Facebook Messenger, developed by Crisp App, is a recent inclusion in the App Store which helps you make Voice over IP (VoIP) calls to your Facebook friends even if they are on browser. The app is built over Facebook’s API to connect to the Facebook servers, however, the VoIP feature has been developed by Crisp App Limited. Compatible with your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, Facebook Messenger requires you to have a minimum of iOS 3.1.2.

The app also adds other features to the Facebook chat that most desktop chat clients would offer including sharing pictures, maintaining chat history etc. It also supports Push Notifications and delivers all the messages to you instantly.


Following are the main features that the app offers.

• Chat with Facebook friends from your iPhone/iPod Touch
• Easy-to-use interface
• Get replies instantly with Apple Push Notifications
• Make free VoIP calls to Facebook friends on desktop or iPhone/iPod Touch
• Easily send photos from your album or camera
• Keep track of all your chats and calls with message history
• View your friend’s Wall in the embedded browser without leaving the app

All the connections are made directly with the Facebook servers and your passwords aren’t stored on any other servers, hence, protecting your privacy.
Available for $2.99, Facebook Messenger can be downloaded from the link given below.
Download Facebook Messenger

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Facebook has introduced two more relationship status options in addition to the ones currently there which include Single, In a relationship, Engaged, Married, It’s complicated, In an open relationship, Widowed, Separated and Divorced.
The two new indicators are for the folks from LGBT community. While the folks at US, UK, Canada, France and Australia can already choose between the two new options introduced: “In a domestic partnership” and “In a civil union”, they will be rolled out to other countries soon. Moreover, these relationship indicators will not appear in regions where same sex marriages are already legal.
In a conversation with Mashable, a representative at Facebook said:

This has been a highly requested feature from users. We want to provide options for people to genuinely and authentically reflect their relationships on Facebook.

In past, the social website has been really supportive to the LGBT community. Facebook has also worked in collaboration with GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to stop the bullying of LGBT community.

Since there are states where same sex marriages aren’t allowed but "Domestic relationships" and "Civil Unions" exist, it is a step that had to be taken by the social network to preserve the rights of LGBT folks.

With the introduction of this new feature, Facebook has taken away frustration of many of it’s users who would openly like to express their relationship statuses. However, on the other hand, the feature isn’t very welcoming for all the countries around the globe, which is why it hasn’t been rolled out to them yet.

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CEOs of Apple, Google and Facebook are reportedly going to meet with President of the United States, Barack Obama, on Thursday in San Francisco, reports ABC News.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who recently took a medical leave of absence from his company, and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt will be among the attendees of President Obama’s event with business leaders in San Francisco Thursday evening, a source familiar with the event tells ABC News.

Earlier today, ABC News reported that one attendee would be 26-year-old founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

Steve Jobs, who is currently on a leave of absence from day-to-day work at Apple will join Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt for a meeting with President Obama.
In October last year, Steve Jobs and Obama met to discuss a number of issues such as the economical situation, education, innovation and technology.
Hopefully, this is also going to debunk those shocking rumors about Steve Jobs’ health, according to which he only had “6 weeks to live”.

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HTC just unveiled its MWC lineup a few hours ago, including the ChaCha and the Salsa, which both possess dedicated Facebook buttons (all the cool kids have Facebooky phones these days). AT&T, however, just issued a statement to let the world know that it'll have a Facebook-dedicated HTC handset by later this year. Now, there's no word on which phones are AT&T-bound just yet, but a spokesperson told All Things D's Ina Fried that the carrier will have at least twelve Android phones on offer this year.

The press-shots that we posted about yesterday? Yes they were real, as announced today by HTC at Mobile World Congress. The two phones namely, HTC Chacha and HTC Salsa have dedicated Facebook button, with a more customized Sense UI running on Android 2.4 to have more focus on the world’s largest social network.

The dedicated Facebook button on both the portrait QWERTY based ChaCha and the 3.4-inch touchscreen based Salsa is context-aware, which means that it will gently pulse “with light whenever there is an opportunity to share content or updates through Facebook”.

