Facebook to pay $20 million because it used you for ads

Facebook was sued by a class action group back in 2011 claiming that Facebook violated their privacy with its sponsored stories. You must have seen some ads on your profile saying that some of your friends have liked it, with their name and small profile picture.

Now shared photo albums in Facebook, update rolling out

Facebook is one of the top places where people share there personal photos of trips, events and so much more, every happy moment of your life end up as a Facebook album. Facebook has rolled out a new update to the photo albums, which will now, not only let your friends view the album but also allow some selected ones ( the ones you select not Facebook :P ) to upload photos into that album.

Now if you were on a trip with your friends and you all captured some memories of the visit, no need to upload many different albums on every profile ( your own profile and your friends will also upload in their own profiles ) and tag people to let them know. Facebook's new album feature will allow you to create an album and then you can add friends to that album who can also upload to that same album, without creating a new album on their respective accounts.

This is a very nice update, now you will have just a single place to get all the photos from your friends who were on the last trip with you.

Facebook mobile app just for celebrities

Facebook is working on an app exclusively for celebrity,s allowing them to manage their Facebook presence and interact with their fans. The app will be made keeping in mind the social needs of celebrities and what all social tools they need to make better connection with their fans.

It looks like Facebook's strategy to push celebrities to Facebook from Twitter, which at the moment is the favourite choice of celebrities.

According to reports the app is called VIP app and is already under test with a small group of celebrities.

82 million Indians are now on Facebook, your neighbour will add you very soon

India being the second most popular country in the world has a growing user base on Facebook and the site has managed to catch quite a number of users from the country. India still has a huge number of feature phone users and Facebook's plan to make an app for every phone has really benefited them for a rapid growth in countries like India.

Older People are boring and younger are more friendly

Now there is mathematical proof that as you grow older you become more boring and less friendly. Mathematician Stephen Wolfram analysed data from Facebook to calculate the data science of the World of Facebook. He found out that as the age of user increases the number of Facebook friends decreases, indicating that ether you are getting boring or you are afraid about being in new unknown virtual relations, more likely is that as you grow older you tend to understand people better and realising the virtual relations are not doing any good for you.

Zynga is not number one Facebook game app maker

Zynga was dominating the game space in Facebook apps until recently, when king.com overtook the market from Zynga. King.com is the company behind mobile game Candy Crush sega and many others.

King.com with 150.4 Million users per month is at number one, leading Zynga, which has 150.2 Million users per month.

The company is going good and investors are now looking confident about companies situation at the moment, with only advertising as the main source of income for the company, the profits are good with lots of users.

send stickers from Facebook on web just like the app

Facebook has added stickers to its mobile apps for the iOS and Android and this is one of Facebook's move to get people to use Facebook on the go.

TweetDeck android and iPhone apps to be removed with no more Facebook integration

TweetDeck team or Twitter has finally announced that TweetDeck apps on the Google Play and iOS app store will be taken off from 7th May. The apps were no more updated after TweetDeck was overtaken by Twitter and now they are finally taking it off.

First thoughts on Facebook home

This certainly looks to be a big project for Facebook and I can assure you that the way it is built, it will impress you for the first few minutes. I was impressed with the way it looked and smoothness of the app was awesome, but that was just the first few minutes.

how Facebook buying Instagram effected twitter : infographic

Facebook bought Instagram for 1billion US dollars, it might sound like a big amount for an app but it was a good one. After Facebook bought Instagram Twitter was the site which got effected by it the most. Before the buy twitter users used to see the shared photos in the timeline but not any more and one needs to click on the link and then are redirected to Instagram.

Facebook is all set for a new look

Facebook is about to get a UI(user interface) update which will make the Facebook experience more unified across all devices. The main focus of this Facebook design update is to remove all the clutter from the news feed and make it more engaging and fun to use. Now the desktop UI will look more like what you experience in the phone and tablets but with better and bigger images and information.

BetterMe, Alarm clock that humiliates you to get up

If you are one of those who love to hit snooze on the alarm clock, but you are looking to change this habit, you need something that can remove that snooze button from the clock. Getting up early in the morning is certainly one of the hardest things to do, but what if you can be made to feel ashamed about getting up late. How.? what if every time you hit snooze your Facebook status is updated with a humiliating text, which will be fun for your friends to read but not for you.

OMG friend request from mom on Facebook

The studies have shown that 50% of all the parents on Facebook are there to keep an eye on their kids. Now the data is showing that the number of moms on Facebook is increasing year by year, the number of mom accounts have increased to 72% in 2012 from 62% in 2011.

Apple and Google loosing trust of American Customers

Apple and Google are one of the most trusted brands but the time is changing for both Google and Apple at least in the US. It may be because of the other brands improving their services but what about these two tech giants? According to Ponemon Institute's privacy report the two companies wasn't even able to make it to the top 20 of the list in which Apple was 14th and Google was 19th last year.

Facebook testing "Pages feed" for improved content management

Facebook's news feed is quite a cluttered place now, flooded with so much information from hundreds of friends and sometimes even more number of liked pages. Facebook has got those sponsored posts as well now, which is a type of monetizing, but with so many content on a the home page the sponsored posts somehow misses out on the impact they can have with a little less content. What next, how can Facebook manage the content on the all important news feed?

Well the simple solution they are trying out is the "pages feed", what this does is add a different section for updates coming from the pages you have liked, making the news feeds much more relevant to you. The issue with Facebook at the moment is that the users are saying, that they most of the time miss information that they really care about and page owners feel that Facebook is somehow effecting their brand presence and marketing strategies. So Facebook will have to look into this issue for both sides of the coin because both sides matter to them. Facebook is also adding some notification features for pages, once you activate notification for a particular page you will get a notification whenever there is an update to the page without getting a messy news feed. So lets see how good Facebook can do with some new plans, strategies and algorithms for managing the content and making it more useful for users and brands.

Facebook updates messenger for Android with UI changes and SMS/MMS features

Facebook finally does something good with the messenger app for Android and soon the update is expected to hit iOS as well.

The new UI update makes things little more obvious and easy to use, you can now select friends to start a conversation or select the online friend more easily. In the new update the conversations are now in bubble like interface making things look more good.

Why is Facebook going social on mobile?

The future of Social is right in your hands and the biggest social world, “The World of Facebook” also reaching your hands. The most important thing these days is a phone in anyone’s life, people might forget to take other things with them but not a phone, in more simple words a phone is a part of your social.

You really can’t imagine of a person with a phone, until she or he is too young to have one or too old. Facebook is looking to take advantage of this socialness of mobile devices in our lives and make Facebook a real social thing.

Facebook iOS app now twice as fast with the new update

Facebook finally has some update to the mobile, this looks to be a step forward by Facebook proving their direction to the mobile web. The iOS apps of Facebook have got an update and the update is both for iPhone and the iPad apps.

Facebook is claiming that the new app is twice as fast compared to the older version of the app and also that the apps have been redesigned from the ground up to make this speed improvement possible. Some of the improvements are in terms of smoother and faster scrolling in the app and also the app seems to be opening much faster.

Facebook Messages get a new layout

Facebook has made an update to messages, making it more useful and easy to use with the new dual-pane layout.

I was just replying to one of my friends and just opened messages and saw this new update, although it is just a few hours I have been using it but it really is a nice update.

What will be your last Facebook status? - what if death is around the corner

Have you ever thought what will happen to your Facebook profile if you die, will you be able to share your last words with your friends?

You might want to advice someone or may be share your deepest secret with your friends as your last Facebook status, but still you don’t know when you are going to die and you will surely not be able to have your last say before you die.