Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category

Bigger Photos for Better Viewing

Bigger Photos for Better Viewing: “When it comes to viewing photos, we think bigger is better. We’ve begun increasing the maximum size for photos on Facebook by almost 20 percent to 720 pixels to give you higher quality photos and make viewing them more enjoyable.

Why I DON’T Miss FarmVIlle

About two months ago, I got asked to play FarmVille on Facebook. I really didn’t want to, but agreed anyway so that my friends could get stuff from me (even thought I was a horrible giffter). And I played it for a while, then got tired of it and trashed it. I got so [...]

Facebook Chat Available Everywhere

It seems lately that Facebook is trying to crush the competition. Some time ago, they integrated a nice new feature into the Facebook Platform. Chat. Now, in an attempt to nock out other chat platforms, Facebook and AIM partner to make chat available everywhere.

Facebook’s Project Titan: Webmail

Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer.
Facebook messaging has been the bane of users’ existence for years. My first [...]

Attacks Silence Social Media

* Twitter site has service outage
* Company attributes outage to denial-of-service attack
* Some Facebook users have trouble logging in (Adds Google, LiveJournal background, comments)
[via Reuters.com]