallace</span></div> | |
| <time class='article-date' datetime='Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:48:42 +0000'> | |
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| <p class='article-excerpt'>With 17.4% of web traffic coming directly from mobile this year alone, a 6% uptick since 2012, it's no wonder that more and more companies are developing smart mobile advertising strategies to increase brand awareness. To account for this push toward mobile, forecasts predict that for 2013, digital ad spending will eat up 22.7% of all ad spending.</p> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/06/hunger-games-catching-fire-facebook-live/'> | |
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| <a href='http://mashable.com/2013/11/06/hunger-games-catching-fire-facebook-live/'> | |
| Watch This Star-Studded 'Hunger Games' Q&A on Facebook</a> | |
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The Philippines sits in the western rim of the Pacific Ocean, a cyclone-prone area known as the Ring of Fire because of frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity. About eight or nine cyclones, on average, pass through the country annually, although considerably less powerful than Haiyan.\n\nThe day before the storm, Borromeo made a pit stop in Tacloban. He booked a room in a two-story apartment by the airport and settled down for the night. The storm made landfall in the province of Eastern Samar at 4:40 a.m. Two hours later, he sent a text message to Katrina, one of his six children, to assure her that he was equipped with a flashlight, and that he was fine.\n\n\"I am OK,\" he reassured her. \"When I was a teenager, we experienced this a lot in Tacloban and Calbayog.\"\n\nThat was the last his family heard from him for four days.\n\nWhen the storm cleared, relief workers and government officials trickled in to assess the damage. Reports put the death toll at 2,500, with at least 673,000 people left homeless.\n\nPanic-stricken, the Borromeo children--some of whom are based in the U.S.--posted search notices and pleas for help across their social networks. They uploaded photos of their dad and deployed friends based in the Philippines to call hotlines and contact people on the ground. A CNN producer looking for stories saw some of their public posts on Facebook, and contacted the family for an interview. \"Within minutes, I was on the phone with Anderson Cooper,\" said Borromeo's daughter Katsy Borromeo-Chiongbian, who lives in Arizona.\n\nThe publicity from the CNN interview allowed the family to quickly spread word about their missing father. Within hours, friends and strangers contacted her on Facebook to share information about the situation in Tacloban, although some turned out to be dead ends. \n\n\"We used the Google Person Finder, but a lot of people confused the database for missing people with the list of survivors. You cannot believe the grief the false alarms gave us.\"\n\nBorromeo's sons also made several attempts to search for their father by foot, but the task proved impossible because of the post-disaster chaos that prevailed in the city. Ground transportation was difficult to come by, and desperate survivors resorted to looting shops and dead bodies.\n\nSo the long wait went on.\n\nUnaware of his family's efforts to locate him, Borromeo tried to find his own way home. When Haiyan first made landfall in Tacloban, he stayed in his room feeling relatively calm until the typhoon's winds increased to 200 miles per hour, uprooting trees and flipping over cars. Then without warning, the hotel roof blew off, and Borromeo found himself at the mercy of the open sky. \n\n\"I was holding on for dear life with my right arm around a post of my hotel room, and used my left hand to cover my head with a pillow for any flying objects that could hit my head,\" he recalled. \n\nBorromeo clung to the post for four hours, reciting prayers repeatedly until the ordeal was over.\n\nAfter the storm, he surveyed the damage with other hotel guests before walking to a nearby church for shelter. \"Four of their vehicles were floating in the bay, and there was a dead body hanging at the back of my room,\" he said. \"We walked together toward the city and saw more bodies, cars, trucks and pieces of housing materials piled on top of each other.\"\n\nBorromeo described the next four days as a humbling experience that made him more religious. \"People had no shelter, food and water, but you would not hear them complaining about the material things they lost,\" he said. \"They always thanked God they survived.\"\n\nAfter living on just a can of tuna and a bottle of water for nearly three days, Borromeo wandered around the city, looking for food and transport. \"Without knowing, I had somehow stopped at the door of the Montejos, our family friends,\" he said. \"But there was still no way for us to communicate with our families. 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According to sources in contact with The Wall Street Journal, Facebook made an off...","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"5280d54db589e46db30017e7","id":"2013/11/11/mariah-carey-the-art-of-letting-go-facebook","title":"Why Mariah Carey Planned a Facebook Party for 'The Art of Letting Go'","title_tag":null,"author":"Brian Anthony Hernandez","post_date":"2013-11-11T13:01:57+00:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:01:57 +0000","sort_key":"1vFWNB","link":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/11/mariah-carey-the-art-of-letting-go-facebook/","content":{"plain":"Mariah Carey plays with a lump of lavender clay in New York City on Sunday, one day before she premieres \"The Art of Letting Go\" during a listening party on Facebook. \n\nThe five-time Grammy winner is using the clay as a form of physical therapy; she had dislocated her shoulder, experienced nerve damage and fractured a rib in July at a video shoot for \"#Beautiful.\" The injuries required her to wear arm slings, until now.\n\n\"Finally the sling is gone,\" Carey tells Mashable. \"I was like, 'If I have to take one more picture with the bling sling, I don't know what I'm going to do -- it's not POW!