By admin on March 6, 2012
Soon when you logout of Facebook, you could be greeted with a full recreation of the Bing home page, complete with pretty photo and an active search box. Facebook has wasted no time launching the new logout page ad unit it unveiled on Wednesday. This morning TechCrunch reader and MyJobLinx co-founder Raj Singh’s Facebook logout page featured a Bing search box that when used opened a Bing search results page in a separate tab.
[Update: Facebook has confirmed that Bing is the first advertiser to use its new logout page ad unit.] The new featured placement for Bing is likely an extension of Facebook’s partnership Microsoft, where Bing powers the social network’s internal search engine.
Posted in mreotech | Tagged Bing, Facebook, Search, Social
By admin on January 19, 2012
Facebook has just announced 60 new apps that post updates to its recently launched Timeline (Carl Sjogreen, the director of Facebook’s Platform Products was on-stage). The apps reach a broad set of interests ranging from travel to books, b…
Posted in mreotech | Tagged Facebook, Timeline apps
By admin on January 19, 2012
We’ve been invited by Facebook to attend a mysterious media event. We don’t know yet what the topic is going to be, but we do know that partners are ready to give demonstrations after the presentation, so this may be a new platform or API. I…
Posted in mreotech | Tagged Facebook
By admin on December 19, 2011
Facebook’s Timeline feature has only just begun to roll out across the globe, and now an iOS version has sidled up next to its Android counterpart — making it even easier for us to recheck our social network back stories. The new app is currently…
Posted in mreotech | Tagged Facebook, iPad, iphone
By admin on November 22, 2011
Facebook begun letting a limited group of users to download and try out a new Facebook Messenger for Windows 7 desktop client (much like in the way they started off with their newly-revamped Facebook Timeline user interface, which still hasn’t rolled out to all users yet). Apparently, the new desktop client provides access to Facebook [...]
Posted in mreotech | Tagged Facebook
By admin on November 16, 2011
This week it would appear that Facebook was the victim of a rather unsettling security breach where loads of violent and/or pornographic images were strewn across users feeds, these attacks commented on late in the dar on Tuesday by the company. Facebook has sent out a statement which points to a browser vulnerability as the [...]
Posted in mreotech | Tagged Facebook, Spam Attacks
By admin on October 20, 2011
Facebook CTO Bret Taylor responded to the oft repeated maxim (“meme” is what he called it) that Facebook privacy settings are needlessly complex by asserting that “the majority of people on Facebook have modified their privacy settings” in a conversation with John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit today.
“If you talk to college students they know what their parents can see, they know what their ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend can see.” (I heard a “Yeah right” emanate from the audience when he said this).
Posted in mreotech | Tagged Facebook
