Foursquare initially found its niche with the location-based 'check-in' model, allowing users to see friends' hunts, whilst sharing their own locations and places visited. Facebook, with all its might and hundreds of millions of active users, tried and failed with its own integrated version, which has since been scrapped.
If you have access to Timeline, the new profile feature Facebook has been rolling out in waves, you may have noticed something odd when modifying or adding events and statuses along your digital life. When clicking on that little pencil hovering to the right of your friend’s posts, you are given a few options. You’ll see the standard “delete post”, “report as Spam” and “Hide from Timeline” options, but now a new selection has surfaced: “Change Date”.
People take privacy on Facebook very, very seriously, and for good reason. You don't want people seeing things that you thought were private, or a larger group of people seeing something that you though was only visible to a select few.
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!
If you use Facebook on your mobile device, you might be a frequent user of its messaging service. If so, you might become the newest fan of Facebook's just-released standalone messaging app for both Android and iPhone.
The Google+ iOS app has been updated today to support the previously “missing” iOS devices, the iPod touch and the iPad, just weeks after the original iPhone-only app was unveiled. All iOS users are urged to download this update as soon as possible from their device’s App Store or iTunes.
Those via iPhone, via Blackberry status updates are starting to get boring now. While there is no escaping them since Facebook includes them along with their native apps, you can set yourself apart by customizing the via message.
According to Experian Hitwise, a well-know New York- traffic measuring company, Google+ saw a slight decline in traffic last week. Although almost certainly not a reason for concern, could public interest in Google+ be softening?
Online movie streaming service Netflix today confirmed that Facebook integration is on the horizon, and will most likely be implemented within the next three months. However, the company has rather cautiously not decided to launch Stateside just yet, due to the legalities surrounding video sharing and will only launch in Canada and Latin America.
Folks! The Facebook for iPad app is real. It is actually hidden inside the recently updated Facebook for iPhone app. And here’s how you can install it on your own iPad right now.
