Facebook may unveil its own RSS reader

The number one social network Face book will hold a press conference on Thursday to introduce a new service. It could be an RSS reader, traces of which were found in the code of Facebook pages. On July 1, the RSS reader Google Reader will be decommissioned to the chagrin of users, but for the satisfaction of the competition was quickly positioned to take over. But Digg, Feedly, Flipboard, Taptu Leed and others may well see a very serious rival is none other than Facebook. Last week, a young developer has found references to an RSS feed in the code of social network which suggests an alternative to Google Reader is in preparation. Moreover, Facebook has announced it will hold a press conference on June 20 to unveil a "big idea". To imagine that there is the famous RSS reader, there is a step that the specialized press immediately crossed. Cleverly integrated into the interface, such a tool would sense because it would allow Facebook to further centralize some content consumption of its members. Appointment is given on Thursday to verify all.

Facebook finally introduces hashtags!

The social network Facebook adopts clickable hashtags popularized by Twitter which adds a new way of browsing the content. Facebook has to adopt clickable hashtags. This tool introduced by Twitter and long used by other social networks like Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram to create a context from a post or a photo by adding a keyword preceded by the pound sign. Clicking on a hashtag in Facebook, users will see all public content related to that particular keyword. Very useful for example when it comes to following a media event. It is possible to find hashtags from the search bar and can open those hashtags imported from other services like Twitter or Instagram too. Facebook announced this novelty and this is only the first step to help people more easily find out what others are saying about a particular topic and join the conversation and promises including a ranking of the most popular hashtags (hashtags trending) as that of the Twitter

Activate Your Blocked Facebook Account With The Help Of Trusted Friends!

The social network Facebook will allow its users to activate their profile with the help of some of their friends when their profile gets blocked. The social network Facebook introduces a function for trusted friends. Each user can specify between three and five friends to whom they have trust and he would leave them the house key for watering plants. When he has forgotten his password or the Facebook account has been suspended or blocked for any reason, he may call these special friends and ask them for help. With a few clicks, they are then be able to make use of their status as a trusted person: Each of the trusted friends gets a security code. That they should pass on to the locked-out user. Three codes are sufficient to activate the Facebook profile again. Facebook calls the whole "Trusted Contact" ("Reliable friends"). Since the end of 2011, the method has been tested already. Now it is to be slowly introduced to all. The function is then under the security settings. With this method it should be possible for users to activate their profiles back, even if they cannot remember the answer to their personal security question.

Facebook redesigned its Mobile pages!

Since most of the users are accessing the social networking sites from their Smarphones, Facebook offered their mobile pages with new design. The redesign is the need of the time and makes the user to navigate and help the user and the administrators to interact with the pages. First the new design is just for mobile browsers and the iOS app is visible and the update for the Android application will follow very shortly. The new design provides users with a simpler look and easier navigation. An interaction element such as the “Like” button is located in the new design under the title picture. Also, users should have relevant information on the pages and images look better. Administrators have the option of a popular article "To pinning" so that it remains longer current. New posts will appear below this post. In addition, website operators move quickly between now and the view of the public administrators view.

Chat Heads integrated in Facebook Messenger

Chat Heads, one of the new applications introduced with Facebook Home, is available independently via the Facebook Messenger application. It provides access to a conversation regardless of the application that is being used. Facebook launched last Friday Facebook Home, its wrapper which transforms an Android Smartphone into "Facebook phone" with a "family of applications" that provide direct and permanent access to updates and the social messaging network. Among these new features is the implementation chat heads that includes Facebook and SMS messaging and is available regardless of the application that is being used. It is also available independently Facebook Home in the new version of Facebook Messenger. Once updated for devices running Android 2.2 and later, users receive Facebook notifications when a message or an SMS is sent. The faces of the speakers appear as thumbnails in the upper right corner of the screen and simply press it to open the conversation. As with Facebook Home, chat heads works with any active application which is an easy option that may overshadow other messaging applications.

Secretbook for coded messages in Facebook pictures!

