New Facebook Pages getting developer attention
Facebook is continually trying to redesign its site to be a better way for people to share information. It is concerned about increasing competition from other social networks and from sites like Twitter. Its latest effort to do so - a redesign announced and partially rolled out last week - seems to be on the right track, judging by the rising interest among third parties. A number of large brands have already launched new versions of the company's advertising feature, Pages. These brands are still trying to figure out how to reach web users anyway - so it's perhaps more significant that StockTwits, a prominent stock-sharing site designed around Twitter, is making its own push to get Facebook users via the new Pages. StockTwits is trying to build a valuable vertical community on Facebook by combining its users' stock tweets with new Pages features.
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