Is Orkut.com Really Dead As It Is Made Out To Be?
Posted on July 10th, 2010 | 0 CommentsIt has always been a popular topic to gossip about in this part of the world – Is Orkut.com, the much famed social network from Google which, at one point in time was synonymous with social networking in countries like India, really dead? A recent post from TechCrunch shows some stark realities of this much [...]
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 USA – Contradictory Reports On Growth And Usage
Posted on July 8th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThere have been two reports on Facebook in the past 24 hours that offer some very contradicting pictures of the growth of the popular social network in the North American region. According to a report published by Lightspeed Research, Americans are getting increasingly obsessed with the social network with 34% of American women between 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 [...]
FIFA On Facebook Coming Soon
Posted on May 12th, 2010 | 0 CommentsAt a time when there are speculations over Zynga moving their cash cow Farmville outside Facebook to a dedicated site, Electronic Arts, one of the long-time heavyweights in the gaming industry are taking their first baby steps towards integrating their games to the social media space. According to EA CEO Peter Moore, a Facebook version [...]
Facebook Geolocation Feature Confirmed
Posted on May 10th, 2010 | 0 CommentsRumors have been doing the rounds is Facebook is onto something on the location front. TechCrunch has noted snippets of code from Facebook’s touchscreen version touch.facebook.com which point to a feature that can pull in information regarding the users’ latitude, longitude, altitude, heading and speed. In a more implicit confirmation of the same, the company [...]
Facebook Fan Pages Advertising On Google Adsense
Posted on May 4th, 2010 | 0 CommentsI am not sure if this has existed for quite a while. However this is probably the first time I see a Facebook fan page advertising on Google Adsense. A complete block of Facebook fan page for Kissmetrics showing up where my Adsense blocks should have been Display and video ads are not exactly new. [...]