Facebook will Cooperate with Samsung

According to Bloomberg, this week Facebook CEO meets with President of Samsung's JK Shin to discuss the potential to build cooperation. Facebook are interested in working together with Samsung as largest smartphone vendor, to increase sales of mobile advertising. The two companies also said to have talked about investing in the technology startup.

This is not the first time Facebook related to smartphone vendor, Last April Facebook released HTC First, the Android smartphone that uses Facebook Home and deeply integrated with the largest social networking service. The smartphone reportedly sold less that AT & T as the HTC First seller intends to stop selling the phones. Facebook Home itself as an Android launcher get great criticism both from users and the media.

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Instagram Presents Latest Update 'Photos of You'

After the officially acquired by Facebook last year, Instagram released its first update in 2013. This is the latest update to version 3.5 brings Instagram for iOS and Android, with takes the a new feature called 'Photos of You.' A lot of convenience and the latest features that allows you to perform various activities while using the apliaksi. One of the newest features is the name tags you can do your comrades in the photos you upload. When you upload a photo on Instagram, you will be able to add the names of people as easily as you add a hashtag.

Not limited to that, other interesting things you can do is not just a name tag friends, you can also add any account on Instagram. You can tag your friends name, your favorite restaurant or the name of your pet cat. So much easier to do it by the will of the various settings according to you. It should be noted that you will not find a section Photos of You in the profile. When your friend that there add your name in a photograph, you will receive a notification and a photograph will appear in the Photos of You.

there are other features that are not less cool that you can easily adjust the settings with which photos that appear on your profile. If you do not approve, of course, the image will not appear on your profile. Later Photos of You on Instagram will officially release on May 16. Before it, please playing-around with new features 'Photos of You' in Instagram.

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Is Facebook Going to try Compete Twitter Using Hashtag?

Facebook reportedly to make improvements to search in index services. Mark Zuckerberg-owned company based in San Francisco is now preparing to present hashtag feature is identical to Twitter, Google+ and even Instagram. This icon is often used to link or post status updates to a particular topic. Wall Street Journal launched, March 15, 2013, Facebook is exploring whether to follow the footsteps of Twitter, which allows users to click a hashtag to see all the posts about the topic or event.

Facebook Plans related to the use of the hashtag is a marker of increased competition between Twitter and Facebook, in the case of mobile users and advertising hook. Facebook has recently adopted Twitter communication methods do. Social networking sites Menlo Park California native has made ​​the list of subscribers to the user, and allow to tag celebrity or brand with an @ sign.

In January, Facebook has also introduced a new search service called "Graph Search". This feature can perform search queries properly and give you the answer, so instead of giving link in search engines like Google. The users can also search with a more specific question. The system will automatically search for answers to that question from the billions of existing data in the database up, instead of somewhere else.

However, the feature is currently not allowed Facebook users to find and monitor the actual content of the conversation posted on Facebook by a particular topic. With the hashtag, Facebook seems to be able to provide such a search system. However, the feature is still in testing stage and have yet to be introduced in the near future, according to internal  Facebook's sources said Wall Street Journal reported recently. Responding to the news, Facebook reluctant to comment.

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