With millions of users worldwide, Facebook is constantly trying to improve the privacy for all their users, and speaking of privacy changes on Facebook, Facebook has announced that it will introduce some new features on its social network related to the privacy of their users.
Now you’ll be able to choose more easily and visually with whom you wish to share your posts with on Facebook, and you’ll be able to choose what type of posts will appear on your profile, by having the ability to approve or reject your friend’s posts. In addition, you’ll have the option to accept or reject photo tags before the photos are published on your profile. According to Facebook, these new sharing controls will appear next to the posts, so you won’t have to go through the series of menus to find them. We also have to mention that now you have “View Profile As…” button right on your profile, so you can quickly see how your friends see your profile.Facebook has announced many useful features related to privacy and sharing, and speaking of these features, they should become available worldwide as you read this, so make sure you check them out.
With millions of users worldwide, Facebook is constantly trying to improve the privacy for all their users, and speaking of privacy changes on Facebook, Facebook has announced that it will introduce some new features on its social network related to the privacy of their users.
Now you’ll be able to choose more easily and visually with whom you wish to share your posts with on Facebook, and you’ll be able to choose what type of posts will appear on your profile, by having the ability to approve or reject your friend’s posts. In addition, you’ll have the option to accept or reject photo tags before the photos are published on your profile. According to Facebook, these new sharing controls will appear next to the posts, so you won’t have to go through the series of menus to find them. We also have to mention that now you have “View Profile As…” button right on your profile, so you can quickly see how your friends see your profile.Facebook has announced many useful features related to privacy and sharing, and speaking of these features, they should become available worldwide as you read this, so make sure you check them out.
After a recent privacy and sharing update on Facebook, Facebook is working hard on new improvements, and according to the reports, this update will focus on photos and photo filters.
The New York Times is reporting that Facebook plans to add photo filters to its mobile app "in the coming months," looking to challenge Instagram,Camera+ and other camera apps with built-in fancy filters. Facebook is already a dominant photo-sharing platform, and it offers much higher resolution images than Instagram - for what it's worth - but with the addition of "almost a dozen" filters, Facebook will try to take back some of the art of phone photography.
The engineers said Facebook will introduce almost a dozen photo filters, including some that are similar to Instagram like old-style camera lenses and grainy film. Facebook will also try to introduce new styles of filters with the hopes of drawing users away from other photo apps.
Instagram, created by Burbn, is an easy photo filter app for iOS. The app lets you take quick photos or use photos that already exist in your iPhone, apply creative filters and share it with friends on Flickr, Facebook or Twitter. You can also tag your photos with location using your foursquare account. The app has over 11 different custom filters that you can apply to your photos.
After a recent privacy and sharing update on Facebook, Facebook is working hard on new improvements, and according to the reports, this update will focus on photos and photo filters.
The New York Times is reporting that Facebook plans to add photo filters to its mobile app "in the coming months," looking to challenge Instagram,Camera+ and other camera apps with built-in fancy filters. Facebook is already a dominant photo-sharing platform, and it offers much higher resolution images than Instagram - for what it's worth - but with the addition of "almost a dozen" filters, Facebook will try to take back some of the art of phone photography.
The engineers said Facebook will introduce almost a dozen photo filters, including some that are similar to Instagram like old-style camera lenses and grainy film. Facebook will also try to introduce new styles of filters with the hopes of drawing users away from other photo apps.
Instagram, created by Burbn, is an easy photo filter app for iOS. The app lets you take quick photos or use photos that already exist in your iPhone, apply creative filters and share it with friends on Flickr, Facebook or Twitter. You can also tag your photos with location using your foursquare account. The app has over 11 different custom filters that you can apply to your photos.
Sometime in the past week, Facebook flipped the switch on allowing you to add your unborn baby to your list of family members via the “Expected: Child” option on Facebook profiles. Apparently too many parents were creating “illegal” fake profiles for their yet unhatched offspring — setting their fake babies’ ages to 13 instead of negative whatever, the minimum Facebook allows.
Also, I dare you to come up with a bolder customer acquisition strategy than getting them hooked while they’re still in the womb!
Of course this very important news caused an Internet earthquake, and as the aftershocks hit mainstream media CNN split its screen into four! boxes (below) so four women who are experts on the subject of declaring that you’re pregnant could talk about whether the social network had gone too far. Meanwhile America is technically fighting two wars.
