Mark Zuckerberg doesn't know how to use HTML5. Open ... and Shut Even as Facebook dumps HTML5 to embrace native app development, calling its early enthusiasm for HTML5 its "biggest mistake," Sencha, a leading provider of open-source web application frameworks and tools, has not only demonstrated real-world readiness of HTML5, but has actually built a Facebook app that performs better than Facebook's native apps.
How's that? As Sencha explains on its blog, the problem with Facebook's misadventures with HTML5 have more to do with Facebook than with HTML5: When a team has problems with HTML5, it usually stems from the fact that they take a “website” development approach to building an app, and often don't use the right tools and architectures for application development.
This is what we suspected about the Facebook HTML5 app. The way that app performed — slow loading, choppy user experience in the News Feed, low framerate — exhibited the usual symptoms. Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts? In recent months, some Facebook page owners have noticed that their accounts are driving much less traffic to their websites than they used to.
In some cases, Facebook clickthroughs are down by as much as half, despite a huge growth in likes. Even worse, some brands noticed that this drop in traffic coincided with a new Facebook feature called "promoted posts" through which brands can pay cold hard cash to push their content out to more news feeds than they would normally reach—and the brands are not happy about it. This juxtaposition of events makes it look like Facebook is artificially driving down traffic, then holding the old level of traffic hostage in order to generate some new revenue.
Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website. When Mark E.
Zuckerberg ’06 grew impatient with the creation of an official universal Harvard facebook, he decided to take matters into his own hands. After about a week of coding, Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com last Wednesday afternoon. The website combines elements of a standard House face book with extensive profile features that allow students to search for others in their courses, social organizations and Houses.
Are chairs like Facebook? Facebook May Ditch Its Boring Logged Out Homepage For This 3D Polygon Art Or This Cute Couple. Facebook doesn’t want to look like just another website, so it’s testing colorful new versions of Facebook.com on a very small percentage of logged out visitors.
One features a 3D polygon art map of the Facebook universe, while another showcases an adorable couple. So next time you login, or finally surrender and sign up, you might be greeted with something a lot more vibrant than text inputs. Our writer Drew Olanoff called the tested poloygon design “ugly as sin” and “very busy”. Personally I dig it, though it does make finding the email address and password inputs a bit more difficult. Facebook confirmed the images sent in by our awesome readers and watermarked by us are real but otherwise just gave the standard “we’re constantly testing new products and features across the site. Facebook : Fleur Pellerin conseille de porter plainte si le bug est avéré. My third-party reporting doesn’t match my Facebook Ads reporting. - Facebook Help Center. The Facebook Phone is Real, and Its Name is Buffy - Liz Gannes and Ina Fried - Mobile. This is the first in a series of posts this week about the Facebook phone.
After years of considering how to best get into the phone business, Facebook has tapped Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to build a smartphone that has the social network integrated at the core of its being. Code-named “Buffy,” after the television vampire slayer, the phone is planned to run on a modified version of Android that Facebook has tweaked heavily to deeply integrate its services, as well as to support HTML5 as a platform for applications, according to sources familiar with the project. Facebook, please don’t become MySpace (and put too many ads on each page) Remember when Facebook only showed three ads on each page?
And when the company moved to four in 2010? More recently, the company has been at six, and I’m currently seeing seven, but Facebook is now testing up to 10 ads per page … and I’m thinking of some ancient history. Facebook's First-Ever Patent Application. In the last few months, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his company public, got married and scored a nearly $6 million home loan at just over 1%.
What could possibly top all that? How about approval of his very first patent request from way back in 2006 - covering privacy issues no less? Turns out the US Patent Trademark and Office (USPTO), though it originally rejected it, just granted Zuckerberg a patent that can only be described as the ultimate geek vanity trophy. Facebook and Yahoo Settle Patent Litigation. How Facebook Ships Code. SDK for iOS - Facebook developers. Facebook For iOS App Is Now 2X Faster: Quicker Launch, Photos, Feed, And Built-In Messenger.
“It’s slow” no more.
Facebook answers one its top complaints today with the release of v5 of its iOS app that’s two times faster because it’s built on Objective-C not HTML5. The navigation is mostly the same, but the app launches, photos load, and the feed shows new stories twice as quickly in the new app that is rolling out to the App Store over the course of the day if you don’t see it already.
Content is cached between views, all the features of the Messenger standalone app are now built in, a drop-down “new stories” banner alerts you to fresh news feed content in real-time, and a Facebook for iPad app update lets users view Timeline. Facebook’s iOS mobile product manager Mick Johnson tells me that “We feel the pain points [regarding slowness] pretty harshly ourselves…so this major update to the Facebook for iOS app is focused on one thing — speed.” Johnson explained to me why the app felt so sluggish until now. Facebook Download Juillet 2012. Here is why Facebook bought Spool. Over the weekend, news reports emerged that Facebook was buying Spool, a mobile-oriented social bookmarking service started by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer.
At the surface, this seems like yet another acqua-hire but scratch a little deeper and you start to understand Facebook’s motivation in buying this company. Spool was started in late 2010 and launched an app that essentially allowed you to take web content and access it through an iPhone app. So far, if you are thinking it doesn’t seem any thing special, you are going to be right. At the app level, it was no different than, say, Instapaper or Pocket, two other immensely popular apps that can be used to read web content offline. The Facebook tweak that killed a billion-dollar industry. By Ryan Holmes, contributor FORTUNE -- Mark Zuckerberg is famous for keeping Facebook (FB) in a state of permanent beta.
And while each new wave of features is bound to baffle some users and delight others, for businesses even minor updates can have a major impact on the bottom line. Take the rollout of Timeline for Facebook Pages, which are used primarily by brands to engage with consumers. On the surface, the changes hardly sounds earth-shattering. In a nutshell, as of March 30, Facebook officially canned the old Pages format, which allowed businesses to set one "tab" as a static landing page -- a kind of flashy storefront to lure in consumers. The Timeline redesign changed all of that. Facebook Stays Quiet on Plans to Let Children Under 13 Join. Facebook is dodging questions about plans to open its network to young children, two concerned House lawmakers said today.
In June, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook was exploring technology that could allow kids on the site under parental supervision. Responding to a letter from the House representatives, Facebook explained it had not yet made a final decision about officially allowing the under-13 audience. It also did not answer questions about what kinds of data it would collect or advertisements it might show to them. The company faces pressure to protect the millions of children who lie about their age and use the site anyway.
Concerns include predators and the troubling rise of cyber-bullying. Facebook Camera. Facebook App Center. New facebook page manager. Facebook Will Have The Biggest Tech IPO Ever, Raising $16 Billion With $38 Share Price. Facebook shares will start trading at $38 tomorrow, the company confirmed in a release, giving it a valuation of $104.12 billion.
Hacker Jailed For Stealing Facebook’s Source Code Tells All, Claims Innocence. He stole Facebook’s source code, but never copied, published, or sold it. Then he was arrested and imprisoned.