\"\n\nDespite still recovering, Carey is ready to debut \"The Art of Letting Go\" song at 11 a.m. ET on Monday to her 14 million Facebook fans, which she describes as her \"Lambily\" because her fans are called \"Lambs.\" The listening party will include a Q&A. \n\n (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Post by Mariah Carey.\n\nUpdate:\n\n (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Post by Mariah Carey.\n\n\"Facebook is global, and I always have to keep in mind that my fans are all over the world,\" Carey emphasizes. \"I wanted to make sure everybody was able to hear the song at the same time. To interact with the fans while they're listening to the song for the first time, it makes me happy. I like to see what my true fans are feeling. ... And I know this is a song that is from my heart, completely. It's a real moment for me, dahhhling.\"\n\nWhat Does the New Song and Album Sound Like? \n\n\"The Art of Letting Go\" is the title track from Carey's upcoming 14th studio album. It's a soaring ballad -- with lyrics most anyone will find relatable -- that shows off the hallmark range she's demonstrated since her first album arrived in 1990. Mashable got to listen to the song twice before Monday's Facebook premiere. \n\nCarey says this song is about the \"ability to let go of things, people, emotions, situations, anything that has bogged you down for a long time.\"\n\n\"I like to leave things very ambiguous so my fans can interpret the songs in the way that they choose to, and that's why I never really say, 'Well this happened to me,\" she says. \"Sometimes it's a true story, every single word of the song, and maybe this one is, too, but you'll never know.\" \n\nRodney Jerkins produced the song, and Carey's new manager and longtime friend, Jermaine Dupri, chose to release \"The Art of the Letting Go\" as the next song because he says it has a message fans need to hear and take to heart. \"They'll understand the direction of the album with this song,\" he hints, describing the ballad as \"the 2014 version of 'Vision of Love.'\"\n\nCarey admits \"it's certainly not an exact replica of 'Vision of Love,'\" but she did say it has the similar starkness and not-overproduced feel of the demo of \"Vision of Love.\" \n\n\"I really hope the fans like this, and I hope they're in a place where they can listen to the bottom end, the bass and the different parts of my voice,\" she says. \"Sometimes when we just listen on our computers, you lose the low end of the record.\"\n\nCarey wants fans to pay close attention to one particular part in the song.\n\n\"They have to listen very closely to the lyrics, especially the last two lines of the second verse,\" Carey notes. \n\n\"I would like to have people apply that to their lives in any way they see fit. And that's why I wrote it. It was an organic moment that happened to also be timely and very real. There couldn't be a more real moment in my life for that line on this actual day -- for reasons we won't get into. But to sum it up, it's about helping someone else get through their moment, while I'm getting through mine as the writer and the performer.\" \n\nWhen asked whether she can give details for her upcoming album, Carey stayed mum. \n\n\"I can not. No, I mean, look. The problem is this: I really don't want to reveal things until I know the exact date for the album,\" Carey says. \n\nDupri, however, gave another slight hint, taking into account input on social media.\n\n\"I believe this record sets the tone for her fans, and I want them to understand that we pay attention to everything that they say and everything they send us online because the artists really care about the relationship with them,\" Dupri says. \n\nWhy Facebook? This Is Not 'To Avoid Radio' \n\nDupri, who previously teamed up with Carey on 2005's \"We Belong Together,\" conceptualized the Facebook listening party, and as Carey's new manager since October, he quickly got her on board with the Facebook partnership.\n\n\"What we're doing is actually giving music directly to Facebook,\" Dupri tells Mashable by phone. \"Most artists upload their music to Facebook using SoundCloud, YouTub and Vevo, but we are the first that are giving the music through the Facebook player.\" \n\nMusicians such as Jay Z (\"Holy Grail\") and Bruno Mars (\"\"Gorilla\") have premiered music videos via Facebook's video feature, but Carey is debuting only audio.\n\nHe and Carey are excited to see the instant feedback from Facebook users, though, Dupri points out that this \"exercise\" isn't a ploy against traditional distribution routes. \n\n\"I don't want people to think this is to avoid radio or any regular outlet; this is an exercise to do something that none of those other outlets can do, basically,\" Dupri adds.\n\nCarey agrees: \"The global aspect and the immediate access and ability to interact with my fans during the song premiere are the main reasons we're doing this. The fact that Facebook is global, that is super important to me.\" \n\n\"The Art of Letting Go\" will also be available on iTunes starting at 11 a.m. ET on Nov. 11.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\n\nBONUS: The 10 Most Epic Celebrity Twitter Fights\n\n \n\nImage: Mariah Carey; Facebook; WireImage"},"shares":{"twitter":932,"facebook":776,"google_plus":28,"linked_in":71,"pinterest":2,"total":1809},"comments_count":0,"responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzE0Lzg0L01hcmlhaENhcmV5LjRhZTVjLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTIwMHgxMTUjCmUJanBn/e13e7fc3/200/Mariah-Carey-Art-of-Letting-Go-Cover.jpg","query":true,"size":"200x115#"},{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzE0Lzg0L01hcmlhaENhcmV5LjRhZTVjLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTQwMHgyMzAjCmUJanBn/ca6806f8/200/Mariah-Carey-Art-of-Letting-Go-Cover.