Full press release is as follows:

HTC Unveils Two Social Phones With One-touch Facebook® Access
HTC raises the bar for mobile social phones with HTC ChaCha^TM and HTC Salsa^TM
BARCELONA, SPAIN – Mobile World Congress – February 15, 2011 – HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today announced two new phones built entirely to be social, combining the simplicity, ease-of-use and depth of HTC SenseTM with the power and connectivity of Facebook®.  As part of an extended portfolio of six new HTC Sense-based devices being unveiled at Mobile World Congress, HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa feature a dedicated Facebook® button for one-touch access to the key functions of the Facebook service that are integrated throughout the HTC Sense experience.
“HTC has always understood that different people want different things and the new HTC ChaCha and Salsa offer special new ways to experience Facebook on a mobile device,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. “With more than 500 million active users worldwide, Facebook has become synonymous with the social web and we wanted to create the ultimate socially connected phones with mass market appeal.”
“We have worked closely with HTC for several years on bringing Facebook to their devices and HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa are the next stage,” said Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile Business for Facebook. “HTC has brought Facebook to these two new devices in an innovative way enabling people to connect and share easily whenever they want, wherever they are.”
The Facebook button on HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa is context-aware, gently pulsing with light whenever there is an opportunity to share content or updates through Facebook. With a single press of the button, you can update your status, upload a photo, share a Website, post what song you are listening to, ‘check in’ to a location and more. For example, you can take a photograph of friends on your phone and upload it instantly to Facebook by simply pressing the button. Or let your friends know what song you’re listening to by pressing the button while listening to music on the phone. The track is automatically identified and shared on Facebook.
The new devices feature Android Gingerbread 2.3.3, the latest version, and use the latest iteration of HTC Sense to integrate Facebook throughout the HTC Sense experience. When you make a phone call, the dialer screen displays your friend’s latest status and photos, and even tells you if their birthday is approaching. The same updates are also displayed when you receive a call from a Facebook friend. You can also use your phone’s existing contacts to help you connect with them on Facebook or personalize your handset further with a number of new, Facebook-branded widgets.
The HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa smartphones make it simple to stay in touch with your friends using Facebook Chat and Messages on your phone. Your Facebook messages and conversations are integrated within your phone and appear within your text and email inboxes alongside your regular conversations.
Stay connected with the smartphone for the Facebook generation – HTC ChaCha The HTC ChaCha smartphone is designed to provide a seamless, social experience by enabling you to stay in touch with your friends anytime, anywhere. The unique tilt design shapes the display and physical QWERTY keyboard so it is easy to view and comfortable to type. Capture special moments in crisp, High-Definition detail or video chat with your friends using the dual cameras, including a 5-megapixel color camera with auto focus and LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera. The ChaCha smartphone also brings the Internet to your fingertips with a 2.6-inch, 480 x 320 resolution landscape touch screen.
Your Facebook friends never felt closer – HTC Salsa
Boasting the same deep Facebook integration as the HTC ChaCha smartphone, the HTC Salsa smartphone provides a fast, high-performance smartphone experience. Capture the moment in high-resolution stills or video with the 5-megapixel camera and immediately share it with friends on the generous 3.4-inch, 480 x 320 resolution touch display. Upload your photos to Facebook at the touch of a button. For face-to-face conversations on the move, the VGA forward-facing camera enables high-quality video calling.
Availability
The HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa smartphones will be available to customers across major European and Asian markets during Q2 2011. In the United States, HTC plans to bring this unique user experience to market later this year exclusively with AT&T.

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Gemalto, a firm known for digital security, has released it’s SIM card which allows all the GSM phones to have a built-in Facebook client. This allows all phones with minimal features to have access to Facebook, an effort to make the social network a standard on GSM. It is obvious that SIM based client won’t provide as much features as clients on smart-phones do but it will provide you text based menus which will let you carry out basic tasks like status updates, pokes, friend requests, wall posts etc.
A spokesperson for Facebook told the folks at AllFacebook

We worked closely with Gemalto on their Facebook for SIM product and believe it will be another easy and affordable way for people to stay connected through Facebook on the mobile phone of their choice. Facebook for SIM creatively combines technologies from some of our existing mobile solutions that especially are attractive for people with feature phones and have limited or no data plans with a mobile operator. Through the Facebook application on the SIM card people can: Update their status and view comments on it; write on their friends wall; receive notifications; find friends on their SIM phonebook.

The toolkit is part of GSM standards and will hence provide services on every GSM set. Everything will be carried over the class 2 text messages. Class 2 text messages are directly sent without the user intervention.

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Just a few days ago we heard that HTC might be prepping some lower-end devices with dedicated Facebook widgets, and well, here they are. The two devices -- one featuring a full keyboard and a less ugly one with full touchscreen -- definitely have a Facebook button, and while we know nothing of specs yet, various sources have reported that Facebook updates will be streamed directly to the widget, the camera will upload directly to Facebook, and the phones, which will run a stripped down Android build, will have minimal storage. We're not soothsayers, but we have a feeling we'll know more tomorrow, when HTC's MWC press event gets under way. Hit the source for a shot of the other phone.

