FEW TIPS TO LAUNCH YOUR APPS ON YOUR APP CENTER
May 17th
For Facebook application developers, just newly started App Center has been most innovative way to create and present canvas, mobile and web apps that could be incorporated on Facebook. To get the center move on the right footing developers are encouraged to have the detail page of their app submitted by the weekend. This page is very crucial as this can prove to be new destination when non-users search for their app.
Facebook has already started reviewing the app detail pages for apps for their quality signals which can also be listed in the App Center. Also Facebook has published their App Center guidelines which can assist you in understanding what to expect of apps. Besides, the checklist will also highlight some of the most crucial aspects when an app detail page is created.
An app center is a most convenient way to discover and install apps used and also recommended by the users. Having an app center means your access to genuinely quality apps. This also means assurance from Facebook to have quality apps having a user appeal and great functionality. To achieve this aim, Facebook is making use of many signals like user ratings and engagement to literally find out if an app has been listed in the App Center or not. Also has been added a new app rating metric in Insights which can help you to report how the way users can rate your app within that prescribed time. ......
Now You Can Show Your Friends Where You Are, Where You were and Where You have been on Your Facebook Indeed
May 8th
In its lineage of lucrative moves, Facebook is yet again planning to make your posts more invigorating with the location strategy with past, present and future tenses. It means users now can share where they are currently present, where were they in the past and where they are going to be in the future? Isn’t it interesting?
The location based strategy is a new way to remain connected and feel connected where ever you are and where ever you have been. When it comes to present, Facebook is very well clear, users can declare where they are now and for the past, Timeline can allow users to place the previous date of whatever it may be on their posts or can also add their old pictures on the map. This all means that Facebook is now going to gather more information on the users’ whereabouts too including where the user had been many years back.
And now with the recent updates, users can tag location to show where exactly they would be in the future. There are also many Open Graph applications that can also allow users to create their list for any plan in the future and even places they would like to visit.
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Action Links Again For Facebook Developers to Ingest Users in Facebook Felicity
May 4th
Wanna! Increase your introspective moments of your business days on Facebook? If yes, then this Facebook is all for you to allow you to have more engagement with their newsfeed, Timeline or Ticker. This pushes the growth possibility for each story. For instance, Foursquare added “save this place” link for analyzing the stories and also inducing users to include location when any friends’ activity is seen. As soon a user click on an action link, a story is shared on her Timeline.
Facebook had introduced these action links in 2008 too when developers were taking multiple deeds even for a single story on an app, which could then be linked with a particular location for user to take an action. In fact in 2009 too company created action links as the only way developers could incorporate calls to action within feed stories’. This process was initiated to retain structure and also prevent developers for placing spam messages within the body of a story or in images. Later, Facebook restricted it for allowing for only one action link in each story and finally removed it.
And now action links are playing mosty crucial role for any Open Graph story to take place and developers can have any link for any action on their apps.
These active links are more exciting and lucrative for users as this can allow them ......
NOW WHITE-LABEL OFFERING TOO FOR MIDSIZED MARKETING AGENCIES IN FACEBOOK
May 3rd
Facebook is also now promulgating a much profound generic old White label offering for mid-sized marketing agencies. Now all the marketing agencies and firms can avail this opportunity to develop their Facebook marking initiatives by using GroSocial technology.
The concept which owes its origin from the image White Label which was inscribed on the package that conjured with the marketer’s trade dress. These images were traced on the vinyl records when DJs would strip the label from the records to make other DJs remain unaware of the originator of the track. This whole process was known as a white label record. It was used for mass produced generic electronics also known as DVD players and televisions. Now many companies originate with the sub brands of their goods and many websites also uses white labels to allow a successful brand to provide a service without their having to invest in the technology and infrastructure.
The companies deliver their branded products to multiple supermarkets by changing only their labels. Besides some manufacturers also create generic brand labels with minimum cost as possible while having just name of the product. In fact even small banks sometimes outsource their credit card operations to larger banks. The larger banks issues these cards as white label cards especially for a fee which can then entail smaller banks too to brand cards a ......
New Twist to Your Android App- Bringing in More Accessibility and Usability
Apr 16th
Android app in its vast visage is now stemming for more accessibility for users. Accessibility means picking adequate tools to create the apps for the productive usability for our brethren with their different physical disabilities too. These apps will now make sure that the users of Android with their limited vision or other physical impairments can have productive use of their apps. It is also about you too who are constantly checking your eye sights with growing age and about having complete eye and hand coordination with your mobile apps.
The apps have many accessibility features for people with physical and age related disabilities. With the activation of these features and services on the device, the app will continue to act like a magic spree as you can hear voices for operating app. The center to the attraction is about users to have spoken feedback that will speak about the user interface components as interaction is made with app. This spoken version of feedback is being delivered by a service called TalkBack, which is provided for free on Google Play and the same has become a standardiz ......