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"400x230#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1aNXQv2","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}],"gallery":[{"data-id":12463,"class":"content-gallery"}]},"excerpt":"Mariah Carey plays with a lump of lavender clay in New York City on Sunday, one day before she premieres \"The Art of Letting Go\" during a listening party on Facebook. The five-time Grammy winner is using the clay as a form of physical therapy; she ha...","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"52804bbcb589e46db3000002","id":"2013/11/10/military-innovative-soldiers","title":"The Military Is Struggling to Keep Its Most Innovative Soldiers","title_tag":null,"author":"Colin Daileda","post_date":"2013-11-11T03:15:07+00:00","post_date_rfc":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 03:15:07 +0000","sort_key":"1vFUuV","link":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/10/military-innovative-soldiers/","content":{"plain":"Sean Maday, fresh out of Michigan State University and already the head of his own profitable T-shirt making company, was excited to be an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He'd eaten up the positivity in slogans such as \"Aim high,\" \"No one comes close,\" and, one that he now calls comically tragic, \"presenting technology that lets you program your own destiny.\"\n\nHis first assignment was at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, Calif., in 2005, where his job was to make sure pilots and higher-ups had the best intelligence available to make decisions that wouldn't endanger soldiers' lives, or put the U.S. government in an awkward position.\n\nOn his desk sat an old-school, 15-inch monitor connected to a computer running Windows XP. His email inbox had 50 megabytes of storage.\n\nSee also: The U.S. Army Is Building an 'Iron Man' Suit for Soldiers\n\n\"These are the tools I had to work with, and this was a challenge,\" Maday, who is now a geospatial product manager at Google, said on stage at the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum held in Chicago last October. \"Right off the bat this just didn't seem to live up to the expectation.\"\n\nThat feeling was not uncommon to veterans who had gone into intelligence-gathering, data analysis, engineering or other tech-related fields in the armed forces. Though Maday and others said the leadership, time management and other skills they learned there\u00a0were invaluable, they were nonetheless dismayed by how much military technology lagged behind what they were used to in the civilian world, then frustrated by how difficult it was to improve that technology even in small ways that would allow them to work more efficiently.\n\nAfter a few years of service, Maday said, many leave the rigid confines of military life for the open and innovative environments of companies such as Google and Facebook.\n\nSome problems are so basic that they affect every soldier, like the lack of storage space in everyone's email.\n\n\"They spend a big part of their week curating and culling their inbox,\" Maday told Mashable. \"Even if it's only 20 minutes a day, that waste of productivity is really compounded in a bureaucracy as large as the Department of Defense.\"\n\nFixing a problem like that, Maday and others believe, should often be as simple as getting everyone to sign up for Gmail accounts, which have about 60 times more space than the average soldier's inbox. But it doesn't work that way.\n\n\"The system that launches nuclear weapons is literally going through the same accreditation process as someone who, I don't know, has discovered something that will help them manage Excel,\" Maday said.\n\nProblems arise at all levels of that accreditation process, and they often begin with the rank of whoever suggested an innovation.\n\nThough the Department of Defense did not respond to a request for comment, a recent article in\u00a0National Defense Magazine featured Colonel Jennifer Buckner, the head of the Army's \"premiere\" cyber operations unit, talking about their \"Google-like culture of innovation.\"\n\n\u201cRank and position mean very, very little, but the skill sets that you bring to a mission will be rewarded, and you will be rewarded accordingly,\u201d Buckner said, according to the article.\n\nAlthough Maday's experience was with the Air Force, an unrelated branch of the U.S. military, that statement in no way matches up with what he saw while he was there.\n\nHe claims that when he was a captain in the armed forces, few people cared about his ideas. But then, a year later, when he had moved to Google, he suddenly found himself in meetings with high-ranking officers.\n\n\"I didn't become a different person in the 12 months between when I was on active duty and when I was at Google,\" Maday said.\u00a0\"When I wear jeans and a T-shirt and I'm at the Google campus riding some stupid little bike, then the general wants to know what I think.\"\n\nChristopher Spitler, a technical program manager at Facebook who worked as an electrical engineer on a submarine in the Navy, also remembers how rare it was for high ranking officers to consider an idea offered by a junior soldier.\n\n\"The chain of command is less of a democracy and more of a dictatorship to support the democracy of the United States,\" he said.\n\nIf an idea is accepted, though, the process only becomes more complicated.\n\nFormer Air Force enlistee-turned startup cofounder Adam Simmons told\u00a0Mashable that a lot of innovative ideas come from units on the ground, or soldiers who aren't yet high on the totem poll. Troops in Afghanistan may, for example, want a better way to crowdsource\u00a0what people are saying around Kabul after someone has threatened the city.\n\nBut when they introduce that request, military officials write it up \"almost how a bill in Congress gets made,\" he said. \"No joke. It's similar to how that happens.\u00a0That bill's not going to be made just about one item. They're going to package a whole bunch onto that one item.\"\n\nThe bill goes up the chain of command, sometimes taking years to come out the other end, a process that can impact the timeliness that is vital in software development.\n\nAt that point, the innovation might be irrelevant, and, because the military shifts the jobs of soldiers so frequently, the person who came up with the idea likely won't oversee its implementation. And, even if they do, Simmons said, the original idea would be unrecognizable because the contractors never talk to the innovator to determine what they need.