 With the likes of INQ all set to release their own Android phone that ties straight into Facebook, today we learn that HTC is getting in on the action too.
According to a report by the Financial Times, the Taiwanese handset manufacturer is readying its own hardware that is expected to be powered by Google’s Android operating system.
Unlike the INQ Cloud Touch approach of hooking basic phone features straight into the Facebook ecosystem, HTC will go down the route of simply adding a dedicated Facebook button to the handset itself.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has gone on record in the past admitting that the social network’s focus is shifting toward mobile. Getting dedicated hardware buttons that take users straight to their friends’ activity added to phones, along with the more integrated approach of INQ certainly fits the bill.

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The rumors of some sort of Facebook phone arriving sometime in the future have been circulating for a while now, with HTC being touted as a hardware partner. Now though it seems minnows INQ are hard at work getting ready to bring a handset to market.

British firm INQ sent channel manager Andrew Bennet over to TechCrunch’s officers to give them the scoop on the INQ Cloud Touch, a smartphone running a heavily modified version of Google’s Android.
According to the TechCrunch article and indeed the video they posted, it’s clear that this is more than just an Android handset running the Facebook app. The entire experience is very tightly tied into the Facebook system, with the homescreen showing your friends’ activity stream front and center.
Other integration includes apps such as the phone’s calendar. Here the OS pulls not just your upcoming events into a calendar, but also those of your friends, as well as birthdays. Perfect if, like me, you tend to forget just about everyone’s birthday!
Perhaps the real bombshell is the integration with Spotify. The European music streaming service is the main media manager on the INQ handsets which is great news for those of us able to access the service. Thankfully, reports are that Sporify is close to securing a deal allowing the service to be made available state-side. Until then, Spotify will just work as a standard music player instead of a streaming service.
INQ are aiming for a May launch for their Cloud Touch and Cloud Touch Q (which is the same handset but with a QWERTY keyboard) and as yet aren’t saying what we should expect to pay, though it’s not expected to be marketed as a premium handset. In other words – cheap.




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Mark Zuckerberg, the man who invented poking and the subject of a major motion picture in 2010 just met his nemeses on the set of Saturday Night Live. No, not the Winklevoss twins, we're talking Jesse Eisenberg, the man nominated for an Academy Award after playing Zuckerberg in The Social Network. Toss in Andy Samberg and we've got a comically uncomfortable situation from Web 2.0's very personification of awkward. All hail the Zuck Bergs!

 Facebook hasn’t released any official client for iPad yet, this is probably because their CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg believes that iPad isn’t as mobile as our smartphones. This has surely given other developers the opportunity to create their own Facebook apps for iPad. For example, ‘Friendly for Facebook’ is one of the most popular Facebook app for iPad.

And now, Facepad is a new challenger in the game. Facepad for iPad was released last week and it has clearly taken some design clues from the popular Twitter client called Twitter for iPad.
The similarities are obvious, but not in a bad way. The app works using windows or tabs, so you can open multiple profiles and check them out in seconds. People who have used this app seem to have really like it. It has had over a million ad impressions in its first twelve hours of release. This doubled after twenty-four hours, and now it is the 15th most popular app on the iTunes App Store.
Best of all, it is available for free. Follow the link below to download it right now!
Download Facepad – Facebook for iPad

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We already know Facebook is the most visited website of 2010. Another report has been released earlier today, this time from an analytics company Democracy UK. This report describes what happens on Facebook every 20 minutes.

According to the report, on average, one million links are shared, over 1.32 million photos are tagged, more than 1.48 million event invitations are sent out, almost 1.59  million wall posts, over 1.85 million status updates, more than 1.97 million friend requests sent out, over 2.72 million photos uploaded, and more than 4.63 million messages sent. All this in 20 minutes.
The report also shows, Lady Gaga is the celebrity with the most likes, Eminem second, and Megan Fox third. More most liked celebrities include:

Lady Gaga
24,712,169 people like this
Eminem
23,729,700 people like this
Megan Fox
19,575,080 people like this
Vin Diesel
19,425,325 people like this
Rihanna
18,903,844 people like this
Barack Obama
17,229,885 people like this
Bob Marley
17,168,034 people like this
Lil Wayne
17,004,850 people like this
Justin Bieber
16,779,874 people like this
Shakira
16,520,790 people like this

Changed relationship statuses in 2010:

43,869,800 changed their status to single
3,025,791 changed their status to "it’s complicated"
28,460,516 changed their status to in a relationship
5,974,574 changed their status to engaged
36,774,801 changes their status to married

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According to Hitwise data released today, Facebook was the most visited website in the United States for 2010. Facebook.com took 8.93% of site visits between January and November 2010. Google.com came second at 7.19%, Yahoo! Mail third with 3.52%, Yahoo.com came fourth at 3.30%, and YouTube was at fifth with 2.65%.


