Facebook always seems to be in the middle of a debilitating privacy row, and as Mashable reports the social networking site could be steaming headlong into another with its new facial recognition system.
FaceNiff is a new Android App that makes it literally effortless to log into someone else's Facebook account, if that person is on the same Wi-Fi network. Yes, any Wi-Fi network.
Just when you didn't think Facebook could grow any bigger, Mark Zuckerberg's brainchild is on the verge of hitting the 700 million user mark according to Facebook stat monitoring web site Socialbakers.
We're just days away from this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and as usual the rumor-mill is in full swing. Apple has already confirmed iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion will be shown off at the event's keynote address, along with the much anticipated iCloud service, whatever that may turn out to be. But now we have a whole new rumor, and we like it. We like it a lot!
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?
We're probably all too familiar with Facebook's photo tagging feature. It lets users easily identify a person on one of their photos by setting an area around their face or body and tagging it with the person's name.
Facebook really is one of the biggest success stories of the last 10 years, and not just when it comes to companies based around the internet. Infamously founded by Mark Zuckerberg while at Harvard, Facebook is now home to over 600 million users - and it shows no sign of slowing in its meteoric rise to ruling to social networking world. But what if Facebook was never founded? It just so happens rent-an-evangelist Guy Kawasaki asked that very same question and came up with this infographic courtesy of SimpleGrain.
One of the most popular and widely used app on the iPhone has got an update today! This new version 3.4 of the official Facebook for iPhone app brings an overall improved and polished UI for notifications, along with much better reliability and bug fixes. It also adds new Map View for Facebook Places, ability to unfriend, and the ability to check-in to Facebook Events that you might be attending.
A new update of Twitter for iOS is now live in the App Store. Available for both iPhone and iPad, the new version 3.3 of Twitter app for iOS brings tons of new features, including: improved conversation view for DM, Quick Bar, easier uploading of images and cleaned up design.
The Social Network grabbed three Oscar awards, but falls short of winning the Best Picture (to The King’s Speech) at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. It was nominated for eight awards, including Best: Picture, Actor (Jesse Eisenberg who played as Mark Zuckerberg), Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score and Sound Mixing.
