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You can plan your next vacation with Skyscanner Facebook Messenger bot

May 26, 2016 by computerera


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Almost two months back Facebook announced Bots support for Facebook Messenger. Any company, service can create a Messenger bot to serve more to the Facebook users.

Skyscanner, a popular travel portal for Flight, Train, Bus ticket bookings launched its service on Facebook Messenger in the form a chat bot. The service responds to the natural language doubts you expressed while communicating with the bot.

For example, in the above image just I answered the source, destination details as Hyderabad and Goa and provided my travel, return dates. That’s it, The Skyscanner chat bot pulled the most relevant data from its servers and placed in front of me within a couple of secs. We can ask more tailored questions while planning the travel.

If you want to test this new service, you can access it Here. Skyscanner is the simple example for how Facebook Messenger bots are going to play a significant role in our lives. We may come across more useful and sophisticated Messenger bots in near future.

Filed Under: How to Guides Tagged With: bus tickets, chat bot, facebook, flight tickets, messenger, messenger bot, train tickets

Hidden features of Facebook messenger that you should try

May 7, 2016 by Satyapriya

Facebook is the most popular social networking site that allows people to get in touch with their near and dear ones all the time. Facebook Messenger is an application from Facebook which allows you to communicate even from phone, tablet and computer. It’s a kind of messaging application. But it allows you to do some really interesting things that a very few people actually know. Facebook Messenger allows you to make voice and video calls along with text messages that very few actually notice and use it. You can also leave voice recordings if the person you want to talk with is not available and they can listen to it later. So here I present you some interesting things you can do with your Facebook Messenger.

Share Location:

Ever got stuck somewhere in an area which you don’t know. Don’t worry, just jump into a chat with your friend and share your location to them, so that they can help you to get out from there. Just click on the three dots in the chat box and then click on location icon, your friends will be sent with a map showing your location.

Add Nicknames:

Many of your friends may be having a few many names like they have some name for their Facebook profile, but you call them with some other name, leaving their Facebook profile name aside, you can actually add their nicknames that can show up on your Facebook Messenger. Just click on the friend’s name and you will get the option to add their nickname.

Play Chess:

Yes, you can actually play chess with you friends virtually and have fun. You just need to type “@fbchess play” on the chat box of the friend whom you want to play chess with. Then the chess game will commence. You have type manual commands like you typed to start the game to make moves. You can always type “@fbchess help” for the instructions.

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Send Money through Messenger:

Yes, you can easily send money to your friends right from your Facebook Messenger. Just click on the three dots option and then click on payments, for the first time payment you need to give the details of your debit card.

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Random Cute:

Add some cuteness in the conversations with your dear ones. Just type “@dailycute” in the chat box, then Facebook Messenger will search for random cute images and share on your behalf.

Take photos and draw on them:

You can actually take photo directly from the Messenger instead of taking from your camera app and then uploading it in the Messenger.. You can also record videos by holding that button. For editing, click on edit while viewing the image and add whatever modifications you want to the photo.

Play Basketball:

You can play basketball on Facebook Messenger by just sending them a basketball emoji. You just need to swipe to make a hoop, if your missed a hoop, then you will be out in the game and your score will be sent to your friend so that they can try to beat you.

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Book an Uber Ride:

To do this you just need to click on the three dots option in the bottom of your screen and then Transportation. For the first time, you will have to go through the setup process and talk, later on Uber will be added as a contact in your chats and you will chat to it to book a ride. Payments will be made with your details in the Uber app.

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Filed Under: Featured, How to Guides, Uncategorized Tagged With: facebook, hidden features, messenger

Ban Whatsapp in India – petition filed in Supreme Court

May 3, 2016 by computerera

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Sudhir Yadav, an activist from Gurgaon, filed a petition in Supreme Court against Whatsapp’s strong encryption.

You may be already aware that Whatsapp introduced end-to-end encryption to the messenger application. Few people across the nation raised their voice considering the security aspects. Now slowly everything went into silence, and people adapted end-to-end encryption without any further discussions about the security.

According to the Indian encryption policy, Indian laws permit only 40-bit encryption. The government sets these norms to make investigation easy for antisocial element activities on social networking sites and messenger applications.

But contrary WhatApp introduced 256-bit Encryption, and the white papers Whatsapp released on encryption clearly indicates that it is highly impossible to decrypt messages, photos, videos exchanged through Whatsapp conversation.

While introducing encryption Whatsapp itself mentioned that they don’t store the decryption key on their server, for any message exchanged through Whatsapp.

Terrorist attacks and other antisocial activities growing rapidly in recent times. Terrorist groups using advanced technology more efficiently than normal users. Whatsapp treats end-to-end encryption as a great privacy measure for its users, but this stops the investigative agencies to solve typical antisocial activities.

The Indian Encryption Policy sets the encryption norms for cellular operators and ISPs only. As per the law technically it doesn’t effect OTT players like Whatsapp. But the Law is for the common good, when the situations demand amendments to the existing Law; OTT players will also come under the purview of the Law.

I’m eagerly waiting for the Judgement on Sudhir Yadav’s petition in the Supreme Court.

Filed Under: Tech News Tagged With: chat, gadgets, india, messenger, technology, whatsapp, whatsapp ban

Self-destructing Messages coming to Facebook

May 2, 2016 by computerera

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There are a few messenger applications which offer self-destructing messages. Facebook messenger users waited for this facility for a long time. As per the leaked screenshot published on Twitter, Facebook is introducing self-destructing messages soon.

Once self-destruction messages option comes into the action, the messages we send to the Messenger application will automatically disappear after the recipient reads them. Or we can set a certain amount of time in which the messages will be available to read. If the defined amount of time expired, those messages would disappear from the Messenger application.

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The leaked screenshot shows that this new feature will arrive at Facebook Messenger Version 68.0 intended for iOS. Even though right now iOS users have the same Version 68.0 on App Store, it seems Facebook has to push the latest upgrade to the existing client.

Of course, if you have a little bit programming knowledge, you can get the same feature by tweaking the code. If you clearly observe the screenshot I published above, definitely you will get an idea on how to configure self-destruction messages’ frequency.

Once it arrives into iOS platform, Facebook will roll out the same feature for the Android users also in a few days.

Filed Under: Tech News Tagged With: facebook, messenger, self-destructing messages

Good News.. Now you can make Facebook Group Voice Calls

April 21, 2016 by computerera

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Good news for Facebook Users, now you can make Group voice calls through your Android and iOS device. Facebook started the global roll out of this feature. So you can get this feature anytime within a couple of days.

Facebook offering Voice calling facility to its users since long time. This new feature allows them to engage in family and friends voice chit chats.

You can add maximum 50 members to the group call. Each user can see other user profiles while they are part in a Group call.

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Facebook Messenger Chief David Marcus announced this. He mentioned.. “Really excited to announce the global roll out of group calling in Messenger today. From any group conversations, just tap on the phone icon to initiate a group call. You can then manage individual participants on the next screen. If you have the latest version of Messenger, you should see the phone icon appear in group conversations within the next 24 hours. Give it a try, and as always, let us know how we can make it even better for you!”

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At F8 Developer conference Facebook already introduced bots support for Facebook, which can be useful for businesses to communicate and support their users through Messenger application. Now this group calling facility provides more functionality to Messenger fans who spend more time on that.

Filed Under: Tech News Tagged With: calls, facebook, fb, group calls, messenger, voice calls

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