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Life After the News Feed: Why Facebook is Shifting to Stories (And Why Your Business Should Too)

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The News Feed is one of Facebook’s marque innovations. Rolled out to users in 2006, it became the go-to place for people to connect with their friends, share updates about their day-to-day life and enjoy content from brands they followed. For nearly a decade, the News Feed was the jewel in Facebook’s crown.

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The News Feed is Outdated: How Stories Changed the Way I Think About Social Media

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The News Feed is outdated and stories are becoming the default for content consumption. Facebook, for example, didn’t invent the vertical scrolling feed. For decades, way before Mark Zuckerburg even enrolled in Harvard, online content has been viewed in vertical, scrolling feeds.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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LinkedIn “in the Black” (2006) In sharp contrast to other networks, LinkedIn was the first to offer users paid premium packages. Ahead of its acquisition by Google in the fall of 2006, the site grew to 100 million videos watched by 20 million dedicated users. and really set the tone for future tweets. My, how times have(n’t) changed!)

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Revamping Old Content

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Unloads Delicious Kudos To HubPages » Revamping Old Content About once a year or so you should go through your old content and update it. This includes your static content, blog content, and maybe even your social media content. And still other content will need a major overhaul.

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Types Of HTML 5 Content | Small Business Mavericks

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» Types Of HTML 5 Content Since 1998, the widely accepted generation of HTML in use has been HTML 4. One of the more interesting developments is in the categories of content that HTML 5 editors are offering. I see the most potential for HTML 5 being in the embedded and interactive content categories. With Web 2.0

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How I Went Viral on X (Formerly Twitter): An In-Depth Analysis

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How X curates content feeds X’s algorithm initially fetches around 1,500 posts for a user in a session, drawing from two sources: in-network (posts from people you follow) and out-of-network (posts from those you don’t follow, also known as a ‘For You’ feed). Here are some key takeaways.

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Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough?

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» Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough? Thursday, Google introduced a new algorithm to reduce the rankings of content farms in its search results. The interesting thing here is that the algorithm was introduced just days after a Google Chrome extension allowing users to block content farms from their search results.

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