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Facebook serves up bigger photo fun

March 3rd, 2010 11:16am mike s No comments

Facebook serves up bigger photo funFacebook has just announced that it’s rolling out an increase in the maximum image sizes allowed for photo updates.

Promised back at the end of January, the increase brushes aside the previous image limitation of 604 pixels and elevates it to the heady heights of 720 pixels.

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Facebook for Windows Mobile 1.2 released

March 1st, 2010 11:28am Lee J. No comments

Facebook for Windows Mobile 1.2 releasedIt’s been lagging behind mobile versions on Facebook on other platforms, but Microsoft’s updated Facebook app for Windows Mobile finally adds a sorely missed feature: the ability to add comments to posts made by friends.

The updated app – now hitting v1.2 – also lets users “like” their friends’ posts.

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Facebook eats the Internet, sucks up 7 hours a month of its users

February 17th, 2010 10:48am mike s 1 comment

Facebook eats the Internet, sucks up 7 hours a month of its users

New figures from Nielsen show that the average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and Amazon combined.

What’s more, people are spending more and more time on the social networking site. There’s no escape!

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Facebook Zero: a text-only, slimmed down site for mobile phones

February 16th, 2010 8:00pm Lee J. No comments

Facebook Zero: a text-only, slimmed down site for mobile phonesFacebook has announced a new, stripped down version of its site at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Called Facebook Zero, the text-only version of the social networking site is aimed at reducing the bandwidth requirements of the service by getting rid of data intensive applications like photos – something that will no doubt please mobile operators.

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Yelp updates iPhone app and goes for Foursquare with ‘check in’ features

January 18th, 2010 10:15am mike s 1 comment

Yelp updates iPhone app and goes for Foursquare with 'check in' featuresClearly inspired by growing traffic to location based, social networking services like Foursquare and Gowalla, Yelp have bolted on new ‘check-in’ features to the latest version of its iPhone app.

As well as the check-in feature, user profiles can be checked out, and they’ve updated their augmented reality ‘Monocle’ viewer which now lets you see friends’ virtual check-ins onscreen.

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Photograbber lets you download all your tagged Facebook mugshots

January 8th, 2010 3:06pm mike s No comments

Photograbbers lets you download your tagged Facebook photosIf you can’t get enough of admiring mugshots of your good self, then the new Photograbber app from Google will make it easy for you to fill up your ‘ME!’ album with tagged pictures from Facebook.

Once installed on your Mac or PC, Photograbber rummages through your friends’ Wall posts and seeks out any pictures they’ve tagged of you.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to preview the results (there’s no thumbnail view available yet), so you can either blindly download the lot, or visit the Facebook pages to check out the photos first.

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Facebook for iPhone gets photo sync, customisable notifications

January 7th, 2010 11:45am mike s 4 comments

Facebook for iPhone gets friend photo sync, customisable notifications We loved the Palm Pre’s ability to sync Facebook contacts and profile photos, and a new update means that iPhone users can join in the fun.

The updated v3.1 Facebook client for the iPhone adds customisable push notifications and contact syncing to your Address Book.

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Four essential Blackberry apps

December 30th, 2009 4:32pm mike s No comments

Four essential Blackberry apps

If Santa slipped a shiny new Blackberry into your festive sack and you haven’t had time to enjoy a good rummage through the offerings in BlackBerry App World, we’ve hand picked a selection of four top apps to get you started:

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Facebook: Top Status Trends of 2009

December 22nd, 2009 11:09am mike s No comments

Facebook: Top Status Trends of 2009Twitter released their list of top technology trends of the year last week, and Facebook have got in on the act and released their spin on stats with the announcement of ”Facebook Memology: Top Status Trends of 2009.”

Facebook reckon that user status updates offer “a unique barometer into the issues, world events and thoughts that are connecting people,” with the “Memology” bit referring to the study of how “memes,” or new ideas and trends, spread around Facebook.

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Brizzly ’social media reader’ for your Facebook and Twitter needs

November 20th, 2009 5:14pm Tony Fletcher 1 comment

Brizzly 'social media reader' for your Facebook and Twitter needs

If you like to have all your Facebook and Twitter activity streams all shuffled together in one nice easy-to-use package, then say hello to Brizzly, a new ’social media reader’ vying for your attention.

The program lets you view Twitter photos and videos in-line, it expands bit.ly links so you can see what you’re clicking on and it also supports Twitter lists and photo uploading.

You can also ‘like’ and comment on friend’s posts in Facebook with more functionality promised soon.

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Bump: share pics and contacts by tapping phones together (Android/iPhone)

November 13th, 2009 2:30pm mike s No comments

Bump: share pics and contacts by tapping phones together (Android/iPhone)

Android owners in desperate need to exchange photos and contact details with friends by tapping handsets together can now get sharin’ with the Bump app.

Already available on the iPhone (see vid below), the Android version offers support for both contact and photo swapping and is now cross platform too, so it’s possible to bump an Android phone with an iPhone to exchange data.

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iPhone Facebook dev quits in protest over App Store policies

November 12th, 2009 10:24am mike s 1 comment

iPhone Facebook dev quits in protest over Apple App Store policiesWe’ve long rallied against Apple’s confusing, frustrating and at times draconian and moralistic app approval policies, so we were more than interested to note that the developer of one of their most downloaded applications has quit the platform in protest.

Facebook developer Joe Hewitt, the coding hotshot who almost single-handedly created the hugely popular Facebook application for the iPhone, huffily announced his retirement from the project in a tweet:

Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project.

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TweetDeck for iPhone gets a slew of updates

November 11th, 2009 12:12pm Lee J. No comments

TweetDeck for iPhone gets a slew of updatesYou can’t move for Twitter clients on the iPhone these days, but TweetDeck are hoping that the desktop integration offered by their app will give them some leverage over the other contenders.

Shaping up to be a real challenger to the popular Tweetie iPhone app,  TweetDeck has rolled out its first major update (v. 1.1.1), squeezing in Facebook integration.

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Google Launches Social Search, mixing search with social networks

October 22nd, 2009 2:08am Tony Fletcher No comments

Google Launches Social Search, mixing search with social networksGoogle has revealed early details of a new product called “Social Search.”

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Conference, Google’s Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, said that the product came about after the search engine giant had mulled over how social networks might improve the search experience.

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Facebook accounts for 1 in every 7 UK page views

October 16th, 2009 12:24pm mike s No comments

Facebook accounts for 1 in every 7 UK page viewsFacebook now accounts for a thumping 14.5 per cent of the UK’s entire web traffic, according to hot stats from analyst bods, Hitwise.

This makes the social networking site by far  the most popular web destination for Brits, receiving well over double the traffic of Google, which recorded a 5.8 per cent UK  market share.

However, Google continues to dominate the UK’s top ten trafficked sites, with YouTube, Gmail, Google, Google UK and Google UK Image Search all making an appearance.

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