Facebook’s Greatest Innovations: The First Decade

Facebook’s Greatest Innovations: The First Decade

Facebook, the world’s most widely used social network, celebrates its 10th anniversary today. Here’s a look back at a decade’s worth of innovation.

    



Facebook Home Plays Nice With Every Social Network That Isn’t Twitter

Facebook Home Plays Nice With Every Social Network That Isn't Twitter

Hey, so remember Facebook Home? Yeah, probably not. Which isn’t surprising considering it wasn’t much more than Zuck’s half-baked attempt at getting his eager fingers into the phone market. But now, Home wants to be relevant once again for the first time by bringing in all your other favorite social media accounts—you know, everything that’s not Twitter.

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Facebook Home update adds Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram

Facebook Home has been updated, with the new socially-enabled homescreen for Android smartphones now pulling in Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram content in addition to media from your friends list. The update, which hit the Google Play store today, helps crack open Facebook Home from its relatively insular beginnings to a more encompassing social-first platform. […]

Mark Zuckerberg on the NSA Debacle, Facebook Home, and Sucking at IPOs

Mark Zuckerberg on the NSA Debacle, Facebook Home, and Sucking at IPOsSpeaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference Mark Zuckerberg has made his feelings known about the recent NSA scandal, pointing out that the government "blew it".

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Nobody Downloaded Facebook Home, So Now Its Best Features Are in the Facebook App

Nobody Downloaded Facebook Home, So Now Its Best Features Are in the Facebook App

Millions of people have the Facebook app on their Android phone. Far fewer users have installed Facebook Home, the apperating system that debuted on the HTC First, the phone nobody bought. So now you can get Home on a wider array …

    

Facebook for Android gets Home-style cover feed lock screen

Facebook for Android has been updated to bring the Facebook Home cover feed over to the main app, where it can now be set as the Android lock screen. The feature, which pulls photos and posts from the user’s friends list on Facebook and cycles through them, was previously limited to the Facebook Home app, […]

Latest Facebook Android App Update Brings Cover Feed Sans Home

Latest Facebook Android App Update Brings Cover Feed Sans Home

You might remember Facebook Home, the Android launcher that didn’t exactly take off. Home brought a feature called Cover Feed, which is basically a user’s News Feed displayed in a much more exuberant fashion. Facebook Home is only available for a select number of smartphones, so quite a lot of Android users are not able to download it on their devices, which means that not a lot of Android users are taking advantage of this feature.

Users who update to the latest version of Facebook for Android will now be able to set Cover Feed as their Home screen. Cover Feed displays posts and photos from friends, users can pan around it to view the content. There’s a caveat though, not every Android device will be able to support Cover Feed. Only those devices that are capable of running Facebook Home support Cover Feed activation through the standalone Android app, these devices include Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, LG Nexus 4, HTC One, First, One X+ and the One X. So if you own any of these devices and like Cover Feed but want to get it without installing Facebook Home, here’s your cue.

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An Unusually Close Look At The Development Of Facebook Home

Facebook Home had its Android-only release in April and it’s been sort of proliferating a little bit maybe? ever since. It lives in a weird space between operating systems and apps, but it’s meant to be something you don’t over-think. So don’t think about. Just let it be a mostly successful immersive experience. That’s it. Oh plus this 50 minute video. But mainly it speaks for itself.

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Facebook Home Gets Folders In The App’s Latest Android Beta

The latest Facebook for Android beta brings folders to Facebook Home. It is unclear when this app will exit beta stage and will be made available to the public.

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Survey Reveals Over 90% U.S. Smartphone Owners Not Interested In Facebook Home

A new survey which polled 1,000 adults reveals that over 90 percent of smartphone owners in the U.S. are not interested in Facebook Home.

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