Category Archives: Facebook

Facebook Home- First impressions

Facebook recently announced its latest and arguably biggest mobile initiative in the form of Facebook Home. I had a chance to install the service on a Galaxy S3 Android handset and here are my first impressions What is Facebook Home? Facebook Home is an Android launcher which replaced the traditional Android home screen with a Facebook …

April 16, 2013 – 11:02 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Design, Facebook, Google+, Marketing, Mobile OS, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Facebook’s Graph Search

Facebook formally announced their Google Search competitor, “Graph Search” today. The interestingly titled product (to go with Facebook’s Open Graph) is expected to roll out over the next few weeks across the world and will be in beta for a while. Mark Zuckerberg took pains to separate the product from Google Search but Google and …

January 15, 2013 – 7:35 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Facebook, Google+, Next Big Thing, Search, Social Networks, Social search | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (3)

The Facebook Phone

There has been a lot of speculation in the last couple of weeks about Facebook making its own phone. I wanted to write a post on what this could mean to the eco-system in general and Facebook in particular. Facebook has not had a good month by any yard stick. What should have been a …

May 29, 2012 – 11:00 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Cloud computing, Design, Facebook, Google+, iphone OS, Mobile OS, Product Development, Social Gaming, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Social networking for everyone

As a caveat to the reader, this post is targeted to social networking beginners. If you are an expert in social networking, this may be old wine in a new bottle. I originally published this article here. I am tweaking it for a larger audience in this forum. It is the age of social networking. Everyone …

February 21, 2012 – 11:27 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Facebook, Google+, Social Networks, Twitter, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Consuming Content: Of feeds, tweets and flips

Most of you are probably reading this from a share on Facebook or a tweet. And this is a totally low-key blog. Now if you extrapolate this to how we consume news and content in general today- it is not much different, just more sophisticated. This post features a few of the most popular content …

January 10, 2012 – 11:11 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Blackberry OS, Facebook, Google+, iphone OS, Mobile OS, Social Networks, Tablets, Twitter, Windows Phone | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

The next iPhone

The iPhone is the single largest selling smartphone in the last decade and continues to power ahead in the US and global markets. Much of China and India are relatively untapped by the iPhone phenomenon due to pricing and availability with favored carriers. So the future looks bright for the next iPhone, expected to be …

October 3, 2011 – 7:14 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Cloud computing, Design, Facebook, iphone OS, Marketing, Mobile OS, Next Big Thing, NFC, Product Development | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Is the new Facebook for you?

Facebook has rolled out tons of features over the years, sometimes publicly and sometimes subtely. Some have been very popular and some have been pulled out due to user backlash. But the Facebook we use today has remained more or less unchanged for the last few years. The only sign of Facebook expansion has been …

September 22, 2011 – 10:47 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Facebook, Google+, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

What’s next for Facebook?

In all honesty, the motivation for this article was something I read today on TheStreet.com. It got me thinking on where Facebook can go from here. Music: Facebook started off as a MySpace competitor and while the latter has withered away, Facebook is stronger and bigger than ever. So it comes as no surprise that …

July 13, 2011 – 11:44 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Facebook, Google+, Mobile Games, Mobile OS, Social Gaming, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Early experiences with Google+

I have spent a couple of weeks with Google Plus and am ready to share my early thoughts with the next big social network. In the meantime, if you need an invite, add a note in the Comments section with your gmail and I’ll send you one if I can. After the initial euphoria of …

July 11, 2011 – 11:37 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Facebook, Google+, Mobile OS, Search, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (5)

Checkins

Facebook pages are now increasing filled with check-ins. Checkins are typically native Facebook driven via Facebook Places or Foursquare, Gowalla based checkins. Google has its own app for it- Google Latitude which isnt as popular as the aforementioned ones but is still gaining steam. It would be worthwhile trying to understand why people check-in if we …

June 7, 2011 – 9:08 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Facebook, Location Services, Next Big Thing, NFC, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)