Facebook beat Google.com out of its crown this year. However, according to Hitwise data, all Google sites combined cover up 9.85% of all site visits. Which makes Google as a whole still more popular than Facebook.

The combination of Google properties accounted for 9.85 percent of all U.S. visits. Facebook properties accounted for 8.93 percent, and Yahoo! properties accounted for 8.12 percent. The top 10 Websites accounted for 33 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010, an increase of 12 percent versus 2009.

   The term “Facebook” was the most searched term this year. And the term “facebook login” came second, from ninth place last year. The analysis revealed the most searched terms were social-networking related, which accounted for 4.18% of the top 50 searches.

Top searches from various other categories include:

Personality – top 5 people searches
1. Kim Kardashian
2. Oprah
3. Rush Limbaugh
4. Miley Cyrus
5. Glenn Beck
Movie Titles – top 5 searches from within Movies category:
1. Star Wars
2. Paranormal Activity 2
3. Avatar
4. Transformers 3
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow
Music – top 5 searched for artists/bands:         
1. Lady Gaga
2. Justin Beiber
3. Eminem
4. Taylor Swift
5. Michael Jackson
Branded Destinations top 5 search terms:
1. Disney World
2. Disneyland
3. Six Flags
4. Universal Studios Orlando
5. Great Wolf Lodg
Top TV show searches from Television category
1. Dancing with the Stars
2. American Idol
3. Young and the Restless
The top generic search term was "hulu" within Television category
Sports – the top searched for athlete was Tiger Woods and the top sports team was the Dallas Cowboys from within the Sports category.
News and Media – the top searched for person was Bret Michaels followed by Tiger Woods and Sandra Bullock within the News and Media category in 2010.
Real Estate – the search terms "houses for rent" and "homes for rent", combined topped the combined searches for "houses for sale" and "homes for sale" in 2010 within the Real Estate category.

• Realtor.com was the top search term overall for Real Estate category.

Employment – Indeed accounted for 2.47 percent of all searches in the US among the top 50 terms for the Employment category in 2010 when combining common search terms – e.g., indeed and indeed.com.

In 2009, Facebook was the third most visited website, getting to the top this year came as a surprise. Although this was predicted before, and Hitwise came to the same conclusion back in March.   ] 


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The much awaited Skyfire for iPad has finally hit the iTunes App Store. Released for iPhone and iPod touch last month, Skyfire for iPad brings Flash video content, along with some other social networking which are not found in the native Mobile Safari browser.

FEATURES:
• Play millions of Flash videos – everyday, with no limits!
• All-new ‘Skybar’ toolbar gives one-click access to video and related content
• Stay in touch: Unique Facebook and Twitter ‘Quickview’ allows you to see your wall and feeds with one click.
• Universal ‘Like’: Like ANY page on the internet, with one click.
• Fireplace: See only the links shared by Friends. Why? Filter what friends did from what friends shared (which is a great starting point for browsing)
• Popular: See what Friends and the Facebook community have to say about the site you are currently exploring
• Be informed: Quick access to GReader feeds
• Be social: Share via Facebook and Twitter
• Share to more services including GReader, Instapaper, Pinboard and Read It Later
• Standard browser elements: Tabs, search, sharing, bookmarks, history, etc.
• Full screen option for maximum use of screen real-estate – with scroll to top
• ‘Desktop’ option loads pages as on a desktop browser, giving more flexibility in accessing web sites
• Private Browsing option: Browse with no history and cookies left behind

Here is a little video demo of Skyfire in action on the iPad !



Skyfire for iPad can be downloaded from the App Store for $4.99.
Download Skyfire Web Browser for iPad [iTunes Link]

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Facebook for Windows Phone 7 has been upgraded to version 1.1, bringing support for Facebook’s Places and Photo tagging feature.

Official change log of Facebook 1.1 for Windows Phone:

New features in version 1.1:
- Places
- Photo tagging

Unlike any other popular smartphone OS in the market, Windows Phone 7 has great deep integration for Facebook. But still there are some features that can only be accessed via the official client.
Compared to iPhone and Android clients, Facebook for Windows Phone 7 is still missing the Chat and Push notifications feature. Also missing is the support for live tile feature which is quite surprising, given that it was touted as one of the differentiating factors of Windows Phone 7 as a platform.
Facebook 1.1 for Windows Phone 7 devices can be downloaded right now for free from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.

