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Luxury accessories designer Michael Kors launched its “What’s in Your Kors” digital-media campaign Tuesday, focusing its efforts on Facebook-owned photo-sharing network Instagram, as well as Twitter. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Even if it’s not part of Facebook’s big announcement on June 20, it appears that video is a possibility for Instagram. Developer Tom Waddington posted on his blog that he dug deep into Instagram’s code, finding hints the photo-sharing service may add video soon. Waddington wrote that he found video code when he was going through Instagram’s application programming interface, as well as images for play, pause and volume control. This gives more weight to the recent rumors that Facebook will attempt to compete with Twitter’s popular video-sharing program Vine by adding similar capabilities to Instagram. He noted that the mute button stored in the code for a photo-sharing app is the big giveaway that Instagram is working on adding video — if not now, then definitely in the near future. Here’s what tipped off Waddington to the potential for video within Instagram: Despite this, Waddington doesn’t think that the June 20 announcement is about video on Instagram: I’d be doubtful that the event invitations sent out could be anything to do with Instagram. Facebook needs a strong launch for their next product. I can’t see a coffee-cup stain connecting with video features. My best guest would be a Flipboard competitor – Facebook wants to get a coffee-cup’s worth of time each morning. Monthly Active Users is a tough metric to keep growing – the next most important measurement would be Time On Site. A Flipboard-style section, with top social articles, content from RSS feeds and stories from sites you’ve Liked could easily become a daily destination to catch up on the web. And, it’d be sure to push up Time On Site, and, in turn, possible revenue from advertisers. Readers: What do you think Facebook will announce on June 20? Code banner image courtesy of Shutterstock.

The video ads Facebook originally planned to launch this month or in July are now on hold until at least mid-October, Ad Age reported, with sources telling the magazine more development is needed on new features the social network plains to release simultaneously with its video ads. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Facebook Head of Global Creative Solutions Mark D’Arcy and Director of Engineering Andrew Bosworth both stressed that advertisers on Facebook and elsewhere on the Internet have a lot of work to do during a panel Tuesday at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, “Cannes Seminar: Creativity at Scale.” continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Would you trade information on your location in exchange for free Wi-Fi access? Facebook is betting that the answer is yes. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Internet commerce giant Amazon integrated its Friends & Family Gifting feature with Facebook last December, and it added a new twist Tuesday in the ability to create and send group gift cards to Facebook friends. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Reports continue to circulate that Facebook’s mobile applications are draining the batteries of users’ devices, so Kevin Purdy, who writes the Mobilize! blog for IT World, reminded readers of an old solution — using Facebook’s mobile site as an alternative to its apps. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Be careful with the way you use Facebook’s tools. The minimum age function is great for filtering out teenagers from pages about adult topics like alcohol, but this is something you should decide when you first create your page and then never touch it again. For example, if you raise the minimum age of your page, you instantly wipe out your young fans.   Simply raising the minimum age cost this page 14,000, valued at nearly $14,980 (an average Facebook fan is worth $1.07, although some fans are worth more). Sure, they could buy more likes, but there’s no substitute for strategy. If you change your minimum age, make sure you want to change it for good, because not only do you prevent new people below the specified age from liking your page, you kick off existing ones too, and changing the minimum age back to normal doesn’t add them back again. Readers, have you ever gotten yourselves in trouble with a Facebook page feature? Let us know in the comments. Special thanks to Sean McNulty of BlitzMetrics for assembling the data for this article. Money image courtesy of Shutterstock.

Amid all of the intrigue about the new product Facebook will introduce Thursday, developer Tom Waddington has now found evidence to support both of the popular theories, following up his discovery of mentions of RSS in Facebook’s code last week, which potentially signifies some sort of news reader, with his unearthing of mentions of video in Instagram’s code, which could signal Facebook’s introduction of a video-sharing feature for its photo-sharing network. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Seoul Tuesday, first meeting with South Korean President Park Geun Hye, and then with executives from Samsung, according to reports. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.