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.

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.

explore the worst of YouTube with BoooTube

Everyone knows about the best, but there are times when you need to explore the worse, may be just to motivate yourself that you are still better then someone.

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.

Tweetdeck tweaks the UI new docked tweet panel

Tweetdeck is one of the best solutions to manage multiple Twitter accounts and now they are making tweeting much more easier with the new update. The new update to Tweetdeck brings a docked panel attached to the sidebar, it hides when not in use but you also have the option to keep it visible all the time, making tweeting much more faster, well its just a few seconds of difference but still a handy update.

The new update to Tweetdeck brings a new tweet panel, which is docked with the sidebar on the left and you also have the option to keep it open all the time

Yahoo acquired Rockmelt looks like a mobile future for Yahoo

Remember Rockmelt, the web browser with the Facebook integration, it was powered with Chromium the engine that drives Google Chrome and there was a layer of Facebook on top of it. Yahoo has just acquired the company and all the services from Rockmelt will be shutting down on 31st August 2013.

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.

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.

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.

get free stuff on Twitter, why users follow brands..?

Twitter reported a few weeks back in a presentation that more than 50% of their users follow 6 or more brands. The report was based on the users living in the US, it also says that almost 88% of users follow more than one brand.

TweetDeck app for Google Chrome and a little story after twitter acquired it

TweetDeck was one of my Favorite, in fact the only client I used for a while for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz and Foursquare. TweetDeck was quite a popular app and Twitter thought of buying it because people were not landing on Twitter, rather they were happy tweeting from TweetDeck.

For Twitter its time for some small sized videos : Twitter buys Vine

Twitter has transformed the way we communicate with 140 characters and now they are looking to evolve from text to some Videos. Twitter has reportedly acquired a small startup of 3 people named vine, which is a bite-sized clips sharing service. The Vine hasn’t been launched and twitter has already grabbed the service before anyone could have noticed it.

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.

Twitter is down just the time of Olympics

The second most popular social network is down today and that too in a big way, there is nothing up on twitter.com, only an error message and that too is not good looking. Twitter was facing some issue from a last few month until it finally broke up today.

Twitter has got an update to their blog that the engineers are working on the problem and will soon will be fixing the issues at least putting the site live.

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.

Facebook now has an App center

Facebook finally has an app center, which is one place to find all the apps made by developers on Facebook. The store (App Center) is rolling out and is already available in most parts of the globe. This might be an indication from Facebook that they are looking to go mobile and want developers to build for mobile, with some kind of integration with Facebook.

The app center will be much personalized with the apps your friends are using and have recommended and also some of the popular apps around the world or the Facebook favorites.