Facebook’s continuing quest to touch all areas of our life (and be the place to share it) is getting bigger today with the company’s new camera specific app, “Facebook Camera”. The app, as the name suggests, is built entirely for quickly snapping photos, applying filters, and sharing them online. How does it work and is a separate app outside of the Facebook app for taking/sharing photos really necessary? GS investigates… User Interface Upon...
The recent Google+ iOS update that saw the company pushing out sweeping UI and design changes, not to mention a handful of new features, has finally hit Google’s own in-house OS. Google+ v2.6 for Android brings a brand new, photo-centric UI as well as redesigned +1 buttons in an effort to make the app easier to use/share content, and of course to simply look nicer. Under the hood, Google has brought several new features to the table including: improvements to video...
The popular social networking/discovery app, “Roamz”, that we looked at back in March is coming to Android! Beginning right now, Android users can enjoy finding and sharing (Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare) the world in which they live. The local-specific Roamz iOS app was pretty entertaining for us and think the Android version will no doubt win over a loyal following, too. Besides the great social/local discovery features, we have to give the Roamz team...
One of our biggest gripes with Google+ to date has been that every conversation we’re having or comment received, opening the dedicated app or viewing the actual web page is needed to respond. Replying by email was not supported — until today. A new post on the Gmail blog highlights the new reply-by-email feature, ending many months of sadness, despair and outright insanity that we’ve had to endure. It’s worth noting that you can also read and +1...
Google and Apple may not be the biggest of friends, but that doesn’t mean Google can ignore their frenemy in Cupertino. Supporting iOS is a very important thing for Google to do, as while many people may eschew their in-house mobile platform, there is still plenty of cash to be made in online services spread across platforms. Today, the company pushed out their new 2.0 (2.0.0.5888 exactly) update for Google+ for iOS. And wow, what a change it brings. Every ounce of...
Facebook’s “Facebook for Every Phone” featurephone app appears to beginning some Instagram-esque inspiration by way of two new photo filters — Black & White and Sepia — that can be applied to uploaded photos. Though, how reliant the featurephone app was on Instagram’s recent $1 billion acquisition by the social networking giant is uncertain as a spokesperson speaking with InsiderFacebook stated that “no one from the Instagram...
