OK Facebook + BlackBerry addicts... we are getting CLOSER.. After a lot of anticipation, RIM is making Facebook for BlackBerry v2 available to a limited number of Beta Zone members today. You'll have to be on a BlackBerry 6 device and login to Beta Zone asap to signup for the trial and hopefully get in on the testing. Facebook v2 brings with it a lot of improvements, including:
- Facebook Chat w/ "Always On" Facebook Chat Notifications
- Redesigned Navigation Grid
- New Notifications Bar
- Improved News Feed Scrolling
- Enhanced Profiles
- Added Publisher Functionality
- Updated User Interface
To be dead honest, I haven't been using Facebook on my BlackBerry for a while now (one, because I'm trying to not spend time on facebook, and two, because the old BB app wasn't very good), but after rocking v2 on my BlackBerry Torch for a couple days now I'm overall really happy with v2 so far. With features like Facebook Chat, Places and Pages integrated it's a much fuller experience, and the speed of the app seems improved (like loading up a big friends list for the first time). Those of you who use Facebook daily on your BB will be the best judges of it though, so hopefully it's a short beta and v2 will be released a lot sooner than later! I'll whip up a video showing it off shortly... if there's anything specific you want to see, let me know in the comments. Stay tuned!
Google will pay you a measly $1.50 a week to track EVERYTHING on your phone
Google already tracks a lot of your data, whether you want them to or not. But for a mere pittance they'll track even more of it! Why? All so they can better sell ads to put in front of your face. Cooooooool.
ChatGPT's totally predictable disruption of education
The moment ChatGPT was unveiled the outcome for education was obvious: students were absolutely going to use it. But does it count as cheating?
Big Oil is coming for EVs (in a good way?)
Some of the biggest oil companies in the world have acknowledged that the future of surface transportation will largely be electric, and they don't want to miss out on that rapidly expanding pie.