Steve Jobs did not engage in social networks because Zuckerberg did very well

Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs biography revealed that the Apple founder did not get involved in projects of social networks, because Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook did it very well.

In a discussion with several people in the field, Isaacson revealed that asking Steve Jobs - the outstanding person in Silicon Valley he comes first to mind? The answer was Mark Zuckerberg. On the other hand, Steve Jobs is an idol for Mark, he repeatedly said that he learned a lot from Apple founder.

Walter Isaacson claims that Jobs' admiration for the founder of Facebook comes from because of intuitive sense with whom Zuckerberg knew how to develop the social network.


In the past Apple has been involved in building Ping social network, but abandoned the project in favor of Facebook and Twitter, Jobs announced then that Facebook is so good that the world does not need other social networks.

As the two geniuses, they had a single problem - exchange transactions. When Apple came into the hands of the shareholders in the early 80s, Steve Jobs was forced to leave his company, coming back in 1996 only to rise the company at the current level. Facebook has made the first exit on the stock market this year, the event is called failure of the year after the shares fell from a baseline of $ 42 to $ 28, causing huge losses to players and investment funds.

Facebook adds a new button. What makes Want Button?

It seems that Facebook is preparing us a brand new button that we will certainly press it often. Mark Zuckerberg prepares a surprise for the Facebook users. What makes the Want button?

After YouTube management announced changes in the site, Facebook could offer new options to its users. A programmer says he found the secret intention secret intention of Facebook management.

A programmer who has researched the social network codes say that Facebook is preparing to test a "Want" button.

This would help the network to gather information about users' buying intentions.

Along the Like button, network members will be able to use Want to tell not only what products they like, but you would like to own.

Companies that want to sell products and services will benefit from this option, because they will know exactly what users are interested in their offer.

According to Tom Waddington, a programmer at Cut Out + Keep website, the new button appears in the Javascipt code of Facebook, but is still at the "work in progress" level.

Asked if plans to launch this feature, Facebook management was pleased to declare only "we are always testing new features", writes Mashable.com

Facebook phone, closer and closer to launch. Heads of Facebook wanted to give it for free

Initially, Facebook phone should have cost nothing. Sources close to the company who worked on the phone told BusinessInsider that Facebook executives wanted to make a phone with its technological resources and then provide those phones for free to the social network users.

Facebook hoped that money will come from ads running on these phones. But when they discovered that each phone would produce costs of $700 to the company, they changed their mind.

For this reason Facebook has given up the idea to offer the phone for free.

According to quoted sources, the first phone that will come from Facebook will be launched in April, which is produced by HTC. Also, Facebook is preparing a second phone that will be launched in the next 12-18 months, which is probably produced by Samsung.

Facebook phone will be launched in...

Buffy appears earlier and will be followed by a second Facebook phone model.

After numerous attempts to penetrate the mobile market, Facebook made a deal with the Taiwanese from HTC to launch the first cell under the tutelage giant in Palo Alto, adapted to the needs of social network users. If a few days ago sources close to Facebook reported that the gadget name is Buffy and will appear in no more than 12-18 months, recent disclosures made ​​to Business Insider launches in April 2012, earlier than previously believed.


The same source informs that the term of 12-18 months was expected for the launch of Buffy's successor, the second Facebook phone, which will be most likely designed in collaboration with Koreans from Samsung. It seems that it will hit the market at the end of 2012 or no later than early 2013. Attempts to create a Facebook mobile phone have suffered from developers such as LG or Motorola, but Google was the one that resulted in the project through his famous "Android". The latter is the main rival to Apple's iPhone, faithfully to the Twitter social network.

However, few are giving a vote of confidence to the Facebook phone. According to company sources, even those involved in the project are not too optimistic and not hopes not to break sales on the gadget market.

Google +, available for everyone. See what Google + has in addition to Facebook!

Google has launched, official, the social network Google + after several months of testing, in which access was limited.

Google + is one of the most ambitious projects of Google, trying to unseat the incredible success of the network created by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook.

Google + comes with some brand new and revolutionary elements, and company representatives say that by this network, socializing becomes closer to the real. The user can create separate discussion groups with whom to talk or to share multimedia content, called circles. The service also comes with a chat with video features, so you can video chat with up to 9 people simultaneously.

Groups of friends can easily create and their discovery is made even easier by automatically connecting to multiple accounts simultaneously: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter or MySpace.

The number of features that Google + comes with is 100

Google + reinvents the search function. When a user wants to find something on the Internet, he can use the Sparks function, providing search results according to relevance and news about people in their circles, web news and public posts from Google +.

Users who have a Andoid phone can download the Google + application from Android Market on the phone and automatically upload photos directly from the phone into their personal account.

Facebok Vibes or Facebook Music service?

