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Facebook Photos Now Fill Up the Page and Can Go Full Screen

Facebook is announcing several improvements to its photo viewer, beyond the new layout and color scheme introduced recently. For one, image size will not dynamically adjust to the size of the screen. You can also go full-screen if you're running a browser that supports the feature.Facebook increased, dramaticall...

22 March 2012
13:01 GMT

Facebook's New, Google+ Inspired Photo Viewer Is Available to Everyone

Facebook is rolling out the brand new photo lightbox that has been in testing and was spotted by some users last week. The new photo viewer definitely borrows a page out of Google+, not that that's a bad thing. Comments have been moved to the right, the background now fades to black rather than to white and the...

8 February 2012
07:25 GMT

Facebook Is Testing a Google+ Inspired Photo Viewer

Facebook is currently testing a new photo lightbox. Photos has been one of its most popular product to date so any change to it is carefully weighed. Those that have spotted the new photo viewer in the wild noticed something interesting, it is very similar to the one on Google+. The layout is the same, comments on t...

3 February 2012
10:11 GMT

Instagram Photos Are Now Uploaded Full Size to Facebook

Instagram has been immensely popular, especially when considering that it's only available as an iPhone app. And its social features have been at the heart of it, even if Instagram is in essence a photo sharing app.But it seems that there's no one out there that can ignore or avoid the Facebook behemoth, ev...

6 January 2012
16:01 GMT

How to Batch Import Flickr Photos into Facebook

Facebook Photos is a giant, it's the largest photo sharing and management app on the web, dwarfing dedicated sites like Flickr, Picasa or PhotoBucket, not to mention any of the younger competitors. It's not the best, by any means, but it is the biggest for a couple of good reasons; one, it's built int...

28 December 2011
11:21 GMT

Check Out the New Faster Facebook Photo Uploader with Previews

Facebook is continuing the roll out of its brand new photo uploader app. It debuted a couple of weeks ago, but few people have it enabled so far. But things are going well so Facebook is making it available to more users. If you don't have it already, you should be getting it within the next few weeks. The new ...

28 November 2011
09:31 GMT

Months After It Was Ready, the Facebook iPad App Is Finally Here

After many months in limbo, Facebook has finally unveiled its iPad app. Judging by the popularity of third-party Facebook apps for the iPad, a lot of people have been waiting for a long time, a year and a half, for the social network to debut a native app. You'd think that Facebook, a company with hundreds of...

11 October 2011
11:21 GMT

The New Facebook Lighbox Photo Viewer vs. the Google+ Photo Viewer

While Google+ has been a hit, at least in some circles, it's no threat to Facebook. Yet. But Google+ is still growing and Facebook has to be feeling at least a bit nervous. On paper, Google+ already has pretty much all of the core Facebook features and it's adding more. It also has some features that are...

29 August 2011
08:31 GMT

Google+ Photos Has Everything Facebook Photos Has and More, Except 750 Million Users

One of Facebook's killer feature, especially in the early days when it was still struggling to get traction, is Facebook photos. The feature, at first, was significantly poorer when compared to photo hosting and sharing services at the time, yet Facebook now has more photos than all dedicated services put togeth...

2 July 2011
09:31 GMT

Facebook to Launch Something 'Awesome' Next Week, Possibly a Photo App

Perhaps tired of everyone talking about Google+, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, during a visit at Facebook's Seattle headquarters, that something "awesome" will be launched next week. He didn't reveal any details on what that "awesome" something will be, so journalists and bloggers are having a...

1 July 2011
06:08 GMT

Facebook Is Preparing for War, Working on Photo Sharing App, Mobile App Platform

Facebook is working on something big. In fact, it seems to be working on several big things, all related to the mobile space. First came the news that it was working on its own photo-sharing app or looking to greatly expand the functionality of its photo section in its mobile apps and website.Already, this is a prett...

16 June 2011
11:11 GMT

Facebook Face Recognition Gets into Trouble with European Privacy Regulators

Despite Facebook acknowledging that it should have communicated the fact that its face recognition technology was now being rolled out internationally and despite the feature not being such a big privacy concern, the company is getting in trouble with privacy regulators in Europe.The Article 29 Data Protection Workin...

9 June 2011
07:21 GMT

Roll Out of Face Recognition Facebook Feature Causes Mostly Unwarranted Criticism

The web is all abuzz about the latest Facebook privacy 'mishap' and is discussing all of the implications, or lack thereof, of Facebook's face recognition technology. This despite the fact that the technology is six months old and that it's not really that big of a deal in the first place.Back in ...

