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Pixable’s Amazing Photofeed Facebook Application

January 23, 2011

Pixable’s Photofeed application is an amazing photo app. It is a fun, free, and unique way to discover and explore trending Facebook photos. It gathers and displays photos in a nice organized way. In less than 2 weeks since its launch, the app has found many takers – 200,000 users so far.

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The app runs within Facebook and basically crawls through the profiles of your friends profiles and gathers photos. Using an algorithm based on the number of likes and comments, the app determine the most popular photos of the day, week and month  - highlighting the most popular/best photos you might have missed.

Photos are displayed in a sleek interface. The app also provide feeds for the best photos from previous years as well as categorized them into “Photos of Guys”, “Photos of Girls”, “Family Updates”, “Top Profile Picture”, and more.

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You can also share the photo streams with your friends with a click.

Have you tried this amazing photo app? What is your review of the app?

I you haven’t, try it now at: http://apps.facebook.com/pixable/

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Facebook Photos Turns Costly For Navy

December 23, 2010

The pilots of two naval helicopters that dipped into Lake Tahoe in September were hovering close to the water to get photos for their command’s Facebook page according to officials.

The two unidentified Navy pilots were on the return leg of a cross-country tour when they attempted the stunt.

Investigation into the incident found that the aircraft did not have sufficient power to sustain the hover and slowly descended into the water before regaining sufficient power to resume flight.

However, the incident damaged both the helicopter, and repairs to electronic antenna and other equipment amounted to more than $505,000.

According to the San Diego Union Tribune,  two Navy instructor pilots were stripped of flying status and two student pilots will have to repeat training.
A by stander captured the whole incident and posted it on Youtube:

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Print Your Facebook Photos At Target’s KODAK Kiosks

October 21, 2010

Facebook and Target are added another social service to their partnership that offers Target guest a convenient and easy way to print their Facebook photos.

With the new Social Network Connectivity software, users can log into their accounts and browser their photo albums and print their photos directly through KODAK photo kiosks at Target stores.

The printing options offers a variety of options ranging from standard prints to personalized keepsakes such as KODAK photo books, collages, holiday and greeting cards, calendars, picture movie DVD and more.

It is also worth mentioning that Facebook has recently updated its photo feature to enable users to upload and store high resolution photos. Well, we should have seen something like this coming icon smile Print Your Facebook Photos At Targets KODAK Kiosks .

Until now, one usually had to download the photos, store them in flash drives, take it to photo shop and get them printed. So, whatever the companies are planning in their long-term plans, Facebook users can rejoice over this easy and convenient feature Target and Facebook came up with.

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Facebook No Longer Troubles You With Photos Of Old Flames

October 20, 2010

Facebook photos are getting sensitive according to the company.

Facebook is doing its best to make sure you are not haunted by memories of your “Ex” by showing his/her photos in the “Photo Memories” box.

Photo Memories appear in the top right corner of the Facebook interface.

It is not clear how Facebook’s algorithm works for calculating which picture to display, but it probably base its calculations on factors such as how often a user check’s the pictures of a particular person or how you connect with each other on the site.

Photo memories It is a nice way of reminding users to keep in touch with friends. Unfortunately, it has the tendency of showing pictures of ex-flames a lot. This has apparently pained and annoyed enough users. Some users  created a group to protest.

Product manager Sam Odio told users late Monday that Facebook is “listening to your feedback.”

“The Photo Memories product no longer shows tagged photos of your friends if you were previously in a relationship with them,” he said in a statement.

So, lovelorn Facebook users can heave a sigh of relief. Photo memories will no longer trouble you with memories of your old flames.

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Deleted Photos On Facebook Not Really Gone

October 15, 2010

Facebook has been under criticism once again from users because the leading social network is believed to be keeping deleted photos for more than 30 months.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the company admits to keeping photos for some amount of time after it is deleted. However, many users say that they are still able to access the photos via direct link even after years of deletion.

In one report, a user said that photos deleted 2.5 years back were still accessible. Another said a photo from April 2009 was still accessible after it was deleted.

Facebook was slammed by Bruce Schneier saying the social networking companies were deliberately killing privacy for commercial gain at the RSA Conference in London.

The problem is reportedly due to CDN known as content delivery network or content distribution network, which stores multiple copies of content on servers around the globe. The company said it is working on the issue.

So, if you think that your photos are gone once you delete them, then you are wrong. If you think that you are no more associated with Facebook once you permanently delete your account, you are wrong again. We are in for a long-term contract with Facebook even without realizing.

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Latest Facebook Photos Update Allows High-Resolution Photos, Bulk Tagging, And Improved Viewing Experience

October 1, 2010

Facebook is rolling out multiple improvements to its Photos feature.

