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		<title>Poll Says Teens Are Migrating from Facebook to Twitter</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/21/poll-says-teens-are-migrating-from-facebook-to-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Jennifer C. Kerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too much sharing of teenage angst and inane details like what a friend ate for dinner. &#8220;The key is that there are fewer adults, fewer parents and just simply less complexity and less drama,&#8221; said Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Research Center, one of the study&#8217;s authors. &#8220;They still have their Facebook profiles, but they spend less time on them and move to places like Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.&#8221; In the poll, 94 percent of teens who are social media users have a profile on Facebook &#8211; flat from the previous year. Twenty-six percent of teen social media users were on Twitter. That&#8217;s more than double the figure in 2011 of 12 percent. In what is likely a concern to parents, more than 60 percent of the teens with Twitter accounts said their tweets were public, meaning anyone on Twitter &#8211; friend, foe or stranger &#8211; can see what they write and publish. About one-quarter of kids said their tweets were private and 12 percent said they did not know whether their tweets were public or private. Teens are also sharing much more than in the past. More than 90 percent of teen social media users said they have posted a picture of themselves &#8211; up from 79 percent in 2006. Seven in ten disclose the city or town where they live, up from about 60 percent over the same time period. And 20 percent disclose their cell phone number &#8211; up sharply from a mere two percent in 2006. At the same time, teens say they&#8217;ve taken steps to protect their reputations and mask information they don&#8217;t want others to know. For example, nearly<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163174&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Stock Price Is the Least Important Thing About Facebook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/18/facebooks-stock-price-the-least-important-thing-about-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey is only one percent finished. Even if you quibble about the exact percentage, he&#8217;s right that his company&#8217;s vision is boundless and that the service, in its current incarnation, is nowhere near done exploring its potential. The man is nothing if not both ambitious and patient. Wall Street, unlike Zuck, is famously bad at taking the long view of things. When Facebook went public, a year ago today, shares were snapped up by speculators hoping to make an insta-windfall from a pop in its stock price. At the end of the first day of trading &#8212; bedeviled by NASDAQ technical gremlins &#8212; the stock flatlined rather than popping. In the year since, as my colleague Sam Gustin reports, it&#8217;s bumped around without ever returning to the initial offering price of $38. Some people are still brooding about it. If you&#8217;ve lost money on Facebook stock, I feel for ya. Really. But the fact that it didn&#8217;t turn out to be a convenient way to turn a quick buck doesn&#8217;t have much bearing on the company&#8217;s importance to the world. It doesn&#8217;t even say much about the its long-term prospects to do well by investors. Plenty of tech companies have had happier IPOs than Facebook did, but a happy IPO has never been a reliable sign of a bright future. Consider Netscape, the browser pioneer which went public in 1995, in what may remain the most iconic tech-company IPO of them all. In 2003. Jim Cramer, now the host of CNBC&#8217;s Mad Money, wrote a wistful remembrance of it for TIME: We didn&#8217;t know what it was. We had never opened a browser. We had never gone on the Net. But we had heard that the deal would be hot, so we at Cramer &#38; Co., my $250 million hedge fund, dutifully put in our share of stock in the initial public offering of Netscape. We got several thousand shares. And we, along with most everyone who got some,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163011&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Unfriend on Facebook Without Offending</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/how-to-unfriend-on-facebook-without-offending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Christina DesMarais</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a Facebook friend who constantly is firing off preachy religious or contentious political posts that are clogging up my social stream with stuff I don’t care to read. At the same time, the guy is the dad of one of my son’s best friends and I have to see him on the sidelines of school sporting events, so the last thing I want to do is offend him. If this scenario sounds familiar, take heart. There are ways to rid your Facebook News Feed of annoying posts. First, you can unfriend the person—Facebook will not notify the person you have done so. Of course, if the person starts to wonder why he or she is no longer seeing your posts and searches for you, your former connection will find your profile page and see an “Add friend” box on the top of