A GeoX megmérte a múltkori Facebook-leállás napján keletkezett pozitív és negatív twitek számát. A grafikonon jól látható, hogy mikor történt a Facebook lehalása. Nagyobb verzióért katt a képre! A hasonló vizualizációkból azt tanulhatjuk meg, hogy ma már nem csak az uptime monitorozásából tudjuk megállapítani, hogy egy webes szolgáltatás elérésével problémák vannak. Bizonyos esetekben...
Facebook's goal for its new Places feature may be even more ambitious than we realized. Facebook wants to be the central platform for location data across all Web services, a company spokesman said today at a New York Times developer conference .
The statement reinforces the image of a world where the majority of the population is catalogued in Facebook's growing database. The long-term v...
Facebook is apparently testing a new subscription feature that would allow users to receive alerts any time a specific friend takes certain actions on the social network. AllFacebook reports that it has noticed the new feature popping up on friends’ profiles. Facebook told the blog, “This feature is being tested with a small percent of users. It lets people subscribe to friends and pages to rec...
We've heard that Apple launched Ping without Facebook support because the two companies couldn't agree on some terms, but today AllThingsD explains that Apple actually ignored the fact that negotiations failed and incorporated Facebook's API—until Facebook blocked things.
Basically, Facebook offers open access to its wonderful friend-finding API "unless some entity wants to access it a...
I feel like all I’ve written about the past few weeks is Facebook’s need for a new social dynamic. Specifically, I want Facebook to break their social graph into two : those people who you are friends with, and those who you follow — for sharing purposes. It seems that Facebook may be testing something like that out — well sort of, maybe.
Facebook appears to be testing out a new feature called ...
So, there’s been a bit of a controversy swirling around today. After iTunes 10 officially launched late last night, after the announcement from Apple , there were plenty of people wanting to get to try out the new social networking feature, Ping. Through Steve Jobs’ presentation, Facebook was definitely included in the whole “social” aspect of the feature. But, people began to find out quickly th...
Did Steve Jobs pull Facebook support for Ping, Apple's new music-focused social networking service , at the last second? Ping launched yesterday without support for Facebook, the world's most popular social networking service.
This is a bummer because being able to import friends from Facebook — and being able to export Ping activity to Facebook — would make Ping a lot more useful for many peo...
Thanks to a partnership with Vlingo , owners of Android 2.0 or higher-equipped phones can now check in to Foursquare and update their status on Facebook and Twitter simply by speaking into their phones.
To try it out, download the free Vlingo app to your Android handset.
Using your voice, you can then update your location status on Foursquare by saying “check into Logan Airport”, lo...
India’s population and the number of mobile phone connections in the country seem to be growing at similar rate. Ok maybe, just maybe, the mobile revolution is growing much faster. A recent report by Boston Consulting Group concluded that India will reach 237 million internet users by 2015. Considering the increasing mobile connections, and the soon to be launched 3G services, the number definit...
“Hey BillyBob, you wanna watch a cat playing the piano on YouTube while we video chat?” Conversations like this can now be materialized, thanks to a company called Rounds.
The company offers a live video chat meeting point and they have expanded their web video platform to give video chatters extra layers of fun and functionality like the opportunity to view Youtube videos. Rounds’ mission i...
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During their event today in San Francisco, Apple announced iTunes 10, the latest version of their music software. But they also introduced a big new feature in the app — Ping: a social network for music.
It’s like “ Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes ,” Jobs says. “ But it’s not Facebook, it’s not Twitter ,” Jobs is quick to note — “ it’s a social network all about music. ” And guess what? It has ...
Greenpeace is not clicking the “like” button for Facebook’s new data center. This morning Greenpeace stepped up its campaign against Facebook’s decision to build its latest data center in Oregon in the footprint of utility Pacific Power that largely derives electricity from coal. The environmental group sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking him to commit to phasing out the use of ...