But maybe expectant moms like care about this stuff, and stuff? I mean how would I know? My uterus is currently as barren as the T.S. Eliot poem. Hoping to shed some light on the subject, I asked resident TechCrunch pregnancy representative Sarah Lacy what she thought about the Facebook change, “I couldn’t care less about it. Anyone who is remotely close to me already knows I’m pregnant.”
That horse has already left the barn, indeed.
Sometime in the past week, Facebook flipped the switch on allowing you to add your unborn baby to your list of family members via the “Expected: Child” option on Facebook profiles. Apparently too many parents were creating “illegal” fake profiles for their yet unhatched offspring — setting their fake babies’ ages to 13 instead of negative whatever, the minimum Facebook allows.
Also, I dare you to come up with a bolder customer acquisition strategy than getting them hooked while they’re still in the womb!
Of course this very important news caused an Internet earthquake, and as the aftershocks hit mainstream media CNN split its screen into four! boxes (below) so four women who are experts on the subject of declaring that you’re pregnant could talk about whether the social network had gone too far. Meanwhile America is technically fighting two wars.
But maybe expectant moms like care about this stuff, and stuff? I mean how would I know? My uterus is currently as barren as the T.S. Eliot poem. Hoping to shed some light on the subject, I asked resident TechCrunch pregnancy representative Sarah Lacy what she thought about the Facebook change, “I couldn’t care less about it. Anyone who is remotely close to me already knows I’m pregnant.”
Facebook has launched a new Mobile App called Facebook For Every Phone , which offers a fast and comprehensive Facebook experience on over 2,500 different phones.Pay nothing for data for up to 90 days.
Facebook has launched a new Mobile App called Facebook For Every Phone , which offers a fast and comprehensive Facebook experience on over 2,500 different phones.Pay nothing for data for up to 90 days.
Facebook has launched a new mobile phone application this week which has been designed to support 2,500 different mobile devices. The new Facebook for Every Phone application has been created to allow Facebook users to enjoy the experience of using Facebook what their location maybe or how they access our site.
The new Facebook App includes Facebook’s most popular features, such as its Inbox, News and Photos, but also includes features which enables you to upload photos and find friends from your phone’s contacts list.
Facebook has also partnered with a number of carriers worldwide to provide users with free data accessto the site for 90 days. If you are interested in the new application Facebook have created a video of their new application which can be viewed here.
The Facebook app is now available globally on Java-enabled phones, download the app by visiting m.facebook.com and scrolling down to the download link, or simply by entering d.facebook.com/install directly into the address bar of your mobile browser. Enjoy!
Facebook has launched a new mobile phone application this week which has been designed to support 2,500 different mobile devices. The new Facebook for Every Phone application has been created to allow Facebook users to enjoy the experience of using Facebook what their location maybe or how they access our site.
The new Facebook App includes Facebook’s most popular features, such as its Inbox, News and Photos, but also includes features which enables you to upload photos and find friends from your phone’s contacts list.
Facebook has also partnered with a number of carriers worldwide to provide users with free data accessto the site for 90 days. If you are interested in the new application Facebook have created a video of their new application which can be viewed here.
The Facebook app is now available globally on Java-enabled phones, download the app by visiting m.facebook.com and scrolling down to the download link, or simply by entering d.facebook.com/install directly into the address bar of your mobile browser. Enjoy!
On Wednesday July 6th 2011, new Skype-powered feature the social network launched to make video calls on Facebook.
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Facebook introduced video calling, group chat and a new design on Wednesday during the social network's much-heralded "awesome" announcement.
Wearing his signature grey t-shirt and blue jeans, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the features at a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif.
Facebook Video Calling was developed with Skype, the world's largest Internet phone company.
Users with a webcam on their computer will have to install a special plug-in before they can make calls using Facebook from inside their web browser.
Callers will be able to see and hear the recipient, and vice-versa.
With the group chat feature, users can talk with several other Facebook friends at the same time using only text.
"We think this is going to be something that's really valuable," Zuckerberg said. "A lot of people have asked for it."
Group video calling is not yet supported and it was not clear how the feature would be available to mobile users. Zuckerberg said the new tools "are mostly web features."