\n\nMaday and Simmons also claim the military has an aversion to using tools that already exist. A good example is\u00a0Google Earth. Even though the two Air Force soldiers used that software to solve intelligence-gathering problems before, the military may want to build its own mapping software.\n\nNow, if the soldier who had a great idea isn't already beyond frustrated, what often happens next may cause their disillusionment to evolve into rage.\n\nSimmons believes that innovators in the military are rarely properly commended. He tells the story of working with a soldier who developed intelligence-gathering software that provided the military with better on-the-ground intelligence. The solider got the software approved and then stood by as the Air Force used it to great effect.\n\n\"When you're making almost nothing in the military [as an enlistee] and you don't even get recognition for something like that, and people above you get promoted from this, that's a big motivator,\" Simmons said.\n\nA big motivator to leave, that is.\n\nSimmons stayed an active duty officer for seven years before he determined that he could achieve more in the civilian world. Maday left as soon as his four-year contract was up, tired of waiting around to see the end result of ideas he'd had months ago.\n\n\"I don't think I realized how bad it was until I got out of the Air Force and started being exposed to different ways of doing business and sharing information in an organization,\" Maday said.\n\nSpitler has also been struck by the vast differences in corporate culture between his two jobs.\n\n\"Facebook moves a lot faster,\" he said. \"If I think something can be done a better way, or I have a better way to do it, you're more or less encouraged to do that.\"\n\nLater, he added, \"In the military... [you're] not encouraged to go off and do your own thing. And you may take 10 hours to do things, where if you had the opportunity to do it your own way it would only take two.\"\n\nOf course, the veterans know the military's procedures are there for a reason. Measures that alter how the armed forces go about protecting the country need to be vetted by multiple people. But Spitler and others believe the Pentagon either needs a system that can fast-track some ideas, or a kind of cultural shake-up.\n\nGoogle has been lauded in the past for allowing employees to spend 20% of their time on their own projects. And while Maday isn't suggesting the military adopt the same strategy, he believes a little chatter between innovative employees could go a long way. Gmail was conceived by two Google employees talking around a watercooler, after all.\n\nSimmons decided his ideas could help more people if he worked on them from outside the Pentagon, where he was stationed last. He's since cofounded a startup called Chaotic Earth. The company name doubles as the name of an app that alerts users when something dangerous is happening around them, their family or their friends.\n\nMaday wishes people such as his old colleague Simmons and himself, for that matter, didn't feel that the military stifled what they could accomplish.\n\n\"It's just frustrating to have so many people who want to do something and want to make a difference, and increasingly the way to do that is go outside the military industrial complex and make a big splash,\" he said.\n\nMaday also believes there is no tangible solution in place for retaining tech talent or fostering an innovative environment\u00a0at these institutions, a situation that only makes matters worse.\n\n\"It's going to take policy recommendations to our elected leaders,\" Maday said during his speech in Chicago. \"And it's going to take probably a 'come-to-Jesus' moment with some of our senior leaders when they realize the way we're running this organization is just incompatible with current standards of technological use in an enterprise.\"\n\nFor example, Maday thinks it might be helpful to pay soldiers who know how to write different coding languages, the same way the military pays soldiers to learn real languages. The inspiration behind that idea being: If the Pentagon doesn't develop and reward talented coders, why would they want to work there? Maday also says a lack of incentive for coders means the military is not tapping into the talent they need and already have.\n\nChanging the culture of any organization is a chore, and there are few, if any, places more by-the-book than the U.S. military. That procedural mindset, as Maday, Simmons and Spitler point out, is there for good reason.\n\nBut in this case, it has caused the U.S. military to inadvertently alienate a generation of talent that it will need to develop cyber defenses, efficiently gather intelligence and build pilot-less planes in the years to come.\n\nThe result is a military that has fallen behind its civilian tech sector, and it may be a while before it catches up.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\n\nImage: Picatinny Arsenal"},"shares":{"twitter":1040,"linked_in":243,"facebook":1223,"google_plus":124,"stumble_upon":338,"pinterest":1,"total":2969},"comments_count":0,"responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzEyLzEyL3NvbGRpZXJzaW5uLjU1MmU2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTIwMHgxMTUjCmUJanBn/c90a0a64/003/soldiers-innovation.jpg","query":true,"size":"200x115#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzEyLzEyL3NvbGRpZXJzaW5uLjU1MmU2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTQwMHgyMzAjCmUJanBn/54e6aa8d/003/soldiers-innovation.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"400x230#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1ahMXi7","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2013/10/13/us-army-iron-man-suit/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Sean Maday, fresh out of Michigan State University and already the head of his own profitable T-shirt making company, was excited to be an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He'd eaten up the positivity in slogans such as \"Aim high,\" \"No one comes close,...","channel":"US & World","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/us-world/"},{"_id":"527fd88a97b2f87ab4008652","id":"2013/11/10/humans-of-facebook","title":"Facebook Spreads Global 'Humans of' Photography Movement","title_tag":null,"author":"Sara Afzal","post_date":"2013-11-10T19:03:29+00:00","post_date_rfc":"Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:03:29 +0000","sort_key":"1vFSTl","link":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/10/humans-of-facebook/","content":{"plain":"It's a simple idea: Take a candid portrait of someone on the street, and tell an authentic story about his or her life.