As always Facebook keeps surprising me taking social networking to a whole new level. The point is it didn't stop on FB as an idea of taking the social life to the internet then the wall thing then the timeline which I really like. It's like writing your autobiography. I remember a couple of days ago I was checking my FB timeline and I was astonished by the old posts I made and my lifetime events that I almost forgot. It made me remember my high school graduation my college years. Having an innovative idea is great but working on it and making it getting better and better is the real challenge.

Facebook Home isn’t a phone or operating system; it's also more than just an application. Home is a completely new experience that makes us see the world through people, not applications.

The first and last thing we do in bed is that we check our phones. Here comes the Cover feed, it replaces the lock screen and home screen. It's a window into what's happening with our friends - friends at a great outing, an event you are planning with your club members, your family sharing a meal or an article on your favorite website Scoop Empire. These are the beautiful, overwhelming experiences that you get through Home. You can flip through to see more stories, and double tap to like what you see. You won’t miss any updates anymore!

Cover feed is for those in-between moments ­like waiting in line at the grocery store, trapped in a traffic jam or between (through as well) classes ­when you want to see what's going on in your world. It is great for seeing everything going on in the world. But when something happens that's more important and directed at you, like a friend posting on your timeline, you'll receive notifications with their profile pictures.

Getting to your apps in Home is easy as it is on any other phone. Swipe up to see your favorite apps in the launcher. There's also a screen containing all of your apps, and you can drag your favorite ones to the launcher. It also has chat heads, which will allow  you to keep chatting with friends even when you're using other apps. When a friend sends you a message, a chat head appears with your friend's face, so you see exactly who you're chatting with.

What’s really cool about it is that it is totally free and available as a free download from the Google Play Store starting April 12. Home works on the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung GALAXY S III and Samsung GALAXY Note II. Home will also work on the forthcoming HTC One and Samsung GALAXY S4, and on more devices in the coming months. Home will also be available pre-installed on phones through the Facebook Home Program. HTC and AT&T are the first companies working together to deliver a phone with Home. It's called the HTC First and it goes on sale April 12 as well.

With Home, everything on your phone gets friendlier. I just love Facebook.

Facebook is looking to charge users as much as $15 to send messages to public figures and others outside their usual network, with a new payment scheme designed to reduce the amount of spam on the site.

The charges would apply to private messages sent to other members’ inboxes, something that is currently free for all users regardless of whether they are ‘friends’ with the receiver. But the world’s largest social network believes implementing a payment system with a sliding scale of fees depending on the popularity of the recipient will help to kill off much of the spam in circulation.

It isnt enough with the boom of cash that Facebook started making with the Pages tools and the advertising and post promotions. And keep in mind the Mobile advertising features that are still going to be rolled in.

It is currently being tested in the UK market and will probably start rolling out to other markets really soon.

WE SAID THIS: I Wonder if it's my right to get a cut from the messages being sent to me? 

>> Facebook Rolls out Graph Search

So it seems that Facebook has been busy working on improving their interenal search system to come out with the Graph Search. It is basically being able to search within you social metwork on specifics in plain english. It is smart enough to figure out which friends has the most interactions with and it goes to further lenghts than ever before in social circles. Check it demo here: http://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch

>> Samsung Introduces a new game changer: Bendable Screens

Samsung isnt just getting a more traction than its smartphone competitor Apple, it is upping it's game to a whole new level! It has been rumoured before that they're working on such prototypes, but just at the CES conference last week, after fighting a never ending battle with Apple over patents they have rolled out sceeens that bend! Yes, Bendable screens. Dubbed as the "Youm" Technology for flexible OLEDs. 

This is definetly a game changer on all levels and not just in the smartphone world, imagine tablets, marketing communication devices and all products for that matter! And is that the prototype for the S4, probably IS!

>> New MySpace Opens

Back in September, the MySpace team announced the new version of the music based social network and made it available to a few members, today it has opened up its doors to everyone!

The launch of the new site was timed perfectly with a new Justin Timberlake single "Suit & Tie". I'm not sure what the song has to do with the website but maybe there is some kind of promotion/co-branding/endorsement going on here. Maybe it just looks good, well we'll see. It's a sext looking version of the site I must say though.

