After a tweet this morning by New York Times writer Jenna Wortham caused some buzz, we did some digging and it looks like Instagram is not notifying users when screenshots are taken of their photos. Wortham mentioned that her sister was noticing it on some of her photos and that it didn’t appear to be active across all accounts. Update below. We did some investigation of our own, trying to duplicate it on TNW accounts and couldn’t … [Read more...]

According to a tweet from Facebook’s Mike Matas this morning, the company’s new social home screen project has gained itself a hot collaborator. Matas says that developer and designer Loren Brichter is ‘helping out’ his team at Facebook. As the creator of the much-loved Tweetie for Mac, Brichter was snapped up by Twitter and worked for a while to integrate his apps with the service, where they eventually became Twitter for … [Read more...]

Facebook has acquired the team behind community story sharing service Storylane, its CEO Jonathan Gheller said in a post on the site today. The acquisition, first noted by GigaOm, is of the team behind the newly launched Storylane, and not of the product itself. Storylane was a ‘story telling’ site that bent the personal blog paradigm in ways reminiscent of Obvious Corp.’s Medium. Facebook, exemplified by its latest News Feed … [Read more...]

Facebook has just sent out an invite to press with the text ‘come see a new look for News Feed’. The event will be held at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters on Thursday March 7th, 2013 at 10am PST  and we’ll be on site. The last time that Facebook officially launched a major change to its News Feed was in September of 2011, though it has tweaked and prodded it many times since. The iOS app recently got a faster News Feed … [Read more...]

Facebook has released version 3.2 of its SDK for iOS developers and it adds deeper app usage metrics, better ad optimization and enhanced error handling. The new version of the SDK comes along with a fresh version of Facebook’s iOS Dev Center as well. The new SDK also has improved error handling support. It now supports all classes of error responses and will categorize those errors by common app handling behavior. The SDK now handles … [Read more...]

Facebook is now rolling out a new feature to US users of its Messenger app on iPhone: the ability to make free voice calls. The new feature was noticed by The Verge, which confirmed with Facebook that it was rolling out to US users in the current version of the app today. This follows the testing of the feature in Canada earlier this month, when it also launched voice messaging in the Messages app. To initiate a free call, you find the user that … [Read more...]