Posted by admin on July 8, 2009 ·
Facebook has been endlessly innovating its way through easy user interface, multiple entertaining and news based applications and its resourceful abilities for social networking. Many conclude facebook as a revenue breeding enterprise.
It is no surprise knowing from research reports that foretell facebook’s future to take the greatest toll as the greatest social networking platform in the [...]
Posted by admin on July 7, 2009 ·
Michael Jackson, for whom fans once died to see him perform live are now gathering to attend his memorial. Hundreds of thousand of his fans are assembling to give their king of pop a last commemoration. How can Facebook get behind in honoring the greatest musical legend of all?
Michael Jackson is the most popular celeb on Facebook beating Barak Obama with around 7 million fans on his fan page. [...]
Posted by admin on July 6, 2009 ·
Over the years, facebook has only shown signs of progression and has proven to be a great platform for advertisers who can derive maximum profits through engagement ads. The social network of facebook not only helps you to interact with your potential customers in a very convenient system but it also helps to enhance brand reliability, brand consciousness, and sales growth.
The core services [...]
Posted by admin on July 3, 2009 ·
Facebook’s lead engineer for iPhone applications, Joe Hewitt, has announced an upcoming release of the 3rd version of iPhone applications. According to Joe, “98%” of the development work is completed and he will be announcing the launch as soon as he has delivered the latest version to Apple.
Following are the key features on Facebook for iPhone 3.0:
1. The “new” News feed
2. Like
3. [...]
Posted by admin on June 22, 2009 ·
Facebook has newly appointed yet another ex-google employee to its rank. It has been reported that facebook has hired Greg Badros, a former senior director of engineering at google, as a new director of engineering for facebook.
Greg Badros’s major responsibilities at Google, as a senior director of engineering, included engineering AdSense that started off back in 2004 and helped the company’s [...]
Posted by admin on June 18, 2009 ·
According to the recent data reports, Facebook has exceeded 1 billion chat messages, per day, on 17th June, Wednesday 2009. Facebook chat was introduced in 2008 but in a very short while, this little gizmo has certainly proved to be a great resource for its users for instant messaging. It is no surprise that facebook has witnessed its chat application grow thrice in size in the last 4 months [...]
Posted by admin on June 16, 2009 ·
The famed king Sanford Wallace faced a federal lawsuit by facebook at the starting of this year (February 24th, 2009) as well as Adam Arzoomanian, and Scott Shaw for crimes under the CAN-SPAM Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the California Anti-Phishing Act.
However, it is no surprise that Sanford Wallace declared he is bankrupt last Friday, 12th June, 2009, which was likely to cause [...]
Posted by admin on June 11, 2009 ·
Before we start thinking about the future, let�s stop for a minute and take a look at Facebook, what it is, and where it has been. It was founded in 2004, with the intention of creating a friendly environment for users to share, consume, and generate social connections and information. It was designed for users to represent their true identities (remember how incredibly anonymous the Internet [...]
Posted by admin on June 10, 2009 ·
If you�re reading this, then you probably know that Facebook is an extremely widespread platform, with more than 52,000 applications that help users to interact and expand their social connections. It�s only natural that Flickr integration applications are starting to play a significant and comprehensive role in the app landscape, as they combine the social networking power of Facebook with [...]
Posted by admin on June 8, 2009 ·
Facebook adds another feather to its hat through successful collaboration with XBOX 360. This is certainly an Xbox gamers� dream, root deeper into a far greater social connectivity.
Displaying the Xbox gamer tag on your profile page, you can exhibit your score and all of your accomplishments. Privacy issues are of utmost concern so if you don�t wish to display any result for a particular [...]
Posted by admin on May 26, 2009 ·
If you�re one of those gourmets and you want to pick up a new restaurant for eating out this evening; what are you expected to do? Do a bit of Google-ing or ask your friends about a nice, cool place? Most probably you ask your friends or colleagues at work � because you trust their opinion and experience. This is one of the primary differences between Google and social networks that can give [...]
Posted by admin on May 21, 2009 ·
Tim O�Shaughnessy, CEO of LivingSocial, recently made a statement that might not be very surprising to most of us but it sure is contemplating. He said, �It wouldn't surprise me if apps on Facebook generate more revenue this year than Facebook� and when a CEO of the company with the biggest app on the platform says this, it does signify a meaning.
Applications on Facebook are thriving [...]
Posted by admin on May 19, 2009 ·
Recently, Facebook has announced its support for OpenID. Now, you can easily register on Facebook with your Gmail account and existing users can enjoy an automatic login while they access their Gmail. This sounds like a sigh of relief to the internet browsers who no longer need to remember multiple addresses and passwords and of course it gets a lot easier for new users to register themselves [...]
Posted by admin on May 13, 2009 ·
Facebook seems to have set its goal to get itself on every handset. Growing trend of Facebook mobile usage vividly shows the outburst in interactivity. 13% of the total Facebook users log in using their mobile phones emphasizing industry analysts to believe in the potential growth of the online mobile industry.
m.facebook.com � a basic interface specifically for Facebook users designed for [...]