>> The First Bookless Public Library

I dont know about you but I never joined the whole E-book revolution. It's just something about a hard cover/paperback book that makes it easier and more enjoyable. Well, not for this Texan Judge of Bexar County, who was inspired and pushed to develop a bookless library after reading Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

The library system, dubbed BiblioTech, proposes to make thousands of e-books available for county residents both online and at a 5,000-square-foot physical location on the South Side of the county, according to a statement issued by Bexar County officials. Visitors would be able to check out books to read on their own e-readers or tablets, or borrow one of the library's 150 take-home e-readers. 

Creepy much? I dont know, nothing will take away my beloved books, but I guess sometimes you gotta roll with the days...

>> Google Chrome Dubs Techcrunch & Cult Of Mac as Malware Websites

Google’s malware checker yesterday started to detect ads from isocket‘s advertising network, distributed via the adsbyisocket.com URl, as a threat. The result is that sites using the advertising network are throwing up malware warnings on some pages visited by Google Chrome. These include TechCrunch, Cult Of Mac, and possibly others.

>> Windows Phone Next App Star

The Windows Phones have cauaed quite the stir in the last quarter of 2012 and continue to grow in the market, and to kickoff 2013, Microsoft has announced a new contest for developers called Windows Phone Next App Star. The top prize is a featured placement of the app in a Windows Phone prime-time TV ad in the US. 

That's quite the investor-finder if you ask me, so if you've got the keels go for the heels...

Want to get in contact with Mark Zuckerberg? All you have to do is pay a hefty $100.

Looks like Facebook is trying to capitalize on the fact that since 99% of Facebook users are not friends with Mark Zuckerberg and at least 80% of them would probably want to contact the boy wizard for one reason or another. (Please note, these are not true statistics we made them up, but you catch our drift)

This comes after reports in December and sightings that Facebook, would let you pay $1 to message people who were not friends with you. This was done so people could avoid having their messages sent to the "other" inbox, didn't know it existed check your messages one more time, it's home to creeps who "all think your beautiful and just want to be friends"

What Facebook doesn't want us to think is that this isn't just a mere attempt to make "MORE" money, but instead "they are testing out some extreme price points to see what works as a filter to spam" according to one of their spokespersons.

WE Said This: We Don't know about you, but we can't find a reason in the world why we would pay $100 to message Zuckerberg, do you?

In celebration of reaching 2 million Facebook fans, Vodafone Egypt has come up with a youtube sensation that is bound for virality!

Featuring a song about Facebook activity named "Face-Face-Book" (In Arabic فس فس بوك), sung by musicians, youtube artists, groups, bands, characters in the Egyptian society and more...

Check out the video below: -

WE SAID THIS: It's not the first time we see this kind of celebration for social media activity but it is definetly the first of its kind for Egypt!

Greedy Greedy Facebook, not only do you own our lives online, you took Instagram and now Blackberry's arch nemesis WhatsApp?

Rumors have been swirling online that Facebook is looking to buy WhatsApp and add it to their ever growing portfolio of start ups. The 1 billion a day messaging service (yes you read that right) has grown tremendously over the past couple years

WhatsApp currently has over 300 million users and sends/receives more than 11,000 messages every second! According to Zuckerberg the next "big thing is obviously going to be mobile, with 5 billion people in the world who have phones!"

Ummm Zuckerberg its not the next big thing, it IS THE BIG THING! It's unsure whether or not Facebook is planning on integrating their chat service with WhatsApp or will continue letting it work as is.

We Said This: Please don't ruin something that is perfectly fine Facebook

Facebook happens to be the largest social network to date, probably what you spend the majority of your day when your online doing. Thus having all your info and knowing your whereabouts, the social network has made it official it will be launching its own external advertising agency.

Advertisers will now be able to use the information about users in order to target ads at specific audiences and groups while they surf the internet.

So basically they can push ads to you off Facebook, based on the information they have gathered on their platform! Sneaky, Sneaky, Facebook!

So this brings up the debate, how safe is it to grant the social medium access to your information? Probably doesn't matter much, the social giant will continue dominating the market and like most everyone who is addicted to it, will continue using it.

We Said This: Get ready to see those Facebook ads following you around the internet.