Facebook App Center Anyone?

Selling your application on the online store is really the way in the future. Facebook will be launching its own App Center. The company is hoping to be able to give developers a convenient way to distribute apps. Applications which require to be downloaded to your devices, be it iOS or Android, it will automatically be directed to either Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

Source: Facebook App Center

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Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion

Facebook yesterday announces to be purchasing the photo-social-sharing company Instagram for a total worth of $1 billion.
That sums up to be the biggest acquisition to date for Facebook. The news comes after Instagram releases the app for Android version recently. In terms of users, it should grow significantly with the addition of Android users. Instagram was voted the best Apple app in 2011.

Source: Instagram

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Facebook Releases Timeline for Pages

Facebook releases timeline for pages recently. Package that comes with the new timeline is advertisement. According to Facebook, it is supposed to boost advertising on social network.

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iPhone's Facebook 3.5 Major Update

There is a major update in the latest Facebook app version 3.5 released yesterday (06.09.11).
I wonder if this update fixed the intermittent problems of loading comments.
Please also take note that the latest update removes the iPad support. In the previous version, jailbroken users were able to use FaceFoward (Cydia) to run Facebook app in actual iPad mode.

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Facebook and Twitter Buttons Now On Apple Store

Further fine-tuning on the Apple Online Store was done to add in the famous Facebook and Twitter buttons.

Apparently it appears on worldwide Apple Store.

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How To Remove All Your Phone Contacts in Facebook

This is amazingly unnoticed by lots of people. This would fall into the category of privacy infringement I guess.
If you are using any smartphones with Facebook application, you are bound to fall into this category of Facebook having all your contacts that you are storing in your smartphones.

From an official reply to BGR, Facebook spokesperson claimed that the phone contacts are not visible to everyone. 

Here are the steps to remove your phone contacts from Facebook account.

Step 1: Login to www.facebook.com from your Mac or PC

Step 2: At the top right corner, go to "Account" -> "Edit Friends"

Step 3: Click on "Contacts" at the top left

Step 4: At the right side, there is a link "this page". Click on it.

Step 5: Click "Remove"

Step 6: Go to your mobile Facebook Application and switch off sync

Step 7: For iPhones, launch Facebook app and go to "Friends"

Step 8: On the top right, tap on the arrow and select "Sync Contacts"

Step 9: Slide to Off on "Syncing". Done.

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Facebook Messenger

The team in Facebook Inc. just released Facebook Messenger app for iOS and Androids.

Obviously it's free. It's a standalone app which is just for texting/chatting.
It simplifies the problem that you need to load up your Facebook app and go to message section each time you get a new message form your friends.
It's basically the whole idea of Facebook buying over Beluga sometime in February.



Another interesting part is that, it was rumored that the current Facebook Messenger app has the hidden capability of supporting video calls as well. We will have to wait and see for now..

Now, with this new app by Facebook, would it post a threat to Whatsapp?

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