The design changes are aimed to make it easier for users to see a list of friends they can chat with, while taking advantage of widescreen computer displays.
Wednesday's announcement from Facebook comes almost a week after Google launched its latest social network, Google+.
Google+ is accessible on an invite-only basis, but the company is keen to get a foothold in the social networking sector.
The new service has been received with mostly positive reviews, earning praise for its Circles and Hangouts features.
Circles lets users easily drag-and-drop contacts into groupings with customizable security and privacy settings.
Hangouts, meanwhile, lets users chat and collaborate in realtime using webcams. Users may also collectively watch videos on YouTube.
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Before you can participate in a Video Chat Call Via Facebook, you have to enable your accountto make a video call. Go to facebook.com/videocalling and "Get Start"
You will need to install a program. The install option will pop up when you click the video camera icon on the upper-right corner of the chat window or receive a call.
As with a standard Skype Call, no video Launches until the second party answers the call.
The abovePictureshowing you that,If the Person who you're calling does not answer, you can leave a video message. This message will appear in heir "Message" tab the same place that text messages do.
This is what the video chat windows look like
Facebook Video Calling Video:
On Wednesday July 6th 2011, new Skype-powered feature the social network launched to make video calls on Facebook.
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Facebook introduced video calling, group chat and a new design on Wednesday during the social network's much-heralded "awesome" announcement.
Wearing his signature grey t-shirt and blue jeans, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the features at a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif.
Facebook Video Calling was developed with Skype, the world's largest Internet phone company.
Users with a webcam on their computer will have to install a special plug-in before they can make calls using Facebook from inside their web browser.
Callers will be able to see and hear the recipient, and vice-versa.
With the group chat feature, users can talk with several other Facebook friends at the same time using only text.
"We think this is going to be something that's really valuable," Zuckerberg said. "A lot of people have asked for it."
Group video calling is not yet supported and it was not clear how the feature would be available to mobile users. Zuckerberg said the new tools "are mostly web features."
The design changes are aimed to make it easier for users to see a list of friends they can chat with, while taking advantage of widescreen computer displays.
Wednesday's announcement from Facebook comes almost a week after Google launched its latest social network, Google+.
Google+ is accessible on an invite-only basis, but the company is keen to get a foothold in the social networking sector.
The new service has been received with mostly positive reviews, earning praise for its Circles and Hangouts features.
Circles lets users easily drag-and-drop contacts into groupings with customizable security and privacy settings.
Hangouts, meanwhile, lets users chat and collaborate in realtime using webcams. Users may also collectively watch videos on YouTube.
_______________________________
Before you can participate in a Video Chat Call Via Facebook, you have to enable your accountto make a video call. Go to facebook.com/videocalling and "Get Start"
You will need to install a program. The install option will pop up when you click the video camera icon on the upper-right corner of the chat window or receive a call.
As with a standard Skype Call, no video Launches until the second party answers the call.
The abovePictureshowing you that,If the Person who you're calling does not answer, you can leave a video message. This message will appear in heir "Message" tab the same place that text messages do.
Lovely Facebook. When history is written, how shall ye be judged? Big questions aside, seen below is an Excel spreadsheet. But wait, it’s not! It’s a Faceook feed! What? Yes, a Facebook feed in disguise. See, there’s this website called HardlyWork.in that allows users to convert their Facebook activity to an unassuming Excel sheet. The funny part is everything that’s written on the faux Excel sheet is a newsfeed. .As the perpetual curse of tyrannical employers and stiff office environments, Facebook is probably responsible for so much lost productivity, it’s no use calculating the amount.
Anyway, having contemplated Facebook, it seems that it isn’t so bad to be using it at work. It would be downright ridiculous if you aren’t on Facebook when you spend the 9 to 5 in, say, an ad agency or a media outlet. There’s more news happening within the social networking space than any traditional beat. (Duh.)
So unless you’re in a sensitive line of work like the military, nuclear plants, or public office, professional ethics may demand you curb Facebook use. But who are we to preach?
Oh right, this post is about HardlyWork.in. Check it out, it’s pretty cool.
Here’s a question for the fans reading this: At the place you work in, how much time do employees usually spend on Facebook?