Of the multiple improvements, one notable change is in the size of photos that can be uploaded. Facebook increased its initial size limit from 604 pixels to 720 pixels back in March. Now, Facebook will allow users to upload high quality photos upto a 2048 pixels. Users will be able to download these high resolution images in the .jpg format.

In addition to the boost in the maximum photo size, Facebook is also making some changes in the User Interface(UI). The site is rolling out a light box-based photo viewer that lets users view photos without having to go to different pages. Photos will load in the viewer, graying out the background, when it is clicked from the photo albums or newsfeed, enabling users to browse adjacent photos or return to the page they were previously looking by exiting the photo viewer. The new image viewer,  promises faster and easier navigation, as well as improved viewing experience.

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Facebook is also bringing bulk tagging with this update, looking to relieve users from the hardships faced while tagging photos. Now, users can go to any album, click on “Tag Photo”, enter a friend’s name, select them in multiple photo thumbnails, and simultaneously save to tag that friend in all those photos.

Facebook also rebuilt its photo uploader, a new Flash uploader, for improved stability and performance.

As usual, the changes isn’t live for everyone. Most users will receive the changes in the next few weeks.

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Last but not the least, though photo uploading will be more stable and faster than before, users should understand that uploading high quality photos up to 2048 pixels will require more time and should be patient icon smile Latest Facebook Photos Update Allows High Resolution Photos, Bulk Tagging, And Improved Viewing Experience . Enjoy the new changes and let us know your views on these new changes.

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Facebook Brings Improved Photo Browsing Experience

August 13, 2010

Facebook has come up with yet another improvement relating to photos. The latest change is made to allow improved photo browsing and sharing.

Facebook says in its blog,

“Sharing large photo albums on Facebook can be frustrating. It’s not easy to find the snapshots that really interest you when you have to browse page-by-page.

We decided to make navigating photo albums simpler, easier and more fun. Now, a photo album will automatically display additional photos as you scroll down a single page. You no longer need to click “Next” or try to guess which page number will reveal the best photos.”

Check out the changes in the image below.

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As you can see the thumbnails are now bigger. You will also see that there are no page numbers at the top of the photos, which meant we don’t need to navigate to different page. As we scroll down the page, the page will be populated automatically with more photos.

Before the latest change, photo albums displayed only 20 photos per page, users can see as many as 200 photos right away in an album.

This new photo browsing experience is one of the series of improvement Facebook has made recently relating to photos. Few months back, Facebook increased the size of photos (by almost 20%), then added face detection to make photo tagging easier. What next?

If you don’t see the said change in your Facebook account, wait for a couple of days.

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VuFind Launches VuAlbum: Facebook Photos And Videos Application

August 3, 2010

Vufind Inc., a visual social networking company, today announced its first two applications: vuTag for Android smartphones and vuAlbum for Facebook.

The VuTag application tags photos and video stored on a users Android smartphone before they are uploaded, allowing the photos to be easily searchable and sharable.

vuAlbum, Vufind’s first Facebook application, is a full-feature photo application that tags an entire collection of photos and videos on Facebook.

VuAlbum provides user with a new kind experience with their photos.

Users can easily serach, organize and share albums by theme, topic,tag or set of tags. They can also make a collage and slideshows of their photos, and also choose best photo of the day.

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The vuAlbum application reportedly runs an auto initiation function that periodically pulls and tags the recent photos with the objects of interest designated by the user.

So, if you are one of those photo enthusiast on Facebook, but have always wanted an easier way to tag photos, then vuAlbum is definitely worth trying out.

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Students Feels ‘Disgusted’ By Teachers Raunchy Photos On Facebook

March 18, 2010

Raunchy pictures of two teachers posted on Facebook caused a storm of gossip.

The two teachers, Helen Casey and head of English Ann Kerr, of Warwick State High School posted raunchy photos of themselves in schoolgirl outfits, fishnet stocking and heels while posing on a bathroom vanity.

One of the pictures is said to be Ms Kerr’s Facebook profile shot, with the series of images entitled ‘First day of school’.

According to a report on Daily News, the photos were reported to the Education Queensland on Monday and Education Queensland has told the pair to clean up their internet imagery while investigations are going on.

The school’s students are reportedly “disgusted” but said they were not surprised by the act.

A Year 12 WSHS student said, “I think it’s disgusting especially as they’re teachers. But i wasn’t surprised they had photos on there.”

Another Year 12 WSHS student phoned the Daily News saying he was “embarrassed” by the teacher’s behavior.

“It’s foul, a big turn-off,” he said.

Whether the two teachers will face disciplinary action or not is not sure, but going by the judgments passed by the students of the school, these two teachers will not very easily get the respect they deserve as a teacher from their students anymore.

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