Tag: facebook

  • Facebook Like & Unlike buttons available as rubber stamps

    This is probably the coolest thing I might have seen in recent times. Rubber stamps (you know, the kind of stamps used by government officials) are now available in the form of Facebook Like & Unlike buttons. Imagine that you submit an application to a government agency and when its accepted, you get a copy…

  • Facebook Places Now Works in India

    For those already not using a hack to get Facebook Places to work in India or other un-supporting countries, Facebook today silently rolled-out "Places" check-ins in India. This feature was actually available to me since like a week and more users are discovering this now which could mean a phased rollout by Facebook.

  • Are We Obsessed With Facebook? [Infographic]

    A few days back I was surprised about 750 million photos uploaded to Facebook over a weekend. After seeing this infographic (see ahead), nothing about Facebook will surprise me anymore.

  • 750 Million Photos Uploaded To Facebook On New Year Weekend

    Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing Director and Mark Zuckerberg‘s sister, tweeted that users around the world uploaded a whopping 750 million photos to Facebook over the New Years’s Eve weekend! To give you a context, in July more than 100 million photos were uploaded every day, so the weekend was definitely higher than normal but not surprising.…

  • Facebook Topples Yahoo From #3

    While it’s already been the #2 website on Alexa for long, Facebook has finally overtaken Yahoo to become the third most popular destination on the web. As per comScore’s data, in the last month (November 2010) Facebook had an estimated 648 million unique visitors from around the world compared to Yahoo’s 630 million. Google and…

  • Facebook’s next-gen messaging system. Is it really next-gen?

    As much hyped, Facebook announced and showed how they believe next generation would want their social communication. So here’s our take on what it is and if we’d really use it. The features were inline with what we’ve predicted before the event. Here are some of the cool things it brings to Facebook ‘revamped’ messaging’…

  • Announcements Galore – iTunes, Facebook Mail. What to expect

    If you’ve not heard till now. There are two big announcements today and tomorrow. The first exciting one’s by Apple about iTunes and is supposed to be big. The main thing that’s likely to be announced improve iTunes is A cloud based iTunes – you can stream your audio and video whenever and wherever you…

  • Use Facebook places in India

    If you hate Facebook for not launching “Places” in India and other countries (except US, UK, Japan), then join the club. Although this article primarily explains its usage on iPhone(s), the same approach should work when Facebook releases Places for other mobile platforms such as Android, Blackberry – Your VPN Configuration would change. So, You…

  • Wish list for the Google ‘new’ Social network

    As you know that Google needs (read – wants to) get a comeback to its original domination in the ‘Social Network’ industry. Google CEO Eric Schmidt  hinted that it may not be a complete social network, but there will be a “social layer” in its existing services (probably better integration). Why we believe Google can…

  • How to manage your online presence

    With the ever growing social websites and gaming portals – a part of our personal life has gone to the cloud, some of it public. This post is targeted for people who’re new to the online world – i.e believing that there is a something on the internet apart from reading emails. So why manage…