Geographic Distribution Of Facebook Users
Posted on July 22nd, 2010 | 0 CommentsFacebook has reached 500 million users – You learnt about this either on news, or from the newspapers (if you read one) or on one of your favorite blogs or from Facebook.com itself. So where have these million of new users come from? According to an article on the O’Reilly blog, Africa is the fastest [...]
How to Organize Facebook Friends Into Groups?
Posted on July 15th, 2010 | 0 CommentsAre all your ‘friends’ on Facebook actually your friends? Well, quite a lot of your contacts may be your childhood friends or contacts from yesteryears who you may not speak to on a regular basis. Also, a few of your friends are family, others from high school and a few more from your music class. [...]
Will Facebook Charge Users For Website Access? Never
Posted on July 13th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThis is one rumor that will never die ever. For more than two years, there have been repeated speculation among the Facebook regulars that the world’s most popular social network may finally begin to charge users for access to the website. There have been blogs, fan pages and Facebook groups created by ill-informed users to [...]
Classmates.com Privacy Lawsuit Asked To Be Dismissed
Posted on July 12th, 2010 | 0 CommentsClassmates.com – one of the earliest social networking websites from United Online has been battling a lawsuit that argues that the website wrongly violated the privacy of its users by making information about users accessible via other third party websites like Facebook and on devices like the iPhone. The lawsuit was filed by two Classmates.com [...]
How To Video Chat On Facebook
Posted on July 10th, 2010 | 0 CommentsWith over 500 million users, Facebook is without doubt one of the most popular websites on the planet. But it’s a pity that the chat functionality on Facebook is nothing more than elementary. Fortunately though, Facebook supports third party applications that bring additional functionalities to the Facebook platform. vChatter is one such application that brings [...]
Create Photo Slideshows From Facebook Or iPhone With MediaStory App
Posted on July 10th, 2010 | 0 CommentsWant to create slideshows of your Facebook photo albums? MediaStory is a nifty application that will help you with that. The app will allow users to upload pictures either from their Facebook album or upload them directly to the application while creating the slideshow. MediaStory is available as both a web application on Facebook or [...]
Facebook Gifts Virtual Giftshop To Be Closed
Posted on July 9th, 2010 | 0 CommentsFacebook has announced that the virtual giftshop that allowed users to gift virtual goodies to friends shall be closed shortly. In a message posted on the Facebook blog, Jared Morgenstern – a Facebook employee writes, “Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the [...]
Facebook Social Context Ads – Is It Attractive Enough
Posted on July 8th, 2010 | 0 CommentsMonetization has been a big problem for social networks. Earlier this week, Twitter announced @earlybird – a simple Twitter account that will bring deals from partner websites. It’s a simple concept that, with proper promotion and attractive deals, shall help the company make some significant amount of money. Facebook has had its fair share of [...]
Upload Videos From iPhone To Facebook Directly
Posted on June 14th, 2010 | 0 CommentsDoes this feature appeal to you? A feature that will iPhone users to upload videos captured on their iPhone directly to their Facebook account could soon be a reality. 9to5Mac has published a small bit of code from iOS 4 that points out the possibility of Facebook video uploading becoming available soon. As you can [...]
Facebook SDK For Android Better Than iPhone SDK
Posted on May 28th, 2010 | 0 CommentsFacebook for iPhone came first and until today continues to be one of the most downloaded apps on the App Store. However, Android is where Facebook is putting its money at. The company has now released its official Android SDK for developers and from the looks of it, it is far more superior than Facebook’s [...]