Articles Tagged “Facebook”
Facebook mobile app to get Instagram-like picture treatment
by Bams Sadewo on May 16, 2012 0 Comments">0
With more and more people accessing the web on their mobile devices, web companies strive create apps that can recreate a full web browsing experience, albeit in a simpler package. A consistent user interface across devices can drive people to use it more, which is vital for companies like Facebook, that increasingly depend on mobile ads. The latest revision of the Facebook app for Android and iOS, as well as its mobile site, brings an improved design for the posts in news feed. Gone are the days when you had to squint your eyes to figure out the thumbnail pictures in the news …
Wondering why Facebook is so focused on mobile? Here’s a possible answer
by Adrian Diaconescu on May 09, 2012 0 Comments">0
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and one of the youngest billionaires in the world, shocked us all when he announced that Facebook would purchase Instagram for $1 billion. The deal went through immediately, and, while most industry pundits saw it as the action of an eccentric, wealthy young man, the acquisition might have been part of a well-thought “strategy” after all. At least that’s what financial analysts are claiming after reviewing the results of a very interesting ComScore report. According to the report, people actually spend more time on Facebook on their mobile devices over than their PCs. The study was …
Facebook Messenger app gets read receipts and locations features; ignoring people just got harder
by Bams Sadewo on May 07, 2012 2 Comments">2
For those that can’t resist the lure of profile hopping on Facebook, there’s a stand-alone Facebook Messenger app that still allows you to engage in conversation with your Facebook friends, without the usual distractions. In a bid to become the messaging platform of choice, Facebook has updated its Messenger app for both Android and iOS, bringing them closer to competing platforms, in terms of looks and functionality. The updated mobile Messenger application now comes with a “read receipts” feature, which lets you see whether the messages you send to your friends have been read or not. Since it works both ways, this …
Digitimes: Google chose Samsung for the next Nexus phone, HTC finds consolation in Facebook’s arms
by Bams Sadewo on Apr 25, 2012 3 Comments">3
There’s a tradition in Google’s household to select one manufacturer to produce the Nexus smartphone every year or so. HTC was chosen to produce the first Google flagship smartphone, and the result was the Nexus One, released in January 2010. Samsung’s rise to the top made Google hand out the next two golden tickets to the South Korean company. Thus, we saw the birth of the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus. The fourth Google Nexus phone is still hotly contested, but it appears that HTC is out of the game. According to Digitimes, it’s all but certain that HTC won’t …
Facebook for Android updated, brings performance boost and new features
by Adrian Diaconescu on Apr 23, 2012 4 Comments">4
Facebook is by far the world’s biggest and most popular social networking service these days, yet its users are always complaining about the website’s performance, its updates, or its interface. The new timeline is pretty much hated by everyone out there and Zuckerberg’s “jewel” is not doing very well when it comes to mobile versions either. The Facebook for Android app has been around for almost three years now, but the poor performance and numerous bugs and glitches have made a lot of mobile users pass on it. But there is some good news on this front. The app’s latest update has …
Ovoto: Sharing photos and polling your Facebook and Twitter friends
by Carl Parker on Apr 21, 2012 0 Comments">0
If you’ve ever been caught in a dilemma, you’ll know that calling up a friend or a relative is the best way to resolve it. Instead of standing there, waffling over an item to purchase or an item to wear, it’s so much easier to ask someone for her or his opinion. But, if the person isn’t with you, how can he or she properly analyze your dilemma? You could send the person a picture of the item, but what if you wanted more than one friend’s opinion? For situations like that, there’s Ovoto. Ovoto, developed by HayStaks, was first …
Video: Jon Stewart pokes fun at Google Glass and Instagram
by Bams Sadewo on Apr 16, 2012 0 Comments">0
If you can dream it, Google can probably make it. And if you’re lucky, it’ll spawn countless parodies on YouTube and end up on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. We’re talking about Google Glass and Instagram, two sizzling topics of last week that have somewhat irked the host, all in jest, of course. In his usual irreverent style, Jon Stewart wonders about the absurdity of Google Glass and the recent acquisition of Instagram by Facebook. Does the comedian extraordinaire think that Google is “the world’s biggest database of people whizzing in public?” Did he really say that Instagram ruins pictures? Why would Facebook …
What Sergey Brin thinks of Facebook, Apple, and the freedom of speech on the Internet
by Bams Sadewo on Apr 16, 2012 8 Comments">8
