Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Facebook Launched App Center

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

The largest social network Facebook has announced an unusual service which can easily become one of the leading app stores. Using this service, users can download applications to their devices, including mobile ones, and software developers for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian will be able to promote their own projects more successfully.app-center

In the near future the App Center will be available for desktop and mobile users. According to Aaron Brady, the official representative of Facebook, this service is a new place for searching social applications. Moreover, this place will also provide mobile apps developers with new possibilities for promoting their apps.

In fact, the App Center has been created exactly for promoting mobile apps used in Facebook. Thus, if any mobile development company wants to place their own project in the Center, it will have to integrate this app into Facebook. Naturally, only registered users can download applications.

On the other hand, not all applications supported by Facebook will appear in the App Center. The applications that have received low marks from users as well as those that don’t correspond with the certain quality criteria (such as a simple interface, understandable content, absence of bugs and annoying adverts) will not get in the App Center. Moreover, mobile developers will have to create a special page for their applications following certain rules.

Before placing an application into the App Center, it will pass through careful check up. The desktop and mobile versions of the App Center (for iOS and Android) will be equal because users will be able to find the necessary applications in both versions and launch them on their devices (but it will concern only the HTML 5-based applications).

In case the application required the client installation, the service will send a user to its page in the App Store or Google Play.

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Social Toolkit For Mobile Apps Development

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Frengo Company has released the Open Social Mobile Toolkit for developing mobile applications working with the open social networks (MySpace, Hi5, Bebo) and Facebook. The main purpose of this toolkit is developing the apps that can be accessed via user’s mobile devices. According to Frengo, the new mobile platform supports the cooperation with all major US cellular operators as well as with largest operators of the world. The potential market for the applications based on the Open Social Mobile Toolkit technology is approximately one bln people.

Facebook and MySpace are very popular in many countries of the world, so the mobile access to journals and social networks via the usual mobile phones can be in great demand. In fact, the Open Social Mobile Toolkit is not the only toolkit for Mobile Phone Applications Development – the social networks take serious steps for organizing individual mobile access to their services. For example, MySpace announced that as a result of the cooperation with the operators Sprint and Verizon it has managed to gather more than a million Blackberry mobile users. However, the appearance of the new toolkit opens new possibilities for individual mobile apps developers that will be able to combine in their apps the access to various mobile services, including their own ones.

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Facebook Made Apps Filtration More Severe

Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

Facebook has introduced a new tool for regulating the work of applications, whose main purpose is to decrease the number of spam programs. The new algorithm takes into account users’ feedbacks about mobile applications. As a result, if many users mark the program as ‘spam’ or ‘unwanted’, it can be blocked.

As AllFacebook blog reports, the innovation was presented last week. By the way, some mobile apps with the daily auditory of several thousands of users have already been blocked.

The Facebook official clarified that the main reason for changing he algorithm of apps filtration was the growth of complaints sent by users. At this, the applications that too often leave notes or comments on the users’ walls and in the news section suffer this filtration.

Facebook acknowledged that it had introduced the new tool without the preliminary notification of mobile apps developers. At the same time, the social network offered the authors of the blocked apps to send a request for unblocking. It was also informed that during blocking the content of the application is not deleted and will be available for users in the full amount after unblocking.

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Qwiki: new app in the App Store

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

iPad application developers have created a new application for iPad and presented it in the App Store. It is intended to change the people’s attitude towards getting encyclopedic knowledge. Qwiki, a sort of visual Wikipedia, provides a user with an easy and interactive way of exploring the world via media presentations and using interactive maps.

The application in many cases repeats the website of the project offering users to get acquainted with the biographies of famous people, monumenqikits, and wonders of the world or exotic animals. All the information is connected with hundreds of places on the map of the world and is presented in the form of presentations with excellent photo and video materials.

After viewing, you can share your favorite information with your friends by e-mail, Twitter or Facebook. The presentation material at Qwiki contains links to other resources related to the given topic as well as additional information and images in Wikipedia, Google, Fotopedia and YouTube. All it makes Qwiki much higher than other Wikipedia resources.

Soon we’ll see similar Android application development and iPhone applications.

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Steve Ballmer will tell about Windows Phone 7 in detail

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Programmers who specialize in apps development for Windows Mobile platform is waiting for the Microsoft MIX conference. This event will be held from the 15th to 17th of March in Las Vegas.

Microsoft has already demonstrated Windows Phone 7 to mobile developers and journalists. As all admitted, the next generation of Microsoft mobile operating system reverses the usual ideas, changes concepts of smartphones running Windows.

The developers changed their standard GUI in the new version of the operating system: now user content, tools for work and entertainment functions are divided into big five sections (or so called five “hubs”). Everything related to user contacts was placed in the first section “People”.

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The next hub “Pictures” provides access to galleries of pictures, photos as well as automatically updated photo albums in Facebook.

The third section “Office” is dedicated to work with documents. Microsoft promises that Mobile Office will be closer to the desktop version.

The fourth section was called “Music and Video”. As it was expected, its interface looks like the GUI of the Zune HD media player that was shown in the past year.

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And the last hub “Games” offers all the features for work with the Xbox LIVE gaming network, where users can communicate and customize appearance of their virtual characters (avatars).

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In the conclusion we should admit that Win Phone 7 supports multitouch opening new possibilities for Windows mobile applications development.

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