Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

Facebook внедрил поддержку сферического видео – 360-градусных видеороликов, которые были сняты с использованием нескольких камер. Пользователи веб-версии и Android-приложения социальной сети начнут видеть новый формат в новостной ленте в ближайшее время. Поддержка функционала в приложении для iOS будет внедрена позже. В числе первых издателей-партнёров значатся Discovery, GoPro, LeBron James & Uninterrupted, Saturday Night Live, Vice и Star Wars. Идея запуска – помочь пользователям погрузиться в уникальны... →

Put away your credit card — Oculus Rift isn’t going on sale this week. Virtual-reality developers from around the world have assembled in Hollywood for the second ever Oculus Connect conference, and Oculus VR — the Facebook-owned company that has kickstarted the latest revolution for head-mounted displays — is planning to work closely with artists, […]... →

We’re just a few months away from Oculus VR launching its Rift head-mounted display, and the Facebook-owned company is going to spend the next few days getting developers up to speed before that happens. Oculus Connect is the VR firm’s developer conference, and it kicks off at 1 p.m. Pacific (4 p.m. Eastern) today. But […]... →

Lucasfilm’s special-effects department is working on a new frontier of immersive entertainment, and you can get a taste of that on Facebook. This morning, the Star Wars account on Facebook launched the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Immersive 360 Experience. This is a new kind of video on the social-media website that enables viewers to point a camera […]... →

Hold up your phone, spin around, and Facebook’s newest News Feed videos will spin with with you, showing you every angle of a scene. Today, Facebook announced that it’s News Feed will now support 360-degree videos on Android and web, and they’ll work on iOS within a few months. At launch, publishers including Star Wars, Discovery, GoPro,LeBron James & Uninterrupted… Read More... →

Facebook is rolling out support for 360-degree videos on its social network. The company revealed that Web and Android users should begin to see these new video formats within their News Feed soon, but support within its iOS app will be coming soon. The first publishers that will be supporting this includes Discovery, GoPro, LeBron James […]... →

In 2009, Pearltrees started out as a bookmarking service with a quirky interface. Since then, the service has added a number of new curation features like support for uploading files, taking notes and managing your photos. Today the company is announcing a major new feature with the launch of its Smartcloud service. The idea here is to allow Pearltrees to automatically import and organize… Read More... →

Мобильное приложение знакомств для евреев JCrush теперь доступно на русском языке. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. JCrush рассчитывает привлечь не менее 80 тысяч пользователей в России и странах СНГ. По собственным данным, сейчас мобильным приложением пользуется более 150 тысяч евреев. JCrush основан русскими еврейками Соней Крайзман и Наташей Новой. По собственным данным, проект получил более $1 млн инвестиций. Имена инвесторов не раскрываются.  Приложение создает профиль, пользуясь информацией со стра... →

Во время интервью в рамках конференции TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 директор по рекламе Facebook Эндрю Бозворт (Andrew Bosworth – «Boz») рассказал о состоянии рекламного бизнеса социальной сети. Первая часть интервью была посвящена «Мгновенным статьям». Во время обсуждения этого функционала Бозворт акцентировал внимание на том, что он был разработан с целью улучшить опыт пользователей и уменьшить время ожидания загрузки страниц. Традиционно им приходилось ждать 6-8 секунд, теперь же это время значительно сок... →

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s younger sister, Arielle Zuckerberg, is to join Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) on October 19, according to TechCrunch. The VC is widely considered one of the best in the word, and the move to hire Zuckerberg as an associate partner seems to check a number of important boxes for […]... →

Arielle Zuckerberg, the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers next month as the firm bids to inject youth and diversity into its line-up of partners. Read More... →

Today, end-to-end encrypted email provider ProtonMail has added support for PGP encrypted Facebook emails — allowing Facebook users to get their encrypted missives automatically decrypted within ProtonMail. Read More... →

Today, Facebook-owned photograph-centric social network Instagram announced that it has hit 400M users. This comes just 9 months after announcing that it hit the 300M mark. Here’s what the team had to say about hitting the 400M user mark: Our community has evolved to be even more global, with more than 75 percent living outside of the US. To all the new Instagrammers: welcome! Among the… Read More... →

Today Instagram announced that it now has more than 400 million users who share 80 million photos per day. In less than a year, the Facebook-owned photo sharing app has added 100 million new people to its platform. The app owes most of its growth to international expansion. Of the latest to join, the majority are in Europe […]... →

Today Instagram announced that it now has more than 400 million users, who share 80 million photos a day. In less than a year, the Facebook owned photo sharing app has added 100 million new people to its platform. The app owes most of its growth to international expansion. Of the latest to join, “more than half live […]... →

Rich snippets for Facebook pages are no longer showing up in Google searches, though Yelp and YP continue to have their review stars. Could spammy Facebook ratings be a factor?... →

Why is Imgur one of the most popular websites on the Internet? Is it the connection with the so-called “Internet’s front page” Reddit? Its community? The addictive nature of browsing through the photos uploaded and upvoted by Imgur users? Maybe it’s all of the above, as it turns out. Read More... →

Rich snippets for Facebook pages are no longer showing up in Google searches, though Yelp and YP continue to have their review stars. Could spammy Facebook ratings be a factor?... →

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015, Facebook ad chief Andrew “Boz” Bosworth sat down with Josh Constine to discuss the state of advertising on the social network. Boz started by discussing Instant Articles and emphasizing how the feature was built to improve the user experience of traditionally waiting 6-8 seconds for content to load. Read More... →

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have been quietly amassing a portfolio of both philanthropic and venture investments in education from a $120 million commitment to Bay Area schools to the funding they contributed to Altschool’s most recent $100 million round. Now they’re adding another educational technology company to the group. They’re expanding a… Read More... →