UPDATED: Facebook’s photo comments returned after brief outing + MORE

(UPDATE: It appears that the feature was just taken offline for a bit, and has since returned. Facebook told Inside Facebook that it is something the site is still rolling out.)
Some Facebook features are obviously more well received than others. Still, others seem like a good idea at the time, but upon “poking” into it further … not so much…

YouTube’s Partner Program, which provides creators with marketing resources and production tips, is now expanding to include advertisers. The pilot program is designed to educate advertisers on their YouTube strategies, similar to what it has been doing for other YouTube creators over the past few years…

Is your website or blog mobile-ready? Are you wondering how to optimize it for mobile users? To learn about the opportunities available in the mobile marketing world, I interview Greg Hickman for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media […

Facebook has removed 16 job listings from its careers page including a major position in the manager of Public Policy based out of France.
Listings removed from Facebook’s careers page:

Manager, Public Policy, France (Paris)
Construction Project Manager (Contract) (Singapore)
Customs and Trade Manager (Menlo Park)
Finance Manager – Data Center Infrastructure (Menlo Park)
Technical Account Manager – Facebook Exchange, PMD Program (Menlo Park)
Team Lead, Product Operations (Menlo Park)
Advertising Technical Support Engineer (Seattle)
Internal Product Manager, Recruiting and People Tools (Menlo Park)
eCrime Investigator (Austin – Menlo Park)
Data Center Network Technician (Hong Kong – Malaysia – Seoul – Singapore)
Data Center Technical Operations Manager (ATN) (Altoona)
Environmental Health and Safety Engineer (Menlo Park)
Analyst, Risk Operations (Hyderabad) (Hyderabad)
Specialist, Risk Operations (Hyderabad) (Hyderabad)
Intellectual Property Associate, User Operations (Menlo Park)
Sales Operations Project Manager (MPK), Strategic Client Services (Menlo Park)
Data Analyst (London)

Fancy has rolled its Fancy Anywhere button onto Tumblr, allowing publishers to embed the service’s crowd-sourced catalog on their sites and earn money from purchase referrals.
Fancy Anywhere already lets creators post affiliate links and photos on their own blogs and websites, and the new Tumblr integration should be a natural fit for users of the microblogging service…

As LeBron James and the Miami Heat won their second consecutive NBA title Thursday night, Facebook was abuzz with posts about the game. The NBA posted behind-the-scenes photos, James thanked his fans, and Nike even utilized the new video features on Instagram for a popular and engaging post. Facebook reported that there were more than 100 million Facebook engagements leading up to Thursday’s night decisive seventh game of the NBA Finals…

Not long after Instagram launched its video features, it appears that Facebook made a change in how Instagram’s stories are shown in the redesigned News Feed.
Specifically, stories that showed when a user liked photos on Instagram have gotten much bigger. Video posts from Instagram to Facebook are also pretty large…

Online shopping is the way of the future, and retailers across the globe must keep in step with that trend.
ExactTarget created an infographic that looks at where the global retail marketing field is headed, including future customers’ purchase journey, the need for multi-channel marketing, the growing emphasis on mobile, and big data…

July 9-10, 2013
San Francisco, CA

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There are tons of apps out there for sharing photos and videos. Heck, just this week, Facebook-owned Instagram added video sharing, and it’s already popular.
But what if you want to easily share a set of photos, videos, audio, and text in a single album? That’s where St…

It never fails: You go to a concert and while watching the performance, something strikes your eye. Typically, it’s a patron who’s dressed oddly or a moshpit forming around you. However, in this instance, it was much different.
During their set at Bonnaroo, Wu-Tang performed and an ASL interpreter signed…

Today, there’s a long list of apps and services that sit at the intersection of fitness and mobile technology and leverage everything from social dynamics and behavioral economics to Quanitifed Self-inspired tracking to motivate us to be more active and drop a few pounds. There’s Lift, Nike+, Basis, RunKeeper, Runtastic, Fitocracy, Endomondo and MyFitnessPal — the list goes on and on…

Facebook today reported its most significant exposure of user data to date, saying that partial or complete contact information belonging to 6 million users was inadvertently downloaded by other Facebook users who had some connection to them.
“Although the practical impact of this bug is likely to be minimal since … it’s still something we’re upset and embarrassed by, and we’ll work doubly hard to make sure nothing like this happens again,” the company said in statement released Friday afternoon to its security page…