it, a dead giveaway pointing toward what you&#8217;ve done. Facebook As an alternative, you can tell Facebook to show you fewer posts from a particular person. To do it, click on the little drop-down arrow on the top of something he or she has posted, then choose “Hide.” Facebook then tells you it has hidden the story from your News Feed and gives you the option to “Change what updates you get from (so and so)” or “Organize who you see in news feed.” If you click on the former, you can uncheck—and tell Facebook you don’t want to receive certain kinds of information about this person—things like life events, status updates, photos, games, comments and likes, music and videos and other activity, essentially everything a person is doing on Facebook. There’s also an option to simply unfollow a person. Facebook If you opt to organize your News Feed, you can put people on an acquaintances list so that their posts show up less frequently there as well as get the ability to share things with friends but not acquaintances. Again, nobody will know you’ve put them on this list. But what about the people who you really care about—the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162912&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least for Me)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/12/facebook-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 18:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike some folks, I&#8217;m not reflexively opposed to major Facebook changes. Oftentimes, when the service switches things around — which it does more or less continuously — I find the new version to be an improvement. Or at least I understand what it&#8217;s trying to do. But a few weeks ago, Facebook switched things up in a way that briefly left me wondering if I was going prematurely senile. Now that I more or less understand what&#8217;s going on, I&#8217;m an unhappy camper. For the first time, the company has instituted a change that meaningfully lessens my enjoyment of Facebook — and there&#8217;s no way for me to undo it. It gets weirder: it turns out that the change I can&#8217;t stand is something I was initially happy to hear was arriving. It&#8217;s called Replies, and it lets folks respond to specific comments that other members leave on an update, thereby creating individual threads rather than one master list of comments on an item. That change is long overdue. Here&#8217;s the thing, though. The feature doesn&#8217;t simply permit threaded comments. It also attempts to rearrange comments to put the best ones at the top. That&#8217;s the part that&#8217;s driving me bonkers. To quote from Facebook&#8217;s blog post about the Replies feature: Conversation threads are reordered by relevance to viewers, and may appear differently to each person based on their connections, specifically: Positive Feedback: the amount of positive feedback based on the total number of Likes and Replies in a conversation thread, which includes Likes or Replies by the Page owner. Connections: connections to participants in a thread may move the conversation higher. For example, conversations with Comments left by friends may appear at the top. Negative Feedback: the total number of spam reports in a thread, as well as marks-as-spam made by the Page owner. We also may down-rank comments made by frequent spammers. Got it? Threads with Likes and Replies are likely to bubble up; everyone may see different orders based on whom they&#8217;re friends with; spammers will be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162436&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hangtime: a Better Way to Find Facebook Events</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/hangtime-a-better-way-to-find-facebook-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With details on millions of events of all sorts all over the world, Facebook is &#8212; among many other things &#8212; the closest thing the world has to a universal repository of things to do, such as concerts, parties, book readings and a whole lot more. But Facebook Events doesn&#8217;t seem to be all that high up on Facebook&#8217;s list of priorities. The feature hasn&#8217;t changed much over the years, and isn&#8217;t radically different on a phone than it is on a PC browser. Enter Hangtime. The product of a startup of the same name, founded by veteran entrepreneur Karl Jacob, it&#8217;s an iPhone app &#8212; and web-based service &#8212; which aims to make it much easier to find stuff you&#8217;ll like to do among all the options in Facebook Events and other sources. The app debuted for the SXSW conference in March; version 2.0, a substantial upgrade, arrived on the App Store this week. Overall, Hangtime has a nicely done interface: with a few swipes of your thumb, you can view the events in your vicinity on a given day, pull up specific information on a particular activity, see which of your friends are attending or considering doing so and RSVP. Using a map, you can also pinch-and-zoom to specify how big (or small) a geographic area you want to cover. In all cases, the Facebook events you&#8217;re seeing are ones with settings that make them visible to you. But you&#8217;ll probably see plenty of events you wouldn&#8217;t have otherwise encountered &#8212; they&#8217;re