More Social Networks Articles

  • 26 September 2011

  • News: Elgan: Fighting Facebook feature fatigue

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week that his social network is now "a new way to express who you are."

  • 25 September 2011

  • News: Twitter Used For Social Good And To Incite Disorder

    Twitter and other social media sites are sparking an international debate over whether the forums serve the public good or make it easier to incite disorder.

  • 23 September 2011

  • News: Another Facebook User Revolt on the Horizon? Of Course!

    How will Facebook users react to the huge changes soon to land at the world's largest social network? Anecdotal evidence suggests, not well. According to a number of informal poles, four out of five Facebook users see the upcoming facelift and new features as unpopular.

  • News: Facebook's New Timeline Layout: A Getting-Started Guide

    Facebook's new profile layout, Timeline, promises to turn your Facebook account into an online scrapbook where you can highlight important moments in your life and resurface past Facebook activity.

  • News: Two Important Facebook Hover Tricks

    The Facebook changes are coming fast and furious these days, aren’t they? For once I actually like most of the interface tweaks, most notably the omnipresent toolbar up top and the blending of Top and Most Recent stories into a single feed.

  • News: Facebook as Media Hub: Shortcomings, Questions and Worries

    Facebook ushered in a whole new phase in its history with the announcement of real-time media sharing Thursday. Most of us have used Facebook primarily as a communication and scrapbooking tool until now, but we may find ourselves consuming and sharing a lot of music and video there in the future.

  • How-Tos: Android Facebook app: how to log out

    The Facebook app for your Android device is great, but for all its plus points, they've made logging out of the app a nightmare. Here's how you do it in three simple steps.

  • Opinion: Hack Your Way Into Facebook's New Timeline Feature

    Most users will have to wait a few weeks before they get to see Facebook's most drastic changes to the service since the company was founded, but you can use a developers workaround to gain access to the Timeline feature right now.

  • Opinion: SNL's Andy Samberg Opens F8 Keynote with 'Zuck Dawg'

    Wearing the requisite hoodie and sandals, Saturday Night Live comedian Andy Samberg opened the F8 developer's conference Thursday by impersonating Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a 7-minute comedy bit that preceded the actual one-hour keynote.

  • 22 September 2011

  • News: Facebook revamps profile with timeline concept

    Facebook has done an extreme makeover of its user profiles, redesigning the interface so that it's easy to surface not only recent updates but also years-old information, the company announced at its F8 developer conference on Thursday.

  • News: Facebook Integrated Real Time Media Challenges Google

    Facebook fired a major blow against social networking rival Google+ today, announcing the integration of streaming music and video to the service, as well as a new “Timeline” feature that creates an easy way to display users' Facebook activity over time.

  • News: Facebook Adds Timeline Feature and Supercharges Apps

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a bevy of features to be baked into its social network soon, including one called Timeline that allows you to chronologically chart your entire life via pictures, Facebook updates, Likes, and places you've traveled to and lived. The new features are being announced Thursday at Facebook's f8 developers conference. (Conference keynote is in progress.)

  • News: Facebook revamps profile with timeline concept

    Facebook has done an extreme makeover of its user profiles, redesigning the interface so that it's easy to surface not only recent updates but also years-old information, the company announced at its F8 developer conference on Thursday.

  • News: Yahoo News gets integrated with Facebook

    The U.S. edition of Yahoo News has been linked with Facebook to make it possible for users of the two sites to share with their Facebook friends the articles they have read on the Yahoo site.

  • Opinion: Hate The New Facebook? Here's How to Change It

    If there is one thing Facebook users love to, it's to complain about design changes on the social network. Over the years the site has undergone several user interface tweaks, and each and every time the changes are introduced a large portion of the site's 750 million users rage. As one tweeter said, it's the 'Facebook cycle'--things change, people complain, they get over it and carry on.

  • News: Facebook Worker Tweets About Music Service Before Debut

    A Facebook employee tweeted about the company’s “Listen with your friend” feature, letting the cat out of the bag on one of the features expected to debut at the company’s f8 developer’s conference. Facebook (and former Google) creative director Ji Lee tweeted on the eve of Facebook's developers' conference:

  • News: YouTube Adds 2D-to-3D Conversion Tool

    YouTube wants to improve on the lack of 3D content, which is one of the main barriers stopping mass adoption of the technology. The video streaming site is now making it easier for anyone to create 3D video content, without the need for special cameras, with a beta 2D to 3D conversion tool.

  • 21 September 2011

  • News: Facebook's Redesigned News Feed: Things You Need to Know

    Continuing its streak of product launches and modifications, Facebook yesterday rolled out even more changes to its interface, which include an updated News Feed and an activity ticker. These latest additions follow a privacy center redesign, the introduction of Subscriptions and Facebook's new friend lists.

  • News: Twitter buys social analytics firm Julpan

    Twitter has acquired Julpan, a startup founded last year that analyzes the way people share information on the social web with the goal of delivering fresh and relevant content to users.

  • News: Facebook Redesigns: A Long History of Pointless Backlash

    Facebook users love to rage about redesigns, and new changes to the site’s News Feed have already triggered the predicable response. Users are complaining about the changes, which emphasize algorithmically important status updates instead of recent posts, saying that they don't want Facebook prioritizing status updates, and that they'd rather just see everything in chronological order.

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