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Facebook updated its mobile apps for iOS and Android today to include a few small new features. The most notable one is the inclusion of a Share button on certain posts. Just like on facebook.com, you can now re-share posts (somewhat similar to Twitter’s retweet functionality) from the smartphone apps to all of your friends. This…
Facebook ability to make money up from its mobile services up until this point has been insubstantial. Enter Gifts. It’s a new way for Facebook users to send real gifts to each other in the mail for special occasions and it’s available on the Facebook website as well as the mobile apps. Cha-ching. Facebook Gifts work…
Facebook has re-built their iOS App from the ground up. Their developers went back to the drawing board to figure out how to trim of any excess code, features, and anything that might slow down its performance. The Facebook App, while still largely successful, has always been a little bit slow. Page takes too long…
Like it or not, mobile location-based services are on the rise. Small businesses take notice, it doesn’t have to be a big boys’ club. Whether we’re talking about Facebook, Foursquare or some other (smaller) app/service, local businesses can benefit from their use. Here’s how: Claim your store. First thing to do is to claim your…
Facebook has updated its Windows Phone app. While it’s still not on par with iOS and Android version, it’s steadily getting better. Version 2.5 introduces a number of enhancements, including: Ability to like comments Full-threaded Facebook messaging including group messaging Ability to tag friends using “with” and “at” formats Delete posts and comments via long…
Facebook is hoping to drive mobile app installs via its recently launched App Center. In a dedicated post, software engineer Brent Goldman explained how this scheme will work. Before that he mentioned that Facebook is already integrated in a number of mobile apps, with 7 of the top 10 grossing iOS apps and 5 of…
IPO won’t stop Facebook from its acquisition plans. After Instagram and Lightbox, they acquired Karma, a gift giving service that relies on the social network to make the [gift giving] “process” as seamless as possible. Using Karma, folks can send “perfect gift” to their friends and family either from Facebook or from their smartphone (iOS…
Just a few days before its expected Initial Public Offering, Facebook is pushing out a redesigned News Feed which is optimized for mobile phones. In a Facebook post, the world’s largest social network shows a few of the changes that will be coming to the mobile version for Android, iPhone and on m.facebook.com. This includes…
Facebook has announced the App Center, a new way to find apps with Facebook integration in a single place. Before now, there was never a good way to discover quality Facebook apps, whether they were housed on Facebook or utilized some of its APIs elsewhere. Facebook is aiming to change that. The App Center will…
This morning my Samsung Galaxy S II prompted me to update three social networking apps and because they are used by millions of users throughout the world, I decided to share the news with our audience. First of all, let me say that these are small updates, though we suggest you to “push the button”…