a lot more browsable on Hangtime than they are on Facebook. The app is aimed especially at young people with active social lives, but even not-so-young types should find activities of interest. The new version of the app pulls in the billboard-like artwork associated with an event from Facebook. It also includes events listed on Eventbrite, although with less detail than for Facebook events. You can now specify interests &#8212; such as Rock, Comedy, Dance and Books &#8212; so other topics you don&#8217;t care about are winnowed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162575&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Home: More Stuff on the Way</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/facebook-home-more-stuff-on-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month ago, when Facebook released Facebook Home, its Facebook-centric home screen for Android phones, the company said it planned to update it every month. And, good to its word, it plans to release an update later today. The update is actually a new version of the Facebook app for Android, and don&#8217;t get too excited: it swats bugs and improves performance rather than introducing new features. But at a press event at Facebook headquarters today, the company provided quick peeks at meatier additions it plans to add in the coming months. They include folders for apps (which preserve any organizing you did before installing Home), a dock that lets you place four favorite apps at the bottom of the launcher, and the ability to easily launch chat sessions in Chat Head mode as well as respond when a friend messages you. There&#8217;s also a new tutorial in the works to help new Home users figure everything out. Folders and the dock might help Home&#8217;s user rating on Google Play, which is currently a dismal two stars overall. Facebook says that&#8217;s an average of very high reviews and very low ones, and that many of the unhappy campers are nonplussed because installing Home hasn&#8217;t provided robust features for organizing apps. Right now, it just dumps all the contents of any folders you&#8217;ve created into one pile of apps. The company is also working on other stuff it didn&#8217;t show at the event, including support for widgets and compatibility with additional Android phones. It also says it plans to offer a version optimized for Android tablets. How&#8217;s Facebook Home doing so far? Well, HTC&#8217;s First, the first phone with Home preinstalled, is now 99 cents with an AT&#38;T contract, which suggests that it hasn&#8217;t been a blockbuster. But at today&#8217;s event, Facebook revealed that Home has been downloaded for other phones a million times so far, and that folks who use it spend 25% more time on the service &#8212; which adds up to a lot of time given that Facebook is already<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162497&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The HTC Facebook Phone Is Now a Buck</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/the-htc-facebook-phone-is-now-a-buck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 20:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that didn&#8217;t take long. You may recall Facebook Home, the heavily modified Android experience launched by the world&#8217;s most popular social network a little over a month ago. While Facebook Home is available for download on several existing Android handsets, Facebook also partnered with HTC to launch a midrange smartphone preloaded with Home – the HTC First. The phone went on sale for $99 with a two-year contract through AT&#38;T and became available on April 12. Now, less than a month later, AT&#38;T has dropped the price of HTC First to $0.99 with a two-year contract. Surely, this means the end of Facebook Home as we know it, right? What a flop, huh? It&#8217;ll probably ruin all of Facebook in general, too, and we&#8217;ll all go back to using Friendster. Or not. “We do promotions like this all the time,” AT&#38;T&#8217;s Mark Siegel told AllThingsD&#8217;s Ina Fried. Of course, the reviews for Facebook Home in the Google Play store haven&#8217;t exactly been mind-blowing, but these are still early days for software that Mark Zuckerberg himself promised would be updated monthly. If I were a betting man – and I&#8217;m not – I&#8217;d bet that people have probably gone into the AT&#38;T store, seen the HTC First, and decided to pony up an extra $100 for a higher-end Android handset knowing they could just load Facebook Home onto it anyway. At $0.99, the HTC First becomes a much, much, much more compelling phone, though, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if people start walking around with these things.