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Facebook releases “new” widescreen photoviewer, Google+ users remain nonchalant.

February 8th, 2012 at 9:33 AM | Misc., News

Facebook’s re-design of the photo-viewer is now rolling out to the masses. The design now incorporates a landscape orientation, with the comments and tag information moved to the right of the photo you are viewing. The maximum allowed image width is more than 900 pixels. In essence it allows users to scroll through more comments and respond to friends on the photo without leaving the page/profile they were on.

Facebook files for $5 Billion IPO

February 2nd, 2012 at 5:17 AM | Computing, News

After months of speculation, Facebook has filed Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Facebook Inc. Although, an IPO was inevitable Facebook wasn’t under much pressure to release it just yet. The IPO reveals several numbers regarding the valuation of the company which is slated at around $100 Billion as well as current and previous earnings. Follow after the break for some number crunching.

And here’s how to get Facebook Timeline right now.

September 26th, 2011 at 1:45 PM | Misc., News

Facebook Timeline has just been outed at the F8 developer conference and at present, is just available to developers. But as with everything “there’s a hack for that”, we bring to you a way to get Facebook Timeline right now. Although only you and others who have activated it would be able to see it till it goes public. Jump after the break for the not to easy steps.

Facebook Timeline: Your entire life on a single page.

September 26th, 2011 at 9:50 AM | Misc., News

Mark Zuckerberg revealed a killer feature in the F8 developer conference dubbed Facebook Timeline. After spending the last few days using it, the only conclusion we have come to is that Facebook isn’t just trying to be a part of the Social Web, Facebook is the Social Web. Keep reading to see why we are so enthralled.

Facebook changes layout, prioritizes news feed, adds ticker to keep you updated.

September 21st, 2011 at 8:34 AM | News

Facebook has been in the process of overhauling its news feed for quite some time now. With the growing threat of Google Plus looming large, Facebook is trying several new things to keep us interested. Some of the latest additions include marking important stories, a ticker as the right permanent sidebar, which loads most recent updates among others. Keep reading.

Give your baby the gift of a Facebook profile, even before he/she is born.

August 3rd, 2011 at 9:19 AM | Misc., News

Facebook flipped the switch on for inquisition of your unborn baby through the option of adding “Expected:Child” in your list of family members.Some say that the social network has gone so many steps beyond creepy that its not creepy anymore, its plain bizarre. Keep reading, we promise nothing creepier than this.

Facebook to launch Video chat in collaboration with Skype

July 3rd, 2011 at 8:58 AM | News

You knew it was coming and if sources interviewed by TechCrunch are to be believed, the Video Chat service might be unveiled at an event planned by Facebook next week in Seattle. Considering Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype and its stake in Facebook($270 Million invested in the year 2007) , it would come at no surprise that a logical extension of Facebook Chat was in the works.

To add fuel to fire you can also see the chat icons that are present on the invites shown above, from which we can conclude that something related to chat might be unveiled by big Zuck. Although the service would be an in-browser affair , TechCrunch also reports that a desktop counterpart might also be unveiled. So are you ready to Skype on Facebook ?

OMG ! Is Facebook down ?(updated)

April 8th, 2011 at 10:00 AM | News

We are getting reports that Facebook is down (facing ourselves too), possibly some kind of a service disruption. No word from Facebook as of yet, but it seems like this is a major outage. You can check the status of Facebook outage at our favorite place to check these things, downrightnow.com.

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