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Tag: Timeline

  • Facebook App Center launched, is multi-platform

    Facebook app center launched today, with 600 apps. The App Center is not like a traditional app store, in the sense that it does not necessarily have apps that run within facebook.com, but lists any app that uses Facebook in any way. If an app uses Facebook login and pushes its feed to the site,…

  • Facebook buys Instagram for 1 Billion Dollars!

    Instagram, the photo sharing app/social-network, which finally launched its Android app last week, has been purchased for a total of 1 billion dollars, including cash, and shares of Facebook. The best part is, Facebook is not evil like Google [ which caused the death of many good products such as picnik.com and Kevin Rose’ Oink…

  • Facebook groups get the timeline make over!

    Just noticed this. Facebook groups are getting the makeover as well. This is part of the new Facebook redesign. The timeline would come to pages was long known, but for groups, is a surprise! It looks pretty awesome though. I just updated the TechIRIS group on facebook, with a quick cover photo. Have a look!…

  • Facebook is giving away 3 Million dollars [ 16 crore rupees ] worth of visiting cards for free!

    Facebook has partnered with Moo, a company famous for making beautiful visiting cards. Now, it’s easier to get your timeline-esque visiting cards made. But what’s cool is that Facebook is giving away 200,000 sets of 50 cards for free. One set costs 15$ [ with worldwide shipping ], so basically, they are giving away 3 Million dollars…

  • Here’s a list of lists of what you did in 2011 /meta

    These are the lists everyone should certainly look at. A compilation of Internet’s  Top Tens of 2011 Twitter’s – 2011 Year in review What did you tweet about? Facebook’s Memology 2011 App What did you post about? Google Zeitgeist 2011 What did you search for? Know You Meme’s Best Memes of 2011 You can also watch the video below – YouTube’s 2011 The…

  • Timeline is here.

    Today, Facebook announced that timeline has been launched for everybody. Here’s what you need to know. What is timeline? It’s a new design for your Facebook profile. Um, what’s new? It’s something like a digital collection of your life, that you curate. Facebook automatically organizes all your status updates and other life events chronologically, so browsing it would be…

  • Facebook timeline coming soon!

    Facebook has started rolling out timeline, the new profile design, announced at f8 this September. According to a blog post by Facebook, they are beginning with New Zealand. It might hit Indian shores soon. The new design was up till in beta, and only available to Developers. The new profile design makes it much more natural…

  • Is blekko what google wants to be?

    It’s a widely acknowledged fact that the primary purpose of Google’s +1s and Google Plus itself was to get what facebook has. User data. Why? Better search. It’s been clear for quite some time, that having an awesome algorithm, with high levels of complexity, does no more mean better search results. What does? Well, in…