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I finally picked up an iPhone 4 last Friday, and one of the best things about the new handset is the beautiful shots I’ve taken with the camera. I’m not a professional photographer by any stretch, and people who have actually done tilt-shift photography might have a whole lot of bones to pick with the [...]

Ping. I wasn’t sure if I cared about the announcement when I first heard about it last week. After all, I’m already deep into Facebook and Twitter, is there really any reason to add another social networking system to my list? Doesn’t anyone remember MySpace and the path they went down?
Anyways, I figured I’d still [...]

Steve Jobs was surprisingly candid with All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher yesterday — he reportedly told her that both Facebook and Apple had spoken about integrating more closely with the new iTunes social network Ping, but Facebook asked for “onerous terms that we could not agree to” regarding Facebook friends connecting on Ping.

He didn’t [...]

A view of a Ping profile
Social networks are king in 2010 and Apple is the latest company to jump on the bandwagon with Ping. Announced yesterday during Apple’s annual iPod event the Ping social network was described by Steve Jobs as “a new music orientated social network”. But with Apple’s strict policies on privacy, censorship [...]

Booyah has released an iPhone and iPod touch version of its Facebook game, InCrowd, and it’s now available on the App Store. The app, like the very popular MyTown, uses location check-ins to create a game around social networking. But unlike MyTown, this app was originally released as a Facebook game. Booyah originally started InCrowd [...]

Sunday night is the funnest night of the week, when you can join the TUAW staff for an hour or so of live banter about what’s happened in the Apple world in the previous week. This week, we’ll also be chatting about the mystery Apple press conference on Wednesday, which probably isn’t too much of [...]

A few days ago, Facebook divulged the number of users of its mobile apps. The most impressive figure from their posting also turned out to be the most controversial — according to Facebook, more people were using its Facebook for iPhone app (104 million) than the actual number of iOS devices out there (around 100 [...]

Facebook has posted some pretty impressive numbers regarding its mobile users recently, including a developer saying there are more than 150 million active mobile Facebook users. The site itself has more than 500 million members.

- 12 million are using the Android client
- Nearly 59 million are using the Blackberry client
- 105 million are using the [...]

We’re back live tonight on Talkshoe, so call in and chat with us about the biggest Apple stories of the past week.

We’ll continue the Apple TV wishful thinking, consider the graphics optimizations brought to us by eager gamers, and mull the impact of a jailbroken iPhone on late-night TV. It’s bound to be a [...]

If you’ve ever wished Facebook would integrate some of the functionality of online check-in apps like Gowalla or Foursquare, you’re in luck. The Facebook for iPhone app has been updated to version 3.2 and includes a new feature called “Places.”

Places is Facebook’s stab at sharing locations with friends via GPS tagging; by tapping a [...]