Facebook's iPad App Is Hidden Inside Of Their iPhone App
25/07/2011 |
There are things out there all around us that we often miss because we’re just not looking. This is perhaps most true in the tech world, where thousands of secrets are out there in the wild, hidden in code. If you know where to look, or if you can read the code, you can find those secrets. It’s how so many features of iOS get revealed early by sites like 9to5 Mac, who are great at parsing the code (and confirming ournon-code-digging scoops). It’s how we knew basically...
Facebook's Secret iPad App Exposed [Pictures]
So, we just exposed the awesome secret that Facebook’s iPad app is actually already out there, hidden inside of the iPhone app. Now it’s time to show it to you.I’ve been playing with the app for much of the night, and it seems solid. Of course, there’s noguaranteethat this...
Facebook's iPad App Was Feature Complete In May, But They Won't Release It, So The Developer Quit
You may recall that two months ago, we found and leaked Facebook’s iPad app. What was especially awesome is that the entire app was buried in the code for Facebook’s iPhone app, you just had to do a few tricks to enable it. Once Facebook realized what we found, they took moves to try ...
The Planets Are Aligned: Facebook's Spartan And iPad Projects Set To Launch Early Next Week
Earlier tonight, Alexia found and posted some screenshots of something that sure looked a lot like the mythical “Project Spartan“. Shortly thereafter, Facebook took down the page in question. And for good reason. That was Project Spartan, we’ve now confirmed.Whoops.Well, to be f...
BoltJS: Another Secret Piece Of Facebook's Spartan Puzzle?
After a steady stream of information in June, all has been quiet on the Facebook Project Spartan front in recent weeks. Originally, at least some thought the plan was to unveil Spartan in July - but that obviously came and went. It’s certainly possible we won’t hear anything until f8 ...
Facebook Opens Mobile News Feed As Viral Channel For Games
Once upon a time, Facebook game companies like Zynga fattened up their user counts thanks to viral distribution to non-gamers through the news feed. Facebook later curtailed this channel, forcing developers to concentrate on paid marketing and true word of mouth to grow. A new boom period could b...
Facebook's $38 Share Price Makes Instagram Deal Worth Nearly $1.2 Billion
Facebook’s $38 share price would make its deal to buy Instagram worth nearly $1.2 billion, up from the roughly $1 billion price the company announced in April.That’s a nice little bump, but the deal hasn’t gone through given regulatory reviews. On top of that, we don’t kno...
Turntable.fm Is About To Rock An iPhone App; We Have Screenshots
For the past few months, few things on the web have been hotter than Turntable.fm. The Stickybits pivot got so hot, so fast, that a “trough of disillusionment” was inevitable - and we’ve probably been seeing that the past couple of weeks. But something is coming very shortly tha...
Topps: Iconic Trading Cards Brand Goes Beyond Cardboard With First-Ever Mobile Apps
Topps, the company best known for its Bazooka bubble gum and for essentially inventing and popularizing trading cards in the 1950s, is today releasing its first-ever mobile apps in conjunction with the start of the 2012 Major League Baseball season. That’s right. People of all ages may reme...
Nearly 40% Of Facebook Users Are Mobile App Users
According to new data from Benedict Evans for Enders Analysis, the number of monthly active users of Facebook’s mobile apps recently passed the 300 million mark. This is primarily due to heavy use of the iOS and Android apps, but it also takes into account apps that run on BlackBerry, Symbi...
Facebook Comments Box Now On Mobile, And Over 400,000 Web Sites
Over 400,000 sites currently use Facebook’s Comments Box social plugin the company tells me, and as of today they all support an optimized mobile commenting experience. Now you can criticize your least favorite bloggers — I mean participate in intelligent discussion while on the go.Ju...