8 June 2011
07:59 GMT

Facebook Finally Gets Around to Rolling Out the New Photo Viewer, Ads and All

Photos are one of the biggest draws for Facebook, despite all the talk about connections, social graphs and what have you. People like to view their friends' photos and they love to upload their own. Yet, until very recently, the photo section of the site left much to be desired. Last year, Facebook said this wi...

10 February 2011
07:12 GMT

750 Million Photos Were Uploaded on Facebook over New Year's

Facebook is really playing in a league of its own so any stats from the mammoth social network will be impressive at this point. Its photos feature has been one of the most popular sections of the site since its launch and it's now set a new usage records as 750 million photos were uploaded over the New Year...

4 January 2011
04:37 GMT

Facebook Introduces Face Recognition for Photo Tagging

Photos is one of the unsung heroes of Facebook. The feature was not given much attention for years, yet it probably did more for the site's growth than any other single feature. Facebook is now the world's largest photo host and much of it is due to the tagging functionality built into the photos section. W...

16 December 2010
10:03 GMT

Drag-and-Drop and In-Line Browsing for Facebook Photos

According to the user feedback Facebook has been getting, the team behind the popular social network has recently launched three of the most requested features for Facebook Photos: drag and drop organization of albums and photos, high-resolution photos, and an inline viewer. Considering the huge popularity Facebook...

20 October 2010
18:01 GMT

Facebook Photos Adds High-Resolution Images, a New Uploader

Facebook is rolling out a major update to the photos section. What started off as an after-thought and has been for many years a second-tier interest at the company, despite its huge popularity, is now finally a real threat to photo sharing services out there. With just a couple of changes, Facebook photos now square...

1 October 2010
06:06 GMT

Facebook Photos 5 to 6 Times Bigger than the Competition, Combined

The Facebook Photos feature is huge. We've known this for years now and, if anything, it has gotten bigger since. And 'huge' is starting to become less useful when describing Facebook Photos, the feature is now five to six time "more used" than all of the similar products, combined.“The photo pro...

28 August 2010
05:58 GMT

Facebook Photo Albums Now Feature ‘Infinite Scroll’

Facebook is by far the largest photo host on the web. With billions of photos already and millions more added all the time, they’re a big part of the site. The social network’s engineers have been focusing more on this section of the site recently and have now released a new photo album page which lists h...

12 August 2010
05:17 GMT

Facebook Introduces Automatic Face Detection in Photos

One of the biggest features on Facebook are photos. The site is now the biggest online photo host in the world, by a huge and growing margin, yet that portion of the site has seen its fair share of criticism and rightfully so, most of the times. The photos section is very lacking and the tools around it have been...

2 July 2010
04:46 GMT

Facebook Testing ‘Recent Photos’ Feature

Facebook’s photos feature has been a major driver of traffic and one of the most popular sections of the site. The social nature of Facebook makes it a great place to share family or vacation photos with your friends and family. Already, users spend a lot of time browsing through the photo albums, but Facebook ...

29 May 2010
07:12 GMT

Facebook Enables Larger Photos

Facebook has decided that its 400 million or so users deserve to see a little more of their friends or even of themselves. Quite literally. New photos uploaded to Facebook will now be precisely 116 pixels wider, as the size limit increased from 604 to 720 pixels, an almost 20-percent increase if you want to have clea...

3 March 2010
05:46 GMT

Facebook Gets Basic Photo Slideshow Feature

Facebook has a lot on its plate, Google is launching a new assault with Buzz, Twitter is always a threat, and its growth, Facebook is now at 400 million users, is a blessing as much as it is a burden. For all the things Facebook gets right, there are as many it gets wrong, especially when it comes to the site itself...

10 February 2010
06:34 GMT

Facebook Launches a Great New Photo Uploader

Facebook is the biggest photo-sharing, or rather photo-hosting site in the world easily surpassing dedicated sites like Flickr, Picasa or Photobucket. With 400 million users, the social network can conquer a market even if it isn't actually competing in it. However, the photo management, specifically the upload...

6 February 2010
04:27 GMT

Facebook's New Photo Uploader Is Faster, Doesn't Crash

Facebook has just announced that it’s launching a new photo uploader, which should greatly improve stability but also the performance of the tool. The new tool is being released for testing purposes for the time being and is available in Facebook Prototypes, the social network's testing grounds. The &ldqu...

19 November 2009
06:01 GMT


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