Lovely Facebook. When history is written, how shall ye be judged? Big questions aside, seen below is an Excel spreadsheet. But wait, it’s not! It’s a Faceook feed! What? Yes, a Facebook feed in disguise. See, there’s this website called HardlyWork.in that allows users to convert their Facebook activity to an unassuming Excel sheet. The funny part is everything that’s written on the faux Excel sheet is a newsfeed. .As the perpetual curse of tyrannical employers and stiff office environments, Facebook is probably responsible for so much lost productivity, it’s no use calculating the amount.
Anyway, having contemplated Facebook, it seems that it isn’t so bad to be using it at work. It would be downright ridiculous if you aren’t on Facebook when you spend the 9 to 5 in, say, an ad agency or a media outlet. There’s more news happening within the social networking space than any traditional beat. (Duh.)
So unless you’re in a sensitive line of work like the military, nuclear plants, or public office, professional ethics may demand you curb Facebook use. But who are we to preach?
Oh right, this post is about HardlyWork.in. Check it out, it’s pretty cool.
Here’s a question for the fans reading this: At the place you work in, how much time do employees usually spend on Facebook?
Earlier this week while visiting Seattle, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipped off Seattle press that the company would be launching an “awesome” new product next week that has been built by Facebook’s Seattle team. The press invitations to that event went out today, saying nothing more than “Please join us for an event at Facebook” on July 6.
This isn’t even the first time we’ve heard about Skype-powered video chat on Facebook. Rumors surfaced last year about such a product, but it never materialized.
The report is sparse on details about how it will work. Will it require a software download? Will it support group video chats? Undoubtedly it will be a major addition to the Facebook platform. Google+, the search giant’s answer to Facebook, launched with a group video chat feature, Google+ Hangouts. Google is seeing a lot of traction with the feature, but if Facebook can release a video chat product next week, Google+ Hangouts may not seem as revolutionary.
We’ve reached out to Facebook and Skype for comment.
Update: While Facebook and Skype aren’t saying anything officially, our sources confirm that Skype-powered video chat on Facebook will indeed be launching next week.
Earlier this week while visiting Seattle, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipped off Seattle press that the company would be launching an “awesome” new product next week that has been built by Facebook’s Seattle team. The press invitations to that event went out today, saying nothing more than “Please join us for an event at Facebook” on July 6.
This isn’t even the first time we’ve heard about Skype-powered video chat on Facebook. Rumors surfaced last year about such a product, but it never materialized.
The report is sparse on details about how it will work. Will it require a software download? Will it support group video chats? Undoubtedly it will be a major addition to the Facebook platform. Google+, the search giant’s answer to Facebook, launched with a group video chat feature, Google+ Hangouts. Google is seeing a lot of traction with the feature, but if Facebook can release a video chat product next week, Google+ Hangouts may not seem as revolutionary.
We’ve reached out to Facebook and Skype for comment.
Update: While Facebook and Skype aren’t saying anything officially, our sources confirm that Skype-powered video chat on Facebook will indeed be launching next week.
Facebook has acquired Israeli startup Snaptu, a creator of simple mobile applications for feature phones, for an estimated $70 million.
Snaptu’s technology is designed to bring web service such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to almost any phone through a series of applications it has designed. The company’s Java-based apps replicate many of the features of smartphone apps but make them accessible to the millions of people that don’t own a smartphone.
In fact, Facebook tapped Snaptu earlier this year to create its feature phone app, which provides an almost smartphone-like experience that includes contact syncing and a homescreen that will be familiar to users of the social network’s iPhone and Android applications. One of the reasons Facebook chose Snaptu is because its technology works on more than 2,500 different mobile devices.
“We soon decided that working as part of the Facebook team offered the best opportunity to keep accelerating the pace of our product development,” Snaptu said in blog post. “And joining Facebook means we can make an even bigger impact on the world.”
The deal, which will close in the next few weeks, was first reported in several Israelipublications. Snaptu was founded in 2007 as Mobilca and has raised funding from Sequioa Capital and Carmel Ventures.
Facebook has acquired Israeli startup Snaptu, a creator of simple mobile applications for feature phones, for an estimated $70 million.
Snaptu’s technology is designed to bring web service such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to almost any phone through a series of applications it has designed. The company’s Java-based apps replicate many of the features of smartphone apps but make them accessible to the millions of people that don’t own a smartphone.
