Over the years, the blogosphere has made fun of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. College Humor, a website known for its numerous comedy sketches, is now poking fun at the company as well.
Ever wondered what you did precisely one year ago? One of the indicators you can use to answer that question, especially if you're an Internet junkie, is to look at your Facebook wall. You could just go back and look, but would it be a lot more fun to be briefed daily on what you were doing the day before? That's where PastPosts comes in.
Microsoft has kicked off an ad campaign featuring Bing's new Facebook integration functionality. This feature allows users to visualize on the fly how many of their Facebook friends "like" a particular search result. This is yet another way that, according to Microsoft, will let you 'Bing & Decide'. Stay tuned for videos below.
Sometimes we're all so preoccupied with gaining friends and followers that we're sometimes missing one of the most important metrics we can use to measure our performance on social media sites - who's unfollowing us?
Security is high on everyone's list of priorities these days, especially with Sony still battling to bring its PlayStation network and Qriocity services back online after a security breach potentially leaked millions of users' personal information. Now Facebook is offering a new tool to try and prevent unauthorized access to your account.
When the likes of TechCrunch and LA Times started using Facebook as their post commenting system, the feedback they got on it was mixed. Normal people loved it because it cut out the anonymous trolls and the trolls hated it because, well they couldn't troll anonymously. Now though they can get back to doing what they do best - spouting rubbish about their favorite smartphone that they've turned into a new religion.
Another Facebook scan is doing the rounds these days, this time attempting to take advantage of users' interest in the yet un-announced iPhone 5.
Facebook today launched the ability to tag Pages in photos, just as people can be tagged already. In a post on Facebook (oddly enough) the company outlined the new feature which it believes will enable people to 'share richer stories'. We at RedmondPie aren't quite sure what they mean by that, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that one.
Facebook and privacy just don't seem to be the best of friends, and today the social network had to remove a whole API in order to stop personal data being accessible by third parties.
While Facebook's iPhone app has certainly improved lately, it's still far from the smooth, slick experience we iPhone users are so used to these days. Unfortunately, it's the only real way to upload photos to Facebook from an iPhone, but if you're a jailbreaker there's a new tweak that's going to rock your world. Enter, FBUploader.