\n\nThe idea first came from the Humans of New York\u00a0Facebook page, which was created by Brandon Stanton in 2010. Since then, \"Humans of\" pages from around the world have been cropping up online since 2012.\n\nEach collecting more than 50,000 likes, \"Humans of\" Rome, Amsterdam, Karachi, Tehran and India are prime examples of sites modeled after HONY. Most of the sites show the work of emerging photographers documenting their native cities.\n\nSee also: The Human Behind 'Humans of New York'\n\n\"Humans of New York inspired me by giving me the courage to do something that I've always wanted to do. It made me think, 'If someone did it, that means it's possible,'\" said Humans of Rome founder Marco Massa, 21, who photographs all of the page's images.\n\nDebra\u00a0Barraud, founder of\u00a0Humans of Amsterdam,\u00a0is also inspired by the other \"Humans of\" sites, but said she tries to add her \"own style of photography to the project.\"\n\nThanks to Facebook, the \"Humans of\" pages are now part of a growing photography community gaining global feedback and followers.\u00a0Facebook is the main platform for the \"Humans of\" pages, although some chapters, including\u00a0HONY\u00a0and\u00a0Humans of Tehran, have separate websites.\n\nShirin Barghi, the founder of Humans of Tehran, describes Facebook as a core tool for global engagement. \"I\u00a0believe Facebook has made the process of content creation and distribution a great deal more manageable, and has brought users inside and outside Iran into the same space. It's exciting to see Tehran interact with other cities across the world,\" Barghi told Mashable in an email.\n\nFacebook and Twitter are censored in Iran, but the local online community still manages to access social sites through VPN technology or other tools redirecting servers outside of the country. Humans of Tehran has more than 70,000 likes on Facebook, and Barghi said the page's mission is to present \"on-the-ground narratives to build a new visual vocabulary through which the world can communicate and connect with Iranians, who have been politically, and in many other ways, isolated in recent years.\"\n\nIn both\u00a0Iran and Pakistan, photographers encounter more backlash due to the countries' conservative social and religious norms.\n\nKhaula Jamil, founder of\u00a0Humans of Karachi\u00a0in Pakistan, said\u00a0women are more hesitant to be photographed since male family members can be protective and wary of strangers who speak to them. In Pakistan, the media has a negative reputation for invading people's privacy, Jamil added.\n\n\"The Pakistani public generally shies away from anything related to media mainly because journalism has been abused quite a bit by some unethical people in the business,\" Jamil told Mashable in an email.\n\nDespite some subjects' occasional reluctance to participate, \"Humans of\" photographers in more underreported regions aim to show authentic images rarely seen by the international community.\n\nMegha Majumder, founder of Humans of India, emphasized the importance of genuinely relating to people when photographing them.\n\n\"There's this word that I fell in love with a while back: sonder. It's the realization that every random passerby is living a life that is as vivid and intricate as your own, complete with their own thoughts, feelings and emotions. And to them, you're just a passing figure on the street, too. Sonder\u00a0seized my awareness\u00a0\u2013- people were no longer just strangers,\"\u00a0Majumder, 17, told Mashable.\n\nWhen Stanton was asked about the other \"Humans of\" sites in an interview with Mashable's Beckett Mufson, he said it influences him to pay more attention to his own photography.\n\n\"I think the best thing that I can do is to focus on my own work, and focus improving my own photography. The bigger Humans of New York gets and the more followers there are and the more people that are replicating it in their own cities, the more I focus on what I can control, which is my photography and my storytelling.\"\n\nImage: Humans of Karachi"},"shares":{"twitter":1237,"facebook":3068,"linked_in":107,"google_plus":46,"pinterest":2,"total":4460},"comments_count":0,"responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzEwLzhkL0h1bWFuc29mS2FyLjI3YjdjLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTIwMHgxMTUjCmUJanBn/05e1b818/bff/HumansofKarachi_Thumbnail.jpg","query":true,"size":"200x115#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzEwLzhkL0h1bWFuc29mS2FyLjI3YjdjLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTQwMHgyMzAjCmUJanBn/3aed89a2/bff/HumansofKarachi_Thumbnail.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"400x230#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1gB4MxP","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"gallery":[{"data-id":13029,"class":"content-gallery"}],"see_also":[{"data-slug":"humans-of-new-york"}]},"excerpt":"It's a simple idea: Take a candid portrait of someone on the street, and tell an authentic story about his or her life. The idea first came from the Humans of New York\u00a0Facebook page, which was created by Brandon Stanton in 2010. Since then, \"Humans o...","channel":"Social Media","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/social-media/"},{"_id":"527d22fc97b2f81e7e002ed2","id":"2013/11/08/technical-issue-facebook","title":"Facebook Tackling Technical Difficulties With Profile Pages","title_tag":null,"author":"Kurt Wagner","post_date":"2013-11-08T17:44:19+00:00","post_date_rfc":"Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:44:19 +0000","sort_key":"1vEQKh","link":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/08/technical-issue-facebook/","content":{"plain":"Update: Nov. 8, 1:00 p.m. ET -- Facebook has resolved this issue. A spokesperson released the following statement:\n\n\"Earlier today, we experienced an issue that prevented some people from loading Timeline or Pages content for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and content is back to normal. We're sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused.\"\n\n----\r\nFacebook is experiencing technical issues, leaving users unable to load content from their profiles and Pages.\n\nUsers started complaining over Twitter about the apparent issues, and numerous Mashable employees experienced similar issues when they tried viewing their own profiles. The site returned an error message asking users to \"Please try again.\"\n\nSee also: 20 Things Your Most Annoying Friends Do on Facebook\n\nA Facebook spokesperson shared the following statement with Mashable:\n\n\"We've received reports that some people are having trouble loading their Timeline and Pages content. We're actively investigating this issue.\"\n\nSome users can access their profile, but the content from their Timeline is missing. Some Brand Pages are experiencing the same problem.\n\nImage: Mashable composite. iStock,\u00a0drnaotodate,\u00a0Facebook"},"shares":{"twitter":1181,"linked_in":88,"google_plus":53,"facebook":1843,"total":3165},"comments_count":0,"responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzA4LzM0L0ZhY2Vib29rMS4wOWJjZS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkyMDB4MTE1IwplCWpwZw/0fc3168a/739/Facebook1.jpg","query":true,"size":"200x115#"},{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzA4LzM0L0ZhY2Vib29rMS4wOWJjZS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk0MDB4MjMwIwplCWpwZw/f31c5d44/739/Facebook1.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"400x230#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/16N31YG","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"facebook-annoying"}]},"excerpt":"Update: Nov. 8, 1:00 p.m. ET -- Facebook has resolved this issue. A spokesperson released the following statement: \"Earlier today, we experienced an issue that prevented some people from loading Timeline or Pages content for a brief period of time. W...","channel":"Social Media","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/social-media/"},{"_id":"527cf92512d2cd0436003f08","id":"2013/11/08/twitter-public-brief","title":"Twitter Stock Soars on Day 1 and Other News You Need to Know","title_tag":null,"author":"Stan Schroeder","post_date":"2013-11-08T14:45:43+00:00","post_date_rfc":"Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:45:43 +0000","sort_key":"1vENHA","link":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/08/twitter-public-brief/","content":{"plain":"Welcome to this morning's edition of \"First To Know,\" a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.\n\nToday, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. The first day on the New York Stock Exchange was a promising one for Twitter. The publicly traded stock opened at 73% up from its IPO price of $26 per share. Facebook is still all about the Likes, but the social network is also experimenting with five-star ratings, according to a report. Gamers, here's a study you'll want to share with your parents: Video games could make your brain grow.\n\nCheck out the video above for more on these stories.\n\nImage: Andrew Burton/Getty Images"},"shares":{"facebook":71,"twitter":962,"linked_in":84,"google_plus":13,"pinterest":1,"total":1131},"comments_count":0,"responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzA4L2U0L3R3aXR0ZXJJUE8uZWFkYWYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJMjAweDExNSMKZQlqcGc/dd4c540b/852/twitter-IPO.jpg","query":true,"size":"200x115#"},{"image":"http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzA4L2U0L3R3aXR0ZXJJUE8uZWFkYWYuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNDAweDIzMCMKZQlqcGc/e3e4dbe4/852/twitter-IPO.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"400x230#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1acfFRw","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"brightcove":[{"id":2818902153001,"data-video":2818902153001,"class":"content-brightcove"}]},"excerpt":"Welcome to this morning's edition of \"First To Know,\" a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. The first day on the New York Stock Exchange was...","channel":"Business","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/business/"},{"_id":"527be0ab97b2f81e7e0012c9","id":"2013/11/07/facebook-returns-to-boston","title":"Facebook Returns Home With New Boston Engineering Office","title_tag":null,"author":"Kurt Wagner","post_date":"2013-11-07T18:49:05+00:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:49:05 +0000","sort_key":"1vEvmr","link":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/07/facebook-returns-to-boston/","content":{"plain":"Facebook on Thursday announced the opening of its first engineering office in Boston, Mass., not far from where Mark Zuckerberg started the social network from his Harvard dorm room. \n\nThe Boston office is Facebook's fifth engineering office worldwide, joining Seattle, London, New York, and of course, Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The Boston-based engineering team will consist of employees currently working remotely in Boston, as well as engineers the company recently hired. A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on the number of employees that will work in the office.\n\nSee also: 10 Amazing Google Earth and Maps Discoveries\n\nIn a blog post announcing the new office, Facebook engineer and office site lead Ryan Mack said that while Facebook is particular about where the company chooses to drop anchor, Boston was, for the most part, a logical fit. \"The tech community here is world-class, from the incredible academic institutions to the vibrant startup ecosystem to the bevy of global companies who have teams here,\" he wrote. \"We are thrilled to have found a new home here and hope we can help the community continue to thrive.\"\n\nMack and a handful of other engineers had been working remotely from coffee shops, libraries, and at one point, even a basement in the city's Chinatown district. The Boston team will \"start small,\" wrote Mack, \"and will focus on challenging new infrastructure projects in areas like networking, storage, security, and language runtimes.