In fact, Facebook tapped Snaptu earlier this year to create its feature phone app, which provides an almost smartphone-like experience that includes contact syncing and a homescreen that will be familiar to users of the social network’s iPhone and Android applications. One of the reasons Facebook chose Snaptu is because its technology works on more than 2,500 different mobile devices.
“We soon decided that working as part of the Facebook team offered the best opportunity to keep accelerating the pace of our product development,” Snaptu said in blog post. “And joining Facebook means we can make an even bigger impact on the world.”
The deal, which will close in the next few weeks, was first reported in several Israelipublications. Snaptu was founded in 2007 as Mobilca and has raised funding from Sequioa Capital and Carmel Ventures.
I can honestly say that I am not a big fan of Facebook, but I know several who apparently need it to survive everyday life.
These are the people who clearly need the SNAK. This is an acronym for the Social Network Access Keyboard, and it puts 19 Facebook hotkeys for the Facebook subscriber.
So, if you’re doing a status update, just click the right button, and I imagine that Like and Dislike buttons just have to be there too. Just imagine how much time this will save for the real Facebook addict!
You will note that this picture only shows one side of a PC or laptop keyboard, but the SNAK is actually designed so it is on both left and right sides of the keyboard. Hopefully, it will still be easy for the ordinary Facebooker to use, but I hope there will be some way to make some of these buttons custom.
I wonder if there are any plans, or if the SNAK keyboard can do Twitter as well. I wonder if it can also do MySpace, or does anyone really care about MySpace anymore? Well, too bad they didn’t dress it up like the Optimus Maximus, but that would raise the price significantly. As it is, you should be able to get this for about $30.
I can honestly say that I am not a big fan of Facebook, but I know several who apparently need it to survive everyday life.
These are the people who clearly need the SNAK. This is an acronym for the Social Network Access Keyboard, and it puts 19 Facebook hotkeys for the Facebook subscriber.
So, if you’re doing a status update, just click the right button, and I imagine that Like and Dislike buttons just have to be there too. Just imagine how much time this will save for the real Facebook addict!
You will note that this picture only shows one side of a PC or laptop keyboard, but the SNAK is actually designed so it is on both left and right sides of the keyboard. Hopefully, it will still be easy for the ordinary Facebooker to use, but I hope there will be some way to make some of these buttons custom.
I wonder if there are any plans, or if the SNAK keyboard can do Twitter as well. I wonder if it can also do MySpace, or does anyone really care about MySpace anymore? Well, too bad they didn’t dress it up like the Optimus Maximus, but that would raise the price significantly. As it is, you should be able to get this for about $30.
A French artist has kicked off a new trend by ‘refacing’ his Facebookprofile. Alexandre Oudin tweaked the photos on his Facebook page to make them look like pieces of one large photo. Since then, other Facebook users have been repeating the trick to create their own versions: see our gallery here.
If you want to ‘reface’ your Facebook page, here’s how you do it.
• You’ll need to have activated the new Facebook profile page - if you have, you’ll see your basic biographical information at the top of the page and, below that, a photo strip of five recent photos that have been tagged with your name.
• You’ll also need a photo that’s at least 692 pixels wide - that’s the width of the page from the left-hand edge of your profile picture to the right-hand edge of the photo strip.
• The final thing you’ll need is a photo-editing program that allows you to crop images. If you don’t have a program on your computer, try an online editing service, such as Photoshop Express.
• Now you’re ready to get started. Crop your photo to 692 pixels wide, based on how you want it to appear on the page. The left-hand side of this image will be your profile pic and the right-hand edge will appear at the end of the photo strip. Let’s call this image your Base Photo.
• Next, create your new profile pic by taking a crop of the left-hand side of your Base Photo. Start in the top left corner of your base image and, moving down and right, make a crop that’s 180 pixels wide and 540 pixels high.
• Now we need to create the images for your photo strip. The profile pic you’ve created will extend 20 pixels higher on the page than your photo strip so to create the photo strip you’ll need to start the crop 20 pixels below the top of the image. So, from the right-hand edge of the Base Photo, 20 pixels from the top, take a crop that’s 492 pixels wide and 68 pixels high. This crop will almost meet the right-hand edge of your profile picture but not quite - there is a 20 pixel gap between your profile pic and the photo strip. It’s important to leave this gap if you want the final profile page to look right.
