Apr 16
iOS device owners will soon get to experience the joy of Chatheads through an update to Facebook’s main app later today. Sort of.
Nov 05
Facebook App 5.1 For iOS Available
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Facebook has updated its iOS app which now have a few new features. The most important to me is the ability to send Facebook messages to your favorite contacts faster. By swiping to the left from any screen in the app, you will reveal a Contacts page where people that you message the most to are at the top (note: the swipe works best when swiping the top navigation area in blue). Previously, you needed to search for the contact, then click on the Message button, and that was a lot more friction than I would care for,
Secondly, the photo-sharing part of the Facebook app has been updated, and it now looks like the Facebook Camera app, which allows you to easily select multiple files at once for upload. This is a welcome addition as photo sharing is clearly a big chunk of the activity on Facebook.
Finally, Facebook is adding the Facebook Gifts to the app for the first time. While I was writing this, the app has showed up in the app store.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook 5.0 for iOS hands-on, No plans for Instagram for Blackberry 10 according to Facebook [Updated],
Oct 20
Eagle-eyed gamers may have already noticed that the Xbox 360’s dedicated Twitter and Facebook apps have gone missing after the latest Dashboard update, and now Redmond has confirmed it’s put the applications out to pasture. According to a Microsoft representative that spoke to IGN, the firm is “retiring the Facebook and Twitter apps” as it works to streamline functionality. When asked if the pair of apps will ever make a comeback, Ballmer and Co. didn’t comment. Still crave to update your friends on your latest gaming exploits through the console? Spreading the news on the digital grapevine is still possible, but you’ll have to access the social networks through the freshly added Internet Explorer app — an experience we hope Xbox SmartGlass will improve.
Microsoft ‘retiring’ Facebook and Twitter Xbox 360 Dashboard apps originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Oct 08
Remember when Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook’s HTML5 Android app was a mistake? Well, one of our tipsters, embedded deep inside the Social Network, has let us know that the native version for Google’s mobile OS has entered final testing. As such, it won’t be long before the software is ready for consumption by the public at large, give or take an angry Winklevii or two.
[Thanks, Anonymous]
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Native Facebook app for Android is in the final phases of internal testing originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Oct 2012 08:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Oct 02
I thought one of the first things people do when they buy a smartphone is download the Facebook App for iOS or Android and just never look back. Turns out I’m wrong! Mark Zuckerberg says people actually use the Facebook mobile website more than Facebook apps. More »
Sep 11
Zuckerberg: betting on HTML 5 for Facebook mobile app was a ‘mistake,’ native Android version on the way
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Remember the days before Facebook’s iOS app ditched HTML 5 and sped things up with some native code? It turns out that there’s some regret in Menlo Park about relying on the web markup language. Betting on HTML 5 for the app is “one of the biggest mistakes if not the biggest strategic mistakes we’ve ever made,” Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt today. The firm’s CEO also mentioned that new features will be making their way to the app and a snappier Android version is coming down the pike “when it’s done.”
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Zuckerberg: betting on HTML 5 for Facebook mobile app was a ‘mistake,’ native Android version on the way originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug 23
Facebook 5.0 for iOS hands-on
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Facebook is one of the most downloaded apps in the world, but yet, it got fairly average app-store reviews for something that is so universally used. There are basically two main points of friction for mobile Facebook users: speed and battery usage. Facebook 5.0 is an attempt to fix the speed problem, and we can hope that some of the battery issues got better as well. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook for iOS gains a new Save feature, Former Apple software engineers reportedly working on a faster Facebook app for iOS,
Jul 18
Washington state has commissioned a Facebook app to provide another avenue for its residents to register to vote. Officials will soon post the software, developed by local company Microsoft, on the Secretary of State’s page and allow users to like it in order to spread the word. Once it’s ready, residents looking at using it will need to allow Facebook access to their personal info and provide a driver’s license number or state ID number, which the social network will use to put them on the voter rolls — but it would have no access to government databases, according to an election director. The state’s current online system already saves up to $2 per voter registration, so on top of getting more out to vote, the new effort should keep even more dollars in the coffers.
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Washington to become first US state to enroll voters through Facebook originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Jul 04
BBC launches updated, interactive live video player ahead of Olympics; lines up ‘summer of 3D’
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As the London Olympics creep closer, BBC is unveiling more of the technology it plans to use to bring the Games home to UK viewers. In the last few days it’s shown off both the new live video player shown above, as well as a new Facebook app in beta for BBC Sport. The interactive live video player is built to deliver up to 24 HD streams during the Olympics, along with alerts for key events and extra information and stats. It will work on computers and tablets that support Flash, and for those notable ones that don’t, there’s a stripped down version for mobiles and iPads that loses the extra interactivity. The BBC Sport Facebook app will also be able to stream the Games, but also let you see if any of your friends are watching the same stream or what sport is the most popular. Finally, the Beeb has lined up what it’s calling the “Summer of 3D” with a lineup that includes Planet of the Dinosaur, Last Night of the Proms, Wimbledon and the Olympics. There’s a lot going on, hit the source links or check the press releases after the break for the highlights.
BBC launches updated, interactive live video player ahead of Olympics; lines up ‘summer of 3D’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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