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+++ Facebook is the future more on voice control a la “Siri” +++
Facebook will in future devote more of the communication between members and companies. The Messenger app will open for developers to develop so-called Chatbots, announced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday on the company’s developer conference in San Francisco. These are automated programs that facilitate users to communicate with companies, so will help when shopping online. No one should ask more questions at the telephone exchange for a florist near, Zuckerberg gave an example where Chatbots could in future be used by the 1.6 billion members. Facebook continues to be able to handle more transactions through its platform by the additional supply and to get a foot in the service sector.
Experts believe that Facebook more easily due to its sheer amount of data as is expected to fall the competition to develop chat bots and to personalize interactions and shopping recommendations. According to Facebook more than 50 million corporate members in the network are
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+++ Facebook Live video of “exploding watermelon” breaks records +++
million users have now riveted on the Internet, as an employee of the news site BuzzFeed brought a watermelon explosion. The live broadcast of the show on the new video service of the online network Facebook moved at one point at the same time more than 800,000 viewers in its spell. Total tracked 4.4 million users, as BuzzFeed employees as long rubber bands around the center of the melon stored until it finally exploded. “I’d love to stop watching, but I am already fallen,” wrote one Facebook user. “When my husband comes home and asks me what I have done today, I’m not sure he understands why I could not stop after I had even begun,” wrote another Licensees. Overall, the show was commented 314,000 times on Facebook, while on Twitter the hashtag #watermelon to Renner.
+++ Facebook wants manipulating Posts halt +++
in the future, posted on Facebook media reports can no longer be provided with forged headers. “We are working to change this function,” said a company spokeswoman, “Spiegel Online”. The social network will thus “help ensure that media content is not distorted”. It is according to the report to a function that can change the title of the article with the operator of fan pages and community pages when posting news. This had led to Germany several times to counterfeit, with which, for example, attitude towards refugees was taken.
“We are working on that in future only the fan pages of the media houses can edit their own links,” quoted “mirror online “on Thursday the company. When the change came into force, was not known, it said in the report. Facebook is accused in Germany for some time, not to intervene adequately when users rushing against refugees. Against the backdrop of persistent discontent the company had promised the end of November, up work against such hate messages.
+++ Facebook builds livestream function +++
Since the beginning of December Facebook users can share their own live video via the social network. Now the company provides this possibility closer to the center.
Similar to the competitive service Periscope of Twitter there will be a card are displayed on the current transfers, Facebook said on Wednesday. The videos can be commented live, Moreover, the comments will be archived and are therefore later nachlesbar. If a stream many viewers, he is shown particularly great.
Users of live video partly annoyed
In the Facebook app it will add its own area. There not only the live streams from friends can be seen, but also by celebrities or events that Facebook considers to interesting
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in the News Feed, the video streams are preferably displayed – a circumstance that would not all Facebook users. On Twitter already looking some how they can get rid of the automatic indication of the live video.
+++ Facebook describes blind the content of photos +++
blind and visually impaired users to find out from Facebook better in the future, which can be seen on photos. Facebook provides to a new feature that certain things can be seen in the pictures. About software that reads screen content, the user to the image contents are then notified. In a presentation to journalists on Monday, the new feature could see among other things that could be seen on a photo of the sky and a tree. Also pictures of a pizza and three people who were staying smiling outdoors were recorded.
