Tag: Facebook
Facebook Reacts to Criticisms of “Home” App; Promises Upgrades
- By Rachel Metz
- 05/09/2013
A month after the release of Home, Facebook is working to answer criticisms with improvements.
Apps for Finding New Tunes, with a Little Help from Your Friends
- By Rachel Metz
- 05/01/2013
Twitter #music, EQuala, and Piki help you share and discover new music with friends, but they’re not all winners.
Building a Picture of the Bomb Suspects through Social Network Analysis
- By David Talbot
- 04/19/2013
Police can obtain huge quantities of social network data but must sort out the junk to glean useful information.
The First Facebook Phone: A Little Too Much Information
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/10/2013
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The HTC First, which features Facebook’s new Home interface, will appeal only to the most devoted of Facebook users.
Facebook’s Real “Home” May Be the Developing World
- By David Talbot
- 04/09/2013
The new Facebook-centric Android app for smartphones builds on other efforts to court mobile users internationally.
The Facebook Phone Is Finally Here, but Who Wants It?
- By Rachel Metz
- 04/04/2013
The appeal of Facebook’s new phone software may be limited to hardcore users.
Facebook and Google Create Walled Gardens for Web Newcomers Overseas
- By David Talbot
- 03/21/2013
In some countries, “the Internet” is confined to certain sites as part of a strategy to help wireless carriers offer starter packages.
How Facebook Slew the Mobile Monster
- By Robert D. Hof
- 03/06/2013
The fortunes of the world’s largest social network depend on how much it can earn from mobile advertisements.
Facebook Nudges Users to Catalog the Real World
- By Tom Simonite
- 02/27/2013
Taking aim at Google, the largest social network wants a database describing as many things as possible.
How Facebook Could Give Its New Search the Edge
- By Tom Simonite
- 01/25/2013
The company’s search engine will become formidable when it includes the text of comments and the vast store of Open Graph data about things outside Facebook.
Amazon Woos Advertisers with What It Knows about Consumers
- By Jessica Leber
- 01/21/2013
The e-commerce giant has the data that all advertisers want—what millions of people are shopping for—and now it plans to use it.
Facebook’s New Graph Search: Not Very Good
- By Rachel Metz
- 01/19/2013
It’s going to take time and user buy-in for Graph Search to be truly worthwhile.
Facebook’s Graph Search Won’t Hurt Google Without Your Help
- By Rachel Metz
- 01/17/2013
The success of the social network’s new search tool will depend on how much information its users are willing to share.
The Mobile Business Got Tougher This Year
- By Jessica Leber
- 12/31/2012
One basic market trend—consumers’ rapidly shifting attention to mobile devices—forced many Web, software, and hardware companies to take big risks this year.
Online Learning and Upheavals in Social Networks
- By Rachel Metz
- 12/28/2012
This year, the Web was dominated by online education, shifting social networks, and the continued march toward mobile.
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