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Report: Launch Of Facebook Video Ads Delayed (AllFacebook)
The video ads Facebook originally planned to launch this month or in July are now on hold until at least mid-October, AdAge reported, with sources telling the magazine more development is needed on new features the social network plans to release simultaneously with its video ads. One of those new features, according to AdAge, is the incorporation of metrics from Nielsen that would provide reach estimates in terms of gross ratings points, including for ads that were viewed without audio having been activated. Inside Facebook Users were understandably enraged upon learning that Facebook might adopt this controversial ad unit. It was reported back in December that the company was still debating whether or not to have

In Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist play No Exit, one of the damned souls concludes that “hell is other people.” Nearly 70 years later, that quote has inspired a new app that helps you be as anti-social as possible. The app, Hell …

Yelp today introduced a “Call to Action” feature that allows merchants to support a single type of transaction on their business listing page on the website.

“Consumers come to Yelp ready to make a spending decision and they rely on Yelp’s wealth of valuable content to find a local business to fit their needs,” wrote Vivek Patel, the company’s vice president of business products.

A storage business could allow users to reserve a unit directly from Yelp. Ticketmaster is also using the feature to sell event tickets on the website.

Yelp is selling the feature as a form of advertising, and will allow businesses to customize the transaction their listing supports.

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman indicated earlier this month at LeWeb London that the company was looking into supporting commercial transactions on the website.

The Call to Action feature works on

A major factor in Facebook’s botched IPO in May 2012 was interest in its stock by uninformed investors who recognized the brand but didn’t know about the company’s financials, experts said this afternoon at a panel on technology IPOs at Bloomberg’s Next Big Thing Summit in Half Moon Bay.

“There are certain companies where you’re going to have unlimited unsophisticated demand, and clearly Facebook was an example of that. In those cases I’m a strong advocate of another kind of IPO,” said Lise Buyer, a principal at Class V Group, which advises companies on going public. Buyer referred specifically to the so-called Dutch auction style of initial sale that Google opted for in 2004.

Kate Mitchell, a partner at ScaleVP venture capital firm, agreed that overheated interest among non-institutional, or “retail” investors had caused an overly high initial price on

Today at 2:00 p.m. PST/ 5:00 p.m. EST, reddit users will get a chance to interview Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston, who plays drug lord Walter White in the AMC drama “Breaking Bad.”

The series returns on August 11 for the final eight episodes of its fifth and final season. Redditors have already been talking about the show using the subreddit, r/breakingbad.

In addition to the reddit AMA, Cranston is also promoting a contest to benefit the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. One winner and a guest will take an RV ride with the actor to the “Breaking Bad” premiere, where they can meet the cast, watch the episode before it airs, and attend the after-party. The prize also includes a free flight and a stay in a 4-star hotel.

To enter, go to the contest page on 

Don Harrison, Google’s vice president of corporate development, confirmed today that the company had agreed to a billion-dollar price for the social mapping app Waze in a deal announced earlier this month.

“We’re focused on the user experience, so we are willing to pay an aggressive premium sometimes where we think there’s room for user growth,” Harrison said.

Harrison was speaking at a panel on mergers and acquisitions at Bloomberg’s Next Big Thing Summit.

Also on the panel was Ken Hao, managing partner at Silver Lake, a private equity firm that specializes in technology businesses. Hao joked that one of his firm’s investment rules was “never bid against Google,” but also validated in general terms the high price tag for a product that Google will be able to fit in neatly with its own social and navigational offerings.

“It’s stunning what kind of

In an effort to build out its advertising business, GetGlue has tapped Evan Krauss, formerly of Shazam, to serve as the new president of the social TV company at its headquarters in New York City. The news follows the company’s appointment of online marketing veteran Shelby Huston Haro as EVP of sales.

“I previously briefly met Evan at a few conferences and was incredibly impressed with him,” explained GetGlue CEO Alex Iskold in an email. ”The past few months, I was just browsing LinkedIn and saw that he left Shazam. I reached out to him about a GetGlue opportunity and we started chatting and got really excited about working together.”

GetGlue is an entertainment hub for finding recommendations for shows and movies to watch, to meet other fans, and to earn stickers and prizes for watching TV.

Revenue had been on the back burner while the

Your Facebook friends (and even friends of friends) can be sources of job leads, if you know how to ask the right questions. Facebook’s search bar, Graph Search, has its own syntax, much like ordering a cup of coffee at Starbucks. To find friends who can introduce you to an employer, you’ll need to type a full sentence into the search bar. First, the basics.

Find people you know.

 

 

 

 

 

My friends = your contacts
My friends of friends = their friends who are not also friends with you
People = other people on Facebook that you are not connected to at all

Figure out what your friends do and where they work.

who are = occupation or job title
who used to be =

The latest update to Rounds’ video chat hangout mobile app for iOS and Android includes a co-browsing feature for friends to share the same web pages while they talk.

Rounds marketing director Natasha Shine-Zirkel said that the apps are designed to connect friends, not strangers, across different platforms in a safe environment. But it’s the activities that friends can share over the phone that makes the hangouts more like hanging out in real life.

Much like they could with Google+ Hangouts, Rounds users can watch YouTube videos and create camera effects while they chat, but they aren’t limited to using their Google accounts to log in. Rounds works with iPhone, Android, Web, Facebook, Desktop, and Chrome.

Mobile users can share pictures from their phones and scribble on each others’ video images with a drawing tool. There are a number of

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Digg Reader Will Launch Just Before Google Reader Shuts Down (SocialTimes)
Digg will open its new RSS platform, Digg Reader, just weeks ahead of Google Reader’s expiration date, the company announced on Monday. Beta testers will see the first version of the tool starting next week; everyone else will have access on June 26. CNET The first version of the reader — which lets users import feeds and folders straight from the soon-to-be defunct Google Reader — will have basic functions, along with a tool that allows users to push what they think are the most important stories to the top. Digg promises to add more over the next few months. TechCrunch The Digg team says the service will ultimately become a “freemium”