First, the technique only works on Apple mobile devices and only in English. It is available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; Facebook wants to quickly expand to other languages and operating systems. For the time being can be detected about a hundred different picture elements, among others, in the fields of transport (car, boat, plane), nature (mountains, sea, sun), sports (tennis, golf) and food (pizza, sushi, coffee). In addition, the system can determine whether someone is wearing glasses or a beard and he smiles. Even babies are detected. The list is oriented to Facebook details about how often certain things on photos in the network and which elements can be reliably detected by the new function. Over time, should additional aspects
+++ VR glasses Oculus Rift. Extensive data collection in use +++
The virtual reality glasses Oculus Rift apparently has very rigid terms of use. Besides now relatively common things like the waiver of certain rights, myriad reasons for the decommissioning of a user account and the extensive collection of personal and usage-related data, the company acknowledges extensive rights to use on the platform created content. As is apparent from the terms of use, Oculus and thus also the parent company, Facebook is complete rights to use any forms of user-generated content -. Free
As “gizmodo.com” reported Oculus also collects information about interactions with games, movies or apps, the specific use of glasses, including detailed data on used computers and IP addresses and location data. Also moving the user’s data are recorded while the spectacle films are watched or played. The goal: Personalised advertising and evaluation of user response to marketing campaigns – writes Oculus very candidly in his Terms
+++ Panne Facebook security check +++
. After the bloody suicide attack on Christians in Lahore, Pakistan, there has been a breakdown in Facebook security check: not just Facebook users in Lahore but also in Brussels, Honolulu, Cairo and Hong Kong were invited on Sunday to tell her friends that she are safe.
Facebook spoke of a “mistake” and apologized to all users who received the notification in error. “Unfortunately,” the notification had been sent not only to users on Anschlagsort. At a solution of the problem is being worked.
With the security check Facebook users can be notified within seconds its all contacts that they are “ok”. Originally, the application of natural disasters has been developed. As after the attacks in Brussels activated Facebook security check even after the attack in Lahore.
+++ Facebook warns soon before the copied profile pages +++
Facebook users should be better protected from the copied profiles. If an account is found, use the name and profile photo from another user, the person is automatically informed of Facebook. This can then verify the selected profile and optionally Report as counterfeiting on Facebook – in a final step, an employee checks the operation. According to “mashable.com” security is since November in test mode and for about three quarters of all users available.
According to Facebook manager Antigone Davis, the safety function is intended to protect users of the platform better against harassment and identity theft. Especially women have to suffer in some parts of the world under fake profiles. About such profiles try criminals, for example, to obtain personal data of other users. Already, users can report abuse sites to Facebook and point to possible identity theft. By automating the process should be accelerated in the future.
+++ Facebook on “Safety Check” to stop in Brussels +++
Facebook has after the explosions in Brussels turned on late Tuesday morning its “security check” can report on the user friends that they are safe. The service had been activated, among other things following the terrorist attacks in Paris last November and recently also in the explosions in Ankara. The “Safety Check” was originally developed in the wake of the tsunami 2011 in Japan in the event of natural disasters. The first use was after the earthquake in Nepal, 2015.
+++ Budde clears after withdrawing from the SPD leadership Facebook profile +++
After the retreat of the party and parliamentary group head of the SPD in Saxony-Anhalt Katrin Budde (50) has also given up their Facebook presence. Your fan page was deleted this week, as a party spokesman confirmed in Magdeburg on Friday. He said: “On the profile she presented herself as a top candidate, why should she have to continue now?” After the crash of the SPD in the regional elections on Sunday Budde had given up their top jobs, by internal pressure. The SPD had halved its earnings in Saxony-Anhalt to 10.6 percent. The online expert Martin Fuchs had discovered the Facebook retreat Budde and spread his findings on Twitter.
+++ letter to Trump probably mostly shared Facebook Post +++
the open letter of the New York photographer Brandon Stanton at the US presidential candidate Donald Trump is probably the most shared post on Facebook. This was confirmed by a spokesperson on behalf of the social network of the German Press Agency on Thursday. However, an official statistics lies not before. In addition, there is photos that have received significantly more “Likes” than the letter.
Stanton, who was known about the inhabitants of the metropolis with the launched in 2010 Blog “Humans of New York,” Trump engages in the on Monday published letter sharply. The Republican is racist, hateful and have “promoted prejudice and violence in pursuit of personal power.” On Thursday, the letter was Stanton who otherwise publicly does not comment on political issues, have been shared on Facebook more than a million times and had more 2.1 million Likes.
That the record by automatic parts using was brought about by computer programs, according to the spokesperson is unlikely. On the online platform run in the background software to prevent the use of such so-called bots.
