New Facebook messenger brings improved and faster sharing to Android users

Facebook recently launched it's new version of messenger app which lets Android users to share images, videos, voice messages much faster and in easier way. As compared to its previous version, messenger 5.0 has almost similar look but has some additional icons to share things in faster way. iOS users got this update earlier than Android users but that difference doesn't matter as both of them have 100% same functionality.

Facebook allowing page admins to comment on public reviews

               Facebook users can provide feedback in the form of reviews for many well placed pages and business available on Facebook. Facebook has added a new feature to respond to public reviews and previously page admins could comment and like the public reviews and now they can respond to these reviews. This will help well placed page owners or business owners to respond to negative reviews and give reward to users for positive reviews.

According to Facebook this feature wouldn't be available immediately and this would take a time and roll out in next few weeks.

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Photos from your iPhone's camera can now automatically upload to SkyDrive

iPhone and iPad users can now automatically upload their camera roll pictures and videos to SkyDrive for online backup of them. You don't have to do much. Just install this updated app from iTunes and simply get started by signing in the SkyDrive app with your microsoft id. So all your photos and videos are always there with you whether  you are on a Windows Phone or iPhone.

Facebook new like and Share buttons to be introduced in few days

Super social sharing website Facebook is working on new design of Like and Share buttons. According to Facebook these new buttons will be rolled out for everyone (for those who are running these buttons on their websites and other applications) in few days, but they their initial presence can be seen on the Huffington post. These new Like and Share buttons will drive more referral traffic to your site in comparison to the older versions of the Like and Share buttons. If you are having these Facebook social buttons on your site then they will be automatically updated to the new version without any need of updating the code.

Facebook added "Pages to watch" option for keeping you UP.

Are you a running a new website? If your answer is yes and you have a Facebook page of your website then you must go through the post to get more motivation to do your work. Your online presence is new and fresh but you want to grow so that you can survive in the ever growing digital world. To do so keep yourself motivated and for helping you in that Facebook pages manager is now capable of comparing stats of different pages in real time. You will be able to see how they are growing by keeping an eye on the number of likes there page is getting.

What is shared photos album in Facebook?

If you love sharing photos on Facebook, then think about albums in which all your  friends can contribute by uploading photos. A common Facebook album where many users can contribute having a manager, the actual creator of album and contributors, the people manage have been added to be a part of the common album.

How to change LIKE button privacy on Facebook

Facebook Like button is a great tool for sharing and promoting content on websites. Whenever you hit like button on any website, you are actually sharing that page's URL or Link on which LIKE button is appearing. On the other side i.e. in your Facebook profile, the link gets automatically shared with your Facebook friends. But do you know that you can change this?

Instagram acquired Luma - Video capture and sharing service

Luma is a video capture and sharing service, which is recently hired by another photo and videos sharing service, Instagram. Facebook spokesperson confirmed the deal on last the friday.

Users who were on Luma can download their videos till 31st December, 2013. After that no one would be able to access Luma and its services.

Source http://allthingsd.com/20130823/instagram-acquires-video-sharing-startup-luma/

Images courtesy by http://www.tapscape.com/instagram-acquires-video-app-luma/

Using Facebook Login on your website: Must go through this post

If you are using Facebook login in your website for visiting users to have personalized experience and better management, these simple tips and tricks from Facebook are gonna help you a lot.  Facebook Login is very simple and offers deeper social integration on web and mobile apps. If proper guidelines are followed, it can boost your Facebook login conversion rate to nearly 80%, as said by Facebook Blog (http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/08/22/facebook-login--best-practices/).

Facebook embedded posts are out for everyone

You have now another reason for loving and liking Facebook, the best social network. Facebook has now introduced embedded posts to everyone. Have you tried it? This new feature allows you to embed a publically shared posts into your website or blog. Just like the post shown below.

Post by Kanwaljeet Singh.

Few days back, Facebook brought this feature to handful of publishers. At that time they told that soon this will be rolled out to all Facebook users and today they have done it. Read more about Embedded Posts in this post How to Embed a post from Facebook. 

Sum up of Facebook updates came recently

Facebook being the biggest social networking website has many responsibilities towards its users. Managing millions of users at a time and still giving them the best of the experience is not easy. That is why we we get regular updates whether on the mobile or the web app.  Security features and policies are changed on frequent basis. In recent days, Facebook has updated some of its features, introduced few new features to its web and mobile app. Below are all the major things that we noticed in recent days.

Facebook iOS app undergoing software repairs

When I saw my Facebook app today it was showing 37 notifications. Picture shown below. I was amazed as I have never received so much notifications. It was more shocking because I updated my app 2 days back where it was mentioned that app has fixed the WRONG NOTIFICATIONS PROBLEM along some other bug fixes.

Promoting a post on Facebook? Get ready to spend some big amounts.

I would like to tell that if you are not a publisher or doesn't know how Facebook makes money, then read this article before you proceed. It will help you understand  their secret for making money. Now getting back to our topic, Facebook is the smartest social media website who knows from where it can extract money from its users. Initially these were advertisements, then came apps then status/post promotion either by a page (Page on Facebook) or  an individual account and Facebook continues to innovate methods for making money. We will not get into the details of every method, instead read the above mentioned post first.

Facebook app update for BB10: Includes page admin feature and more

Facebook app for BlackBerry has got a new update including many advanced features like Facebook chat, Facebook messages, improved pagemanager, faster scrolling in news feed and better image visuals. One interesting thing written on the company blog was that Facebook app is still maintained and updated by Research in Motion on BlackBerry World. Facebook itself is not providing any update. But still update is very worth. Let us check what we have got in it.

Facebook Embedded posts : For websites and blogs

On Wednesday, social media giant, Facebook, brought another addition to its user experience. The news was about embedding publically shared posts to any publisher website or blog. But right now its reach is very limited, only constrained to just handful of very famous news publishers on Facebook. Facebook also mentioned that soon they will be rolling out this update for more number of publishers on Facebook.

Facebook earning methods : Described in detail

While using Facebook a question must have originated in your mind. It is "Even if I am not paying Facebook for whatever I am using here, then how does Facebook is earning." I mean nobody works without being paid. But most of us didn't know about earnings of Facebook. Its methods and schemes that has helped Facebook to become the world richest social media website. we will cover some of the major area by which Facebook gets its income. 

We all hate advertisements if they are not of our interest and presented in bad manner. It means, whenever they pop up in between the content, provides misleading links and are not beautiful, which means they are not well designed according to your page.