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162426&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Your Facebook Password? Get Back In with a Little Help from Your Friends</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/lost-your-facebook-password-let-your-friends-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no one ideal way for a website to let you recover a lost password &#8212; one which will always let you get back in without inordinate hassle, but which will never allow an imposter to compromise your account. So sites typically provide multiple recovery methods. And after a period of testing, Facebook is formally announcing a new one today called Trusted Contacts. Trusted Contacts is an updated version of an existing feature called Trusted Friends, which lets you specify friends on Facebook who can help you get back into your account. Using the service&#8217;s security settings, you name three to five friends &#8212; the kind, Facebook says, who you&#8217;d entrust with a copy of your house key. Then, if you ever get shut out of your account, you can contact all the friends you chose. Facebook will give each of them a unique code to relay to you; if you enter all the codes, you can restore access to your account. As Facebook&#8217;s blog post on the news notes, this approach isn&#8217;t absolutely free of security concerns: someone could conceivably figure out who your Trusted Contacts are, impersonate you and initiate the recovery process. For that reason, the company encourages members who take advantage of the feature to contact their pals in person or on the phone rather than by e-mail or chat. I wonder what percentage of folks who get locked out will use this option to get back in &#8212; and whether other services will copy the idea?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161697&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yay? Facebook-Connected Beer Glasses Let You Friend Randos with a Quick Clank</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/yay-facebook-connected-beer-glasses-let-you-friend-randos-with-a-quick-clank/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/yay-facebook-connected-beer-glasses-let-you-friend-randos-with-a-quick-clank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the Buddy Cup, created by Budweiser Brazil. The cup connects to your Facebook account, and when you clank it against someone else&#8217;s Buddy Cup, the two of you become friends on Facebook. So you have the best of both worlds here: the most delicious beer in existence, and the ability to quickly add strangers as Facebook friends. I&#8217;m assuming, of course, that you like beer that tastes like warm paint no matter how cold it is, and your definition of &#8220;friend&#8221; is something along the lines of &#8220;person who was in a bar at the same time I was once.&#8221; All surliness aside, this actually looks pretty cool. According to the above video, people attending a Budweiser-sponsored event were able to scan a little chip on the bottom of each cup using their smartphone and then link that cup to their Facebook account. The video continues on to say, &#8220;So, they just did the same as always: went out drinking Bud and making friends.&#8221; I know that&#8217;s how I roll. I used to frequent a bar in Minneapolis where you could buy your own mug for $20. They&#8217;d keep the mug behind the bar for you, and every time you went there, you&#8217;d get to drink out of your own mug and each beer would cost less than it&#8217;d cost non-regulars. Now THAT&#8217;s how you create alcoholism loyalty. There was a lengthy waiting list for a mug, all the regulars knew each other by virtue of the fact we all had mugs, and several of us clanked our mugs together for various reasons. None of us drank Budweiser. What I&#8217;m saying is: instead of rolling this out at one-off Budweiser events, go back in time and do this at the Green Mill on Hennepin Ave. in Uptown when I was still a Mug Club member there. I don&#8217;t even think we had Facebook back then, so bonus: We&#8217;re all filthy stinkin&#8217; rich now for accidentally creating the world&#8217;s most popular social network with all our mug clanking. Buds<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161277&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Says Audit Finds Privacy Practices Sufficient</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/25/facebook-says-audit-finds-privacy-practices-sufficient/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Facebook says that an independent audit found its privacy practices sufficient during a six-month assessment period that was part of a settlement with federal regulators. Facebook Inc. said it submitted the findings to the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. The audit was required as part of the social networking company&#8217;s settlement with the FTC last summer. The settlement resolved charges that Facebook exposed information about users without getting the required legal consent. Facebook provided a copy of its letter to the FTC along with a redacted copy of the auditor&#8217;s letter, to The Associated Press. Facebook says the redacted portion contains trade secret information and does not alter the auditor&#8217;s findings. The name of the accounting firm is also redacted. The audit covered written policies as well as its data.