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One of the most popular and widely used app on the iOS devices has got an update today! This new version 3.3.3 of Facebook for iPhone brings an overall improved and polished UI for notifications, along with much better reliability and bug fixes. It also restores the ability to post as a page that you admin on Facebook.

Full change log is as follows:

What’s New in Version 3.3.3
- Improved reliability in chat and messages
- Improved notifications UI
- Fixed memory usage
- Fixed some crashes
- Walls you cannot post on no longer show the text field at the top
- Restore ability to post as a page that you admin
- Fixed group photos
- Various Places improvements

You can get the updated app from the link below or by checking for updates in iTunes on your iOS device.
Download Facebook for iOS v3.3.3 [iTunes Link]

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Facebook has outgrown every other social network, it has outgrown Flickr and Picasa and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has made history by becoming the youngest self made billionaire. He also grabbed the Time’s Person of the Year Award, beating the much controversial Julian Assange. There is everything credible about the social network and it keeps adding more value. I recall Facebook launching its Face Detection feature last year, using which Facebook detected similar faces in numerous photos of an album and tagged each one of them in one go. Well that’s improving, starting from today!

Today the social network boosted the usability of its photo product by enabling auto tagging of photos. How exactly? Facebook uses its face recognition feature to detect a person and then utilize your network of friends as reference to place tags on the people visible in the picture. With over a 100 million photos being tagged each day I think the new update would make tagging easier for all those photo lovers.
But, what about privacy? I for one won’t like being tagged without my permission or at least I would like to be notified to grant permission. This is exactly what the Facebook’s VP Product, Chris Cox had to address. Cox mentioned that users do have the choice to opt out of the feature altogether, disabling anyone to auto tag you using this feature. Seconding that he also mentioned that this won’t be used for a network wise face search and would strictly be applicable to the network of friends.
The feature will be rolled out to around 5% of the social network users initially. It’s just the start of it, so don’t be surprised if it tags Harry as Lynda, vice versa.

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This is probably the first version of Facebook for Android that can be regarded as completely on par with the iPhone version. This is the update which most of us have been waiting for! After bringing Facebook Groups and Places feature to Android only just last month, the new Facebook version 1.5 for Android brings the much awaited Facebook Chat feature, along with Push Notifications to Android devices.

Here is the official change log of Facebook 1.5.0 for Android:

• Added Chat – now you can chat with your Facebook friends right from your Android device
• Push notifications
• Various bug fixes

The app is out now on Android Market ! Alternatively, you can point your Android phone to the link given below in order to download it right on your device.

Download Facebook 1.5.0 for Android

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Facebook today has announced a new and improved profile design which they will be rolling out starting from tomorrow. Facebook plans to complete the rollout for everyone by early next year.
The new design brings a much cleaner look, with a quick overview of basic information such as where you’re from, where you went to school and where you work etc., a featured friends lists which highlights the friends who are more important to you, improved interests and activities info with relevant pictures, and infinite scrolling lists to photos and friends pages.



Cant wait for Facebook to rollout the new design for you? Here’s how you can get it right now!
Step 1: Navigate to http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/.
Step 2: Now click on the green-colored “Get the New Profile” button found on the top right-hand side corner of the page.
Step 3: That’s it! You should now see the new Facebook profile design, as can also be seen in the screenshot below.


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Since the launch of Digg v4 earlier in August, the staff at Digg has been continuously rolling out new features to grab their lost user-base back. This has definitely given me a better user experience (in terms of features) but the social news site hasn’t been able to put together the scattered community.
One reason why Kevin Rose, the founder of the company, wanted to evolve the site with the new Digg was "Twitter" insisted Daniel in a write-up at NewsWeek. Williams, the present CEO, however insisted "Twitter and Digg perform completely different tasks". Of course they do, but the redesign of the website was clearly influenced by twitter with "My News" being the primary source to Digg new stories, just like twitter’s timeline.
Moments ago, Digg has launched another interesting feature, which in my opinion is largely inspired by Facebook’s on-site notifications. With the introduction of on-site notifications, Digg provides it’s users a way to keep-up with community’s reaction on the stories submitted/dugg/commented on by the user.

Following are the new notifications rolled out today. Digg notifies the user when someone

• Diggs a story user submitted
• Diggs a story user dugg
• Diggs a story user commented on
• Comments on a story user submitted
• Comments on a story user dugg

With Digg experience becoming more and more interesting everyday with such features, I really hope Williams may just put up the community together again.
Hamad is a pro-digg user. He writes full-time at SmashingLists.
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