Thursday, July 1, 2010

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Facebook Applications now tell what Private Data is Shared

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 09:38 PM PDT

Facebook is rolling out a new feature that requires 3rd party applications to inform users exactly what parts of their profiles will be shared to make the applications work.

Applications already had to ask for user permission to access anything in their profiles that wasn’t public. But these apps didn’t actually have to specify what information they were using to the user. This included information like photos, your friends’ birthdays, e-mail address and contact info.

Under the new policy by Facebook, the 3rd party applications will say which aspects of a profile they will pull data. The user cannot disallow certain aspects of information from being used by the app – they have to either grant permission or disallow the app from working in entirety.

Due to criticism and the site’s growth from a small network for universities and college students, Facebook privacy settings have seem to become complicated for average users.

As a result, lately Facebook has rolled out a raft of privacy setting updates to make the privacy settings more user-friendly and configurable to its users.


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YouTube facts and figures

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 09:06 PM PDT

YouTube has grown into the largest video sharing and video content site there is today.

Have a read over some very interesting facts about the site:

2005

February 2005, the origional founders registered the domain youtube.com

April 23, 2005 – first video uploaded to the site

May 2005 – beta launch

June 2005 – embedding of videos enabled

December 2005 – Official Launch, 8 million video views per day

2006

March 2006 – Content Verification Program launched

March 2006 – Filtering technology created and launched

May 2006 – Video comments launched

July 2006 – 100 million video views per day, 65,000 videos uploaded per day.

August 2006 – Advertising channels launched.

October 2006 – Google acquires the site for $1 billion USD.

2007

June 2007 – YouTube launched into 9 other countries

June 2007 – Mobile site released

August 2007 – In video ads launched

September 2007 – Not-for-profit channels launched

October 2007 – Queen of England launches a YouTube channel

December 2007 – YouTube partner program launched

2008

January 2008 – 10 hours of video uploaded every minute

May 2008 – 13 hours of video uploaded every minute

June 2008 – integration into Sony Bravia TV

August 2008 – captions launched

October 2008 – 15 hours of video uploaded every minute

November 2008 – promoted video available

December 2008 – 720p HD launched

2009

January 2009 – US Congress and Presidents channel launched

February 2009 – Vaticans channel launched

March 2009 – Deal signed with Disney

May 2009 – 20 hours of video uploaded every minute

July 2009 – 3D launched

October 2009 – 1 Billion views per day

November 2009 – 1080p full-HD launched

2010

January 2010 – YouTube rentals launched

March 2010 – 24 hours of video uploaded every minute

April 2010 – Indian Premier Cricket streamed live

May 2010 – Over 2 billion video views per day

Other interesting Facts

Most popular video: Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ 185.39 million views

Speech recognition technology can translate videos to 51 languages

Site has been localised for 23 countries now

70% of traffic comes from outside the US

On Facebook 46.2 years of Youtube video is viewed per day, MySpace does 5.6 days per year.

stats courtesy of website-monitoring.com


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AdMob May 2010 Mobile Metrics Report released, Android Apple battle

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 07:32 PM PDT

Google’s Admob have released their May Mobile metrics report giving the latest information on mobile operating system market shares.

The main fight is between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems.

Apple is the clear leader at the moment but Android is making some significant gains.

In terms of mobile ad requests, Apple is leading worldwide with 30% market share and Nokia in second place with 23%.

Each have strengths in different markets. Apple clearly leads in the US, while Nokia in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

The below graph illustrates the ad market share of the mobile operating systems:

worldwide mobile ad market share AdMob May 2010 Mobile Metrics Report released, Android Apple battle

In terms of smartphone operating systems – Apple once again holds the highest market share, however Android is making significant gains and fast growth.

operating system market share mobile worldwide AdMob May 2010 Mobile Metrics Report released, Android Apple battle

67% of Android devices are in the US, whilst less than half of Apple’s iOS devices are in the US.

It’s clear Apple has penetrated markets outside of the US better than Android so far, but that could be because Apple has had a slight head start.

All the major mobile operating systems are fighting to keep developers on their platform. Apple has 30% of ad impressions and have paid over $1 billion to developers in revenue over the past 2 years. Apple users are more likely to purchase paid apps than any other mobile operating system.

Android however is making inroads with lots of developers also creating products on their platform.

Below if the full Admob May report for your viewing which also includes information in smaller places in the smartphone market such as Symbian OS, RIM OS, Windows Mobile OS, WebOS

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It will be interesting to monitor these Admob reports over the coming months as the battle between iOS and Android continues.


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Facebook iPhone app updated for iOS4

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 06:47 PM PDT

Facebook have today updated their iPhone app so it is compatible with the new iOS4 operating system.

As a result you can expect fast app switching using multitasking and support for high resolution icons/graphics.

Facebook is the most popular iPhone application to date and a little strange it took them so long to get the app tweaked for iOS4.

However many have wondered why Facebook has not yet built a native iPad application as it would surely be very popular aswell.

facebook iphone app updated ios4 Facebook iPhone app updated for iOS4

This is now version 3.1.4 of Facebook for iPhone

Have you downloaded the update, what do you think?


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