Face.com’s Photo Tagger app in Facebook is now open to all. This app scan a Facebook member’s photo albums on the site and allows him to identify faces that he knows. While photo tagging is already a feature of Facebook Albums, this particular apps does it differently by grouping multiple shots of a member to make it easier to tag the photos and also for letting you tag photos of other people. [Read more…] about Facebook Photo Tagger App Goes Public
Social Networks
Facebook Grew Bigger, Again
Just recently, Facebook has passed the 300 million user mark. This is already a remarkable feat for a social networking site which started as a college project in some university, right? But that number was so yesterday. Based on Facebook’s own advertising statistics, the number of Facebook users have now reached 325 million. [Read more…] about Facebook Grew Bigger, Again
Facebook Groups Finally Gets a Special Treatment
Facebook has finally noticed that aside from the Fan pages, it still has another facility for Facebook members to work together, collaborate and communicate – the Facebook Groups. For quite sometime now, Facebook groups has been neglected in the sideline as Facebook put more emphasis into promoting Facebook pages. Well, this is understable since it is the mostly used facility for companies to get their brands on Facebook. But now Facebook is finally improving the Groups functionality. [Read more…] about Facebook Groups Finally Gets a Special Treatment
MySpace Now Syncs Updates with Twitter
For MySpace it’s better late than never. The official MySpace blog announced that it is rolling out a new feature of MySpace that will allow users to sync their MySpace status updates with their Twitter feed. Available as an opt-in feature, any user can sync their MySpace account with Twitter so that any updates on their MySpace status will also be displayed as tweets on their Twitter. Likewise, users may also choose to have their tweets be displayed in their MySpace status and mood. [Read more…] about MySpace Now Syncs Updates with Twitter
3 Reasons Why Facebook Lite Will Not Be Used by its Intended Users
I guess by now you’ve probably checked out the new Lite version of Facebook which was announced a couple of hours ago. Facebook went live in the U.S. and India first but a couple of hours later it went live to other countries as well. Facebook’s reason for coming up with Facebook Lite? To give users in countries where Internet connection is not at par with advanced countries a chance to enjoy Facebook without getting annoyed by the slow loading of Facebook.com. But, will the supposed “target user” of Facebook Lite actually use it? I could name 5 reasons why it won’t be really used by these users. [Read more…] about 3 Reasons Why Facebook Lite Will Not Be Used by its Intended Users
TweetDeck Becomes a Better Twitter Desktop Client
Right after I bought my Mac, I kept on encountering various good feedback for desktop Twitter client – TweetDeck. So I quickly downloaded TweetDeck and it has become my desktop Twitter client since then. It pretty much does the job of keeping me updated with my Twitter account. But how I wish that Tweetdeck would also get streams from Facebook – and it did, just now via TweetDeck version 0.30. [Read more…] about TweetDeck Becomes a Better Twitter Desktop Client