\"\n\nThe new office sits in Kendall Square, technically in Cambridge, Mass., a stone's throw from MIT and less than two miles down the road from Harvard University, where it all began. \n\nThe Boston office is not the only expansion Facebook has in the works. The company is in the process of building an addition to the Menlo Park headquarters as well, and construction is already underway. The West Campus expansion will be for engineering and product teams and is set to open sometime in 2015, according to a spokesperson. \n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\n\nImage: Facebook"},"shares":{"twitter":1175,"facebook":434,"google_plus":26,"linked_in":89,"total":1724},"comments_count":0,"responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzA3LzliL0ZhY2Vib29rQm9zLjY3OTA5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTIwMHgxMTUjCmUJanBn/45449f53/2c3/Facebook-Boston-2.jpg","query":true,"size":"200x115#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzA3LzliL0ZhY2Vib29rQm9zLjY3OTA5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTQwMHgyMzAjCmUJanBn/99d95dbf/2c3/Facebook-Boston-2.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"400x230#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/HJgF6v","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-slug":"google-earth-amazing-discoveries"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}]},"excerpt":"Facebook on Thursday announced the opening of its first engineering office in Boston, Mass., not far from where Mark Zuckerberg started the social network from his Harvard dorm room. The Boston office is Facebook's fifth engineering office worldwide,...","channel":"Social Media","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/social-media/"},{"_id":"527bb664b05f9d6422001cd3","id":"2013/11/07/mobile-advertising-wins","title":"4 Businesses Winning With Mobile Advertising","title_tag":null,"author":"Tracey Wallace","post_date":"2013-11-07T15:48:42+00:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:48:42 +0000","sort_key":"1vEsMN","link":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/07/mobile-advertising-wins/","content":{"plain":"With 17.4% of web traffic coming directly from mobile this year alone, a 6% uptick since 2012, it's no wonder that more and more companies are developing smart mobile advertising strategies to increase brand awareness.\n\nTo account for this push toward mobile, forecasts predict that for 2013, digital ad spending will eat up 22.7% of all ad spending. And those dollars aren't spent in vain, at least not for these four companies, each of which utilize mobile ad platforms to target their customers and expand their clientele. And with the arrival of Pinterest's Promoted Pins and Instagram Ads, small businesses will have more ways than ever to attract audiences.\n\nSee also: How Deep Links Could Revolutionize Mobile Advertising\n\nBelow, we outline how four businesses are using mobile advertising, and we discuss their effectiveness.\n\n1. Rock/Creek -- Optimizing Holiday Sales via Twitter\r\nSave 20% on @Patagonia #jackets & #clothing at our final #Patagonia #Sale of 2012! 4 days only: http://t.co/l8Y41BcM\n\n\u2014 Rock/Creek (@RockCreek) November 16, 2012\r\n\u00a0\r\n20% off #PatagoniaSALE http://t.co/ZZzKB4K3 RT @rockcreek: Which Patagonia fleece jacket is best? http://t.co/r3S9CPI9\n\n\u2014 Rock/Creek (@RockCreek) November 16, 2012\r\n\u00a0\n\nRock/Creek, an outdoor gear and apparel company, was challenged with the task of standing out in the saturated holiday market -- particularly around Black Friday and Cyber Monday. \n\nRock/Creek decided to use Twitter's Promoted Accounts in the month leading up to the hectic holiday season to increase awareness and engage followers who were interested in their products. In addition to using Promoted Tweets with its existing fan base, Rock/Creek also targeted tweets to attract new followers likely to be interested in Rock/Creek's content. \n\nFor the mobile Twitter user, which is 60% of Twitter's user base, Rock/Creek implemented a sense of urgency in tweets about sales -- for instance, \"4 days only\" -- to provide a special offer that someone could act on immediately.\n\nDuring their campaign, Rock/Creek increased their followers by 172% over the prior month, and Google Analytics demonstrated a 40% increase in sales. Check out this Case Study for more details.\r\n2. Karaoke Heroes -- Getting Customers in the Door via Facebook\n\nKaraoke Heroes, the only karaoke bar in the state of Connecticut and the only superhero karaoke bar in the U.S., needed to get word out about their opening back in 2012. Without a prominent storefront, the bar turned to Facebook Ads to reach its target audience.\n\n\"Facebook let us make the most out of our advertising dollar by making sure we only spent money on people we think are likely to be interested,\" said founder Andrew Lebwohl.\n\nAnd the hyper-targeted ads, which alerted mobile users to events near them and allow them to find the bar despite the out-of-sight storefront, worked. When Karaoke Heroes opened, three-quarters of new customers said they had found out about the bar through Facebook advertising.\n\n\"As word of mouth has grown, that has dropped to about half, but the value hasn't changed -- Facebook ads bring bodies in our door,\" said Lebwohl. \"From being deep in the red when we opened, we're now solidly and consistently in the black, and about 2/3 of that is from customers who found us through Facebook.\"\n\nSee also: Is Your Business Spending Too Much Time on Facebook?\n\n3. Colombo & Hurd -- Improving Customer Service via Google AdWords\n\nFlorida law firm Colombo & Hurd wanted to get more people into its office for a consultation -- but with one caveat: They wanted to get calls when the office was actually open, so a lawyer would be available to screen potential clients. With an enhanced AdWords campaign, the firm was able to put together a new strategy in 30 minutes and increase mobile conversions by 3x.\n\nTheir Google AdWords strategy used dayparting to optimize its dollars during times when the office was open, which enabled more quality customers to make appointments. Since the firm's focus was mobile, the firm was able to add \"Call Now\" to ads appearing on mobile phones -- so an ad click turned into a phone call. This also helped them to quantify the value of their ads.