Humor Is A Serious Business in Your Facebook Indeed
Apr 16th
Mockery, humorous punch lines and jokes while working is not funny indeed but worthily true as there is nothing deterrent about it. One bit of humorous note or a light joke during those wee hours of meeting lightens environment and spreads cheer on the weird or panicky faces who are striving to have their day get going.
Don’t take this post of mine something funky or “joky” but serious. There is seriousness in humor too, and believe me this seriousness can make you a social wizard in your own right. So if you are really serious in your social networking corporate moves, “Keep Fucking Your Chicken”. Get on with what you are doing but with cheery notes to bring cheer on the faces of others and yourself too.
Humor has an attractive appeal and naturally so when it comes to social networking. After all it is all about connection and there is nothing better way to connect than through social networking and by being humorous and following right humor? Here you must be asking, what is right humor? I must say that right humor is obviously something that does not ridicule anyone nor is ins ......
Blend your access to Keychain in Android 4.0
Apr 16th
Since andriod is taking its parole of technologically carved niche apps, Google has been working to resolve many issues for Android developers for their easy management.
And, recently with ICS a new Keychain API helps in reducing many hurdles that
was making Android less compatibility with the corporate world. Obviously, for the average user and businessmen this change is unnoticeable, but for developers the API has feasibility to solve many issues.
For reducing the present gaps in ICS, now a new kind of API also known as
KeyChain has appeared which can regulate apps for easy access to the system keystore and allow the same to receive necessary records kept there. Besides, API also allows apps to instigate installation of credentials from 509 certificates and PKCS#12 key stores.
In earlier version of Android 1.6, a system key store was supposed to be added for its appropriate use by VPN. It was later enhanced to provide support to WiFi authentication, which was posing hurdle for apps to access the same.
Earlier apps were having their own key store for giving authentication to SSL
web server or also for delivering appropriate authentication for the user to a
server via client certificate. This system is very well operational but can
generate many manageable issues in cooperate environ ......
Smoothing Timeline- A Great Thing To Think About
Mar 23rd
Change is a delicate mobility of Facebook for its users to have some freaking moments. There is always a sudden classified “pandemonium coolness” with the changes as it is happening with default landing tab and general confusion about WTF.
If you embrace yourself into Facebook for the change to reign supreme with sudden natural and regular variations, you cannot so easily get accustomed to the same but there are some reasons on why you must adopt to it. Here are some wise words to get you into the changing tantrums on Facebook:
• Removal of default Landing Tab:
Facebook’s withdrawal of the Default Landing tab has paved the new path for much better consistency and great opportunities. Now you can easily make your visitors on your page retain on the same place instead of having them divided in two different places. Pin your posts and adjust tab icons to entail you to have a complete control over what each individual sees as when they move on to your brand’s page.
• Getting the tabs towards the top of the pag ......
HOW BRANDS ARE INVADING FACEBOOK WITH THEIR TIMELINE APPS:
Mar 17th
As soon as Timeline swung into action, more than 3,000 apps had been launched and implementation of the same has garnered them tremendous growth. With Pinterest user base increased by 60 per cent since its launch, flood of Timeline apps are entering into the race like Foursquare, Nike, Onion, Fandango, Viddy, Endomondo, RootMusic, Foodspotting, Votizen and Pose .
We can also now, for example, get Foursquare “check-ins” into your Timeline page. On Vevo itself, the Timeline presents video playlists created automatically from the artists indicated that you have very well liked within Facebook.
The new RootMusic Timeline apps also allow people to save their favorite songs, bands and also concerts they are planning to attend on their Facebook pages. You can also click favorite and see your likings posted on timeline. The same is true with your Fandango app which allows bikers and runners to post the progress of their daily workouts on timeline.
The potentiality for Timeline app has now been discovered by many brands and they are using their iterations to incorporate their ability to turn the same into Timeline fashion. It is all done as the action taken from each app activity is arranged in a group into its own box on your Timeline, rather than performing any single action you take on your website. Now it is for all of us to see if this integration process is good for ......
Prepare Yourself for Timeline Way onto Your Facebook
Mar 17th
As Timeline is now rolling out with additional energy, it is very crucial for the advertisers too to now pull their sleeves and get into Timeline mold. Facebook’s small yet elegant edifice, this Timeline is their delicacy and palatable delight for the users.
While users with their personal accounts on Facebook are still puzzled and have mixed response for the format, brands are a happy lot. They can present their story with the highest impact graphics to impress their visitors. Though brands are not permitted to use the space for banner advertising yet it is the best place to display much more creatively and vehemently.
This Timeline also allow brands for exchanging their Facebook applications and configuring their own which is unique to their brand. As a brand has the capability to utilize the apps to highlight promotions, sweepstakes or games, it is great for advertisers to get their pages customized.
Facebook is also enticing brands a free hand to feature or pin their favorite posts, photos or promotions. As soon as Timeline format is up, advertisers can get back in time and again to feature their posts. This ensures the brand to keep whatever they would like to towards the top of their page. By just pinning visually invigorating photos or brands, they can show you what all you would be looking w ......
