4
Sep
2009
Facebook 3.0 on iPhone
Facebook 3.0 adds a operation of brand new facilities as well as enhancements together with landscape mode, push notification not among new adds
Facebook 3.0, a ultimate chronicle of a iPhone focus from a renouned amicable networking site, is right away accessible from a Apple iTunes App Store.
Facebook 3.0 adds a operation of brand brand brand new facilities as well as enhancements together with landscape mode, a capability to see arriving events as well as RSVP, arriving friends’ birthdays, see pages as well as post updates as well as photos to pages we administer, write records as well as review friends’ notes.
Additional brand brand brand new facilities in a 3.0 refurbish embody a event to upload video approach from a iPhone 3GS, upload as well as conduct print albums, together with formulating as well as deletion albums as well as photos along with tags as well as becoming different your form picture.
iPhone as well as iPod users can right away wizz in upon photos, similar to photos as well as posts, see a same headlines feed as a Facebook website as well as revisit links in a built-in browser.
Push notification, introduced in a iPhone 3.0 Software Update, isn’t nonetheless operative in a ultimate Facebook focus update.
Push notification, allows an focus to attend for messages being ‘pushed’ to it from a server, even when a applications aren’t running.
Writing upon Facebook final month a association pronounced a choice was still a small approach from being ready. “The a single underline everybody is asking for, pull notifications, is in growth though it won’t have it in to 3.0. You can design it in a 3.1 refurbish after this summer,” Facebook’s Joe wrote.
Available from a Apple iTunes App Store Facebook for iPhone as well as iPod hold is giveaway as well as requires a iPhone 3.0 Software Update.
16
Jul
2009
CrunchUp Live: The Real-Time Moment
Today, at our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp conference Erick Schonfeld is sitting down with Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter; Chris Cox of Facebook; and Bret Taylor, co-founder of FriendFeed.
Erick: Jack, tell us why you decided to present the info that’s coming through Twitter as a stream of information and why is it resonating?
JD: It’s the way I’ve always been visualizing information. A stream, imagine a 911 calls a typical center gets, and those calls flowing into a stream that bubbles up makes sense. We developed it over many iterations.
ES: Facebook always had a stream element, but with the latest re-design this has been emphasized in a big way. How’s that going? Read the rest of this entry »
15
Jul
2009
The Facebook Doctrine: Gaming And The Future
The potential for Facebook to be a massive platform for game development seems difficult to understate as of mid-2009. Already, it’s host to a huge number of games, several of which pull in millions of users on a regular basis.
In fact, several game on Facebook have surpassed World of Warcraft’s subscriber base in terms of monthly unique players, as recent charts have shown. Of course, none of the social network-based MMOs charge $15 a month to play — and many of the players never buy virtual items, which monetize these games. But many do, as the landscape rapidly evolves, and it’s becoming clear that you can build userbase for online games incredibly fast using social networks.
It’s been just over two years since Facebook was opened up as a platform to application developers. Companies have been founded, have released games, have become profitable, and most recently, have begun to hire talent from the mainstream development of console and PC packaged software. Read the rest of this entry »
14
Jul
2009
Playful New Ways to Waste Your Time
Facebook provides so many ways to while away your existence.
Do I want to read about the latest baby exploits from the legion of young mothers? Do I want to try to decipher the existential koans some of my friends seem to mistake for status updates? Perhaps click through a few dozen random party pictures? It’s all so diverting.
Yes, for the vast millions on Facebook, “diverting” is perhaps the best way to describe the routine of checking back a few, or a few dozen, times a day. Checking Facebook begins as something you do between everything else — answering the phone, writing e-mail, actually working — until one day you realize you spent an entire afternoon fitting everything else between your time on Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »
11
Jul
2009
Power.com Countersues Facebook Over Data Portability
The Data Portability wars just got a little more interesting. Power.com, the service that lets users aggregate their social networks into a single hub, is countersuing Facebook for restricting users’ ability to export and move their own data. The company is claiming that Facebook is unlawfully withholding the data that users own (as stated in Facebook’s own ToS), and is stifling competition by refusing to allow third party services like Power.com to access the data, among other things. This should be fun.
It’s been over six months since we last heard about these two duking it out, so here’s a quick refresher: Power.com launched last August, offering users the ability to import their latest updates and user information from Facebook, MySpace, and a number of other social networks. It did so by tapping into the social networks’ APIs when available, but also by scraping user data when they couldn’t access it through other means ? a big no-no for most social networks, as we saw with the Scoble/Plaxo fiasco. It didn’t take long for Facebook to file suit against Power.com for scraping user data and storing user credentials (another violation of Facebook’s ToS). A week later we heard that the two parties might be close to a settlement, but apparently that didn’t work out ? the suit is still pending. Read the rest of this entry »
11
Jul
2009
Facebook Lures Advertisers at MySpace’s Expense
An eMarketer study says ad sales are climbing at Facebook, which recently surpassed MySpace in the number of U.S. visitors
Facebook has won over millions of users from social networking pioneer MySpace. It’s becoming more alluring to advertisers, too.
Even as overall U.S. advertising spending on social networks declines this year, ad sales are on the rise at Facebook, and the company is gaining a larger slice of the pie at the expense of News Corp.’s (NWS) MySpace, according to a new report from marketing researcher eMarketer. Read the rest of this entry »
