As the Facebook Platform matures in its second year, big upcoming changes like the profile redesign and new policy initiatives have altered the Facebook Platform landscape significantly. Inside Facebook asked Salil Deshpande, General Partner at Bay Partners (which launched its AppFactory application developer fund and incubation program 1 year ago), to share his thoughts […]
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Late last night Facebook updated user newsfeeds under the new profile design. The move was expected as Mark Zuckerberg gave a first preview during the f8 keynote last week. The new feature enables users to filter through “Top Stories”, “Status Updates”, “Photos” and “Posted Items”. This means that users are now going […]
One of the big news stories this morning is that the Argarwalla brothers who founded Scrabulous have launched a similar application called “Wordscraper”. The application, which is similar in style to Scrabulous, has attracted over 8,000 people so far. It also appears that the brother no longer have an announcement message on Scrabulous […]
While Facebook simplified the News Feed interface a few months ago by removing the “thumbs up/thumbs down” ratings system, in-line News Feed preferences are now back in the Facebook redesign.
While before users gave feedback on a story, now users can give feedback on a story type or a particular friend: for example, “show me more […]
A day after Scrabulous developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla took the game offline in the US and Canada, the team of Indian brothers has relaunched the game with a new name and board design: Wordscraper. Wordscraper uses the same UI as the old Scrabulous and is played essentially the same way Scrabble is played, but […]
It’s been nearly two years since Facebook’s News Feed launched. Tonight, Facebook is turning on the first major change to the News Feed user experience: News Feed filters.
News Feed filters are tabs at the top of the News Feed that allow you to view stories of only one type. This is a great way to […]
Well the time for Scrabulous may have just come. As Caroline McCarthy pointed out this morning, the Scrabulous application is no longer running. When you visit the application a box appears that simply says “Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like to stay informed about […]
Last week following the f8 keynote Mark Zuckerberg, Ben Ling and Chamath Palihapitiya sat down to talk with members of the press. My internet access has been slow since then so I didn’t have the chance to upload the video I shot of the event. Below you will find a video of most […]
Facebook has been growing by leaps and bounds during the first half of 2008. As of June, Facebook became the largest social network by reach at 132 million uniques, a 35% jump from the end of 2007. (See more overall data on social networking growth in 2008.)
So where are the new users coming from? Inside […]
Although it’s taken a lot longer than expected, and is still highly restricted, MySpace today announced the launch of applications invitations (what it’s calling ACC or Application Communications Channel).
Here’s how MySpace invites work:
App invites can only be sent to 1 friend at a time (though MySpace says this is only for now)
There can be “no […]
Apparently there has been a little bit of an uproar over the past few days over one of the actions on Slide’s SuperPoke application. Users were able to “shank” each other. “Shank” is a slang term which refers to stabbing other people. The action was considered distasteful as there have been a […]
Today Facebook announced the hiring of a new Director of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer. Mike led the the development team at Mozilla and was CTO at Sun Microsystems. Mike will be reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg until a Vice President of Engineering position is filled.
Facebook continues to hire top tier employees to add to […]
Facebook announced this morning that it has hired Mike Schroepfer, former VP of Engineering at Mozilla where he led the development of the Firefox web browser, as a new Director of Engineering with responsibility for leading front-end product and platform engineering.
Prior to Mozilla, Schroepfer was the CTO of Sun’s data center automation division (”N1″). There, […]
An interesting thing happened to me over the weekend when I was down in Miami this weekend. At some point during the weekend I logged into Facebook and noticed an ad for South Florida Rehab Homes. Prior to now, I always thought the Facebook ad targeting program used profile data to target users. […]
According to Facebook, only 5 percent of users have been granted access to the new profile design. This is taking place while Facebook works through it’s bugs and responds to user feedback. It is clear that everything isn’t completely ready for prime-time yet. Personally, I have been having browser issues with my […]