@ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’
Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers enc… Read more at paidContent »
I wonder how other music services are feeling today
Music services such as MOG, Rhapsody and others were expected to be part of the big Facebook re-launch. They were, except as an afterthought. Somewhat predictably, Mark Zuckerberg brought the CEO of Spotify on stage while competitors were relegated to little icons on a single slide. Read more »
Facebook gets a big infrastructure boost for Timeline
Facebook is putting its already immense infrastructure through an unprecedented stress test, says the social network’s vice president of engineering. That’s because the new Timeline feature takes multiple data inputs — from status updates to your songs on Spotify — and turns them into a daily journal. Read more »
Facebook, Timeline and the power of the past
Timeline is more than a design change: It’s a bigger push by Facebook to mine the opportunity in the past. Timeline means there can be a point to all of this sharing: a lasting repository that helps paint a picture of your life. Read more »
Media companies revisit their AOL days with Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social-reading apps the network launched with The Washington Post and other outlets would change the “way the news industry works,” but it feels more like those outlets have signed over a big part of their destiny to an AOL-style portal. Read more »
Update: F8: Links To Our Coverage; Watch The Keynote
Updated: Check out our coverage of Facebook’s conference for developers, via the links below. Also, Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote presentation c… Read more at paidContent »
@ F8: Highlights From Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote Address
It’s Facebook’s morning in Silicon Valley, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage for the company’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco… Read more at paidContent »
Report: Meg Whitman Will Be Named HP CEO When Markets Close
Looks like HP (NYSE: HPQ) might be approaching a critical point later today. Board member Meg Whitman, according to sources, is expected to… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook Overload: No Sign Of Letting Up Today
As the tech press converge to hear the latest from Facebook at its f8 developer confab today, millions of Facebook users are already grappli… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook: Timeline is coming — whether you like it or not
Facebook debuted a new profile design called Timeline at its f8 conference Thursday in San Francisco. If you don’t love the new look at first sight, you better learn to at least like it: Timeline will soon be the only profile design available to Facebook users. Read more »
The data visualization geek behind Facebook’s Timeline
Facebook’s new Timeline feature tries to make sense of the things you’ve been sharing to tell the story of your life. To do so, the company turned to someone who became famous for making infographics about the music he likes and the booze he drinks. Read more »
Following Google+’s Public Opening, AdSense Display Ads Get A ‘+1′
With all the hype about Facebook’s F8 conference dominating social media news this week, Google+, the search giant’s social network, has qui… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook links with publishers to make news super social
Facebook has announced partnerships with a host of news publishers that will now allow their content to be viewed within the social networking site. It’s a bold move for the news industry, but Facebook will certainly benefit by keeping users even more within its walls. Read more »
Color changes gears, becomes Facebook photo/video app
Some might call it a pivot, but the decision to change Color from its own contained social network into a photo/video extension of Facebook is more like a last-chance effort at achieving relevance. Can Color succeed as a feature where it failed as an app? Read more »
Facebook teams up with Spotify, Turntable.fm to let users share music
Facebook has partnered with Spotify and more than a dozen other music startups to bring music sharing to its site. Facebook users can now share which songs they’re playing and offer their contacts a chance to join in on the fun in real time. Read more »
Netflix rolling out Facebook app, but not in the US
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings talked up the company’s new Facebook app at f8 today. The feature could help boost viewership on its streaming subscription service, but won’t be available in the U.S. at launch due to a decades-old law banning the sharing of video rental information. Read more »
Facebook debuts Timeline, a dramatically new kind of profile
Facebook announced on Thursday a dramatic new user interface for profiles called “Timeline.” In a keynote speech at the company’s f8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Timeline as “a great way to discover all the things people have done their whole life.” Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
» NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming (paidContent)
» Documentary Streamer Snagfilm… Read more at paidContent »
LiveGO: One app for IM, Facebook, Twitter and Google+
Since there isn’t one social network to rule them all just yet, I have at least a half-dozen apps on my smartphone to navigate the crazy social currents. But LiveGO for iOS aggregates Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ along with support for several IM services. Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-22-11: HP; HTC; Color; Google/Oracle
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Embarrassing reports on HP’s board following the news that the company may b… Read more at paidContent »
At f8, Facebook to jump on the NFC train