+++ Facebook grabs Director of Marketing Rocket Internet +++
the marketing chief of the Berlin Internet forge Rocket Internet, Arthur Gerigk going after information of “Wirtschaftswoche” on Facebook. Gerigk allowed himself to poach from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and change soon in the headquarters of the social network in Silicon Valley, the Journal reported on Wednesday, citing the business community. Rocket Internet wanted this to the “Wirtschaftswoche” not confirmed. Gerigk had passed thus, since October 2013, all marketing activities of Rocket Internet.
+++ Around every third company uses social media +++
Almost every third company with Internet access (31 percent) is active in the social media. This emerges from a representative company survey by the Federal Statistical Office. Of those who use social media, presenting 70 percent in this way their company products, and 45 percent want to win as new staff. Around one in four companies with Internet access (26 percent) use social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing. Nearly one tenth (9 percent) is active in multimedia portals like Youtube or Picasa, rather few (4 percent) in Blogs and micro-blogging services like Twitter or Communote. For the survey, some 10 000 companies were surveyed
+++ Facebook “Like” button. Tribunal Verbraucherzentrale largely quite +++
In an action for the “Like “button of Facebook, the Landgericht Dusseldorf the Verbraucherzentrale NRW largely quite given. This had amp up the clothing merchants Peek &; filed Cloppenburg suit because routed through the plugin data on the surfing behavior of the customer already in the simple viewing a page on Facebook. Companies need to site visitors about the disclosure of data to clarify, told the the court on Wednesday and supported so that the view of consumer protection. The integration of the “like” button infringes privacy rules because it, among other things the IP address of the user will be forwarded without the express permission of Facebook, it said in the reasoning of the Court.
“No one knows what Facebook with the data makes, “said lawyer Sabine Petri of the consumer. She was satisfied with the verdict. Companies could not simply pull out of responsibility by referring to Facebook. In Peek & amp; Cloppenburg concerned the site Fashion ID (Az. 12O 151/15). Meanwhile the users social media services must explicitly enable there and agrees with it, “that data is transmitted to the operators of social networks”. Overall, the consumer center NRW had six companies cited for the “like” button.
+++ Coursing opposition Facebook directives is nonsense +++
A date Facebook Coursing opposition alleged new Terms is ineffective. Who published the text on its Wall, does not contradict effectively a commercial use of their data and content by Facebook as “irights.org” explains. It is actually in the text to another internet rumor (Hoax). Firstly, there are currently no new terms. The last change was made in January 2015. Second, the cited document in paragraphs from the penal code did not exist and affect any other areas. Who uses Facebook, has already agreed to an extensive use of his personal information, pictures and data with one click.
Regardless of opposition texts on your own Wall, according to the Federation of German Consumer Association are anyway ineffective. They are only valid if they are the addressee actually received. The mere publication on your own profile page is not enough.
+++ Facebook CEO leaned in Berlin Airport pickup from +++
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (31) during his recent visit to Berlin, a welcome by the airport manager refused. The manager Karsten Mühlenfeld had come with his two press officers in the night of February 25 to Schönefeld Airport to hot Zuckerberg on his arrival welcome as spokesman Lars Wagner said Sunday. An employee of Zuckerberg had then got out of the private plane and had declared that the Facebook CEO would not be received. This wish had Mühlenfeld respected and had gone immediately. The “Bild am Sonntag” reported, Zuckerberg had felt harassed by Mühlenfeld and refused to get out before it disappear. Mühlenfeld had gone only after 15 to 20 minutes. This was “utter nonsense,” said Wagner. Mühlenfeld have no one bothered. According to Wagner, a representative of Zuckerberg wrote the following day in a message to the airport company: “Of course I understand that there was no bad faith because of the time and because nothing was announced, it was just an unpleasant and uncomfortable situation.. “
+++ Facebook allowed to Clear name Required hold +++
Facebook may by users in Germany for the time being continue to request to register with their real names. The Administrative Court of Hamburg upheld an urgent application of the online network, and thus gets to a data protection arrangement, which imposed a use under a pseudonym. The Hamburg Supervisor John Caspar had invoked it in the past year on the German Telemedia Act. However, the Administrative Court has now ruled that German law does not apply in this case. It should be the law of the EU country, “with the disputed data processing is most closely connected”. And with regard to the real name requirement this is the Facebooks presence in Ireland. The German branch is mainly active only in the field of advertising, told the court. An appeal against the decision can be appealed to the Hamburg Higher Administrative Court.
