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Facebook’s Dedicated App For The Famous Gains Twitter Sharing, Topics In Timeline
Not all Facebooks are created equal: Facebook Mentions is an app the company released last year that lets celebrities use the social network in a way that’s gear for filtering out noise and making fan engagement much easier. Today, it got a couple of updates that show FB is really all bout the celebs, to the point where it now supports sharing beyond Facebook’s own network to… Read More
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More Than Half A Billion People Access Facebook Solely From Mobile
It seems that with every earnings report, we hit another milestone in Facebook’s shift to mobile. Here’s the latest one: 526 million of its monthly active users access Facebook solely from their mobile devices. That’s up from 456 million in the previous quarter, and it’s an increase of around 78 percent from the 296 million mobile-only users that Facebook saw during… Read More
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Facebook Where? The Enterprise Reacts To Facebook At Work
Facebook released a public pilot of its long-awaited enterprise social app called Work today, now the question is will businesses actually want to use it. Enterprise Social as a category has been with us for almost a decade with companies like Jive, Yammer (now part of Microsoft) and Socialcast (now part of VMware) trying hard to get organizations to embrace social tools — often… Read More
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How Facebook At Work Could Shrink Faceless Enterprises
When you have a question at a small company, you always know who to ask. But as corporations grow, it becomes impossible to remember everyone’s names, let alone their areas of expertise, and communication channels flood with noise. Facebook At Work, the company’s new enterprise collaboration suite, could change that. Read More
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Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces
Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps. Wit.ai’s platform will remain open and free, which makes it seem that Facebook wants to use the technology to draw developers into its Build-Grow-Monetize loop where they… Read More
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Facebook’s ‘Year In Review’ Feature Will Chronicle Your 2014, Good Or Bad
Facebook has again unleashed its Year In Review app, automatically compiling some of the most-liked photos from your feeds over 2014 and puts them into a neat little timeline.
When you sign into Facebook, you’ll see an advertisement to check out your Year In Review, customize it, and share it with your friends. If you’re still having trouble finding it, you can simply sign into… Read More
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Facebook’s Money-Making Solution To App Discovery? A Whole Feed Of Install Ads
Finding a good app can be like looking for a needle in a truck stop bathroom. Apple and Google aren’t doing much to help you sift through their messy app stores. Facebook has tried to step up, but sometimes you don’t care about your friends and just want a new mobile toy to play with. So Facebook is taking haters’ worst nightmares and turning them into an app discovery tool. Read More
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Facebook Has So Much To Announce, Its f8 Conference Expands To 2 Days In SF March 25-26 2015
Facebook has more news to share at f8 than can fit in a single day, so it’s adding a second for its developer conference now slated for March 25th and 26th, 2015 at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. Registration for the first two-day f8 will open in early 2015, but developers hoping to attend can sign up for a reminder of when they can vy for tickets.
Facebook explains the… Read More
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Facebook’s Interest-Based Social App Rooms Is Now Easier To Use
Facebook’s “Rooms” application, like many of the experiments put out by Facebook’s Creative Labs – which is also responsible for apps like Paper, Slingshot, Mentions and Groups – has not been an overnight viral sensation. However, it is notable for being the first app from Facebook that didn’t require users to go by their real name, allowing… Read More
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Facebook Starts Auto-Enhancing Photos Because Algorithms Are Better At Filters Than You
We’re not ace photographers, but we all take photos. Most could use a little help with light and shadow. So rather than making you manually filter them, Facebook tells me it will now auto-enhance newly uploaded photos starting today on iOS and soon on Android. You’ll be able to adjust a slider to control just how enhanced you want the light, shadow, and clarity, or revert back to… Read More
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