Mar 25
Facebook has bought Oculus, spending $2bn on the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, in what the social network says will be a push to grow 3D vision … Continue reading
Mar 25
For a long time, Instagram’s location services have been powered by Foursquare’s vast venue database. That might change in the future. According to a new report, Instagram is now testing Facebook Places integration as a possible replacement for Foursquare. If this eventually happens, its unlikely to surprise anyone considering the fact that Facebook owns Instagram.
Instagram Tests Facebook Places Integration original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mar 21
Facebook is testing a new privacy feature that warns users around who can see their status updates and content if they’re infrequent users of the sharing settings. Dubbed a “Privacy … Continue reading
Mar 20
The wonderful thing about internet communities is that it’s very hard to artificially build them, but they arise organically in the strangest ways. And sometimes The Teens, those rapscallions, find the strangest places to commune online.
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Mar 20
Facebook is not a company that rests on its laurels. No sir, they have done their bit to experiment and improve on current products, and in their latest effort to help developers write and test code faster than ever before, Facebook has announced Hack. Hack might be new to the masses, but it had already been used at Facebook for a year already, and we are glad to bring you word that Facebook has released it as open source today.
Facebook’s Hack Programming Language Aims To Deliver Faster Coding Process original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mar 19
The devil’s in the details, or so the saying goes. For those of you who have spent the better part of your past few years getting social on Facebook while indulging in the many games (time sinkholes, I call them) whether you are at the office in front of a desktop computer, or are on the move and playing with a mobile device, I am quite sure that would have come across some notifications in your Facebook account that comprised of your friends sending you a game request, whether it is for more energy bars, in-game currency or other kinds of goodies. Facebook has decided to make things a wee bit more specific, which is something that should have been done right from the very beginning.
Facebook Game Notifications Get More Detailed original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mar 19
Facebook, being a social network, has the intention of making sure its product remains as close to users as much as possible, and some of these attempts include Chat Heads on Android that will leave a hovering friend icon on your screen whenever you begin to message. Facebook Home is another attempt which did not do too well, however, since it was perceived to be an extremely invasive full launcher replacement. It looks like Facebook is now looking at the notification bar on Android, relishing in its next target.
Facebook’s Persistent Notification Bar On Android Tested original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mar 19
At the Game Developers Conference, Facebook has revealed it averages 375 million people playing games connected to the social network per month. This represents connected gamers playing games on both … Continue reading
Mar 18
For almost two weeks the world has been baffled by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The flight was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur when contact was lost almost an hour into the journey. No one has heard from it since then, no wreckage has been found as over 25 countries scour the seas, assuming that MH370 probably crashed. The story is quite obviously getting a lot of attention. Given that most people get their news through social media these days, its not surprising to see that people have already started leveraging this tragedy for their ill motives.
MH370 Links On Social Networks Spreading Malware original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mar 18
Facebook has been working on facial recognition for years to auto-tag photographs, but has now reached a point where its technology is ‘closely approaching human-level performance.’ In fact, in some ways it might even be better.
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