A new app available in the Chrome Store called Secretbook, which helps you to encoding messages into pictures that you then upload to Facebook. This extension for Google Chrome browser protects secret messages to the public and governments, says the text description of the app. Its author is Owen Campbell-Moore, a computer science student at the University of Oxford and also intern at Google. To use the application is simple, just upload a photo JPEG format at least 960 × 720 px preferably (for best quality) and avoid putting pictures with large identical parts (sky background solid color). Then enter your message and set a password for your friends to read it. Once the image is created with Secretbook, you just put it in a Facebook album or on the wall of your friend. The art of steganography is not new, and indeed perhaps the word reminds you of the story of the 10 Russian spies arrested in the United States in 2010? There are already tools to hide coded messages in images on Facebook but they were more complicated. Owen Campbell-Moore had to reproduce the images recompression algorithm used by Facebook. The app mimics what the social network to the reprocessing of the image of that minimizes damage and deformation that cause the secret message.

Facebook makes you Childish!

"Facebook can change our brain" - warns Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield of Oxford University (UK). In the British "Telegraph" she says, not only that we give up our individuality through social networks, but also our way of thinking is modified as childish. Especially "Facebook Home" - the new user interface, in which you get instead of the usual apps and widgets, updates of your Facebook friends on the home page of your smart phones immediately- it deems objectionable. At first glance, "Facebook Home" seems harmless: One knows immediately what is going on with friends and what photos they have just posted. But exactly this we are always obsessed! Obsessed to monitor the lives of others and at the same time to hold every moment of one's existence in the social network; simply addicted to the social network. We hurt ourselves above all, more precisely, our individuality, says Greenfield. Mark Zuckerberg has decided "Facebook Home" for the time being only for Android.

In an interview with the magazine "Wired" said Mark Zuckerberg, why own a Smartphone for Facebook is not worthwhile. Permanent get shown the lives of others, puts pressure on us to also perform a digital super-life, rather than preserve privacy. Our brain is so to speak slowly reprogrammed from "individualist" to "public joint stock man." "The human brain is superior to the other species, since it has the unique ability to adapt to its environment - it's sort formable. Since we live in an ever-expanding world of digital, we are permanently trimmed to alert what other people are doing (in which case our Facebook friends) or just think that they currently represent. This our way of thinking, our attitude for too many things will change. " The fatal consequence, according to Greenfield: Our way of thinking is rather childish, depending on the behavior and thoughts of others. We ACT instead of REACT.


Define ourselves by "Like" data and the number of responses to our postings. Moreover, we do not take the time to reflect inwardly as we are at certain things, but be guided by the opinion of the crowd. Our experiences are only exciting, interesting or bizarre was when our digital friends also find - and comment accordingly. Although we consider all of our privacy as the highest good, we give them in total to complete network to be part of the community. To "Like" information gathering, we provide cheap photos, memories and desires. We prefer to respond quickly to a posting, as we take the time to, first of all think about how we actually find it. According to Greenfield, we thus develop a new identity - and an over-networked, community identity. The danger: Just as the community sees us, we finally see each other.

Facebook Home for Android and Smartphones!

Facebook unveils Home, "which is not a phone or operating system, but is an application", explains the social network. It is an overlay for Android that puts in the heart of the social network phone. The outline of Home had leaked in recent days. This overlay for Android & Smartphone built by HTC is not a surprise. Facebook Home will be available on Google Play, from April 12, as a single application. Once installed, Facebook Home strongly modifies the Android user experience, replacing the lock screen and home screen. In place of these items are listed "cover feed," a single window that displays the latest activities of your friends on the network. Like the new News Feed presented a month ago, the focus is on the photos with images that fill the entire screen. You can scroll to see the feed cover various activities and if you want to "Like" an item, just do double tap it. For larger notifications, as a message from one of your friends on your timeline, the message is displayed with the profile photo of your friend messaged.

A tap on the photo opens the notification; it is also possible to hide. Facebook Home provides access to instant messaging wherever you are. When receiving a message on Facebook, the photo of the friend behind the message over the application in use. Applications other than those signed by Facebook are of course available from a launcher. Facebook Home will be compatible at its output with a handful of high-end devices: HTC One, HTC One X, HTC One X +, Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note II.


The social network announced that other Smartphones will support the overlay in the coming months. Mark Zuckerberg also announced that Facebook Home Program, a program for mobile manufacturers to support the overlay social network. HTC of course subscribe to this program, and there are also Samsung, Sony, ZTE, Lenovo, Huawei and Alcatel One Touch as manufacturers. It is not clear at this time whether these companies will release a Smartphone with Facebook Home preinstalled or allow the installation of the software on their products.

Concept of a smartphone stamped Facebook

After the AFN Instagram SocialMatic alias, this time we discover a smartphone concept of paying tribute to Mark Zuckerberg's social network.