As the founder of a company whose publicly assumed goal is to make the world’s information universally accessible and useful, Google’s Sergey Brin doesn’t have very nice things to say about Big G’s competitors and other Internet players. Convinced that there are “very powerful forces lined up against the open Internet on all sides and around the world”, Brin revealed in an interview with The Guardian that he’s now more worried than he’s ever been in the past. In his own words, it’s a scary world out there. Echoing the sentiments that Larry Page, Google’s other founder and the company’s current CEO, has …
Facebook agrees to buy Instagram for $1Billion Dollars [Breaking News]
by Sam Cater on Apr 09, 2012 1 Comments">1
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A few days ago we had some articles on Instagram, the immensely popular photo-editing and sharing application. It gained unbelievable momentum on iOS, and was released to Android late last month. Facebook’s owner Mark Zuckerberg announced their planned acquisition of the application for One Billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) on his public Timeline. This compensation is understood to be a mixture of Cash and Stock. It seems that Instagram will continue to be built as a separate entity to Facebook, but the services will start to have increasing inter-network ties to one another. An important point to note in the letter is: …
Exfoliate for Facebook: Tool for pruning old Facebook posts on Android
by Paul Nuñal on Mar 21, 2012 0 Comments">0
Facebook has become the social networking hub of many users these days and since its mainstream launch way back in 2006–2007, many users have already considered it a place to call online home. Today, Facebook hosts about 600 million active accounts ranging from mid-teen users to adults. Throughout Facebook’s lifespan, the social networking site has made numerous changes and upgrades, the most notable of which is the Timeline feature. Facebook has already captured the hearts of many of its users with its most memorable updates and photos. And, with the Timeline feature being implemented, many users have found themselves in …
Android App for Producing Amazing Facebook Timeline Cover Photos Now Available
by Christine Torralba on Jan 20, 2012 3 Comments">3
Now that Facebook is slowly converting profiles into the new Timeline version, a new Android app has made things easier for those who want to change their cover photos. The app, called Facebook Timeline Covers by D33P, is the first 2D-to-3D Facebook photo app. This means that through the app, Facebook Timeline cover photos can be created using the user’s own photos or even the cover arts produced by D33P. “The Facebook Timeline design has already been adopted by users around the world, and the design has the cover photo and the profile picture placed tightly together. This layout has …
INQ Abandons the “Facebook Phone” in Favor of Android 4.0
by Lucian Armasu on Jan 06, 2012 0 Comments">0
I never thought the “Facebook phone” idea will catch on, because I don’t think Facebook is “enough of a service” to warrant making a whole phone around it. Plus, this was most likely a push from Facebook than anything else, which means it didn’t really come into the market in a natural way, and the market rejected it. The “INQ Cloud Q” Facebook phone apparently wasn’t very successful in the market, and neither were some of the Facebook phones of HTC. So this idea is pretty much dead now. Plus, HTC needs to do a whole lot more if they …
How to Enable Facebook Contact Sync in Ice Cream Sandwich
by Paul Nuñal on Jan 03, 2012 2 Comments">2
Many people just love the way their list of contacts is brightly lit with photos from their contacts’ Facebook accounts. If you have hundreds of contacts on your list, seeing photos of your contacts can actually help you find contact information more easily. Synchronization has always been an integral part of Android. From calendar, contacts, weather, to Facebook friends, everything is automated and information is wirelessly synced with your phone. In Android 2.3 Gingerbread, enabling Facebook sync was a rather straightforward and uncomplicated process. Just launch the app, choose to sync all contacts, and you’re good to go. The case …
How to Add Facebook Friends by Tapping Two NFC Phones Together
by Paul Nuñal on Dec 31, 2011 1 Comments">1
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has become the next big thing these days as many manufacturers are bringing the technology into many of their mobile phones. If you ever thought that NFC-enabled phones are primarily being used for wiring monetary transactions, well, think again. While the majority of Android phone users are beginning to adopt Google Wallet as a means for wirelessly paying for their purchases, don’t you know that you can also do other neat stuff with your NFC-enabled phone like adding friends to your Facebook account? For the latter, you have the Add Friend (Facebook) app available …
How to Run a Photo Slideshow of Your Facebook Friends When They Call You
by Paul Nuñal on Dec 29, 2011 1 Comments">1
Facebook has become the social media hub for many netizens and has grown so huge that keeping tabs on friends online has become as easy as sifting through your phone’s address book. Another great thing about Facebook is the multitude of apps surrounding the popular social networking site. Developers are crafting new applications to be integrated with Facebook. One such application is Facetones. Facetones is a free application that specifically aims to bring your Facebook experience up to the next level. From the name itself, Facetones integrates Facebook and your mobile phone into one social media hub that provides you …
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