Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

You have the most successful touchscreen handset on the market, your brand image could sell contacts to the blind, and guess what?  You are largely responsible for a roadblock in the advancement of mobile social networking.  What I'm referring to is the fact that new iPhone applications are not allowed to run continuously as a background processes. 
Of course, I doubt Apple or its head man Steve Jobs directly intend to inhibit the advancement of mobile social media by [...]

There's nothing quite like the smell of a copy-cat early in the morning.  But then, what else would we expect of our trusty social network Facebook?  Aside from the many other cues Facebook has taken from different social platforms, when the Facebook app rolled out this morning as part of the iPhone Apps store, there were more than a few people who noticed striking similarities between the Facebook App and one rather popular micro-messaging application. 
Its hard to miss similarities [...]

Now that I've been able to rid myself of those pestersome "Pet Hotties" application invites (thanks to the wonderful "Block Application" feature), I genuinely look forward to receiving invites to creative and helpful applications. Though many are still lack-luster and questionable, I'm quite pleased with the direction many developers of Facebook applications are taking.
One application I can legitimately say I look forward to using is the forthcoming application for Presdo, a social calendar application that intuitively allows users [...]

It seems like, for better or worse, we just can't quite come to a decision about FriendFeed, can we?  Perhaps we're resigned to an endless back and forth about the social aggregating platform.  But, as many of us know, any controversy converts to traffic, which is something FriendFeed can take solace in.
Getting to the point, I just did a little checking of my feeds and read a post written by Allen Stern on the rather uncanny way a few [...]

Have you ever sat down in a well-cushioned recliner and pondered what it would be like to be Mark Zuckerburg?  I can't say that I have, though at times I've been inclined to pretend like I'm one of the richest young people in the world.  However, to get where Zuckerburg did (for those of you who don't know, he is the brains, amongst others, behind Facebook), he had to stick and move in a couple situations.  One of those situations, [...]

As mobile social platforms are sort of a pet hobby of mine, I'm keen to learn about any and every update to the platforms that are currently vying for consumers' affections.  One such competitor is FriendFeed, which has a very fluid little build of its social aggregator platform available to iPhone users.
That platform just received an update, and things are looking good.  MG Seigler over at Venture Beat was able to try out the updated platform; updates include a [...]

If you've been lingering around Profy for a while, you might recall that I recently covered the mobile social platform Fring along with others like Xumii.  You might also recall that Fring opened its API to developers interested in designing mobile social applications.  Just a few weeks since that announcement, developers have already delivered two heavy-hitting applications to the Fring community.
That's right, merely weeks after announcing the release of its API to developers, Fring has landed applications for [...]

I don't think there's a single person in the world that feels bad because Google hasn't been able to get its paws on Facebook, the current top social networking site. Try as Google might, Facebook 's Zuckerburg has no intentions of partaking in any sort of affair with the search engine behemoth.
However, it looks like Google is prepared to become socially linked-in itself. iGoogle, the popular homepage that links together all of Google's broad functionality, [...]

It brings a tear of joy to my eye to think that a website is taking steps to become grammatically proper.  Listen, we English majors have to find satisfaction somewhere, right?  Facebook is working on a way to make grammar significantly more consistent. 
Though you might not care one way or the other if your friend's status update reads, "Jimmy John is Does anyone know where the nearest Chipotle is?" Facebook is of the opinion that such odd [...]