Recent finding by Nielsen on travel related app usage show that U.S. Android and iOS users spent 95 percent of their time accessing travel information from travel apps, versus only 5 percent from the mobile Web during JUne 2012.. This discrepancy was largely driven by Google Maps—the top Travel category app and mobile website during June—which accounted for 78 percent of all mobile time spent on Travel.
MORE: Online Marketing Trends: Most Used travel Apps in US.
Facebook page owners with more than 5,000 fans will soon have access to advanced post targeting options including age, gender, relationship status and education.Facebook began testing this last month, but only a small percentage of pages had access to the additional targeting parameters. Today some marketers received an update from Facebook saying that all pages over 5,000 Likes will get the option this week. Our own InsideFacebook.com page showed the following prompt this afternooon:
MORE: New page post targeting options coming to all Facebook pages over 5,000 Likes.
In the upper part of your page, there is an Admin panel, which we will overlook for now, but later on, it will be a very important tool to track a progress of your Fan page. Under the Admin panel there is a place to set up and edit your Facebook page. You can add/change profile picture of your Facebook page, you can add/change cover photo, you can add/ change the ‘About’ information and lastly, you can write a status, add a photo or a video, or create an event, add a milestone, or ask a question.
Profile Picture
Facebook Profile Picture is a very important part of your Facebook page. When people are searching for Pages, the Profile Picture is one of the first things they will see. So bear that in mind, when you will create your stunning Profile Picture. The Facebook Profile Picture is displayed in 120×120 pixels resolution and Facebook will automatically create a 50×50 pixel miniature that will be displayed along with your Page’s updates and is also displayed in the Facebook search results.
MORE: Article: How to edit your Facebook page – Socialbakers.
Facebook today announced a new design and features for its messages product on the web. The two-paned layout and addition of keyboard commands makes the update similar to some email clients.
When users access messages from Facebook.com, they will see one column with recent messages and another column with an individual conversation. This should allow for faster browsing, similar to how users navigate messages in the Facebook for iPad app. Users can also search by a sender’s name or keyword at any point. In the previous layout, users could only search for names and keywords from the main inbox. When they opened a message, they could then search within that conversation.
MORE: Facebook updates messages layout to look and function more like email.
It’s not just customers who are drifting away from their laptops and desktops to do everything on mobile devices. More and more, entrepreneurs are cutting the bulky power cord and conducting business on the go. Thanks to tablets and the ever-growing selection of mobile apps that’s easy to do.
We asked 10 successful entrepreneurs to share the apps that boost their business productivity. Here are their top picks.
MORE: 10 Essential Tablet Apps for Business.
McAfee Social Protection doesn’t force you to make a blanket restriction the way Facebook’s privacy settings do, so you can block your office manager from seeing those pictures of you dancing drunk at a bar in Cabo, while letting them see all of the nice pictures of your family and pets. If they try to see a picture that’s blocked, all they’ll get is a blurry pixelated version that reveals nothing.
Even if you are one of the chosen few who gets to see a picture, McAfee claims that the app will make it impossible to download, even using print screen or other common workarounds. Still, if you’re really desperate, I guess they can’t stop you from taking a picture of the screen with a camera.
MORE: App stops creepy stalkers from stealing your Facebook pictures | DVICE.
Apple has removed any reference to Safari for Windows from its website, and is more or less acting like it never happened.
Safari for Windows made its way onto millions of PC’s using the iTunes auto update system, and you’d be hard pressed to find a single fan among those they duped into downloading it. As a WebKit equipped browser it wasn’t the worst option for Windows users at the time, but it also didn’t offer any distinct advantages. Today Safari 5 users on Windows are stuck using an outdated browser, and naturally, aren’t warned that they are vulnerable to at least 121 unpatched flaws. According to Apple’s own documentation these flaws can expose users to attack by malicious code execution, and are quite serious in nature.
MORE: Maximum PC | Safari For Windows is Abandoned By Apple, Leaving Users Vulnerable With No Warning.
OAuth 2.0 is a rewrite of the original OAuth spec, which offers a secure way to sidestep the dilemma of having to hand over passwords to third party sites and apps to access user data. Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo are among the high-profile sites that have embraced OAuth in some fashion.
Unfortunately, according to Hammer those same big names are at least partly responsible for making OAuth 2.0 the fiendishly complex and convoluted spec that it has become. Hammer is not the first to question the usefulness of OAuth 2.0. In fact, we’ve previously argued that OAuth 2.0′s complexity is hurting the spirit of API experimentation on the web.
Hammer isn’t just questioning OAuth 2.0, he’s abandoned it entirely and completely erased himself from the project, calling it “a bad protocol… bad enough that I no longer want to be associated with it.”
In Hammer’s view OAuth 2.0 is “more complex, less interoperable, less useful, more incomplete, and most importantly, less secure” than its 1.0 cousin.
MORE: Developer Quits OAuth 2.0 Spec, Calls It ‘a Bad Protocol’ | Webmonkey | Wired.com.
Large numbers of US homes have dropped pay-TV services, with big losses for satellite provider DirecTV, and cable companies Time Warner and Comcast. Rounding up the latest quarterly earnings results issued by major TV providers, Reuters reported today that Comcast lost 176,000 subscribers, Time Warner lost 169,000 customers, and DirecTV lost 52,000.
While Reuters said these losses total about 400,000 American homes dropping pay-TV service since the beginning of the year, it’s still a small minority. Time Warner Cable has more than 12 million customers, for example, and many customers simply switched services, as Verizon’s FiOS TV and AT&T’s U-verse added 275,000 subscribers in the second quarter. The second quarter is traditionally weak because of people moving before summer and college students leaving campus.
But this quarter’s losses were stark for DirecTV, which lost customers for the first time ever, and for Time Warner, who lost customers for the tenth straight quarter and lost more than analysts expected.
MORE: US homes drop pay-TV as DirecTV, Comcast, Time Warner lose subscribers | Ars Technica.
Gmail users will soon be able to use the same video chat technology that Google uses for its Google+ social network. Earlier today the company began rolling out the newer Google+ Hangouts functionality to Gmail, which has had video chat for the last three years.
This is mostly an under-the-hood announcement of an effort that’s slated for completion within the next few weeks. The biggest difference is that unlike the service’s previous video chat, which was based on peer-to-peer technology, the upgraded service will offer improved reliability and also let users connect with people using Google+, according to the company.
MORE: Gmail gets video Hangout | Internet & Media – CNET News.