Instagram bought by Facebook, Apple defends the price of their ebooks

Although not directly related to the IOS world, the news last week was undoubtedly the purchase of Instagram by Facebook , hopefully the operation will improve the popular social network photos. For if you do not it very funny that your photos into the hands of Facebook, I taught them how to export the photos to your hard drive Instagram . Also we showed a curious attachment to convert (at least apparently) your iPhone into a MacBook Air , and how Apple incorporated a useful section to talk in real time via chat with a specialist from the website of IPAD.

We watched as Adobe Reader updated to IOS , which now has support for firms and interaction, and we were surprised with the news that Apple and five major U.S. publishers were sued for the price of your ebook (what Apple defended ). Also we showed Streamd.in a curious way to see the tweets geoposicionados, and we discovered as the new iTunes 11 will feature tighter integration with icloud and support for the upcoming iPhone OS 6.

The relaunch of Currents (the “Fliboard” of Google) finally went worldwide, and we told how Apple might expand the iPhone’s screen to 4 “without making a larger device . We saw how to make a iPhone in the works of new generation of Foxconn, and found some design guidelines for the new iPad very interesting. We read in a week, enjoy it!

Facebook will get much better search

The social network Facebook will finally get a much better search function. The previous search of the platform for many users should at least be one of the biggest annoyances. Because with her it is not very well possible to find content.

As the ‘ Business Week reports’, citing informed sources, but it works now, a team of two dozen developers on a completely new engine for the Facebook universe. It is headed by Lars Rasmussen, a former top employees of the search engine company Google, the leader there, among other things, was involved in the development of Google Maps and Google Wave.

Officially, this opinion has not by the company. This may be due to the impending IPO date to announce any major changes. And because a good search, the platform would significantly add value, the feature is classified accordingly.

The aim was clear, however, that future content to users who have been recruited by them and their contacts can find a lot easier. However, content from outside the social network should be considered. Here it is all about, photos, videos or blog posts to show who get very many like-clicks.

The project will also try Facebook, vying for a portion of the $ 15 billion dollar market for search advertising. This should be an improved search function to a greater leverage against rival Google, which dominates this area.

The improvement of the features Facebook would also help to tie users more closely to its own platform. Because users are now virtually dependent on Google or go to another provider if they are looking for content that is already no longer visible in the front part of the timeline.

Web 3.0: Four Nerds develop Facebook alternative to peer-2-peer principle

A new social network called Diaspora is to become a competitor to Facebook. As the criticism grew louder on Facebook in data protection and privacy, is an essential idea in Diaspora, not to collect data centrally so that each user retains control over it. Donations, more than $ 180,000 for the further development have been collected.

The world’s largest social network Facebook has become one but already more than 400 million members, but more and more users are concerned about their privacy and data protection. In recent months, there were very many discussions on these topics. Not only in Germany, with its related to the handling of personal data very sensitive population Facebook gets repeatedly in the criticism. Even in the U.S., where this issue is seen much less critical, making more and more users are worried about what happens with their data.

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