+++ Facebook manager in Brazil arrested +++
In Brazil, a top executive of Facebook is arrested been because he refused to cooperate with the authorities in the hunt for a drug gang. The members of a drug cartel allegedly communicated via the Facebook application WhatsApp, reported Brazilian media on Tuesday. The user data should be used as evidence in investigations against organized crime. Diego Dzodan, Facebook vice president for Latin America, had been taken to the police headquarters in São Paulo and was detained there until further notice, the police said on Tuesday. The arrest warrant was issued by a judge in Lagarto in the state of Sergipe, where the drug gang was active.
+++ Facebook loses court against Verbraucherschuetzer +++
consumer advocates have won a victory against Facebook before the Berlin Regional court. The network must pay an administrative fine amounting to 100,000 euros, as the Consumer Federation (vzbv) announced on Monday. Reason for the fine is therefore that Facebook had not changed a controversial clause in its terms and conditions despite of final conviction. (Az. 16 O 551/10) “Facebook tried very persistently to circumvent consumers’ rights in Germany and Europe. A fine of 100,000 euros is a clear signal. Companies need to implement judicial decisions and can not just sit out it,” explained the vzbv- Board Klaus Müller. Facebook did not comment on request first.
In the contested clause is about the usage rights of the company to the content of its users. Facebook users provided to the Group a “global license to use any IP content” that users post on Facebook or in connection to the network – for example, images. Although Facebook have changed the clause in the interim, but not sufficient, according to the reasoning of the District Court. The “significant disciplinary action” was justified because the clause concerns a very large number of users and their rights “significantly” restricting. The decision of the court is not yet final.
+++ Facebook boss Zuckerberg and the hate comments has +++
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg problems of the social network in tackling xenophobic hateful granted. “Until recently, we have not done well enough in Germany,” Zuckerberg said. “We hear the message loud and clear and we are determined to be better,” he said, referring to allegations that companies do not here enough. Facebook is accused in Germany for some time, not to intervene adequately when users rushing against refugees. Against the backdrop of persistent discontent the company had promised the end of November, up work against such hate speech. According to Zuckerberg about 200 posts for Germany now set up to ensure that “bad content” are not on Facebook.
+++ EU Parliament President Schulz warns Privacy on Facebook at +++
EU Parliament President Martin Schulz has asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to a more responsible use of the data users. Who use personal data in order to earn a seven-figure profit, must ensure that the owner of the data expressly agreed, Schulz said on Thursday evening at the Innovation Award “Axel Springer Award” in Berlin. “We in Europe measure the privacy great importance,” said Schulz. Zuckerberg did not respond to the comments made by Schulz during his appearance at the Axel Springer House. However, the issue is likely to come at a Town Hall meeting with Facebook users in Berlin discussed. There Zuckerberg should also be questioned about hate comments.
+++ Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is coming to Berlin +++
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg visited on Thursday and Friday Berlin. In a conversation with chancellery minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) on Thursday afternoon (14 am), it is likely going to hate messages on Facebook and the refugee crisis in Europe. Then Zuckerberg invited to a fireside chat in the Berliner Facebook Innovation Center, in which the Group exchanges also with scientists. Dinner takes Zuckerberg a newly created Innovation Award from the media group Axel Springer counter (20 hours). The CEO of Springer, Mathias Döpfner, had declared in advance, Zuckerberg had created with Facebook the most important means of communication of a new generation. Height of his Berlin visit is on Friday a Q & A session with users of the world’s largest online network on Friday. It may ask at the Town Hall Meeting Questions invitee. The location for the event was for safety first secret.
+++ Facebook launches new “Like” alternatives +++
Facebook has in addition to its well-known ” like “button introduced five new symbols to express emotions such as compassion, anger or joy. The extensions of the known Like buttons were activated on Wednesday world and will gradually appear on all users. The “Facebook Reactions” look like typical emoji characters – a refined type “Smileys”. This solves the world’s largest online network an announcement from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who had announced in mid-September as an alternative to “Like” button. At that time was of six symbols of the question.