• Still with us? Good. Now you need to chop the photo strip image you’ve created into five pieces. The images in the photo strip are separated by a line two pixels wide so you need to make sure you leave those gaps. Essentially, what you need to do is this: starting from one side of the 492x68 image you created in step 6, crop an image that’s 96.8 pixels wide and 68 pixels high, then leave a two-pixel gap, crop another 96.8x68 image, leave a gap and so on. When you’re finished you should have five small pictures.
• That’s the difficult bit over. Now you need to upload the images to Facebook. Set the image you created in step 5 to be your profile picture but don’t tag it with your name. Then tag the five images you created in step seven. The order in which you tag them is critical: you have to tag them from right-to-left based on the order in which you want them to appear on the page. So the image that you want to appear on the far right should be tagged first and the far left image should be tagged last.
• Now all you need to do is tell your friends to come and admire the handywork on your profile page.
It might take a couple of goes to get this right but once you’ve worked through the instructions once, it should be easier for you to adapt them to suit the image you want to create.
A French artist has kicked off a new trend by ‘refacing’ his Facebookprofile. Alexandre Oudin tweaked the photos on his Facebook page to make them look like pieces of one large photo. Since then, other Facebook users have been repeating the trick to create their own versions: see our gallery here.
If you want to ‘reface’ your Facebook page, here’s how you do it.
• You’ll need to have activated the new Facebook profile page - if you have, you’ll see your basic biographical information at the top of the page and, below that, a photo strip of five recent photos that have been tagged with your name.
• You’ll also need a photo that’s at least 692 pixels wide - that’s the width of the page from the left-hand edge of your profile picture to the right-hand edge of the photo strip.
• The final thing you’ll need is a photo-editing program that allows you to crop images. If you don’t have a program on your computer, try an online editing service, such as Photoshop Express.
• Now you’re ready to get started. Crop your photo to 692 pixels wide, based on how you want it to appear on the page. The left-hand side of this image will be your profile pic and the right-hand edge will appear at the end of the photo strip. Let’s call this image your Base Photo.
• Next, create your new profile pic by taking a crop of the left-hand side of your Base Photo. Start in the top left corner of your base image and, moving down and right, make a crop that’s 180 pixels wide and 540 pixels high.
• Now we need to create the images for your photo strip. The profile pic you’ve created will extend 20 pixels higher on the page than your photo strip so to create the photo strip you’ll need to start the crop 20 pixels below the top of the image. So, from the right-hand edge of the Base Photo, 20 pixels from the top, take a crop that’s 492 pixels wide and 68 pixels high. This crop will almost meet the right-hand edge of your profile picture but not quite - there is a 20 pixel gap between your profile pic and the photo strip. It’s important to leave this gap if you want the final profile page to look right.
• Still with us? Good. Now you need to chop the photo strip image you’ve created into five pieces. The images in the photo strip are separated by a line two pixels wide so you need to make sure you leave those gaps. Essentially, what you need to do is this: starting from one side of the 492x68 image you created in step 6, crop an image that’s 96.8 pixels wide and 68 pixels high, then leave a two-pixel gap, crop another 96.8x68 image, leave a gap and so on. When you’re finished you should have five small pictures.
• That’s the difficult bit over. Now you need to upload the images to Facebook. Set the image you created in step 5 to be your profile picture but don’t tag it with your name. Then tag the five images you created in step seven. The order in which you tag them is critical: you have to tag them from right-to-left based on the order in which you want them to appear on the page. So the image that you want to appear on the far right should be tagged first and the far left image should be tagged last.
• Now all you need to do is tell your friends to come and admire the handywork on your profile page.
It might take a couple of goes to get this right but once you’ve worked through the instructions once, it should be easier for you to adapt them to suit the image you want to create.
Dan Rose, Facebook’s head of platform marketing said the company was happy with the security tools it had place to prevent ‘rogue apps’ from spamming users across Facebook.
Responding to a question at UK press conference at Facebook’s European headquarters, about whether the social network would consider introducing vetting measures similar to Apple’s App Store, which forces third party developers to jump through several security loops before admitting their app to the shop, Rose replied: “The tools we have in place which stop apps from spamming users have become more sophisticated…the actions we have taken have reduced the level of spam across Facebook.”