Facebook is preparing to implement a music service on the user pages, as a result of partnerships with Spotify, Mog, Rhapsody, Slacker and Rdio, according to Reuters citing sources close to the situation.

Until now, Facebook has declined to share informations related to the music platform. A few months ago, several technology blogs wrote that a programmer founded the code for a Facebook product called "Vibes".

The music platform could be presented at the Facebook conference, which will take place on 22 September. Facebook officials did not comment on the information. Although Facebook is the most popular social networking service, with more than 750 million users, founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to increase the number of users who are online on Facebook.

Thus, the music service is just one aspect of the strategy to improve Facebook, and is also expected that social network to partner with other multimedia producers such as movie studios.

Facebook music could get this in direct competition with other providers of streaming audio, domainated by by Apple's iTunes.

Social Sims might become the most popular game on Facebook

Social Sims, published last Thursday, has already 4.6 million daily users, according to AppData, a service of Inside Network traffic measurement. Social Sims online game is already in 10th place among the most used Facebook applications and 6th place among the most accessed Facebook games, surpassed by Zynga hits CityVille, Farmville, Empires & Allies, Texas Hold 'Em and Pioneer Trail.

Statistics shows very well, considering that Social Sims appeared only a week and all the data show that Social Sims could exceed Cityville, the leader of games on Facebook with 14 million daily players, sometime in September.

Variants before Social Sims sold over 140 million copies as proof that the game tends to cause "addiction" to its users. The difference between Sims Social and previous versions of Sims game is that the other Sims from the game belong to friends on Facebook.

Social Sims start by creating an avatar custom own Sim, which is placed in an environment that resembles a doll house. This environment can be extended by winning Simoleans and must be cared, fed, went to bed, the bathroom and must also answer "its social needs."

Facebook can get you in jail. See some strange cases!

Some people have had trouble because a written message or uploaded photos on Facebook. Here are some cases of people who came behind bars because of Facebook.

1. A woman was arrested after she poked someone on Facebook

Shnnon Jackson, an American from Tennessee is risking a year in jail and a penalty of $ 2,500 after she poked on facebook someone who had obtained restraining order against her.

2. A man was arrested after claiming he's Moroccan prince

In the world, many internet users are trying to build a false identity. That did Fouad Mourtada (26 years), who in 2008 claimed to be the brother of King Mohammed VI of Morocco. The bad luck of the false prince was that the police arrested and kept for several days to jail.

3. A young 23 year old women was convicted because she decapitated a mouse

Naomi Anderson, a young 23 years of Queensland (USA), received a prison pedeasa 18 months with suspension and 180 hours of community service work after she posted a video on Facebook with her while she decapitate a mouse. Naomi was convicted of cruelty.

4.A young man was arrested after he tried to hire a killer via Facebook

Christian Adams (19) Chester (USA) has been arrested and risk between 11 and 22 years in prison for trying to hire a hitman through Facebook. Christian has negotiated with the killer, who offered him $ 500 if you kill a young woman who accused him of rape.

5. A couple was arrested after eating an iguana and published pictures on Facebook

Vanessa Starr Palm (25) and Alexander Daniel Rust (26), both the United States of America, were arrested after they posted on Facebook pictures taken while eating an iguana, reptile protected by law.

Changes to Facebook. See what was changed on Facebook

Facebook, the largest social network announced it will make some changes in the menu on the left of the page profile of users to make applications easier to use.

Thus, the new version will share the menu on the left in four sections: Favorites, Groups, Pages and Apps. Pages and Groups will put together pages and user groups to which it belongs, Favorites section will include the most visited pages, links or the favorite applications. Apps will include interactive games and applications.

This would be the first change after almost a year, when Facebook facelift took place.

Facebook offers a $ 500 reward those who report vulnerabilities

To receive the reward, however, users must comply with several conditions, including pay for the Facebook security team enough time to analyze the situation before making public the information.

Not all vulnerabilities reported will automatically qualify for the reward, there's some conditions. Among them, specify that errors should belong to Facebook, not an application that uses the social network, or on sites that use Facebook widgets.

Although people say that Facebook, according to the reported error, the amount may increase the reward is much lower than what Google offers (minimum $ 3,000) or Microsoft, which offered rewards of up to $ 250,000.

Microsoft's Tulalip social network response to Facebook and Google +

After Google launched it's own social network a short period ago, now on the web exists rumors saying that Microsoft leaked the information that it wil launch it's social network site.

This information was available thursday, on soci.com, a site owned by Microsoft.

Tulalip could be the Microsoft's company response to Facebook and Google+.

Based on the informations provided by Microsoft, Tulalip it will be able to search and share infos from Facebook and Twitter.

The disclosure, made accidentaly or not, came a few weeks after Google revealed it's social network.

Google + reached 10 mil users at 2 weeks after it's launch.

What do you think about this? Who do you think it will win the battle of the social networks?