The Internet is an integral part of modern education, and not only provides many different elements of supplemental education — video tutorials, instructional websites, etc. — it also is necessary for specific fields of study, like programming. The problem is that many public schools in the United States (approximately 80%) do not have adequate broadband […]
If there was any doubt that the likes of Instagram and Snapchat were in a head-on battle before, they’ve all been erased with news of a relatively major employee change-up. This push includes an Instagram (read: Facebook) business lead in charge of advertising for the photo-sharing group leaving, and heading to Snapchat to become their […]
Some of us prefer to keep our private lives, well, private. This means being extra careful when it comes to accepting who are your friends on a social network. Facebook, being one of the most popular social networks around globally, is said to soon offer its users the ability to “unfollow” friends. This option would mean you will be able to remove comments and updates from friends on your list whom you do not want to see on your News Feed. This would certainly go some way in making your News Feed more relevant.
This new Unfollow button, first outed to the masses by TechCrunch, will function in a similar manner so that users can “hide all” from friends in the past. It would edge one closer to the line of defriending, but stop at just blocking content that one does not want to see from their friends. According to a Facebook spokesperson who mentioned it to Mashable, “The goal of this change is to help people curate their News Feed and see more of the content that they care about.” If you happen to be on the receiving end of being unfollowed, fret not – you will not know about it, so your ego would not end up bruised in any way. Except until, perhaps when you meet up with said friend in person and start wondering why he or she has not said anything about your recent Facebook updates.
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In October, a Pew Research Center report was released showing that 30-percent of American adults on Facebook get at least part of their news through the social network. That number may grow in the coming months, with Facebook announcing today that it will be showing more news links, particularly for those who are accessing the […]
Facebook’s News Feed, depending on the user, can get pretty cluttered at times, and sometimes it’s cluttered in a messy sort of way where you are getting updates from all sorts of pages you’re following. Well Facebook is hoping to change that and make it more organized as they have announced updates to your News Feed where they have started to show more relevant articles in your Feed. For example one of the changes they have made is in the screenshot above, where the main article is followed by three additional articles that Facebook has deemed to be relevant to what you view.
Facebook is also working on trying to differentiate what they determine to be high quality content because naturally people prefer getting their news from reputable and high quality sources, as opposed to any Tom, Dick, and Harry who owns a blog. By doing this Facebook hopes that they will be able to do a better job at curating high quality posts by showing them more prominently on your News Feed, whilst hiding less important stuff, such as jokes, funny images, and etc. Facebook will also be updating bumping in posts, meaning that the post will resurface even after you’ve read it when comments are made on it, allowing you to keep track of comments made on a particular post.
Facebook Wants To Make Your News Feed More Relevant original content from Ubergizmo. 
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When it comes to Android apps, one size does not fit all, unfortunately. This is due to Android devices being extremely varied in the sense of hardware as well as software, with some devices running on older builds of Android, while some have the latest version. Well perhaps in a bid to help optimize their app for Android devices across the board, ranging from low-end to high-end, word on the street has it that Facebook is looking acquire an Indian startup company called Little Eye Labs. The company provides performance analysis and optimization tools for Android developers, and according to a report by India’s Business Standard, Facebook and Little Eye Labs are reportedly in advanced talks.
While it is unclear as to what Facebook might want with such a company, like we said earlier, it has been speculated that Facebook could be looking for a way to better optimize its app across the wide range of Android devices out there. While the app runs fine on high-end devices, low-end devices might tell a different story, and if Facebook can create an optimized app and experience, they will be able to attract more users onto its network. This acquisition might not be such a surprise either as Google had acquired Flexycore, a company specializing in Android optimization as well.
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When it comes to the world of mobile messaging, you can be sure that it is not short of any kind of competition at all. In fact, this particular market has gotten so competitive, you could say that us consumers have ended up for the better. After all, the companies involved in mobile messaging intend to deliver the best bang for our hard earned buck, so they had better deliver the best possible effort. Some of the mobile messaging options include proprietary solutions such as iMessage, in addition to cross-platform solutions including Facebook, WhatsApp, Hangouts, BlackBerry Messenger, Snapchat, Skype, Line, and WeChat, among others.
On Device has performed a survey that comprised of 3,759 Android and iOS smartphone owners across US, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, and China, and they concluded that WhatsApp is more popular than Facebook now, making it the numero uno mobile messaging platform. Do bear in mind that there were no Windows Phone users mentioned in the survey, not forgetting the fact that the whole European continent is missing from the survey. Apart from that, the question that was posed read like this, “Which social messaging app do you use at least once a week?”, so it does not have anything to do with the frequency of use or number of messages processed. In your opinion, who would come up tops?
On Device: WhatsApp Overtakes Facebook, Is Leading Mobile Messaging Service Now original content from Ubergizmo. 
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The folks over at Facebook have introduced the latest version of its Windows 8.1 app update, which has already happened several times before ever since the first version rolled out in slightly more than one month back. Right now, the Facebook app for Windows 8.1 happens to be the most popular free app in the Windows Store, so do expect it to remain somewhere at the top after the latest version has already been released, sporting a slew of new features and improvements to make your social network experience a more complete one.
The Windows Store page points to a change log that shows how the Facebook app will now be able to support tagging – a first for it, actually. You can download and upload both files and photos from Facebook messages using this latest update, not to mention being able to set up not only your cover but profile photos as well straight from the app. Hopefully the many bug fixes which were proclaimed but not revealed will also do their bit to make it all the more enjoyable. You can download the app here. For those who have already done so, how did you find your experience so far? Has it been a rewarding one?
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Beware, Pocket and Instapaper: the folks at Facebook HQ are testing a feature that encroaches upon your “save-for-later” territory. This new function currently appears for some mobile users as an iBook bookmark-esque button next to status updates with links, although it actually saves the content of the link itself. You can access every saved link via a new menu (with a telltale name) under the Apps section. Before you get too excited for the feature, know that this is the second time Facebook’s given it a spin — the first iteration tested last year, however, archived status updates instead. If the save-for-later function does mak e it to everyone’s accounts, though, we wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook addicts remain even more glued to their screens.
Source: MyTechSkool
Recently Apple had updated Safari with a reader-like feature that basically allows you to save websites for reading later. This is also a feature that can be found in the Instapaper app, an app that allows users to save sites for reading later should they not have time at the moment. Well it looks like Facebook could be testing a similar feature, thanks to MyTechSkool which managed to get their hands on a couple of screenshots that shows off the feature.
As you can see in the screenshot above, this new feature adds a bookmark icon to posts in one’s newsfeed where they can choose to save it for reading later. Given that sometimes our Facebook newsfeed can get pretty cluttered and can go on forever, especially if you have a lot of friends and follow a lot of pages, sometimes there are just too many things to read at once. At the moment this feature appears to be limited to the mobile version of Facebook and it is unclear if it will come to the web version later as well.
According to Facebook who issued a statement to AllThingsD, “We’re constantly testing new features, but we have nothing further to share at this time.” This is not the first time Facebook has quietly tested new features without making any announcements. It was only recently that the company tested a new chat feature for its web version. What do you guys think? Is this “save for later reading” feature a good idea?
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