Facebook billionaire Sean Parker‘s enchanted forest wedding to singer-songwriter Alexandra Lenas has been the subject of much blog fodder. The lavish occasion was chastised by many outlets after getting a $2.5 million from the California Coastal Commission. Then Parker blasted his critics in a 9,000+ word post on TechCrunch explaining the logistical problems that went into planning the event and issues with the hotel itself.

Vanity Fair has the latest scoop on the event, exclusively publishing photos from the grand fete that took place in Big Sur, CA in its September issue. Follow this link to see a 32 photo slideshow of the party which looks like it stepped right out of a fairy tale. The photos were taken by Christian Oth  and Mark Seliger.

Facebook joins Youtube, Twitter and Instagram in allowing news organizations to embed public Facebook posts within their websites and blogs. At this point the feature is only available to select news sites including Bleacher Report, CNN, Huffington Post, Mashable and PEOPLE, but the feature will be more widely available soon.

To figure out if a post is sharable, reporters at these companies can hover over a post and the drop down will give you the option to embed if the post is public. Then it’s as simple as cutting and pasting code, as you would with a tweet. Here is more about the new feature from the Facebook blog:

Embedded Posts display just like they do on Facebook, with the ability to show pictures, videos, hashtags, and other content. People can interact with Embedded Posts by:

• Liking or sharing the post directly from your web page
• Liking the Page or following other posts from the author using the top right button
• Visiting the post’s comments, photos, hashtags and other content on Facebook

Facebook recently added embedding to Instagram, allowing users to take public Instagram photos and videos and share them on their sites through an embed code.

Facebook has introduced a new pilot program for small developers to release their mobile games through the Facebook app called Mobile Games Publishing. The social network will promote select games across their mobile apps. The effort gives smaller developers a chance to show off their games to a larger audience and it gives Facebook users access to new games.

Here is more from the Facebook blog:

With more than 800 million monthly users of our mobile apps and more than 260 million people playing games on Facebook, we are using our unique reach and targeting capabilities to help games in our program find and engage a valuable audience of the right users. This program is designed to reach people who already play games on Facebook with new games that may interest them. For example, we will help strategy game fans find strategy games and casual game enthusiasts find casual games. Read more

Facebook’s “Facebook For Every Phone” app, a service that works on 3,000 different feature phones from dozens of handset manufacturers, now has more than 100 million people using it globally.

The company announced the milestone over the weekend. “This is an important milestone for us,” reads the announcement. “Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected, and Facebook For Every Phone enables people around the globe to connect to the people and things they care about most, no matter what kind of mobile device they use.”

According to Facebook many of the users are in developing markets around the globe. The app gives users access to Facebook and is specifically  designed to be easy for new users to sign up. In addition, it is designed to use less data to help users avoid data charges.

Facebook is currently rolling out its Graph Search tool for all users.

On the Morning Media Menu today, Social Times editor Devon Glenn discussed what media professionals need to know about Facebook’s newest function and explored the most abandoned books on Goodreads.

You can also use the tool to build a book club. Press play below to listen…

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Facebook has rolled out its new Open Graph social search feature, a tool that will help you find people who like the same things as you and search for particular themes among your friends.

Better Homes and Gardens is racking up the followers in social media. The magazine announced today that it has more than 1 million fans on Facebook and more than 370,000 followers on Pinterest.

To celebrate the Facebook reach, the publication has released a behind-the-scenes video thanking its fans along with a download of the most-shared content. What kinds of things are readers talking about on the BH&G Facebook fan page? Mostly home related things such as which colors they love in kitchens and what they would fix if they had a handyman for a day.

“Social media lets us stay in constant conversation with our consumer,” stated Gayle Butler, Editor-in-Chief at Better Homes and Gardens. “It enables us to give her quick bites of content throughout her day and also hear what’s on her mind.”

Facebook is opening its beta testing program to all Android users, so if you have a hankering for the latest and greatest from the social network, head over to the Google group. Why Google? Facebook is utilizing Google’s new beta testing program that allows companies to roll out updates in stages, by joining you’ll be getting previews of updates before most users.

Anyone can join the beta program. When you join, you will get a small batch of fixes and new features every month. We ask that you use your app as you normally would, but submit a report when you encounter a bug or other issue. Because the beta build will have features that are still in progress, the app may be less stable than you’re accustomed to. Feedback on stability, as well as any other performance issues you experience, is crucial and deeply appreciated.

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In a move to make it easier for users to follow their favorite authors and journalists, Facebook has added a new Open Graph tag that lets publishers highlight links to their page or to an author’s Facebook page directly in preview pages.

Once activated, Facebook users who see a post about an author or a book can simply click on the highlighted author or publisher name in order to follow or like them. Publishers simply have to add two lines of code to hyperlink their authors and pages to make this possible. Here is more from the Facebook blog:

article:publisher lets a publisher link an article to their own Facebook page. When the article is shared in News Feed, a “like” button is displayed so people can like the publisher page. article:author lets a publisher link an article to the Facebook profile of the author. When the article is shared in News Feed, a “follow” button is displayed so people can follow the author. The author needs to have Follow activated on his or her profile for this button to appear. Read more

Facebook has added clickable hashtags to its site allowing members to click on a hashtag to view conversations on specific subjects in real time. The idea is to make socializing around events such as the Super Bowl or the season opener of Mad Men reach beyond a Facebook user’s own social network.

Like on other social networks, when you click on a hashtag on Facebook, you’ll be able to see a feed of what other people and even pages are saying about that topic or event. Facebook users will still be able to control their privacy settings, so only hashtags that are made public will be available for full public consumption.

The social network has plans to roll out additional conversation features in the near future. Here is more from Facebook’s blog:

Hashtags are just the first step to help people more easily discover what others are saying about a specific topic and participate in public conversations. We’ll continue to roll out more features in the coming weeks and months, including trending hashtags and deeper insights, that help people discover more of the world’s conversations.