Features
- The Mountain Lion Experience by Chris
- WWDC 2012: The Train Keeps on Rollin' by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 3 (The Verdict) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 2 (The Experience) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 1 (The Motive) by Tarun
- A Month With Metro for Xbox 360 by Chris
- 2012 by Tarun
- Redefining Reading and Sharing: Flipboard for iPhone by Tarun
- Dropping Their Guard by Tarun
- Design Unification with Google Apps by Tarun
Podcasts
- Weekly Download #38: Google I/O, Podcasts.app, Mansfield
- Weekly Download #37: WWDC, Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8
- Weekly Download #36: Nokia's Abysmal Quarter, More on Instagram, Sony, Nest, Apple & Gaming, Patents
- Weekly Download #35: RIM, IE, iPad, Lumia and Windows Phone 7.5
- Weekly Download #34: Windows Phone, Google, RIM
- Weekly Download #33: the New iPad, Apple TV, Draw Something, Mike Daisey
- Weekly Download #32: Apple "New iPad" Press Conference Event
- Weekly Download #31: iPad 3, Google Goggles, T-Mobile, Facebook, iFactory, Chomp, Microsoft, Nokia, Siri
- Weekly Download #30: Mountain Lion, iPads, Browser Cookies, Nook, Playbooks, Blackberry
- Weekly Download #29: iPad 3, Apple TV, Patent Uselessness, Facebook, Bing & Social, Google's Living Room
Tag Archives: facebook
Link: Zynga on HTML5 →
Dean Takahashi reports on Zynga’s latest announcements. Zynga is going to attempt to support both Flash and HTML5 in tandem, but recognizes the large opportunity space inherent in having Facebook on the iPad officially. It will be interesting to see … Continue reading
Link: Facebook Finally Releases iPad App →
It took a while, but Facebook has just announced the iPad app should be going live today. The app was expected to be released at last Tuesday’s Apple event, but that did not happen.
Link: Facebook Brings Media Front and Center →
Mark Smith, via USA TODAY, notes the recent shift in your news feed is a result of the clustering of alike sharing content based on what your friends are consuming. If two friends listen to a song on Spotify that … Continue reading
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Tagged facebook, music, recommendation
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Link: Facebook Didn’t Actually Have 1 Trillion Views →
I was a skeptic myself, so I’m glad Mike Luttrell from TG Daily picked this up: Comscore explained the discrepancy by saying Doubleclick relies on users’ cookie information, which is not all that accurate because many users reset their cookies … Continue reading
Link: An Overview of Facebook’s New Privacy Features →
Look familiar?
Link: Google+ “Has No Users” →
Good points on the virtual gaming impact on the economy, and more importantly a valid conclusion from a financial analyst: But according to Owyang, both services have their work cut out for them. Google+ is off to a good start, … Continue reading
Link: Revisiting Milgram’s Thought Experiment →
With the advent of Facebook and faster communication, it makes sense that the number of steps has decreased since Milgram’s original conjecture. I personally picked up someone from Budapest, but I instantly knew who to contact that may lead to … Continue reading
Link: Automated Tagging via Physical Features →
The use of face detection software isn’t new, but the idea of using social media as a way to datamine these features seems scary: The software, called “suggested automatic tagging,” lets Facebook users assign digital name tags to people in … Continue reading
Weekly Download #7: Facebook and Design, Robots, Technology and Intelligence, Bing, Zune, Apple TV
This week’s show is a day early because of a certain concert that a certain co-host is attending. We talk Facebook and their recent efforts to beef up their design team; robots taking over the world; technology and its correlation … Continue reading
Link: Facebook buys E-Book Company →
You have to wonder what Facebook might be up to with their latest move. On August 2nd, the company announced it was purchasing Push Pop Press. The e-book company specializes in books for iOS. It said that Facebook does not … Continue reading
Link: Politics and Social Media →
The power of social media is literally in every segment of our lives now. Politics is no exception to this. Campaigns all across the country are trying to figure out how to effectively use social media. More than seven in … Continue reading
Link: Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. →
Paul Adams: Google values technology, not social science. (Thanks, Leo!)
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Link: The VideoChatting Madness →
With all of the recent talk about video chatting I felt it was important to give the readers close comparison between all of the services that are currently out there. We have talked about many of these services in the … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Apple, Facebook, Google, iOS, Social Networking
Tagged facebook, facetime, Google Hangout, skype, social networking, video, video chatting, videochat, youtube
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Weekly Download #2: Facebook vs. Google+, Cash, and a Cloud Party
A weekly podcast with an attitude! It is so spunky, it needs a second recording done in a few days. On our second episode, we talk about Facebook’s recent announcement in relationship to Google+; the importance of cash reserves for … Continue reading
Link: Facebook debuts Skype-powered Video Calling →
Hands-on review from Engadget. The service seems very intuitive, with a little video icon at the corner of every Facebook profile to denote an option to initiate a new video call. Skype has also beefed up their own software to … Continue reading
The Answer to Facebook
“When one stands on the tallest mountain, all of the others seem small.” How can Facebook’s monumental incumbency be overthrown, and what does it take to create a successor to the social network? Continue reading