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Facebook Starts Rolling Out New Site Navigation Features

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In case you didn’t know, Facebook is celebrating its 6 years of existence today.  So as one way of celebrating this event, the world’s no.1 social networking site is introducing some new navigation features that would help us all quickly find what we are looking for on our individual Facebook home page.

First of these changes is the top menu where you can now find the newest notifications, requests and messages indicated by a red bubble that would appear in the left-hand corner of the home page near the search bar. Clicking on this red bubble will display a pull-down menu showing recent notifications.

Speaking of the search bar, this was also change a bit. Actually more of relocated or pushed to the center of the top menu a bit.

The other update is on the left menu navigation part of  the Facebook home page where the links to your different contents are now more organized including your Photos, Events and Friends dashboard.

If you’re fond of chatting with your friends, you’d also notice that the chat icon is now located on the lower left side of the screen from its previous location on the lower right side of your home page. [Read more…]

Originally posted on February 5, 2010 @ 6:11 pm

YouTube Now Streaming Facebook Video Feeds

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YouTube has started featuring Facebook videos shared by your friends right on its home page, says YouTube’s Official Blog. What this means is that every time your Facebook friends embed videos, it will be automatically pushed to your YouTube account. So, this practically gives you two ways of finding out what your friends have uploaded – either from YouTube or Facebook.

The feature is currently in beta mode. But the YouTube blog gave a work around to try out the feature.  Just go to this page and look just connect your Facebook account to YouTube. Once the verification process is complete, you would soon start seeing your friends’ video feeds on your YouTube homepage.

While you’re still there, you might want enable or disable autoshare as well if you don’t want your YouTube videos syndicated on Facebook. Although, I’m not really sure why you would want to do that since feeding your YouTube videos to Facebook gives it more audience.

You can also connect to your Facebook friends by using the search friends function on the YouTube homepage.

Originally posted on December 18, 2009 @ 8:48 pm

Friendster Rolls Out New Design, Prepping Up for Sell Out?

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Flashback to 2002, there were no Facebook or Twitter yet. Then came a social networking site called Friendster. In no time at all, Friendster became a big hit. Ask any Asian Facebook users today if they’ve used Friendster and they will most likely answer in unison – that Friendster was their first taste of social networking.

Today, Friendster has lost its luster, thanks to Facebook and Myspace. Probably more than half of Friendster accounts have already been closed or deleted and the users are all on Facebook now. Are all hopes lost for what used to be Asia’s top social network? Enter a new Friendster – sporting a new look and perhaps better features. [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 4, 2009 @ 2:41 am

Man Marries Woman, Posts a Tweet Before Kissing His Bride

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Here’s the story in a nutshell – man marries woman but before kissing his new wife, husband pull out his cellphone and updates his status on both his Facebook and Twitter accounts, then he goes on to kiss his wife.

Sounds fun? Well for the social networking geeks who just can’t live without a single moment in their life not posting tweets or updating their Facebook profile this could sound like fun. But what about the woman? [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 2, 2009 @ 5:47 pm

Ikea Gets People to Spam Themselves and Their Friends on Facebook

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Don’t you just hate when marketers tag you in some spammy promo picture on Facebook? Yeah, so do I. Ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors realized this, and found an interesting way to get around it for their client Ikea: get users to tag themselves in Ikea promo pictures. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 25, 2009 @ 9:08 am