In a matter of hours, Facebook is going to host f8, its annual developer conference. By now we have all heard everything that is coming at the event. Sources say Facebook will make some sort of announcement around NFC technologies at the event as well. Read more »
With Update, Facebook Is Aiming To Be More Social
Mark Zuckerberg must have something big up his sleeve for Thursday’s f8. Facebook on Tuesday night unveiled the third – and biggest – up… Read more at paidContent »
Congress doesn’t get Google, and it doesn’t get Congress
Is Google evil? Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights tried to decide that today in a hearing on Google’s market power. The end result was the Senators requested Google make voluntary changes to its search ranking. Read more »
Where to watch Facebook’s f8 conference live online
Facebook us about to unveil some major updates that will include a tighter integration with music services like Spotify and Turntable.fm. The company will unveil these new features at its f8 developer conference in San Francisco this Thrsday. Here’s how to tune in live online. Read more »
Everyone wants to be a news filter now
photo: Flickr user Arvind Grover
Facebook has launched a new “personal newspaper”-style news feed, while both Digg and Klout are using their internal ranking systems to try and create topic pages. But will any of these solve the growing problem of information overload, or will they just add to the noise? Read more »
Social media, multi-tasking & ending billable hours
Thanks to the web and social media, interruptions have become not just a way of life, but a way to work according to data out from Cisco. We’re conducting more work in smaller increments, but why are we still using the billable hour? Read more »
Facebook’s f8 conference is coming. Here’s what to expect
Facebook’s big f8 conference is now less than two days away, and it’s shaping up to be one of the hottest tickets in tech. Facebook has some splashy launches lined up to keep the crowd at the one-day conference happy — here’s what to expect. Read more »
The Real Reason For WSJ Social
photo: Corbis / Victor Habbick Visions
As I discussed in a previous post, The Wall Street Journal is launching their WSJ Social today which is a way for the denizens of the Facebo… Read more at paidContent »
Top10 wants listophiles to go recommendation crazy
As the battle heats up among social recommendation websites, British newcomer Top10.com thinks it can make an impact. But with Facebook cranking up to launch new features, do independent sites have a fight on their hands? Read more »
eMarketer: Facebook’s Revenues To More Than Double This Year
Facebook’s global revenues will hit $4.27 billion in 2011, up from $2 billion in 2010, according to the latest eMarketer estimates. Most of… Read more at paidContent »
Invite No Longer Required For Google+ Alongside Tweaks To Mobile Experience
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided its Google+ social network was ready to take a big step on Tuesday: it’s now open to the public and no invitatio… Read more at paidContent »
‘WSJ Social’ Launched On Facebook With An Eye Towards ‘Journal Everywhere’
Given that most of the WSJ.com’s content is behind a paywall, the goal of its new Facebook app, WSJ Social, is viewed as more of an advertis… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook wants to be the newspaper of your dreams
Everyone’s favorite social network, Facebook, is getting even more personal, announcing that starting late Tuesday it will begin calibrating how it presents its News Feed feature based on how often a user signs into Facebook. That will more accurately highlight the most important news users missed. Read more »
Mobile networks are learning how to be webscale
NSN today laid out a new architecture for mobile networks that brings concepts such automation and elasticity from webscale and cloud computing to mobile broadband as network engineers at carriers face the challenge of scaling their infrastructure to serve billions of endpoints. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-20-11
» What Does AOL’s Life After Access Look Like? (paidContent)
» Update: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Buys Groupon Clone And Lau… Read more at paidContent »
WSJ: Facebook app in one hand, paywall in the other
The Wall Street Journal has launched a new “social reading” app for Facebook that allows users to share articles from the newspaper with their social graph, and also be chosen as editors for other users. But how will these social attempts mesh with the paper’s paywall? Read more »
Location Labs targets worried parents with new tools
Location Labs has built a solid business with its location-finding and texting-while-driving prevention tools. Now, the company is taking its idea of family security one step further by launching a Facebook online monitoring tool, which will now be part of a suite of software safety tools. Read more »
Klip is ready to take on Socialcam for mobile video sharing
The latest mobile video sharing app, called Klip, aims to separate itself from the crowd with high-speed adaptive bit-rate technology enabling users to scroll through videos and a new tagging system that lets them set categories to keep track of when new videos are uploaded. Read more »
Magisto raises $5.5M to magically edit your videos
Cloud video editing startup Magisto is coming to market with a new service that will take raw video files and make them worth sharing with friends and posting on Facebook. The company is also announcing $5.5 million in financing from Horizons Ventures and Magma Venture Partners. Read more »
Twitter’s ever-changing infrastructure story
Earlier this year, rumors swirled about whether Twitter had actually moved into a new Utah data center, or if it was forced to move its operations to a different facility. Now there are reports that Twitter is leasing more data center space, this time in Atlanta. Read more »