The new symbols stand for love (heart), laughter (a corresponding Emoji icon labeled “Haha”), surprise ( “Wow”), ” Sad “(face tear) and” Mad “(red in the face). In support for the selection Facebook had referred, among other things, for example, that it would be problematic under a grief-entry a “like” button. Users get see the “Facebook Reactions” when they hold long on the smartphone a “Like” button or hover the mouse over it. Of the original proposals, the Approval icon subtitled “Yay” was not implemented in the end.
+++ Facebook wants 2016 first satellite for Internet in Africa shoot into space +++
Facebook plans to launch this year its first satellite for cheap Internet service in remote areas in Africa. In addition, for just the second test drone being built with antennas, said founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the mobile exhibition Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. He launched the initiative Internet.org that will bring more people into the net. Four billion people have still no access to the Internet.
+++ Facebook forms alliance with Samsung the Focus virtual reality +++
Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Sunday evening surprise in the presentation new equipment to Samsung in Barcelona. “Virtual reality is the next platform,” proclaimed Zuckerberg. The 3D glasses housing Gear VR to offer along with the new Galaxy S7 smartphones from Samsung a better experience when immersed in virtual worlds.
+++ Facebook open platform Instant Articles for +++
Facebook will continue all publishers worldwide the opportunity to publish texts as instant articles in its network. Start is on April 12 during the annual developer conference F8 as Facebook announced on Wednesday. From then on each publisher will be able to offer multimedia products for mobile reading on your smartphone or tablet via the platform regardless of size and location. With Instant Articles content directly on Facebook will be held in the media houses saved to shorten the loading time. Facebook can – if desired – to take over the marketing of advertising. Skeptics warn of a loss of control for the publishers. So far, Facebook has worked in a test phase with a number of media who wanted to gain experience with Instant Articles. These included in Germany as the first “Spiegel Online” and “Bild.de”. In November, Facebook had to test the group of media, the Instant Articles, again expanded significantly. Facebook has an estimated 1.6 billion users, the largest online network in the world.
+++ French teacher may sue Facebook in France +++
Facebook may future also be sued in France. An appeals court in Paris ruled Friday that the French judiciary is basically responsible for disputes between the social network and French users. That Facebook in its Terms of jurisdiction to California SPECIFIED, thus excluding legal disputes in other countries, is not admissible. The appellate court thus upheld a decision of the lower court. Last year, the Paris District Court had dealt with the complaint of a French teacher against Facebook and explains the corresponding clause in the terms of service in March for “abusive”. Facebook had appealed against the decision.
The teacher had 2011 on his Facebook page the famous painting “The Origin of the World” of the painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) published, showing a female gender. His user account was then locked, whereupon the teacher Facebook sued and 20,000 euros in damages demanded. At a court hearing in January 2015 argued a Facebook lawyer that the Paris court has no jurisdiction. The teachers have the Terms of Use accepted, which provide as jurisdiction California. However,
The Paris court dismissed this argument back. A consumer can turn to the judiciary to the place where he was living at the time of concluding the contract or the dispute process, the judges. So bring an action before a French court. This view is now also joined the appeal court. The lawyer of the teacher explained, with its decision, the French courts have proven their “sovereignty” to the test. Facebook and other Internet giants should from now on also adhere to French law.
+++ Zuckerberg has Facebook investor to India Derailment cope +++
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has distanced itself in the discussion on prohibited in India free Internet service of the online network from one of its main investors. Web browser pioneer and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen had written after the decision in a quickly erased polemical Tweet: “anti-colonialism was economically disastrous for the Indian people for decades.” Especially this sentence sparked among other allegations Andre interest to the Indian government a storm of criticism from. Zuckerberg called Andre interest remarks on Wednesday “very upsetting” and stressed that she did not meet the views of Facebook or by him personally. Andreessen serves on the influential board of Facebook. He apologized on Twitter for his comments and assured that he was “100 percent against colonialism”.
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