Facebook Recruiting Former Apple iPhone Engineers for Facebook Phone (Are they nuts?)

Facebook to buy Opera? WTF?

Pocketlint:

A Facebook browser that would allow you keep up to date with your social life from in-built plug-ins and features on the menu bar could be on the cards. Pocket-lint has heard from one of its trusted sources that the social networking giant is looking to buy Opera Software, the company behind the Opera web browser.

Why?

Facebook introduces new Camera App

Facebook:

Share photos in a snap

With the new Camera app, you can share photos on Facebook faster than ever, and see all your friends’ latest shots in one place.

– Post multiple photos from your camera roll at a time
– Crop and apply filters to give your photos a new look
– Scroll down a single feed of all your friends’ photos
– Tag your friends, add photo captions and say where you are
– See photos from the different apps your friends use

Larry Page: Facebook keeps its users hostage.

This clown said this at the Charlie Rose show:

Since when is Google the absolute guardian of all things internet? This guy is one of the biggest hypocrites I’ve ever seen. Hey Larry, Zuckerberg beat you at the social game, suck it. You tried to create something with Google +, and it’s a desert. I’m really tired of all this Google Openness crap. Via Huffington Post.

Facebook releases Pages Manager App for iOS.

Facebook

Facebook:

Pages Manager is an application for the iPhone that lets admins check on their Page activity, view insights and respond to their audience.

I don’t get why they couldn’t just add it as a function of the regular app, but there you go. You can get it here.

Facebook redesigns the way it displays photos on mobile.

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Facebook today updated the way photos look like on mobile devices (at least on iOS and Android).

Starting today, we’re rolling out an improved design for posts in news feed on your mobile phone. Now photos are up to 3x larger, and all posts will fill your mobile screen from edge to edge. The new design will be available on iOS, Android and m.facebook.com.

It looks a lot better, is it a coincidence that Google + just did the same on their app last week? You don’t need to update your app, the changes happen server side.

The real threat to the open web lies with the opaque elite who run it

The Guardian (Emily Bell):

Brin’s contention that censorship and “walled gardens”, such as Apple’s operating systems and Facebook’s world of applications, will throttle the world of free and linked information on which Google has built its fortune may be right. But it is also the case that many see Google’s credibility and reliability as a standard bearer for the open web as increasingly compromised.

Brin is just scared that people won’t let them track their every move in order for them to sell ads. It’s that simple. The Google ‘Openness” is nothing more than a cry for help.

Washington man on the run from police, still finds time to update Facebook

CBS:

He may be on the run from police, but Travis A. Nicolaysen still had time to update his Facebook page.

The 26-year-old has eluded authorities since Wednesday. His first day on the run, one friend posted to his account: “Cops all over you.” Nicolaysen responded the next day with: “ya got away thanks bro.”

What a dumb-ass.

How to get your photos out of Instagram the easy way.

Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion

NY Times:

The social network has acquired Instagram, the popular photo-sharing application, for about $1 billion in cash and stock, the company said Monday.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, posted about the transaction on his Timeline:

I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.

$1 BILLION!! Holy smokes!