Facebook is a crowded place any more, with statuses from what is often hundreds of friends and pages vying for the limited space within your daily news feed. Because there is more info than can be reasonably displayed, users often miss out on certain statuses and updates. To help de-clutter things a bit, Facebook is testing out a new Pages Feed, which is a news stream of status updates from pages you've liked.
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Twitter to compete with Instagram by adding photo filters, says sources
In this age of digital photography, a picture can be transformed a thousand ways, made to look like a Polaroid snapshot or an antique image, given a moody or artistic or saturated look. Instagram, the social photography app, allows smartphone users to take a picture, apply a filter, and then send it off into the social networking sphere. Now, according to sources, Twitter is poised to take on the popular photography service by adding photo filters to its own mobile app.
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Google Drive introduces direct sharing (and embedding) to Google+
It's time to get serious once again about cross-use between Google services right here with Google Drive and the company's social network Google+ - from one to the other! The announcement today is that the media you upload to your Google Drive account from whatever source you've got - be it your smartphone, your tablet, your Chromebook, or your desktop computer - can now be viewed from Google+ and shared directly as well! Google is making the case once again that it simply makes more sense - ie is easier - to use all Google all the time.
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Facebook resurrecting Marketplace as Craigslist challenge tip insiders
Facebook is reportedly testing a Craigslist challenger, with a combination of paid and free adverts, housing requests, and projects, that would promote focused sharing rather than being a global message-board. The work-in-progress, currently known internally as "Marketplace" so sources tell The Daily, would allow Facebookers to use the same promoted posts technology for a one-off advert, with a sub-$5 listing fee, with visibility in news feeds. However, it's not just a classifieds system, the insiders claim.
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Firefox wants you to help test its new Social API
Social integration is a big thing these days, and today Mozilla is ready to begin beta testing its new Firefox Social API. The end goal for the Social API is to eventually have integration with a number of different social sites, but today, the only thing the team has ready to go is Facebook Chat integration. If you're ready to see what Firefox will look like in the not-to-distant future, then Mozilla wants you to help test this new feature.
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Facebook begins phasing out “Questions”
Facebook has begun phasing out Questions from users, a move that's not particularly surprising considering that it removed the product from the homepage sidebar earlier this year. According to CNET, a Facebook representative stated that the social media company is pulling Questions in order to "focus on other things." It will still be available for Groups and Pages.
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Tweetbot for Mac hits App Store with hefty price
Though the price might be a bit of a turn-off for those of you not familiar with the power of the environment, Tweetbot has hit the Apple desktop environment today in a big way. This Twitter app is up for $19.99 USD, and for that price they've brought on one whole heck of a lot of features in this final first release (that being non-Beta, as it were). With this brand new universe for the Twitter king you'll get Retina Mac Support, integration with your Notification Center, and even syncing with iCloud - of course you'll need 10.8 Mountain Lion for that.
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Twitter criticized for lax policing after Neo-Nazi tweet block
Twitter has been criticized after blocking access to a neo-Nazi message, though for not being proactive enough in its censorship rather than being heavy-handed. The short-message social network flexed its country-specific takedown tools for the first time this week, blocking users in Germany from reading posts by a right-wing extremest group after requests from local law enforcement. However, Twitter still "lags far behind other established social media platforms" one watchdog argues.
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Twitter uses country-block censorship tool for first time in Germany
Back in January, Twitter announced that it would allow the company to ban content in specific countries upon legal request, rather than restrict it globally to all Twitter users. Now, for the first time, the company has used its new-ish tool, blocking access in Germany to the Twitter account Besseres Hannover, a neo-Nazi group. This action was taken after the Germany Ministry of the Interior for Lower-Saxony sent a request to Twitter asking that the account be removed.
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Color Labs reportedly to be acquired by Apple
Earlier today, we reported that it seemed like the Color app was in the initial stages of being nixed. According to the Venture Beat piece, an email sent to company workers stated that the board had voted - with shareholders agreement - to close down Color Labs. This, obviously, stirred controversy, given that last year the company received $41 million in investments. Now, according to a source over at The Next Web, it seems Apple is acquiring the company instead.
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Facebook Promoted Posts expanding across europe
A couple of weeks ago, Facebook began testing Promoted Posts for regular users, not just businesses and brands. This would allow you or I to "promote" one of our status updates to show up at the top of everyone else's news feed. The features has slowly been rolling out across the US and other countries like New Zealand, but the company is now introducing the new feature to European users.
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Color app tipped to shut doors imminently
In a move that may surprise those of you reading reviews of Verizon-housed smartphones of late, the app known as Color has been tipped to be "winding down" starting immediately, with a complete shutdown preparing to take place rather rapidly. This news comes from Venture Beat where they've gotten hold of an email sent to employees of the company that notes how the board in charge of the app ecosystem have voted to close it all down. With shareholders and the board agreeing to this move, it's certainly not what the $40 million in investment funds from last year appeared to be aimed at.
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