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Dedicated Google+ Photo Importer App Will Save Shutterbugs Plenty of Time

Google+ has clearly become the primary social network for many of its users, and chances are they’ve migrated across from other similar sites, which presents a problem if they want to upload all their existing pictures to their Google+ profile.  Of course, there’s the good old-fashioned way of doing so individually, but depending on the [...]

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Facebook Didn’t Announce an iPad App, Suggest Other Developers Do it Better

When Facebook announced a special ‘awesome’ event last week, the rumors of an announcement of a dedicated iPad app immediately sprang up.  Would the social network fill that hole in their line-up?  Now the event has run we’ve got our answer, and it’s no. What they did announce was group chat, a new chat design and [...]

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Tag and Caption Facebook Videos with BlipSnips

In an effort to socialize online video, BlipSnips has launched an iPhone app to accompany its Facebook application and website.  The BlipSnips for Facebook concept is this: shoot a video, add captions, tag your friends and post it directly to Facebook.  This makes it much easier for people watching your video to skip to the [...]

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Official @AppStore Twitter Feed Now Live

Yesterday, an official Apple App Store Twitter account went live, promising news of their featured apps and some exclusive offers.  It joins various other Apple Twitter feeds, mostly centering around iTunes, that have been active for some time.  Apple themselves could hardly be called prolific when it comes to Twitter, so will this be any [...]

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Facebook for iPhone Updated, Still No iPad Version

Mark Zuckerberg took center stage at a Facebook Live event today, introducing several new Facebook features and an update to the Facebook iPhone app.  Rumors of a Facebook phone have been circulating for a while, but these turned out to be unfounded and the ‘mobile’ aspect of the event was in fact software based. There are [...]

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Facebook Places Available in UK, Check Your iPhone App Now

According to The Guardian, Facebook’s recently launched location check-in service, Places, has gone live in the UK.  Initially only available in the USA for its mid-August debut, the only indication of an international rollout timeframe was ‘in the coming months.’ The UK joins the USA and Japan in receiving access to Facebook Places, and members of [...]

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Facebook iPhone app Update Adds Facebook Places

It’s not Foursquare, although the logo has both a four and a square, but it is Facebook’s version of the location-based social network, and it’s yours today.  Well, it’s yours today if you live in the USA, as by all accounts the service hasn’t launched anywhere else yet. Places works like this: when you arrive somewhere, [...]

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Facebook app for iPhone updated, now at version 3.1.1 with Facebook Video support

This weekend brought a long awaited update for the Facebook app on the iPhone, except while it has brought some worthwhile additions, given the timing of the update it seems to have left a few key items unmentioned. Lets begin with the good news, what the update has brought to the table. First and foremost, the [...]

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Rumor: Direct Facebook video uploads to arrive with iOS4

With the release of iOS4 coming up rather quickly its hard to imagine many surprises at this point. That said, according to 9to5Mac, we are still going to see integration with Facebook in the form of video uploads. The apparent code (and proof) is contained in the image below. “480 pixels looks to be the [...]

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Seesmic Twitter, Facebook & Ping.fm app now available for iPhone

Seesmic for the iPhone has just been released, and the app comes touting support for Twitter, Facebook and Ping.fm. In other words, you can now update many many (read: more than you need) social networks all at the same time. But my sarcasm aside, the Seesmic for iPhone app seems to be a worthy addition [...]

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