The big blue social network just got even bigger. Facebook has reported that it has 1.1 billion monthly active users in Q1 of 2013. The largest social media company said that that its monthly user base grew 5 per cent to 1.11 billion accounts as of end of March, from 1.06 million at the end of December. This was a 23 per cent growth from a year earlier. According to the report, an expanding user...

Facebook recently revamped its timeline by making it easier for us to share richer stories about the books, movies, TV shows and music in our lives. The social network has made it easy to update the About Page on your Facebook Timeline which shows sections like movies, music, books and more. For example users can add movies to their “watched” or “want to watch” lists directly from News Feed....

Your Facebook Timeline is getting another makeover. After giving its News Feed a major revamp last week, Facebook has now unveiled a redesign for its beloved Timeline in order to give users a more organized profile. First and foremost, the new Timeline layout is less crowded, a change the big blue social network claims was implemented with the help of feedback from Facebook users. The most noticeable...

Some inventions are a flash in the dark. They come and go while others are the ones which change human life and history. Britain, in early 1900′s saw the combined effort of a lot of genii over several decades that ended up using the cathode rays to be used in a device called ‘Television’. Since the first television broadcast, there has been a whole industry devised around the device...

When Facebook announced Timeline last year which introduced the controversial feature of ‘frictionless sharing’. Frictionless sharing involves sharing of all data from the apps that you use on Facebook. If you read a article on a Facebook app, it would get shared automatically on the timeline and if you were listening to Spotify on Facebook, all the songs that you were listening to were shared...

All the embarrassing and not quite posy pictures that you delete from your Facebook account will now be gone forever. Three years after Cambridge PhD student, Joseph Bonneau discovered that photos which he deleted from his account were still accessible by people who had the direct link to the photos, this privacy problem has been resolved by the social media giant. Deleted photos will be wiped out...

Facebook is one of the most frequently accessed websites in the world, competing with the likes of Google. They recently went public in one of the world’s largest IPO’s. In a constantly changing world, Facebook too tries to bring the best user experience to their users. One such attempt to do so has been Facebook Timeline, which will be made compulsory post August 8th.   Facebook...

Following the compromise of LinkedIn’s security, Facebook has immediately taken steps to beef up its security measures. Though limited to its mobile ecosystem, Facebook is reportedly working on additional enhancements that will prevent the growing number of hackers from breaking-in. For non-Android users, Facebook has introduced ‘Account Lock-down’ & ‘Password Reset’ via mobile....

A while ago Facebook had revamped its Photo viewing feature for its mobile platform. It has been learnt that the social networking company will adopt the same for its web-interface too. Facebook had been tinkering with some ideas about improving the ‘visual experience’ of its users. Accordingly, it had earlier introduced High Definition & full screen Photo viewing capability. Facebook typically...

Facebook’s Timeline Feature can now be used to create a 55 second movie based on your profile. Digital marketing agency, Definition 6 & Facebook have collaborated to to offer Timeline Movie Maker that wades through users’ photos, comments, links, likes etc. to come up with a short movie. How does it work? Just like any ‘App’ on Facebook, one has to ‘Allow’ the Timeline Movie Maker...