One of Facebook’s main goals in implementing their redesign was to get rid of the clutter, which really means getting rid of the widgets and badges that sit on a user’s profile but didn’t really do anything.
Nick O’Neill over at All Facebook created one such geegaw - a Bush Countdown Clock - as a joke when the platform first opened last year. Since Facebook overhauled the site’s design, traffic has bottomed out (see graph below). Nick takes this to mean that widgets are dead on Facebook.
Why is this happening? Since the badges now go on the ’boxes’ tab and not on your main profile page, nobody ever sees them. And since they don’t actually have a way for users to interact with the application outside of the profile, users never see stories about them in their news feeds.
From Facebook’s perspective, this is great news - they want applications to be robust, not just one-off jokes that sit on your profile long...
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ColdFusion Jedi , Ray Camden, has written an article for Adobe Developer Connection entitled Developing Facebook applications with ColdFusion about, well, that should be obvious.... more
A juror in the UK was unsure of which way to go on a difficult court case. In order to get a wider perspective on the issue, the woman created a Facebook poll to gather her friend’s opinions. A crowdsourced legal system? Sounds interesting, but unfortunately the poll was not set to private, so anyone on the network could see it. Discussing details of a court case is of course, against the law, and she inevitably got caught and was dismissed from the trial.
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A juror in the UK was unsure of which way to go on a difficult court case. In order to get a wider perspective on the issue, the woman created a Facebook poll to gather her friend’s opinions. A crowdsourced legal system? Sounds interesting, but unfortunately the poll was not set to private, so anyone on the network could see it. Discussing details of a court case is of course, against the law, and she inevitably got caught and was dismissed from the trial.
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Since Facebook started letting users comment on friends status updates on its mobile site yesterday, it says more than one million users have made these Twitter-like replies in the last 24 hours.
In the minds of Twitter users, this commenting feature likely seems most analogous to the “@friend” feature of Twitter, where you can designate a [...]... more
This is going to make it harder for Jeff Bewkes to get the price he wants for his wobbling AOL unit: An admission by CFO John Martin that the Web company’s ad revenue is sputtering. Bloomberg :
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You didn’t really think gamers would be able to keep their hands off of Electronic Arts’ (ERTS) long-awaited evolution game Spore , did you? All week long we’ve been hearing nonsense about a boycott over the game’s anti-piracy DRM restrictions, along with a campaign to give legendary SimCity designer Will Wright’s latest creation a one-star rating on Amazon (AMZN) in protest.
But it turns out no one’s paying attention to the ratings, and ... more
Apple (AAPL) loves to sweat the small stuff, so we’d be really interested in hearing how the decision-making went on this one. Warning: It’s wonky.
When you download one of their new hi-def TV episodes via iTunes , you’re really downloading two files -- one is a large hi-def video, the other a smaller, standard-def video. This ensures you’ll have a great-quality video to watch on your computer or Apple TV, and a smaller-size file to put on your iPod or iPhon... more
Wired managed to keep Google’s (GOOG) secret for weeks before its new Chrome browser was announced, and left those in the trade press wondering how a slow-moving monthly magazine could (almost) break some tech news.
Conde Nast corporate cousin Vanity Fair wasn’t so lucky with its would-be scoop on Lance Armstrong returning to professional cycling. The magazine had hoped to protect the scoop for its November issue, which hits the streets in New York an... more
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