Spool purchase Facebook to mark and share content on mobile devices

Facebook added mobile technology with the acquisition of Spool, a young company that specializes in identifying and sharing content on smartphones or tablets.


"Spool's team has extensive experience in developing mobile software and a passion to make the content easy to consume," Facebook said Monday.


Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Spool can organize content using bookmarks online to access digital stories, videos or other material in different Internet-connected devices.


"We created Spool to make Web content easy to consume on a mobile device," the company said in a blog, which announced its entry into the leading social network.


"We firmly believe that the solution of these problems will become increasingly important in a world that primarily access the Internet through mobile devices."


Facebook, which is headquartered in Menlo Park, California (west), as a priority to improve its mobile offering to meet the demand of users increasingly access the service from smartphones or tablets.

Facebook now states may have more than 60 000 characters

CALIFORNIA .- The message was short on social networks are starting to fall behind. While the texts written by Twitter users still have to be 140 characters inFacebook are longer. In fact, much longer: over 60 000 characters.

In a post published yesterday on the social network, Vadim Lavrusik, program manager for Journalists announced Facebook Facebook now accept comments up to 63,206 characters.

This means that states, messages in other people's walls and even the comments on photos may be that extension. To put this in perspective, according Lavrusik, a novel "average" could be written in just 9 states Facebook.

The evolution of the size allowed for the texts in the social network has been interesting. As of March 2009 could have 160 posts carateres. That month 420 were authorized in July this year reached 500. In September 5000 accepted characters per message and now, three months later, we reached 63 206.