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Facebook To Launch App Center

May 11, 2012

Facebook announced Wednesday that it will be launching it own App Center, a single location for the platform’s many applications.

The social networking giant announced that it will begin supporting paid apps, with Facebook charging users flat fees.

“Well-designed apps that people enjoy will be prominently displayed. Apps that receive poor ratings or don’t meet the quality guidelines won’t be listed,” Facebook’s Aaron Brady said in a blog post.

“The App Center is designed to grow mobile apps that use Facebook whether they’re on iOS, Android or the mobile web,”

Developers will have to create an app detail page to provide images and other details about their app in order to have their app listed in the App Center.

For mobile apps, the App Center not only recommends, but also showcases web-based applications embedded in Facebook and even those websites that are based around the Facebook logon.

The App Center will look different to different users, as they will receive recommendations based on their demographic and history rather than star ratings.

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Win Customized Xbox 360, Xbox Live Avatars And More With Mass Effect 3 Facebook App

February 4, 2012

EA launched a Facebook app today to promote its third instalment of Mass Effect series, Mass Effect 3, giving players the chance to unlock Xbox 360 Live Avatar items, add-ons, and more.

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The Facebook app lets you take part in “missions,” which upon completion unlock Xbox 360 rewards and an entry into a sweepstake. The sweepstake prizes include a custom 250GB Xbox 360 themed in either Mass Effect 3′s Paragon or Renegade with Kinect.

The first mission is now available for interested players to sign up. The mission will have players running around to recruit friends for various causes, spamming your network with updates like “Hey, Mass Effect 3 is coming March 6!”

Once the promotion gets “enough recruits,” everyone will be able to receive the Normandy prop for their Xbox Live Avatar.

Next week’s mission will have members submitting a “pick up” or “rejection” line to Liara for a chance to win early access to the Mass Effect 3 demo. A future mission will have you creating a video recreating moves from the game for a change to win a Mass Effect 3 customized Xbox 360 with Kinect.

There are 11 missions planned across the coming weeks until the March 9th release

Check out the game’s official rules for more info.

Go to Mass Effect 3 Facebook application.

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Create Awesome Facebook Movies With Timeline Movie Maker

January 31, 2012

Facebook partnered with marketing agency Definition6 to launch a new app called Timeline Movie Maker, which turns your most-liked post into a really eye-catching movie, completed with special effects and music.

You don’t have to be someone with very creative mind to create awesome timeline movies. Using the app is pretty straight forward.

1. All you have to do is click on the “Make Your Movie” button.

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2. Log in to your Facebook account. You can select how you would like to share the produce movie with others. You will have to grant access to certain account information for the app to work, which you can see in the image below (click on the image to enlarge it).

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3. Install the app, by granting access to your account information.

4. Wait for few minutes while the movie is processed.

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5. Your one-minute movie is automatically built for you. Enjoy the video!

You timeline video is made from your Facebook contents – the ones you have share with your friends and to public. The app identifies the most engaging and relevant life moments of your Facebook life and built a chronological story.

Once your movie is processed, you can choose from 5 soundtracks to go with the video, and also change photos, video, check-ins etc. until you are satisfied and share it with your friends.

Pretty easy right? How great a movie turns out will depend on your Facebook contents and your further editing. One downer though, is the inability to share to other video sites like YouTube, because some of your videos will be awesome and worth sharing just like mine icon wink Create Awesome Facebook Movies With Timeline Movie Maker

Hint: Upload some great pictures and feature them on your timeline, so that they feature in the video. Use a little bit of creativity while editing and viola, you have a darn good movie.

There is one thing to note. I recently cleaned out my profile, deleted and un-tagged a lot of my pictures before publishing my timeline. Timeline Movie Maker needs you to have at least 75 photos to create your movie.

Timeline Movie Maker is currently available in English, French, Spanish, and German.

Have you used Timeline Movie Maker? If not, will you try it out?

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Report: Facebook Usage On Corporate Networks Jumps Threefold

January 18, 2012

New research published by Palo Alto Networks indicates a threefold increase social networking and browser-based file sharing on corporate networks.

The research, conducted by network security vendor Palo Alto Networks, found that the use of Facebook applications more than tripled in 2011 from the previous year, up from 4 percent to 14 percent. Twitter usage in 2011 saw a mammoth jump of 700 percent during the same time period, based on the percentage of total networking bandwidth consumed by more than 1,600 firms the company tracked between April and November of last year.

However, while many employers may assume their employees are wasting time on social games at work, Palo Alto believes that the growing use of social sites may be due to the increase in the number of marketing-based applications on Facebook.

Many companies are increasing launching corporate Facebook applications to use them as part of their public relations strategies. So, it’s unclear how much of this activity is work-related and how much of it is personal.

