Tag: Facebook

The site can now provide summaries and stats that offer a window on your life months or years in the past.

Facebook won the loyalty of more than 800 million users largely by getting them into the habit of visiting again and again to see the latest updates, comments, and photos posted by friends. Now the site will also let outside apps provide even more content, and it will encourage people to spend time looking back over activity from months or even years ago. New features introduced at an event in San Francisco last night will enable users to automatically record their eating, reading, exercise, and other habits over time, share them with friends, and review their previous actions.

Nintendo is targeting the pink-obsessed girl gamer with a new color for the DSi XL and sweet DS titles, Kirby Mass Attack and Camping Mama: Outdoors Adventures.

Just because the 3DS is the newest kid on the block, doesnt mean Nintendo is abandoning the highly successful DS line. Starting this Sunday, the Nintendo DSi XL will come in Metallic Rose (pink) with a luminous modern sheen that is geared for girl gamers according to the press release. more...

Motorola has launched a new Dual SIM phone in India; the Motorola EX109 basic handset. The new Motorola EX109 Dual SIM phone comes in a stylish body with a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2-inch color display.

The Motorola phone features separated keys to ensure a great messaging experience and built-in links to popular social network websites like Facebook and Twitter.
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Google is to undergo a surprise management reshuffle which sees co-founder Larry Page replace Eric Schmidt as chief executive. Page, who co-created Google in 1996 with fellow student Sergey Brin, will now lead product development and technology strategy in a bid to recoup ground recently lost to Facebook.

Perhaps youve heard: social games maker Playdom was acquired by Disney a few days ago for a deal potentially worth north of $750 million. Playdom CEO John Pleasants took the stage today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, to talk a bit about the deal and the future.

Let's say you'd constituted a drinking game for the aftermath of Tuesday's unveiling of Google Buzz, the odd new mishmash of status messages, geolocation, and social-media aggregation: Take a drink every time some pundit says Google is trying to "kill" Facebook, Twitter, or any number of the "geo" start-ups out there.

You'd have been totally blitzed.

Service tracks social network chitchat about a product.

Big-name companies increasingly recognize the importance of discussions about their products on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. But keeping track of so many conversations in real-time is a daunting challenge.

A startup called Viralheat, based in San Jose, CA, has launched an analytics package designed to allow in-depth analysis of the tenor of this back and forth. The company hopes its software will help its clients sort through the often overwhelming amount of available data from the social Web.

Facebook is celebrating its sixth anniversary with another redesign of its homepage.

Employees at Facebook last night were celebrating the company's anniversary, passing the 400 million user mark and the launch of yet another home page makeover.

The redesign is the latest of several home page changes launched by the company in recent years -- many times to the consernation of its users. The latest makeover, according to Jing Chen, a Facebook engineer, is focused improving navigation to the many features on the site.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - College senior Alyssa Ravasio gave up MySpace on the day she got a Facebook account and never looked back. She has already lost interest in Twitter. But how does Facebook know it can keep her loyalty?

The brief history of the Internet is littered with the ghosts of Websites that people have abandoned in their relentless pursuit of something newer, faster, better and cooler.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook, the world's No. 1 social networking site, which has been a target of several high-profile cyber attacks in the past year, is giving away security software from McAfee Inc to protect its users.

Facebook said on Tuesday its 350 million users can download a free six-month trial of McAfee's Internet Security Suite, which protects computer users from viruses and other Internet threats.