Facebook launched their new app 'facebook home'

Facebook has taken another step closer towards their today’s most rumoured facebook phone by launching their new Android application ‘facebook home’.  The app was preloaded in an HTC phone first.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the conference by joking that “today, we're finally going to talk about that Facebook phone. The meeting was held at a stage in headquarters of facebook in Menlo Park, California.

The application is available for download from 12^th April. The ‘facebook home’ is an application that changes the way the user uses on their Android phone, rather than a new operating system. The HTC One will launch in US on April 12, Zuckerberg confirmed that the app will launch on Orange and Europe soon.

Zuckerberg told the ‘facebook home’ has been designed for people to redress the way of interaction with modern computing devices. He also said that for the past 30 years the

computing is done around applications. He told that many people today turn on their computer uses the application they need and shut down.

He asked to the media what they feel if smartphones were designed around people rather than applications. According to Zuckerberg home has been designed from the ground to make people the centre of mobile use.

From the press conference we feel that according to Zuckerberg mobiles are centre of today’s social experience. He says that how you found between meeting and it's easy for you to check out updates in your phone rather than turning on your computer.

Facebook itself is a model for that said Zuckerberg. Totally we can say this is an app form of facebook like the ‘facebook touch’ etc. If you want to see your photos you need only need to open the application.  

Zuckerberg said that by unveiling this app he needs to bring all the news updates and know things that happen around world on your phone.

The launcher app runs on top Android phone and below applications, meaning that you can run all your normal Android-based apps onto of Home.

He also gives some clues about the coming soon facebook mobile. He told that the company had considered about launching a facebook phone. He also hinted that facebook doesn’t like to limit its experience will surely try to make a place in the gadget market.

We can say that Zuckerberg is also bothered about what facebook can do in market from his words "Even if we built a really great phone, we might only be able to provide that experience to one or two percent of the total market, at most”

The launcher replaces home screen and Android lock with its Cover-feed. There is also a tab named ‘feature’ that shows full screen photo updates. It’s not clear that if the users will be able to post from the lock screen itself or not.

There is also a Chatheads tab which is an example for Zuckerberg works; putting people in the centre. In the launcher it’s a chat widget, like the facebook messenger for the computers. It appears on the top of the screen. It allows you to quick chat.  The 

Chatheads works with both text messages and messenger.

As from the first reports, facebook says that people who use the HTC One, HTC One X, Samsung Galaxy S III and 4, and the Galaxy Note II can download the ‘hom’ launcher from April 12^th.

Facebook also announces their plan to partnership with HTC that will see a phone that has the new launcher preloaded launched on April 12th. And the point we need to remember and read with this announcement is that the rumours say that HTC will be the makers of the first facebook phone. 

Watch this video to know more abot the app>>

Facebook to have major changes in design

Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg announces major changes in the design of its news after timeline was introduced. The company is trying to make the social network into a newspaper.

The new design will give the users more control over their newsfeed. It will be activated first in US. Other users will have to wait some more days.

There are many things that are new in the news feed. Among the features, the most interesting is the sidebar in the left side of the site.

The company says that the changes are result of going out and speaking with people that use the service daily. In this the user will get more control over the stories displayed on news feed.

The new features introduced are the music and photos. The music feed will bring together all content posted by bands the user has liked, music friends have listened to through services such Spotify, and any concerts that are happening in the local area.

There have been many changes in the design of the service after it was started in 2004. 

There have been a complaint about the site that; facebook will not show all posts in news feed. The company says that they will solve the problem with their new design.

Photos are playing a much larger role in news feed content today. That’s why the viewing of photos in the news feed is getting more changes than other things in the feed.

The new design includes the timeline and cover photo which come into act the previous year. The old way of handling and suggesting friends will also change.

The ash background in present is changed to a graphic design in the new feed.

The Close Friends and Recent Posts feeds will remain, while the All Friends feed will be introduced later.

Another new feature is that the order of feed will be changed. An example shown in the conference was someone who clicks on the music tab always will see the music tab on the top.

The company says that the redesigning will allow the user to use the site more safely and will consistent across all platforms. The company also hopes that more people will be attracted to the site and the population will increase.

Watch this video in which Facebook developers introduce the new changes and explain the thinking behind them>>>

Facebook to be closed on May 2013! ; Hoax or truth?

Its spreading like wildfire, that facebook is going to be closed on 15^th May .Lets take a look at the news on a famous website.

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that facebook will be closed on May 15th 2013. He says that managing the site has become too stressful. The news will disappoint all facebook users and addicts were announced by Mark Zuckerberg at Palo Alto, California. He says that the site has become out of control and the stress of managing his company has ruined his life. He needs to put an end to all the madness.

                                                                   

After 15^th the site will be completely closed and the users will not be able to access their accounts “If you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back after Facebook goes out of business.” Facebook’s Vice President of Technical Affairs said.

Zuckerberg said the decision to shut down Facebook was difficult, but that he does not think people will be upset.

“I personally don’t think it’s a big deal,” he said in a private phone interview to a source close to a friend. “And to be honest, I think it’s for the better. Without Facebook, people will have to go outside and make real friends. That’s always a good thing.”

This story has come on a website and is spreading everywhere. On the other hand some are saying that it will not end on May 15th. We want to wait more to know if it is a hoax or a truth. 

2013;The year for change in websites

2013 is the year for change in website templates. The old templates are thrown out and the new magazine templates are on its mark. The magazine template which is divided into small boxes of news is very attractive. And one of its main benefits which attracts people is the scrolling of pages are no more. Those boxes are able to

scroll themselves. A small portion or the headline of news is shown in each box with an image in most websites. Widgets such as social plugins are placed in the sidebars or footer portion of the site. Anyway ads are in its place itself. As google modifies their ‘google image’ last month many websites also offer images to be shown without redirecting them into another page. The magazine templates are also comfortable tabs, mobiles etc. which is used by most of the people now a days. Some of the famous sites have applied magazine templates for their websites. Dark and colourful website templates are getting more popular in these days. The old combination of white colour for the main background and ash or some other darker colour for the outer background is getting old. But unfortunately bloggers who don’t know html are trapped. The problem is Blogger.com offers only old templates for its bloggers. If they download templates from other sites they will be having all the unwanted things which can be only changed if the html is edited. We can hope that on the end of this year there will be a big revolution in website templates (and blogger too).