Facebook have announced they will now support hashtags with the aim of making posts and conversations more social.
Google Buys Waze
Google has purchased the social sat-nav company Waze for a reported $1 billion. The app available on iOS and Android provides free sat-nav and real time traffic updates based on other users driving times. The company was founded in 2008 by Uri Levine and others in the upcoming tech capital of Israel.
Facebook adds Free Calls to Messenger App in UK
Facebook has updated it's Messenger App in the UK to now all 'Free Calls', as has been the case in the US and Canada for a few months. This is quite a significant update and gives massive contribution not only to other VoIP providers such as Skype but also to network providers.
Why pay for minutes (and texts) when you can do it for virtually free over the internet. This also starts the debate about whether your phone even needs a phone number.
Does this spell the start of the end for mobile phone numbers? Comment below.
Facebook Redesign
Facebook have released details of a newly redesigned News Feed and Profile Pages. 'Goodbye Clutter' is the tagline and that's exactly what it does. The new design moves all the content in to just two columns rather than the current three and makes content much clearer with larger images. The new News Feed is being slowly rolled out to all users over the next few months.
How It Started - Site Review
Ever wondered how the world's most famous companies started out? I have. Now there's an amazing website where you can find out, it's called How It Started. The website features a whole range of companies from Mashable to Hooters and just about everything in between.
The site is a pleasure to use with each company featured in a colourful grid style on the homepage. You can filter companies by type to narrow down to your area of interest or simply browse them all. Once you click on a company their page opens with a brief description and a large video that details how they got started. You can then flick through the companies until you get to another that you find interesting.
It's not just businesses on there either though. There's a whole host of celebrities and public figures too, including Wretch 32 and Tim Lovejoy.
There's another cool section to the website and that's 'How do they make money?'. This part shows how different companies actually make money (if they do actually make money). It shows whether they're profitable and how they make their profit - advertising, freemium, subscribers etc.
The site's got a good blog with lots of posts about entrepreneurship, music and productivity.
Although the site doesn't quite seem 100% complete and a lot of the content isn't their own there is still a tonne of information on there and they seem to be growing quite quickly.
Take a look and see what you think, comment below with your opinions.