The report also showed an interesting shift from “passive social networking” to “active social networking.”  Users now spend less time passively reading/checking out contents in favor of engaging more actively with Facebook like commenting and using Facebook apps. This explains why the average time spent purely on Facebook has fallen from 69 per cent to 39 per cent, said Palo Alto.

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Report: 300 Million Users Access Facebook Through Mobile Apps

December 31, 2011

Christmas gift giving drove the monthly active users of Facebook’s mobile apps pass the 300 million mark.

A recent report by Benedict Evans of Enders Analysis, suggests that Facebook saw the number of monthly active users accessing its mobile applications pass the 300 million mark, with iOS and Android applications accounting for more than two-thirds of mobile application use on Facebook.

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The report attributed the rise in these numbers to the rush of Christmas gift giving, with Android and iOS devices among the most coveted gift this year. As further evidence of the hot holiday season for Android, a key Google executive said more than 3.7 million Android devices were activated over the Christmas holiday.

It is worth mentioning that Facebook claimed its mobile user base had crossed the 350 million mark in September 2011. Out of these, 250 million users were accessing the service through apps, while the rest were accessing the service browsers.

Evans deduces that 70% of mobile users and more than 30% of all users used apps to access Facebook.

“Next year Facebook will treat that user base as less of a mobile extension to the desktop experience and more as the core product – starting with advertising,” he added.

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Facebook Officially Release Its Messenger for Windows 7

December 30, 2011

Facebook today officially released its “Facebook Messenger for Windows,” a stand-alone desktop chat client.

Apparently, an Israeli blog TechIT leaked the link to the client, before Facebook officially launched the new client.

TechCrunch reported that the app was first released for private testing in November this year, but is now available to the public. However, the app will only run on Windows 7 operating system, according to tech site, The Verge.

The client offers a number of Facebook features, including live updating Facebook ticker and notifications, as well as dockable client window.

Here is the official download link for Facebook Messenger client. You can learn more about it on the Facebook help page.

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Facebook Launch Suicidal Content Reporting And Chat Feature In Its Effort To Prevent Suicide

December 23, 2011

In an effort to address the growing problem of suicides and the number of suicide notes appearing on Facebook, with many taking their own lives and others shortly afterwards, the social networking giant has launched a suicide prevention feature to help prevent suicides in the United States and Canada.

Till now, the site has shown a contact number or email address of organizations people can call when they are in distress.

This feature empowers a friends of users with suicidal behavior by allowing them to report suspected suicidal behavior, either by using a special “Report Suicidal Content” link or on the report links throughout the site. The person who posted the comment or note will receive an email encouraging them to call the toll-free U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255) or get into a confidential instant chat with a counsellor.

“One of the big goals here is to get the person in distress into the right help as soon as possible,” said Fred Wolens, public policy manager at Facebook. “The only people who will have a really good idea of what’s going on is your friends so we’re encouraging them to speak up and giving them an easy and quick way to get help,” he added.

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Facebook Rolling Back ‘Daily Deals’ within 4 months of debut

August 30, 2011

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Facebook ends Daily Deals

Facebook has confirmed that it will discontinue one of its online businesses know as ‘Daily Deals’ which was introduced just four months back. These online deals were debuted as trials in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco with the motive of expanding Facebook’s revenue channel beyond advertising and getting a berth in the potential online bargain market. It offers online coupons and discounts from local businesses.

Facebook announcement would certainly provided a measure of relief to coupon sites leaders Groupon and Living Social who can now feel that they have one less major site to compete with and continue to consolidate their position. The decision comes after Groupon reported of going public later this year and Google announced its own ‘offers’ discount program two months back.

According to Facebook official statement, it explains: “After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks. We think there is a lot of power in a social approach to driving people into local businesses. We’ve learned a lot from our test, and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses”.

Facebook would still be offering Facebook Ads, Sponsored Stories, Check-In Deals, and Pages to businesses that want to advertise in the social network.

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Convert Your Thoughts Into Status Videos With Movie Roulette

August 9, 2011

Xtranormal, launched a fun Facebook app called Movie Roulette that converts a text-only status update into a short animation movie.

Movie Roulette is a simplified version of Xtranormal’s renowned movie-making technology through which Facebook users can transform their thoughts into animated movie shorts in just a few seconds.

You just have to type a status update in the speech bubble on the app interface, choose a character to use, and animate their character’s face by choosing an emoticon.

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As the name suggests, the app also offers you the option to generate unique status by clicking on the “Click to Spin” option. My first spin of the app gave me something like “I am staring at Facebook, waiting for a wall post..”

Once you are done, you can preview the result before posting. The animated video will be displayed on your wall as a status update.

Trends like this comes and goes very quickly in places like Facebook. I won’t vouch vouch or say how long the app will survive, but this I can say – the app generates wise one liners at times. Try out Movie Roulette just for the heck of being some of the first to animate their status updates or to make your status update style icon wink Convert Your Thoughts Into Status Videos With Movie Roulette .

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