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Google+ updates with larger cover photos, new “Local reviews” tab

, Mar 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google has been working hard to keep its Google+ social network going strong, and the company announced a few small updates today that make for some big changes, literally. Google+ now offers larger cover photos, which can be displayed at 16:9 when fully viewed, and the service supports up to a 2120 x 1192 resolution for cover photos. Read The Full Story

Facebook’s focus on mobile comes from intensive training program

, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has no doubt been focusing more and more on mobile platforms. Granted, it took them a while to come around to the idea of a native iPad app, but the social network has apps on all the major mobile platforms now, and the company is constantly adding and updating mobile features. Where's all this effort coming from, though? An intensive training program that started last year. Read The Full Story

Facebook no longer appealing to teens

, Mar 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

It seems that Facebook is on its way out from the Teen community. Many teens are moving more towards social media platforms like Instagram (conveniently owned by Facebook) and SnapChat. It's most likely because of Instagram/SnapChat's appealing user-friendly mobile apps (Facebook for Android still needs work), and because of teenagers' obsession with sharing photos. Some teenagers only use Facebook as a last resort when they get bored of their other social media apps. Read The Full Story

Facebook event scheduled for March 7, News Feed redesign imminent

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

What's this we have here? It looks to be an invitation from Facebook telling us to "come see a new look for News Feed." The event will take place next week on March 7 at 10 am PT. As for what the social network has in mind for the day's events, we're pretty adamant that they'll be introducing yet another new redesign of the front-page News Feed. Read The Full Story

Inside Facebook: Propaganda printing-presses and free food

, Feb 28th 2013 Discuss [0]

Retro arcade machines, an on-site print shop tongue-in-cheek known as "the propaganda wing", and the general feel of a dorm room: it can only be Facebook's HQ. The BBC took a video tour around the Silicon Valley headquarters of the social networking company, coming across the usual start-up must-haves of free bikes, meals, and even laundry facilities, wrapped up in a design attitude that attempts to channel Mark Zuckerberg's more humble origins despite the hundred-billion dollar floatation. Read The Full Story

Facebook marking down gifts as much as 80%

, Feb 27th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook is apparently marking down gifts from its marketplace in order to get more people to use it. Not only that, but you'll also be given the option to "give a gift" whenever your friends get a new job, a promotion, or give birth to a child. Facebook is going to great depths to market its own marketplace. Perhaps it should utilize its own, newly updated custom audiences tool. It could benefit from better targeted marketing, and it can't really boast about the success rate of its tool if its own marketplace isn't doing so well. Read The Full Story

Falcon Pro reaches Twitter’s 100k token limit

, Feb 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Falcon Pro, arguably one of the best Twitter clients available for the Android operating system, has just reached its 100,000 token limit set by Twitter. The limit was set by Twitter back in August of last year, and it limits 3rd party apps, who utilize Twitter's main features, to only 100,000 users. Falcon Pro has hit this limit only 3 months after it launched its app, catching them by surprise. Read The Full Story

Facebook planning “cold storage” data facility for old photos

, Feb 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

There are some 240 billion photos taking up precious space on Facebook's servers, with another 350 million photos uploaded every day. Facebook has discovered that not all of these photos get looked at anymore. Many older photos and albums lay dormant because they get pushed aside by newer photos and albums. In order to handle all of these photos, Facebook is planning to launch a data facility specifically for storing older photos on the social network. Read The Full Story

Outlook.com exits preview: Hotmail users to “upgrade” by Summer 2013

, Feb 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

Microsoft has fully launched Outlook.com, its rebranded Hotmail email service, taking the cloud system out of beta and throwing open the doors to users across the globe. Already amassing more than 60m active users, Outlook.com hooks email into Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and puts social network updates where you might - if you're a Gmail user - expect to see adverts. Read The Full Story

Facebook security reveals zero-day Java attack

, Feb 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

It's never good when you have to make an official report to the public about a hacker attack your multi-billion dollar social network has had. That's what's happened this week as Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan lets it be known that several engineers on staff with Facebook had been the subject of a zero-day Java exploit. The good news is that no customer data was exposed (that's your stuff), the bad news is that Facebook wasn't the only company targeted by this attack. Read The Full Story

Facebook wins court battle that forces Europeans to use real names

, Feb 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook and Germany have been going back and forth for years, but the most recent development was the disagreement between the two entities as far as using real names or pseudonyms. Facebook wants its users to use their real names, but Germany insisted otherwise. However, Facebook just won the court battle that will force Europeans to use their real names. Read The Full Story

Facebook data shows football fan statistics across the US

, Feb 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has a lot of data about us, but that's not necessarily their fault. It's more our faults since we willingly post all sorts of information to our profiles. However, in Facebook's most recent data collection case study, they showed off various regions in the US and what football team had the most fans in a particular region of the country. The results are quite impressive. Read The Full Story
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