However according to Sophos, an internet security firm, Facebook is plagued by rogue applications which solely exist to post spam links to users' walls, point users to survey scams that earn them commission - and sometimes even trick users into handing over their mobile numbers to sign them up for a premium rate service.
The issue of security and users’ privacy came back into the spotlight last week. After Facebook was forced to disable a new featurewhich allowed third party app companies access to people’s personal contact details, after negative feedback from security experts and users.
Rose, when questioned why the company had temporarily disabled the new feature, which allowed third party app developers access to people’s mobile phone number and home address (if already part of a person’s profile), once a user had agreed to downloading an app, admitted that the firm had made a “mistake”.
“We did make a mistake. Companies make mistakes and this was a mistake. But we quickly looked at user feedback and responded to it within 24 hours,” he said.
Rose said that the company had failed to make the notification of what additional data users would be giving away to third party app developers prominent enough, and was working on displaying the actual data in a box at the point when users agree to an app’s terms and conditions, before turning the feature back on.
When asked why Facebook wanted to allow third party companies access to this data in the first place Rose said: “The data belongs to our users and they should be allowed to easily take their data with them.” He gave examples of how certain app companies would benefit from having a user’s personal contact details, such as an airline app
Dan Rose, Facebook’s head of platform marketing said the company was happy with the security tools it had place to prevent ‘rogue apps’ from spamming users across Facebook.
Responding to a question at UK press conference at Facebook’s European headquarters, about whether the social network would consider introducing vetting measures similar to Apple’s App Store, which forces third party developers to jump through several security loops before admitting their app to the shop, Rose replied: “The tools we have in place which stop apps from spamming users have become more sophisticated…the actions we have taken have reduced the level of spam across Facebook.”
However according to Sophos, an internet security firm, Facebook is plagued by rogue applications which solely exist to post spam links to users' walls, point users to survey scams that earn them commission - and sometimes even trick users into handing over their mobile numbers to sign them up for a premium rate service.
The issue of security and users’ privacy came back into the spotlight last week. After Facebook was forced to disable a new featurewhich allowed third party app companies access to people’s personal contact details, after negative feedback from security experts and users.
Rose, when questioned why the company had temporarily disabled the new feature, which allowed third party app developers access to people’s mobile phone number and home address (if already part of a person’s profile), once a user had agreed to downloading an app, admitted that the firm had made a “mistake”.
“We did make a mistake. Companies make mistakes and this was a mistake. But we quickly looked at user feedback and responded to it within 24 hours,” he said.
Rose said that the company had failed to make the notification of what additional data users would be giving away to third party app developers prominent enough, and was working on displaying the actual data in a box at the point when users agree to an app’s terms and conditions, before turning the feature back on.
When asked why Facebook wanted to allow third party companies access to this data in the first place Rose said: “The data belongs to our users and they should be allowed to easily take their data with them.” He gave examples of how certain app companies would benefit from having a user’s personal contact details, such as an airline app
According to an announcement on the Facebook blog, it seems that Facebook will take some serious steps related to improving the security of their socialnetwork, and these steps include encrypted connections.
Since we all share personal information on Facebook, it’s more than necessary to ensure that your personal information is safe from malicious users, therefore Facebook decided to use encrypted pages.
According to Facebook, encrypted pages could take longer to load, but with HTTPS you won’t have to worry whether will anyone track your personal data. In addition, Facebook is planning to add another feature that will help you to protect your account if it ever gets compromised. For example, if someone gets your login data, and starts using your account, Facebook will require that person to identify pictures of your Facebook friends. This sounds like a great idea, but you might have to delete all those people that you don’t know, in case that you somehow compromise your own account
According to an announcement on the Facebook blog, it seems that Facebook will take some serious steps related to improving the security of their socialnetwork, and these steps include encrypted connections.
Since we all share personal information on Facebook, it’s more than necessary to ensure that your personal information is safe from malicious users, therefore Facebook decided to use encrypted pages.
According to Facebook, encrypted pages could take longer to load, but with HTTPS you won’t have to worry whether will anyone track your personal data. In addition, Facebook is planning to add another feature that will help you to protect your account if it ever gets compromised. For example, if someone gets your login data, and starts using your account, Facebook will require that person to identify pictures of your Facebook friends. This sounds like a great idea, but you might have to delete all those people that you don’t know, in case that you somehow compromise your own account