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161047&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>German Privacy Watchdog Loses Facebook Appeal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/24/german-privacy-watchdog-loses-facebook-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN (AP) &#8212; A German privacy watchdog has failed in its bid to stop Facebook from forcing users to register with their real names. Schleswig-Holstein state&#8217;s data protection office had argued that the ban on fake names breaches German privacy laws and European rules designed to protect free speech online. But a state appeals court has confirmed a lower tribunal&#8217;s ruling that German privacy laws don&#8217;t apply to Facebook because the social networking site has its European headquarters in Ireland, where privacy rules are less stringent. Data protection Commissioner Thilo Weichert said in a statement Wednesday that he would accept the ruling, but urged lawmakers to consider changing legislation to harmonize privacy laws across the European Union. Facebook officials could not immediately be reached for comment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160998&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Was Quick: Facebook for iOS Is Already Looking More Like Facebook Home</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/that-was-quick-facebook-for-ios-is-already-looking-more-like-facebook-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smartphones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tablets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of things about Facebook Home, Facebook&#8217;s new home screen for Android phones, that won&#8217;t make their way to iOS any time soon &#8212; Apple shows no interest in allowing third-party home screens, pop-up applets and other technologies that Home requires. I was, however, optimistic my favorite thing about Home &#8212; Chat Heads, its new interface for chatting with friends &#8212; would make its way to iOS at some point. I didn&#8217;t expect it to happen just four days after Home became available for Android, but thanks to a new version of Facebook for iPhone and iPad that&#8217;s rolling out today, it has. While they look similar to their Android, um, ancestors, iOS&#8217;s Chat Heads only pop up when you&#8217;re using the Facebook app &#8212; in iOS, there&#8217;s no way to implement them everywhere in the operating system so that they show up no matter which app you&#8217;re using. Still, they should be a fun and useful addition. Other new features in this update include stickers &#8212; basically jumbo-sized emoji &#8212; and a refresh to the iPad version, which makes News Feed photos bigger and more in line with the current look of Facebook&#8217;s conventional browser-based version. The Verge&#8217;s Dieter Bohn has more details on what&#8217;s changed. In semi-related news: in an oblique tweet, a Facebook exec disclosed that Loren Brichter, perhaps the most influential designer of mobile apps in the world, is now contributing to Facebook Home. It&#8217;s not clear whether it&#8217;s a full-time job or a consulting gig or what. But Brichter is a remarkably clever designer of software interfaces, so there&#8217;s no way this isn&#8217;t a happy development.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160343&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Home Review: Slick, Fun and, for Now, Superficial</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/09/facebook-home-review-slick-fun-and-for-now-superficial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://timenerdworld.wordpress.com/?p=159820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you attended Facebook’s &#8220;our new Home on Android&#8221; event last Thursday — or watched the live stream — you could be forgiven if you came away confused about just how significant Facebook thought its news was. On one hand, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kept stressing that, despite long-standing rumors, the company wasn&#8217;t announcing a &#8220;Facebook phone&#8221; after all. Nor had it created a Facebook phone operating system. Its new product, Facebook Home, was just a replacement for Android&#8217;s standard home screen; one that was shipping on just one new phone — HTC&#8217;s First — and which could be installed on a few different existing phone models from Samsung and HTC. But Zuckerberg also said Facebook Home was a paradigm shift: a piece of software that makes the phones running it people-centric rather than app-centric. And he called it the best version of Facebook yet — not just for phones, but for any sort of device. So which is it? Is Facebook Home a simple and straightforward piece of software, or a landmark? Well, conceptually, it&#8217;s indeed a big deal: allowing one social network to insert itself, front and center, into your smartphone experience could change everything about how you interact with your phone. But the thing is, there just isn&#8217;t that much Facebook Home to interact with. There are pretty pictures from your news feed, updates from your friends and an exceptionally clever messaging feature called Chat Heads — and not a whole lot else. To riff on what Gertrude Stein said about her hometown of Oakland, Calif., there&#8217;s not much there there. Not yet, anyhow. But Zuckerberg said Facebook plans to release monthly updates to Home, which means that it could get much meatier in a hurry. And even though the software isn&#8217;t fancy, it represents Facebook&#8217;s first full-blown attempt to reimagine itself for a more mobile world. (The standard Facebook smartphone apps are pretty much just conventional Facebook, crammed onto a smaller display.) As such, it&#8217;s the company&#8217;s first rough draft of its own future. I tried Facebook<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Year Later, Instagram Hasn’t Made a Dime. Was it Worth $1 Billion?