Entries Tagged as 'Facebook'

Facebook Responds to Feedback on New Features

So are you one of those who sent comments to Facebook regarding the recently rolled out new home page and other features? Apparently, Facebook received quite a number of both positive and negative feedback. So, finally the Facebook Blog is publishing its official response to to all these.

Photo Finder App Coming to Facebook Soon

Face.com is launching a new Facebook application that will surely be a big hit among Facebook users especially those who are fond of uploading and sharing photos to their Facebook profile. The application called Photo Finder will scan public photos in social network and suggests tags for untagged faces.

Warning! Social Networking Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

The amount of  time that we have been spending with real people has decreased since 1997 and this is affecting our health. And so says the findings of a recent research study on the physiological effects in the long run of the decreasing “real” social interaction among individuals – that means us. This effect was [...]

Facebook Rolls Out “Everyone” Option in Privacy Setting

So how do you like the new Facebook profile page so far? Don’t worry, we’re not going to talk about the pros and cons of the new home page, but rather on an earlier announcement saying that members can now opt to allow everyone to view your Facebook profile or select some parts of it. [...]

iPhone Apps Go Social via Facebook Connect, or Shall We Say Where Are Thou Google Friend Connect?

It was supposed to be a quiet Saturday when suddenly news regarding a Facebook announcement started going around the tech circle. What’s the fuzz all about? Nothing fancy really, it’s just that the Facebook Developers’ blog announced that Facebook Connect is now enabled on the iPhone. This simply means that iPhone games and apps developers [...]

Yahoo’s Fire Eagle Friends on Fire App Launches

Yahoo, through its location-aware developer program Fire Eagle has created a new Facebook application called Friends on Fire.  Friends on Fire is a social location application that collocates your present location and allows you to share it with your trusted friends. The application utilizes Yahoo maps to pinpoint your exact location, or your Facebook friends’ [...]

Essential Features of the New Facebook Home Page

So, is your Facebook home page already updated? The Facebook blog has just announced that the new home page is gradually rolling out to users. My Facebook account is already updated to the new format and the new features are already showing up. So, far I like the new sleek design, it is cleaner and [...]

Is the Death of Email Upon Us?

 According to a latest Nielsen Report, social networking sites and blogs have overtaken the popularity of email as the preferred medium of online communication today. Based on the report two thirds of online users are now using what Nielsen calls us “member communities”. In fact these member communities are now the “fourth most popular web [...]

Facebook Explains Photo Outage

If you are an avid user of Facebook photos,  you may have notice that some photos that you’ve uploaded before may not be displaying. Instead of properly displaying the photos, Facebook is displaying a question mark instead. That’s because Facebook photos have suffered from a minor outage the past few days.

Rotorblog Weekly Highlights: Facebook, Twitter and the Kindle 2

So what stirred up the tech world this week? Guess what, just like last week Facebook is on the rampage again. Good thing was, what could be its emerging rival also managed to get into the tech buzz.  But of course, the most talked about tech news was the release of the Kindle for iPhone [...]

Facebook Improves Public Profile Pages, To Launch a New Home Page Soon

Facebook has announced two new drastic improvements – one has something to do with Public Profile pages and the other a fully revamped Facebook homepage. Let’s take a look at this two improvements separately.

Wink and Reunion Form MyLife People Search

What do you get if you combine Wink.com’s people search technology and Reunion.com’s more than 50 million userbase? – MyLife.com, a new people search technology offering an effective and efficient way for people to find and keep track of everyone related to them, including friends and business contacts. MyLife.com offers a database of over 750 [...]