This smartphone that bears his signature and whose appearance recalled the site by its blue finish is still only a vague plan. Concept of a designer named Michal Bonikowski, the smartphone designer delight everyone, especially Facebook-addicts who can invest in this type of product.

USA: a law will force sex offenders to display their online past

The United States laws are known for their sometimes outlandish: here is one that should be very serious about her. In Louisiana, a formal decision has been pronounced to require sex offenders to display on their past social networks. Thus, in its description, a user of Facebook or Twitter will be required to publish their sexual misdeeds after a CNN report.

Facebook works its facial recognition

The social network Facebook has to acquire the site Face.com, specializes in face recognition. Facebook, which already offers a Face Recognition function, and should offer technologies Face.com.

It is therefore to improve its photo service that Facebook has finalized the acquisition. Aware that this is one of the most popular services of its site, the social network it bears careful attention. This was particularly led, for example, redemption of Instagram recently, for a staggering one billion dollars.

Facebook would love to have your phone number

In what ways Facebook could legitimize a request for telephone numbers? Answer: for security reasons. The information comes from TechCrunch, Facebook who confirmed that all members will be offered to fill this information. This would be a way to recover their account after a hack attempt, sending a new password by SMS. This process is supposed to be safer than the mail, sometimes considered as spam by users according to the blog of Cloudmark, a company specializing in the protection against spam including.

Facebook could launch its App Center this week

The site Business Insider reports that the Facebook App Center could emerge this week. This equivalent of Facebook by the Apple App Store would be to encourage developers to create applications dedicated to the site.

Business Insider quotes an anonymous source, but "directly informed by Facebook of this service," which explains that this service will be available "in the coming days." Facebook has not made any comment about this possibility, but the site had already announced some time ago that an outflow during the month of May for this service was possible.

What if Google bought up Twitter?

A few weeks after the IPO of Facebook, a social networking is at the center of attention. According to the U.S. site BusinessInsider, Google could buy Twitter in the coming months, the second top social network in the world. An analysis that follows, in particular the catastrophic introduction of Facebook Nasdaq, confirming the lack of success of attempts to monetization of social networks and enterprises of the Net in general.

Facebook Upgrade: iOS application to take pictures as Instagram

Six weeks after buying Instagram by Facebook, the social network already offers its application that allows take home and share photos by applying filters. Facebook Upgrade, available from Thursday, May 25 in the U.S., is a free application that includes part of what made the success of Instagram and its 30 million users.

Facebook keeps your deleted photos

We know Facebook not quite comfortable with the issues of data security and above all on respect for personal data. The social network seems to encounter a new problem raised by the site ArsTechnica. 

The source said some of the photos deleted by users of the service are always available for almost three years after their supposed removal.

The Tops of 2011 - II

The iPad 2

The first iPad had already scored in 2010, the early universe of Internet tablets such as we know them. With the iPad 2, Apple has just had to correct some details that fans demanded two cameras (one in front), a faster processor, all in a device 33% thinner and 15% lighter. The success of this new tablet was even more resounding than the previous one, the iPad 2 being one of the great success of 2011.

The Tops of 2011

The tops of the Year

It is a ritual that season preparing mono-live is keen. One week after the publication, blithely commented, our tops of the year now are the time to congratulate the winners of 2011. Whether it is technical achievements, commercial or simply promising new players in the market of high-tech, some companies, products and people managed to get their game in a particularly difficult year for the sector.

It's time to celebrate the tops of the year 2011.

Facebook flaw: the photos of Mark Zuckerberg hacked

Mark Zuckerberg is the victim of a security problem on its own social network. Many of her private photos were found published after the discovery of a vulnerability in Facebook profiles.

Published on the forum site of bodybuilding, the method of access to private photos is very simple. Just see the pictures of a person as spam (even if you are not friends with her). Facebook proposes to report the offending photos and displays the images of the private individual.

It was enough that the principle is applied directly to the profile of Facebook founder and several of its private photos can be found posted on the Web.

Facebook monitors 51% of online purchases

A recently published study by the firm Sociable Labs shows that 51% of online purchases are made not of users who are connected to Facebook at the time of purchase. This allows the social network to collect an additional data on these users about their shopping habits.

More than half of online shoppers are also connected to Facebook when making a purchase. Most commonly, it is thanks to Facebook Connect, which allows the social network to collect data on the navigation of its members. This has two advantages for Facebook, as commerce sites.