The App Store Chronicle

Showcasing Amazing Tech

Category: facebook

crowdsourcing / facebook / Gadgets / news / social / Social Media / social network

Facebook Page Timelines Coming: EXPOSED

The All-New Timeline for Pages- Like our new Facebook Page By the Way People are still abuzz about the switch to timeline on people profiles, but on March 30th all Facebook pages from businesses, to Celebrities, to Political Parties will switch to timeline. The new design is part of an effort by Facebook to unify their products, and create a more user-friendly experience. Some...

facebook / finance / first impressions / Gadgets / money / social / Social Media / social network / stock / twitter / Video

Empire Avenue- First Impressions

Note: This is not a full review, because a game like this requires at least a month of testing before judgement. The game is simple. The more social you are on the web, the more eves (virtual currency) you gain, and the higher your stock price goes. For those of you who don’t know, EA (empire avenue) is a social stock market. Your friends...

facebook / finance / money / news / Social Media / stock

Facebook Made $1 Billion profit in 2011

In 2004 at the advent of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg refused to monetize the site. As Facebook started raising money they began to advertise in their own style. Still, the most popular site in the world was the subject of concern over whether it could really make money. They did. They made $3.7 billion which led to a 2011 profit of $1 billion. It’s not...

Apple / facebook / Social Media / Video

The D’oh-cial Network Tackles Piracy

A recent Simpsons episode was basically a parody of “The Social Network”. It highlighted a few things that the FBI fails to realize about Megaupload. When the people behind these sites create them they do not create them for piracy. They create them as free and open sharing environments. What ever happened to these freedoms we used to maintain? Enjoy the episode (legally) below...

facebook / Google / media / myspace / news / Search / SEO / Social Media / twitter

Facebook Releases “Don’t Be Evil” plugin For Google

A few Facebook, and Twitter engineers created an incredible new plugin for Google search that can be accessed here. When you search for a term on Google and then click on the plugin (available for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox at press time) social search results will change. Normally, only related terms from Google+ show up. Now though, when you click on the plugin you...