Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Facebook’s Recommended Subscriptions

October 6th, 2010 Featured, Web No Comments
About two weeks ago when Facebook unveiled it’s Recommended Subscriptions Page Browser, it was just another FB lab experiment to test out how user take it. But it turned out to be a massive featured recommendation engine that silently harnessed the 500 million users recommendations. The potential for that sort of user power behind any recommendation engine is killer, and the fact is it’s FB we are talking about. Page Browser seems completely standalone (well at least for now), you have to directly navigate in there rather than via any navigation link from main interface (user must be logged in though). Facebook supply recommendation based on user’s age, profile data, location, gender etc. FB recommendations will be highlighted as big and bold icons. User has complete freedom of liking or disliking FB recommendations. Simple and clean interaction is obviously appealing. Since the recommendations are based on FB’s user profiling, every users got somewhat unique recommendations, well on the side it will also show friends who got similar recommendation like you. It’s a way of connecting people, isn’t it? Facebook recommendation doesn’t necessarily is based on something that user searched or joined or shared but is more of a things user…
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Facebook’s latest privacy dilemma

May 25th, 2010 Web No Comments
400 million plus active users (well even if more than half of them are just active with Games) Facebook certainly dominate social network arena in every country. Hmm minus India (Orkut) and China (Renren.com ). Facebook is nice and all but it has a nasty habit of in the middle of Privacy arguments all the time. Excessive emails, too nosy news feeds, junks from everyone and friends, sneaky Ads etc. always have been there to irritate the hell out of most of us. If not all most Facebook user do complaint about these. Lately, most high-profile complaints involve recent changes to the company’s privacy policies. Social Media Giant Has Come Under Withering Criticism For Its Convoluted Privacy Settings, Which May Share More Than Users Realize. With over 50 different privacy buttons, inducing 170+ options for users certainly makes things drastically complicated. Facebook’s recent adjustments make it incredibly difficult to control your information in any reasonable way. Even after you go through all those you are not even 100% sure your information are safe. Nick Bolton of NY Times figured out that United States Constitution, without any of its amendments is 1,287 words shorter than Facebook’s privacy policy, go figure! In…
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Three kickass Facebook application for business users

November 15th, 2007 Web No Comments
There is no doubt now, Facebook is the hottest technology now. Why did I said-“Technology”, well Facebook is just more than a social network where people share media’s and get to know each other. It’s working more as tool to build network, presenting an environment/resources to manage, create better communication among networkers. So it’s not surprising a lot of power business users using Facebook now days, and here are three kickass applications that make their life a lot easier- FBlook A simple yet fabulous Facebook application essential for outlook users. well off course if they are facebookers. When installed this tool let you update your Facebook status, track contacts status as well as notifications right within outlook. No need to open browser window or any other application while receive necessary notification right in your outlook while you are busy taken care of business. You can say this little tool by TechHit simply integrate Facebook into your outlook. Installation and initial configurations straight forward and 4 steps process, which require allowing permission to FBlook from Facebook. So far this program has no reported bugs or security threat. Professional profile Since business users need to show off their professional charisma and achievements,…
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