Facebook has been actively seeking to tap into the smartphone market for quite some time, and it seems everything is now in place for the concept to become reality.
The coming together of both Facebook and Skype began back in July, when the social network rolled Skype calling into its online chat system. All users needed to do was download a small applet, and then they could call each-other using Skype's online telephony system, free of charge.
Remember all the backlash against Facebook’s new News Feed design that forced users to view highlighted stories first and then the most recent stories? Well, the company has announced a newer way for sorting News Feed, which we’ve talked about after the jump.
In many ways they are extremely similar, but the news that Steve Jobs coached Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg still comes as a surprise, with the revelation coming as the Zuck was interviewed for a TV show by Charlie Rose.
Social networking site Facebook appears to be rolling out a restructured format to the way its users view ads, which are now being placed atop the sidebar on the right-hand side of the page.
With Facebook on the rise of maintaining the number one social networking site spot on the planet, we have seen it grow from year to year from one million users to a staggering five hundred million users, and now it has surpassed three quarters of a millions users.
Despite Facebook's official mobile app having been installed on many a smartphone during the last couple of years, the social network still felt compelled to release a separate app to cater for the instant-messaging side of things back in August, appropriately entitled Facebook Messenger.
It’s been a long time coming, but it is finally here: Facebook for iPad has been officially announced and has been made available for download. Get the download link after the jump!
Well well well, here's a tasty little morsel that we weren't expecting to crop up. If Mashable's Ben Parr is correct, and his sources aren't telling him lies, Facebook is set to launch its much-anticipated iPad app during Apple's yet to be announced special event for the release of iOS 5. This same event is expected to also play host to the iPhone 5 announcement.
Have you ever wanted to find out the people who have removed you from their friend list - or unfriending, as it is called - on Facebook? It wasn’t really possible before, but thanks to the new Timeline feature, we can now find that out.