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/09/a-year-later-instagram-hasnt-made-a-dime-was-it-worth-1-billion/?iid=biz-main-lead</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Luckerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A picture’s worth much more than a thousand words to Facebook. via Facebook&#8217;s $1 Billion Instagram Purchase: Was it Worth it? &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159867&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Facebook Home Privacy</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/06/more-on-facebook-home-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Facebook announced its Facebook Home interface for Android phones on Thursday, there was immediate concern &#8212; especially from GigaOm&#039;s Om Malik &#8212; about the privacy implications of a Facebook app that&#039;s always on and which might be able to monitor your location at any time. Facebook has now responded: Since the announcement of Home yesterday, we&#039;ve received a few questions about how Home works with privacy. Home is software that turns your Android phone into a great, living, social phone. Home doesn&#039;t change anything related to your privacy settings on Facebook, and your privacy controls work the same with Home as they do everywhere else on Facebook. It&#039;s pretty standard: Facebook has an event to announce something new and doesn&#039;t really address privacy issues during its announcement. Which causes people to fear the worst. And even once Facebook has clarified matters, it&#039;s tough to totally eliminate suspicions which some people might have, once they&#8217;ve had them. I think everyone involved might be happier if Facebook made a good-faith effort to anticipate what sort of concerns a new feature or product might prompt &#8212; and then forthrightly discussed them at the original event rather than after the fact.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159724&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My First Twelve Questions About Facebook Home</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/05/facebook-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Thursday&#8217;s Android-centric event at Facebook headquarters and began by saying that the company was finally announcing a Facebook phone, one thing became clear: he was teasing. Facebook wasn&#8217;t announcing a Facebook phone. Or at least it wasn&#8217;t announcing the Facebook phone which has been the subject of rumors for years now. Instead, the company was announcing countless Facebook phones, by introducing Facebook Home, an app which replaces Android&#8217;s standard interface with its own homescreen and lock screen, allowing people to make handsets they already own into Facebook-centric phones. It also showed off HTC&#8217;s appropriately-named First, the first of what could be many phones with Facebook Home pre-installed as their standard interface. As usual, I came out of the event with lots of questions. I got to ask a few of them during a post-unveiling chat with Adam Mosseri, Facebook&#8217;s director of product for Facebook Home. Herewith, the stuff I&#8217;ve been wondering about, with some answers from Mosseri. 1. How long has this been in the works? Scuttlebutt concerning a Facebook phone dates back to at least 2010. But Mosseri told me that Home has only been in the works for a year or so. It represents an aggregation of several discrete ideas the company had been toying with, such as the Cover Feed and the Chatheads messaging service. It was only in July or August of last year that work began on Home in earnest. 2. Do actual people want people-centric phones? Zuck spent a fair chunk of his time today declaring that phones should be organized around people and sharing, not apps. It&#8217;s a logical stance to take when you&#8217;re the CEO of Facebook. But it also gave me a deep sense of deja vu, since I&#8217;ve sat through numerous other press conferences in which tech execs said pretty much the same thing. But none of the previous people-centric interfaces &#8212; from Motorola&#8217;s Motoblur to Windows Phone &#8212; have caught on. For now, at least, most people seem quite happy with app-centric<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159615&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Let&#8217;s Talk About Facebook Home</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/04/video-lets-talk-about-facebook-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME Tech&#8217;s Doug Aamoth, Harry McCracken and Jared Newman discuss Facebook Home. MORE: My First Twelve Questions About Facebook Home Facebook Home for Android: What You Need to Know Facebook Unveils ‘Home’ Android Product Live Coverage of Facebook’s Android Event<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159655&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Home for Android: What You Need to Know</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/04/facebook-home-what-you-need-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn&#8217;t