First Look: Official Facebook App for iPad

The long wait is over. Facebook has finally released their official iPad app. In this video, I give a little overview of the application.

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Why Facebook Subscriptions Won't Mean Anything for Twitter

On Wednesday Facebook dubbed their new “subcription” based service. A basic summary can easily be said as that this is the equivalent of Twitter’s “follow” functionality. Instead of augmenting someone to your already magnifying Facebook friends list, you can simply add them to your subscriptions and have their posts show up in your feed.

With the new added functionality of being able to add people to your subscription, much recent contemplation of various social media users have come out that we might see a downfall in Twitter usage. My reply simply put is no.

The main added benefit this brings to the Facebook table is the ability to be more closer to people you don’t actually know. Ashon Kutcher, Lady Gaga, and unfortunately Justin Bieber can be apparent examples of people that might see the most substantial outcome of all of this. But the main complication for me is that last time I checked Facebook already allowed for this type of functionality. Popular and heavy users of the platform 97% of the time already have a Facebook “fan” page.

The only convenience I can see here is the fact that the nuisance FarmVille updates will be inherent in this situation. The day of finally having a clean Facebook feed is upon us, but the day that we will see Twitter plumpet to the bottom is not upon us. Twitter is in the same trouble that it has always been in.

For Google+ converts like me that don’t use Facebook anymore, this does not convince at least me to make a the switch back. But granted, I think criticizing might not be the proper thing to do as this very well can be just to keep with high competition.

New Facebook Features

UPDATE: The updates (for me any way) have now seemed to disappeared. This happened one time before when several updates where pushed at once and then returned back to normal (with the no buttoned comments and photo viewer), However I have seen no other publicity from this. I keep regularly checking the official Facebook fanpage but nothing has come to light so far. Once again let us know if you have seen any other news about this. Thanks!

Have you seen that new bar on the top right? Logging into Facebook this morning showed the new real time updates from all of our friends on Facebook, as well as the real-time updates.

Facebook seems to have added some other nice little features, which really are making Facebook that much more enjoyable and easier to be more social, such as the birthdays feature. Clicking on each individual name to write happy birthday, hope you've had a good day, etc. was a pain if you had a lot of birthdays on the same day. Now you click on everyone's birthday and you can write on everyone's wall from the same page.

They have also changed the top navigational bar. There's now no border around the edge; it's the same blue throughout and the numbers where it shows how many notifications, messages and friend/family requests have been moved down, so there is more space (personally I prefer the older version).

What do you think? Are the real-time updates a stalker's paradise? Does it make you want to have Facebook open more often and to see what exactly your friends are doing without having to click on each individual page? Let us know in the comments.

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Heello new social network from TwitPic

Heello.com has just landed, and looks an awful lot like Twitter. In the past few months Google+ is taking on Facebook, Twitter is taking on TwitPic and TwitPic is taking on Twitter with new platform Heello. I was in that registration process lightning fast and got the username @jack, I was expecting it to be gone but when the green tick came up, I've never hit confirm so fast.

At present the site seems to just be a clone of Twitter but the developers are saying that much more is coming, @meltingice has also hinted at the use of SMS as reason for the 140 character limit on Pings (effectively tweets). He has also stated that business features are coming soon. Having been a member for about an hour now, I'm excited as to where this could go. It's a really exciting time to be working in the tech startup world. Although I can't hep but think that products are going in and out of fashion faster than clothing! The Heello blog claims that they are trying to change the way that people comunicate and have a bunch of new products in the pipeline which I'm sure means Apps amongst other things.

Noah Everett founder of TwitPic and Heello told TechCrunch "“Everything we’re working on right now is under wraps for now, but mostly everything we’re building helps people communicate better." With the new Facebook calling app, O2 Social Call app and Google+ meetups, everyone seems to be set out trying to change the way that we all communicate. We'll just have to sit back and see which ones truly take off.

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Find Vulnerabilities on Facebook and Get Paid

Similar to Mozilla, Facebook is now paying over $500 to anyone who finds vulnerabilities which may compromise personal user data on their website. In order to get paid, you must be the first one to send it, and you need to give time to the Facebook team to fix the problem.

If you want to know more about this, go to this link.

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