Nice infographic from Kiss Metrics visualising the growth and subsequent valuation of Instagram after its sale to Facebook. I don’t think Instagram was worth $1bn, but its a smart move from Facebook – whose growth was largely down to photo sharing. They have neutralised a rival photo sharing network.
Facebook set to launch Music Streaming Service
Later this month, Facebook is set to launch their brand new music streaming service, an exciting new way to listen to music. This new social music experience could just about revolutionise the music industry all together. Myspace successfully proved the importance of social networking for music-makers and lovers, and with even more advanced knowledge and technology, Facebook certainly have the potential to create an awesome platform for sharing music. Facebook are doing a great job so far at making much needed changes to their social networking site to keep users from leaving them for Google +, so will they be able to keep at the top of the social charts and win back the support of everyone with their new music service. We will have to wait and see!
Beyonce’s baby bump reveal achieves new Twitter record
Move over Justin Bieber, Mashable reports that a new Twitter world record of tweets per second has been achieved. This comes as a result of Beyonce, the Bootylicious babe’s, baby news at the MTV’s 2011 Video Music Awards on Sunday night, 28th August. Beyonce’s baby reveal at 10.35 p.m. EDT resulted in a high reaching 8, 868 tweets per second.
This score surpasses previous records of 7,196 tweets pre second, which was set during Japan’s Women’s World Cup victory in July.
Along with this exciting baby news, on Sunday, Twitter reported that there were more than 3,000 tweets per minute related to Hurricane Irene. It certainly has been a busy week for news on Twitter.
Facebook makes photos bigger and faster to load
What better time to make improvements to the photo service than now? Everyone is coming back from their summer holidays with hundreds of sun-kissed, margarita-fuelled snaps to make all their friends jealous with. So thank you Facebook. According to reports 250 million photos are uploaded each day, which therefore goes to show that sharing pictures is one of the most popular activities on Facebook. As a result, Facebook have now introduced some improvements to the way you view photos.
The photos are now bigger (720 pixels to 960 pixels) and load twice as fast, giving you quicker access to larger and clearer images. Along with this, all past photo uploads are too displayed at this higher resolution.
Social Recipes from Foodily
The clever Foodily Facebook Application takes recipes from all over the web, including mainstream food sites such as marthaStewart.com and other food-related and cooking blogs. Its Facebook app enables users to examine recipes for the same dish side-by-side.
The great thing about this Facebook app is that users can compare recipes’ ingredients, calories, fat content, and nutritional values, at the same time as seeking advice from Facebook friends, or users of the app with matching tantalising taste-buds. No longer will you be stuck with what to cook for dinner anymore!
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