lying all those times he insisted there is no Facebook phone. Instead, there&#8217;s Facebook Home, a piece of software for Android that puts social networking front-and-center. How does Facebook Home work? Let&#8217;s walk through the details of what it is, and when you can actually try it yourself: Facebook Home Is a Launcher That Works with Existing Android Phones On Android phones, the launcher determines what your home screen, lock screen and other elements look like. All Android phones have a default launcher, but there are others you can install. For instance, you can get a launcher that gives you extra home screens, or changes the way app icons look. Facebook Home is just another alternative launcher that you can download for free. Once installed, it changes the way your phone&#8217;s software looks and behaves. In place of a traditional lock screen, you get full-screen images from Facebook and status updates that you can swipe through, along with regular phone notifications. From there, you can jump right into Facebook Messenger, open your most recent app or view your app list. You can also post Facebook status updates, photos or check-ins directly from the app launcher. It Runs All the Same Android Apps Facebook isn&#8217;t doing its own app store for Home; it&#8217;s relying on Android&#8217;s existing one. You can still have Gmail, Chrome, Maps and other core Google services, and you can download more apps from Google Play, just like you can with any alternative launcher. In other words, Facebook hasn&#8217;t done any deep modifications to Android, like Amazon did with its Kindle Fire tablets. That allows Facebook Home to run on existing phones, in addition to new phones with Home pre-installed. Think of it as a layer that runs on top of your existing Android software. Facebook Messaging Is a Huge Focus The other big feature in Facebook Home has the rather silly name &#8220;Chatheads.&#8221; When you receive a text message, Facebook message or group Facebook chat, a little circular icon pop ups with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159608&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Privacy Settings Guide</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/04/facebook-privacy-settings-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Katharine Knibbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing you have to realize about Facebook: nothing you put on there is truly private. Yes, you can control how users see or don’t see your profile. But every time you ‘Like’ a product or even look at a page, the company itself is taking note. This doesn’t mean that someday Facebook will malevolently release your every click to the world. But it’s also not your private diary, and what you do on the website gets collected and cataloged. You should always keep that in mind when you’re using the service. That said, Facebook is a great way to stay in touch and share small and big moments with family, friends and assorted other connections. The key is making sure you’re presenting the most appropriate profile possible to each &#8220;Friend.&#8221; So let’s go over the various settings you can change to ensure pictures of your wacky jaunt to Vegas don’t end up at the top of your boss&#8217;s News Feed. Facebook  has retooled its privacy settings time and time again to make them more user friendly, so customizing your settings is a fairly straightforward procedure. It’s an important one, though, since Facebook tends to automatically opt you in to new information sharing unless you go through and manually adjust the settings to the level of transparency you want. Check your current basic privacy settings When you log into Facebook, in the top right hand corner there are two different ways you can assess your privacy settings. If you push the lock icon, you open a drop-down menu that shows “Privacy Shortcuts.” From here, you can make a few key changes to your settings. Who can see your future posts? In this section you can limit exactly who sees your updates. That may be a little too restrictive, but at the very least click on the Custom button in that section and make sure your posts are being posted Publicly (unless you want them to be.) You can also place your Facebook Friends in lists and restrict your posts to those<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159510&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live Coverage of Facebook&#8217;s Android Event</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/01/facebook-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, April 4, Facebook is announcing something. We know that it involves Android &#8212; the invite mentions &#8220;Our New Home on Android&#8221; &#8212; and that&#8217;s all we know for sure.  I&#8217;ll be in the audience at the company&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters, and will liveblog the news as it happens, with color commentary from my colleague Doug Aamoth. Join us on Thursday at 1pm ET/10am PT right here, and we&#8217;ll learn what&#8217;s up together. FOLLOW-UP: Facebook Home for Android: What You Need to Know<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159365&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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