\r\n4. Just Salad -- Geotargeting via Foursquare\n\nJust Salad, a salad chain in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore, is one of the first businesses using the new Foursquare ads, which lets businesses sponsor listings in the app's Explore tab. While the chain is in the early stages of its campaign and hasn't put much money into the ads yet, Just Salad Managing Partner Nick Kenner says \"the price points to run campaigns are attractive to us -- we can test the platform or specific campaigns with a financial commitment that isn't cost-prohibitive.\" Because Foursquare Ads only charge a business when a customer takes an action after seeing the ad, you can better quantify ROI.\n\nSince Foursquare is all about location, Kenner says the product helps Just Salad geotarget around certain outposts, a huge advantage over other marketing options. Because Foursquare Ads are relatively new, Kenner says it's too early to determine how effective the ads are, though his team tracks to how many check-ins the ads generate. He says Foursquare has been proactive in providing insights into the campaign's progress, including action rates and cost per action.\n\nJust Salad does limited advertising, but it seems it's found a winner with Foursquare's model. \"We also like how non-invasive the ads are in the app, as well,\" says Kenner.\n\nDoes your company use a mobile advertising platform we didn't mention? 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She also said that the hardest and most emotional scene to tape was the one in which Katniss couldn't say goodbye to her family. Lawrence, who sported a new pixie cut, also poked fun at her digital skills.\n\n\"I've never been so confused in my whole life,\" she said when asked how it felt to visit Facebook. \"I'm so technologically so dumb.\"\n\nThe actors and director spent the day touring Google, Twitter, Yahoo and Facebook offices as part of the movies' \"#GlobalFanDay,\" answering questions from each company's audience. For his part, Hemsworth described his thoughts on social media. \"We're all very connected right now,\" he said. \"The whole world is just a click away.\"\n\n\"Which could be good or bad,\" a plaid-clad Hutcherson replied. \n\nEarlier in the day, the gang signed the Facebook wall, and Lawrence met with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer. \n\n (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Post by Jennifer Lawrence.\n\nNear the end of the panel, the trio of actors talked about their Facebook use. Lawrence even conceptualized a fake Facebook status.\n\n\"I'm sweating -- that would be my status, and it would never change,\" she said. \n\nIn Catching Fire, victors of past Hunger Games will compete in the 75th Hunger Games, also known as the third Quarter Quell. It's a gruesome tradition that pits previous winners against each other every 25 years.\n\nCatching Fire arrives in theaters on Nov. 22.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\n\nBONUS: 'Hunger Games' Sequel Posters Reveal Quarter Quell Wetsuits\n\nImage: Facebook"},"shares":{"twitter":830,"facebook":288,"linked_in":25,"google_plus":12,"total":1155},"comments_count":0,"responsive_images":[{"image":"http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzA3LzFmL0h1bmdlckdhbWVzLmRhODU1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTIwMHgxMTUjCmUJanBn/3cfdd1bf/363/Hunger-Games-Catching-Fire-Panel-Live.jpg","query":true,"size":"200x115#"},{"image":"http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzExLzA3LzFmL0h1bmdlckdhbWVzLmRhODU1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTQwMHgyMzAjCmUJanBn/53dcbb07/363/Hunger-Games-Catching-Fire-Panel-Live.jpg","query":"(min-resolution: 1.5dppx)","size":"400x230#"}],"short_url":"http://on.mash.to/1aG8Jij","choice":false,"spotlight":false,"shortcode_data":{"see_also":[{"data-url":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/06/hunger-games-catching-fire-new-video/"}],"wp_shortcode_manager":[{}],"gallery":[{"data-id":11563,"class":"content-gallery"}]},"excerpt":"\"Nice to meet all of your phones,\" actress Jennifer Lawrence jokingly said to Facebook employees who were photographing her onstage just moments before she participated in a Q&A panel Wednesday at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The Oscar...","channel":"Entertainment","channel_link":"http://mashable.com/entertainment/"},{"_id":"527ae373b589e411cf0004f5","id":"2013/11/06/hunger-games-catching-fire-new-video","title":"Katniss Gets a Reality Check in New 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Clip","title_tag":null,"author":"Brian Anthony Hernandez","post_date":"2013-11-07T00:48:35+00:00","post_date_rfc":"Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:48:35 +0000","sort_key":"1vEelo","link":"http://mashable.com/2013/11/06/hunger-games-catching-fire-new-video/","content":{"plain":"Mentor Haymitch Abernathy slaps a tearful Katniss Everdeen with an honest wake-up call in the fresh Hunger Games: Catching Fire video, below.\n\nThe reality check for Katniss and fellow Hunger Games survivor Peeta Mellark culminates with Haymitch forcefully telling the duo that their job is to be \"a distraction so people forget what the real problems are.\" \n\nSee also: Katniss Freaks Out in Final 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Trailer\n\nLionsgate posted the video on the movie's Facebook page after airing it Wednesday during a panel -- moderated by Mashable -- featuring actors Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth as well as director Francis Lawrence.\n\n (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Post by The Hunger Games.\n\nAfter the pair won the 74th Hunger Games, Panem's 12 districts continue to rebel against the nation's villainous President Coriolanus Snow. \n\nIn Catching Fire, victors of past Hunger Games (see below) will compete in the 75th Hunger Games, a.k.a. the third Quarter Quell. It's a gruesome tradition pitting victors against each other every 25 years.\n\nHave something to add to this story? 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