With the latest privacy or information breach from Facebook, like many, you may be thinking about can cancelling your account or perhaps locking things down a bit more. Did you know though that you can request a download of all of your personal information – these are the data that others have apparently managed to access. [Read more…] about Accessing Your Facebook Data – Here’s How to get it
A Facebook Location history Checkup
Something for FB fans who are are unsure how much location data their are sharing… Facebook users can easily access their entire location history. Essentially, this is all the places where you use the facebook “checkin” feature.
Viewing your facebook checkin history from your facebook profile page
5 Point Facebook Security Checkup – How much personal information are you sharing?
Sharing information is fast and simple (perhaps too easy) and for many, it really is quite tempting to over-share, however, while doing so you may also be giving up loads of personal information without even realizing it. Case in point, Facebook. Facebook is by far, the most popular social network out there where people are giving up their personal information or their friends are giving it up. There’s a number of things that could be happening with your posts or posts about you on Facebook that may be giving up more information than you really are comfortable with.
Facebook Q1 Earnings $3.5 Billion, up 42% from 2014!
Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 and lets just say the numbers are BIG and pretty much everything is up, from revenues, to users, to ad spending and more!
[Read more…] about Facebook Q1 Earnings $3.5 Billion, up 42% from 2014!
Dev tip – How to Register an App with Facebook
So, you’ve been thinking about creating an app to run on facebook, so now what? Well, to begin you can take advantage of this great read from fbombmedia… enjoy!
To make sure your app reaches its full potential, you need to take advantage of the features and promotional opportunities presented by popular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
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New standalone iPhone app for facebook – Paper
You may notice faccbook getting loads of attention on the wires this morning… that’s due to a new app called Paper – This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it’s much more than just a news-reading app — it’s a complete reimagining of Facebook itself. Once you’ve used it, you may never want to open the standard Facebook app again. It may not replicated every feature of Facebook’s main app, but it does fulfill the majority of people’s needs. Simply put, it’s much, much better
Source: TheVerge
First Look, Instagram Video – Fast, Simple, Beautiful
Today, Instagram adds the ability for users to create and share a 15 second (max) length clip, even cooler, the user can create a 15 second long video clip collage (think stitch together several videos). Big deal you might think! Well, what’s cool about this is that Instagram videos provide video filters (13 of them!) that allow the users to create beautiful video clips (with Instagram stabilization) to share. The usability is awesome, additionally, edits can be made easily and the app is fast and simple to use – sorry but Vine fails at this!
Key components of Instagram video are simplicity of use, beauty, and community – the key here is community! Instagram will win this battle against others (like vine) because of the community and their engagement… plain and simple! See more about the new Instagram + video in this video recording from the press conference held by facebook
Some Instagram facts:
- 16 billion photos shared
- More than a billion likes every day (high engagement)
- 130 million users
- It’s about coming together and staying connected…
Recall, Instagram was born out of the idea of a location sharing app (Bourbon) that was designed to quickly, and simply share photos and videos in a beautiful way. This new functionality of video on Instagram completes the vision that was in Bourbon
Instagram with video is available today for iOS and Android! You can see my first Instagram video HERE
New release of Waze 3.7 gets friendly and tight with facebook!
Just in time for all that summer travel, Waze has rolled out an update via the release of waze 3.7 (for iOS and Android). The friendly travel and navigation app has gotten even more friendly with additional enhancements to connect you with friends via facebook as well as additional enhancements that help keep you connected with your friends. Some of the new functionality you can enjoy at R 3.7 include:
- using facebook connect you can now see your friends in a handy vertical bar on the side of the map
- facebook events will appear in your navigation list making it easy to navigate to places
- see your friends ETA when heading to the same event
- Real time and offline “beep beeps” at friends
- Foursquare check in available from report menu.
- and much more
See the official PR HERE and check out the Waze blog for their pitch about this update
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facebook Home (Android) now in Google Play Store
Good news for all of you facebook fanatics that happen to be sporting Android devices running OS 4+ as the much hyped facebook home app is now available for you. The app hit Play today, April 12 although I suspect many folks won’t be able to run it unless of course you have the latest Android device running the latest OS – darn, I wish I had the Google Nexus smartphone now! The service brings together all your social services into a handy environment, providing you with quick access to comments, photos and such from your services… Like I said before, I had similar functionality on some Symbian devices and also find that the Windows Phone experience also provides similar functionality… I guess we’ll just wait and see what the feedback is like (note, currently the 1 star rating seems to be the overwhelming choice of those rating the app!). Of note, for some tips on updating your Android OS on your mobile see this post
Grab facebook Home here on Play See also this helpful page from Samsung
Super Bowl Fun – NFL Fan Map (FandomMap) created from Facebook data
Super Bowl week is here so that means more cool data visualizations.. best BBQ, tail gate hot spots, and those awesome NFL fan maps! Here’s details of a cool fan map – I’m not sure I can agree that its the best fan map “ever”, however, given that its been created by mashing up data scraped from facebook it is pretty cool! So how was this one done? Well, they used data… LOTS of it! Details… Facebook’s Data Science team has combed the more than 35 million users who have “liked” a team’s fan page, and put it into graphic form, down to the county level.
Some interesting spatial patterns emerge once you look at the data.. for example, Patriots fans tend to spread out far and wide, as do fans of the Cowboys and Steelers. Overall the data indicates that geography plays a huge role in defining the fan. Thanks to Deadsping for the map, and to my FB friend Brad Shannon from NOCO for tipping me off!
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