Related: I really dig the work KitCrm.com are doing in making it easy for businesses to buy FB ads and do light marketing via SMS & messenger.
M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
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#22It's M, not Q.
We've changed the title. 'Q' for 'M' is unusual; if a typo, it was a non-Qwerty one.
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#23My main question is - how did facebook make a HUGE picture show up when you share this page on facebook? Anyone know?
og:image - An image URL which should represent your object within the graph. http://ogp.me/
But usually it shows up as a small image
Apparently this is 4 images and it shows up like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1n8wkixfimkmvlr/Screenshot%202015-...
Can anyone do this? If so, how exactly?
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#24The first thing I see when someone asks "find me a good burger place in Chicago" is "how can companies game this through official ($) or artificial (spam) means?"
The first thing I thought after seeing that example is FB is the new Yelp. Restaurants will have to pay FB for visibility and recognition... Same thing as Yelp, just a lot scarier.
Have mixed feelings about this like I'm sure many do. Greater convenience, but less and less privacy.. Our Fb/goog/nsa overlords know what we eat, where we shit, all of our conversations and relationships. What a scary world we live in.
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#25I really love the logo. I kind of wish they'd made it a mobius strip (this one has two sides), but either way, it's awesome.
That's Visual Studio logo.
The old one is a mobius strip. The new one is more angular and 1 color. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/visual-studio-homepage-vs...
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#26Facebook's answer to Magic?
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#27It's M! http://www.wired.com/2015/08/how-facebook-m-works/
Since that article contains more detail, we've changed the URL to it from https://www.facebook.com/Davemarcus/posts/10156070660595195. Happy to change it again if anyone can suggest a better.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. I assume OP was going for the James Bond feel, but it is M.
> I assume OP was going for the James Bond feel Well, M is also a fictional character in James Bond - head of MI6.
Yes, but I meant more from the gadget-assistant side of things.
Q seems fitting (in terms of James Bond characters) to be your personal AI.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
og:image - An image URL which should represent your object within the graph. http://ogp.me/
But usually it shows up as a small image Apparently this is 4 images and it shows up like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1n8wkixfimkmvlr/Screenshot%202015-... Can anyone do this? If so, how exactly?
It appears to be a photo post (i.e. images uploaded to FB natively) as opposed to a link post, where FB chooses a thumbnail for you (or not, if it's a YouTube link). I've been seeing posts like this when friends upload image albums (if more than 4 images, you get a 'see more' box in the lower right)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first thing I thought after seeing that example is FB is the new Yelp. Restaurants will have to pay FB for visibility and recognition... Same thing as Yelp, just a lot scarier.
Have mixed feelings about this like I'm sure many do. Greater convenience, but less and less privacy.. Our Fb/goog/nsa overlords know what we eat, where we shit, all of our conversations and relationships. What a scary world we live in.
Not to mention, it's probably less useful.
I am actually okay with the privacy I give up when using Google Now, for example, because being passively informed about things I'm getting shipped to my house, about traffic conditions to/from my house, etc. is nice. Giving up privacy seems justifiable in those instances.
But FB suggesting restaurants, I just know that there will be money exchanging hands. FB being FB, will extort small business owners into paying them hand over fist to get considered for suggestions to the user.