Wolfram Alpha, the true know it all on the Interwebs, introduced a ridiculously detailed Facebook report complete with statistical insights about how many links, photos and updates you ever posted on your page last year. Today, Wolfram Alpha is adding even more detail to its Facebook report so you can learn more about how you book the face. More »
Welcome to Wednesday evening everyone. What started off as a relatively quiet afternoon quickly turned into a whirlwind of news, with Apple releasing its financial report for Q1 2013 today. There was a lot to go over between the report and the earnings call, and you can find all of the news in our round-up. Unfortunately, investors didn’t like some of the stuff in Apple’s report, sending its stock price down in after hours trading. We also received the results of THQ’s auction today, with a number of its studios being sold off to other publishers and the core business shutting down.
Netflix shared its results for Q4 2012 today, posting a profit of $8 million for the quarter, while Google’s stock was given a nice little boost on the heels of yesterday’s financial report. Samsung has overtaken Apple as the largest chip customer in the world, and we got word that Vice President Joe Biden will discuss gun violence in a Google+ hangout tomorrow. If new rumors are to be believed, then the HTC M7 might be getting a reveal on February 19, and we caught a glimpse of canned Netflix hardware today.
Google said today that government requests for data went up in 2012, while it seems the search giant’s iOS apps grew their market share by quite a bit last year. Three people have been charged in the “Gozi” computer virus, and comScore says that Facebook finished 2012 as the number one app. The Opportunity rover will soon be beginning its 10th year on the surface of Mars, and Kim Dotcom told the world that his new site MEGA will “take encryption to the mainstream.” The Verizon Nokia Lumia 822 and DROID RAZR HD have been given some new colors just in time for Valentine’s Day, and we found out that Call of Duty and Medal of Honor have been banned in Pakistan because don’t shed a very good light on the country.
MLB At Bat will be on BlackBerry 10 sometime before the baseball season kicks off, and GameStick has added a new tier to its crowdfunding campaign for indie developers. An open multiplayer beta for Crysis 3 will be kicking off next week, and Hyundai has introduced a new, inexpensive tablet that comes packing a quad-core Exynos processor. The Nokia Drive+ Beta is now available for everyone using a Windows Phone 8 device and living in the US, UK, or Canada, while the Speaker Trio system from Bem Wireless is now shipping for $299. Finally tonight, I explain why Nintendo is on the right track with the Wii U, while Chris Burns tells us why Apple and Samsung are putting their competition on notice with their one-brand manufacturing. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, we hope you enjoy the rest of your night folks!
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 23, 2013 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you’ve ever wondered how Facebook comes up with those annoying features you hate, wonder no more: Facebook is obviously getting all those silly requests from focus groups! Focus groups who give suggestions like seeing wall posts between people you don’t know, having a stranger’s comment pop up on your news feed and wanting Facebook to make money from their personal information. Facebook is giving the people what they want! It’s the only explanation! More »
A recent study conducted by two German universities found that envy runs rampant on Facebook. Researchers from Humboldt University and from Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany conducted a study and found that one in three people felt worse about themselves after visiting the site and more dissatisfied with their lives.
The study reports that people who browse the site without contributing were affected the most. According to the study, the biggest source of envy posted to Facebook was vacation photos. The study claimed that more than half of all envy incidents were triggered by vacation pictures.
The second most common cause of envy on the social networks is social interaction. Apparently, a lot of users get jealous over the amount of birthday greetings, likes, and comments their Facebook friends receive on posts and photos. Maybe what people need are Facebook friends who are uglier, poorer, and take less vacations.
If using Facebook really makes you feel bad about yourself, perhaps you should get off of your computer and do something about it.
[via Chicago Tribune]
According to the latest comScore Mobile Metrix ranking working with the audiences of the top mobile apps in the USA, Facebook has taken a relatively massive leap ahead of Google Maps through 2012 to become the top app in the USA. This listing includes polling of users aged 18 years or older on both iOS and Android devices with a time frame between March and December of 2012, and you’ll find that this isn’t the first month in which Facebook has taken the lead. Google Maps and Facebook have been nearly neck-and-neck since the earliest results from March of 2012, with Google Maps in the lead until September where usage of Google’s mapping solution appears to take a bit of a fall off of a cliff while Facebook continues to steadily rise.
