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Facebook is a Social Networking service launched in 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. At first, only students from Harvard could join the service, but over time more users were allowed to join. Today, Facebook remains the leader in social networking, but most importantly, it is the top online identity provider as the overwhelming majority of Facebook users have registered using their real identities.If you have a Facebook account, you can use Ubergizmo’s Social Reader.
Facebook Testing Chat Presence Dots In News Feeds
04/24/2013, Facebook is testing chat presence dots in the News Feed. These dots show the chat status of your friends, clicking on it will open up a message thread. This is presumably being done to provide a boost to Facebook’s online [...]
Facebook Messenger Android App Updated With Stickers
04/23/2013, Facebook Home brought over “stickers” for Messenger. Stickers are basically emoticons on steroids, they’re similar to those we have seen on other chat applications such as LINE. These large and quite funny emoticons can be sent to your friends during [...]
Facebook Pages New Mobile Layout Announced
04/23/2013, Today the world’s largest online social network has announced a new mobile layout for Facebook Pages. The social network has over a billion users and a substantial majority of them visit Facebook Pages daily, primarily through their mobile devices. They [...]
Facebook Shuts Down Gun Shop Site That Is Giving Away A Free AR-15
04/22/2013, Guns and the right to bear arms is an extremely touchy subject, especially for folks living in the US. The thing is, we have seen our fair share of tragedies borne out on TV because of mindless and senseless killings, [...]
Fake ‘Facebook Fashion’ Store Opens In Myanmar
04/19/2013, Seeing shops open up in parts of Asia that borrow the name of popular U.S. manufacturers is nothing new as we’ve seen this kind of stuff pop up in the past, but today, we see a “Facebook Store” has been [...]
Facebook Ports Free VoIP Calling To Android Platform
04/18/2013, We do know that Facebook, the world’s most popular social network at the moment, does offer VoIP calls to users of their app on the iOS platform, but it seems that Christmas has arrived slightly earlier this time around, where [...]
Facebook Updates Windows Phone App To Fix Issues
04/18/2013, It was earlier today when we brought you word that the Facebook Windows Phone 8 app certainly has issues of its own that it is currently struggling with, where it affected users who ran version 4.2.0.0 of the app, while [...]
Jailbreak Tweak Unleashes Chat Heads System Wide On iOS
04/18/2013, Recently Facebook released version 6.0 of its mobile app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The new app brought over many features, including Chat Heads, which Facebook had shown off at the Home launch event. By default Chat Heads on [...]
Google+ Comments Can Now Be Added To Blogger Based Websites
04/18/2013, It looks like Google is wandering in to Facebook territory, the latter has a comments system that websites owners can add, now the internet search giant has brought over Google+ comments for Blogger based websites. It seems as if Google is [...]
Facebook Windows Phone 8 App Runs Into Issues
04/18/2013, Considering how Microsoft are the ones behind the official Facebook for the Windows Phone platform, this would mean official Facebook software developers are unable to keep track of it too well. Well, earlier this morning, the folks over at Facebook [...]
EA Shuts Down The Sims Social, SimCity Social And Pet Society On Facebook
04/16/2013, Just how many hours a day do you spend on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and with the slew of apps available over on Facebook, how many more minutes (or hours) are used in playing games on Facebook? Sure, [...]
Facebook Hires Ex-Apple Maps Chief Richard Williamson
04/16/2013, The world of technology might be a vast one, but some names just tend to go around the market from time to time, simply because their expertise in a particular situation is always valuable. You know what they say – [...]
Twitter ‘Home’ Like App Is A Possibility
04/16/2013, Only recently Facebook announced Home, its latest software offering for Android. Its a custom skin that sits on top of the core Android OS, without making any changes to the underlying OS, Home presents its users a new way to [...]
