The iPhone app, which CEO Zuckerberg says nearly every iOS device owner uses, gets updated Places support, Groups feature, including the ability to add photos to check-ins and better tagging.
Facebook has just sent out invites for a “Mobile Event” which they are hosting on November 3 at their Headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
Forbes recently updated their 400 Richest Americans list and well, let’s just say that a certain 26 year old iPhone-hating Facebook CEO is now worth more than you can ever be.
I find this a little hard to believe but Michael Arrington (of TechCrunch fame) says that the world’s biggest social network - Facebook - is now secretly building up a proprietary phone whose features will revolve entirely around the network. Hard to believe, but one must keep in mind that Arrington was the one who broke the news of a Google Phone (now known as the Nexus One).
Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen has sued 11 major companies: Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Yahoo!, Netflix, Staples, Office Depot, OfficeMax and YouTube, claiming that they have violated four different patent rights which his company Interval Licensing LLC owns.
Facebook has just released version 3.2.2 of Facebook for iPhone which fixes the dreaded login issue which has been plaguing users ever since Facebook rolled out the major version 3.2.x for “Places” last week. This is third update for this app released in a span of only four days. Both the Facebook for iPhone 3.2 and 3.2.1 were released on 19th of this month.
Facebook has just released version 3.2.1 of Facebook for iPhone to fix bug fixes. We havent spotted anything new yet except for the bug fixes. Hit the update button now and let us know if you spot a change or two.
Facebook for iPhone version 3.2 was rolled out last night which brought support for the newly launched “Places” feature, support for background uploading of pictures and videos in iOS 4, along with other visual enhancements such as “Pull-to-Refresh” to iPhone. However for many users including myself, this new version was mostly broken, throwing “Unable to Load this Page” error on most pages. Oh and if you tried removing and reinstalling the app, it simply refuses to login.
At the Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg, along with other developers, engineers and partners at Facebook announced a new location based product called Facebook Places. This is essentially a check-in service like Foursquare and Gowalla that allows you to check-in to places that you have been to share it with all your Facebook friends and family. You will be able to see which of your friends are currently at the same venue and which of them have been there. There is also going to be an option which will allow you to tag your friends into places you check-in. Of course you can change all that in your privacy settings and by default only those who are friends with you on Facebook will be able to see your check-ins. Facebook is also going to keep a complete history of check-ins that you have made at a dedicated page on web.
Finally! After a long wait, Facebook app for Android has been updated to come on-par, if not better than its iPhone counterpart. Full list of change log is as follows. Screenshots of the new app after the break !