Of course when you measure Google’s success in apps across the board, they’re still doing extremely well for themselves. Have a peek at the top US Mobile Apps as ranked by comScore according to unique visitors (again, from polls of 18+ year old citizens on both iOS and Android) and you’ll find that in December of 2012, Facebook still has the lead. It’s Google though that holds every position from number 2 to number 6, YouTube and Gmail as well as Google Maps, Play, and Search included.
This set of polls also includes comScore’s monitoring of time spent on Google and Facebook apps specifically, this accounting for Instagram (owned by Facebook) and YouTube (owned by Google) as well as Facebook, Google Maps, Gmail, and the rest. You’ll find that the largest piece of the pie goes to “Other Apps” for those polled that don’t actually find themselves on Facebook or Google apps all that much. After that though, It’s all about Facebook taking the number one spot with 23% of the time users spend on their smart devices.
It’s a tie between several other apps after that, with 3% of users’ time being spent on Instagram, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Maps. An ever-so-slightly smaller amount of time is spent (2%) on Google Play, Google Search and “all other Google apps” get another 1% of the pie each, then it’s that massive hunk for everything else in the universe. If there’s one thing this set of charts shows us, it’s that comScore wants to make it clear that both Facebook and Google are here to stay – in the mobile universe at least!
[via comScore]
comScore: Facebook ends 2012 as #1 mobile app in the USA is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The thing you Like on Facebook matter more than ever because of its new super search—they’re easier to uncover. They might come back to haunt you. We’re all going to see them more. Here’s how to protect yourself. More »
Nick Douglas of Slacktory shows everybody how Facebook Graph Search, as awesome as it can be, will quickly devolve into a completely inappropriate search engine for finding MILFs, GILFs, pictures taken at the beach and anything of that nature. Basically, it’s going to start innocently with people trying to find others with the same music tastes but eventually become creepers filtering and stalking people they wish they could have sex with. Facebook. Adult Friend Finder. What’s the difference. [YouTube via Slacktory] More »
As bedfellows go, Microsoft and Facebook have had something of an open relationship; a knot of social / search entanglement that recently yielded Graph Search, among other crossovers. But, as of today, the two companies are looking to take things even further by building upon the work started with Bing Tags last summer. The integration, which previously allowed users to tag themselves or Facebook friends on sites and search queries for more personal feedback, will now extend beyond a user’s inner circle and be made available to a “broader audience.” Of course, privacy here is key (as we also learned from Facebook’s last press event) and Microsoft’s making it abundantly clear that this is opt-in. So, unless you give explicit approval for your tags to appear out-of-network, they won’t — only your friends will have access to those results. If you haven’t already signed-up for the beta service, you can test it out at the source below.
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, Facebook
Via: TheNextWeb
Not many of us would say Nikon’s MyPicturetown caught on as an online image service — that name certainly didn’t help much. The camera maker is hoping to spark some new life this month with the relaunch of its photo cloud as Nikon Image Space. Thankfully, it’s a lot more than a more elegant title, as Nikon is promising a simpler interface as well as tighter integration with social networks like Facebook and Twitter. All access is free, although the level of service depends on loyalty: just 2GB of space is available to anyone, while those who want a more tightly controlled 20GB account will need to prove they own a Nikon camera. Photographers willing to give the reborn service a chance will have to wait until the Image Space launch on January 28th, but those already onside with MyPicturetown will have their photos transferred for free.
Filed under: Cameras, Storage, Internet, Nikon
Via: Ubergizmo
Source: Nikon
Facebook’s new Graph Search is an ambitious project, and brings with it the need for some serious computational grunt. Here’s how Facebook is taking on that challenge. More »
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