For a short time, Beluga was a rather good looking, multi-account messaging app for iOS and Android — and then it was swallowed up by Facebook as part of the company’s plan to develop and release their own standalone Facebook Messenger application. In most similar situations the smaller, original company/product is discontinued. And so will be Beluga. Today the company announced that “Beluga is swimming off into the sunset”. Beginning November 11th...
It’s been a while since we’ve heard of horror stories from Facebook users telling of their horrible ordeal of trying to reclaim passwords belonging to the accounts of deceased or incapacitated loved ones. Nonetheless, we’re sure the problem has continued on outside of the limelight. Today those issues (theoretically) go away with the introduction of a new “Trusted Friends” feature. Trusted friends will allow you to choose 3-5 Facebook...
Swedes will soon have a new neighbor and all of Europe (in theory) more reliable Facebook service. The U.S. based company has announced plans to build a massive new data center with three 300,000 sq. ft. buildings in the remote city of Lulea in northern Sweden roughly 1,000km from Stockholm. According to Facebook, the data centers will be the largest of their kind in Europe and feature environmentally friendly features such as (possible) hydro-electric power and reduced...
The repeated false alarms and missed (rumored) release dates can now be put into memory and forever forgotten. Facebook has finally, finally released the official iPad app from the confines of Facebook prison. The biggest “feature” of Facebook for iPad will be the seamless (in theory) integration of other 3rd party apps. Click on a particular post that contains content from a Facebook app that just so happens to have an iOS/iPad equivalent and your iPad will...
Ready for Facebook’s new Timeline view? If you haven’t taken the manual approach yet you’re going to have to wait a bit longer. What was supposed to start rolling out over the next few weeks has been delayed until an as of now unspecified date. The reason? Another lawsuit. The lawsuit was revealed late last week but is already quickly moving along. So far the judge overseeing the lawsuit, Edmond Chang, has ordered Facebook to delay the mass public...
