Category Archives: Facebook

Some Very Creative (and Funny) Facebook Timeline Covers

Previous to Timeline, Facebook changed the way your profile was displayed with your 5 most recent photos showing horizontally in thumbnails at the top of your profile. As previously blogged, some very creative profile screen shots starting appearing online. The same thing has happened with Facebook’s Timeline Cover profile option. Check out some here http://twistedsifter.com/2012/01/funny-creative-facebook-timeline-covers/
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Facebook

Further proof that Facebook has integrated itself into our lives has come from some interesting statistics. Not only are 250 million people currently using Facebook but the social network created 235,644 jobs in the app industry last year just in the US, adding $15.71 billion to their economy. Adding to this if you take into consideration the fact [...]
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Google+ vs. Facebook

With the release of Google+ at the end of June, more and more members of Facebook are attracted to the switch. Over the last few years Facebook has undergone many changes, most of which are touted to be for greater user friendliness but have thus far just proven to be annoying. Just when you think [...]
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Facebook ‘Impressions’

At the end of last year Facebook released ‘post impressions’ – a post analytic for Facebook pages. The function allows for instant statistical updates of how many users have viewed your post. Whilst not strictly accurate or specific (the number reflects how many times your post is viewed within Facebook not how many people view [...]
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Facebook Credits Mandatory

Facebook has decreed that all social game developers process payments through their system of Facebook Credits from 1st July 2011. Facebook are currently working with developers to change over to the official currency used to purchase and sell virtual goods online. The move will mean more profit for Facebook, as the social nework takes a [...]
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Ways to Get Artsy with Your Facebook Profile

Recently Facebook updated the way your profile displays. With the five most recent photos that you have been tagged in displayed horizontally in thumbnails up the top of your profile and your main profile picture made larger, users have thought of very creative ways to use the space. The window feel of the new outlay [...]
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Is a Facebook Phone in the Works?

INQ Mobile recently logged a Bluetooth SIG for a device called the Cloud Touch. The design description on the SIG outlines a smartphone that has ‘Facebook built into its core’ i.e. the home screen will feature ‘multiple entry points to different Facebook functions’ and displays news feeds. Whilst it does sound interesting how many people [...]
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Facebook offers clients shares

New York Times has reported that Facebook has privately offered some of it’s clients investment opportunites. The deal will seal Facebook’s sky rocketing worth and reflects a growing interest in investing in online companies. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/goldman-invests-in-facebook-at-50-billion-valuation/?ref=technology
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Visual Representation of Facebook friends around the Globe

A Facebook intern undertook the mammoth task of mapping 10 million Facebook relationships across the globe. Fascinating that the most concentrated area is in the centre of the map http://mashable.com/2010/12/13/facebook-members-visualization/
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Yet another way we are being tracked…

The NHS has agreed to let Facebook and Google to keep track of user activity to their website through Facebook Connect. This step has raised concerns, particularly after some cases in which users did not have to be logged into either Facebook or Google in order to be tracked. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/24/nhs_connect_facebook_privacy_fears/ Will all our movements online be [...]
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