Facebook have recently been holding a conference in the States called F8, it is basically a conference for Facebook developers to attend to see what the big FB are doing over the next year on their development platform, one of the major things to come out about using the Facebook connect system is that developers […]
Category: Social
Did you know about Facebook Phonebook?
… ‘cuz i certainly didn’t! Today when i logged onto Facebook i saw a little message telling me that one of my friends had changed their phone number and that it had been added to my phonebook. Phonebook you say? Call me slow but i didn’t realise that i had a phonebook on Facebook. Not […]
More Strangeness going on with the Digg algo
A couple of days ago some strange things were going on with the Digg algorithm which meant that stories managed to hit the front page with only one or two Diggs. Now today whilst browsing i noticed that 3 stories had managed to hit the front page with 0 or 1 comments. Usually a story […]
Digg shows off new look comment system
I have just been browsing around Digg and noticed that something was a little bit different. It seems that they have updated the comment system on stories into a better format. I personally think it looks a lot better, its more clear and consice and it also allows you to filter comments to show just […]
Facebook Chat Launches
It’s been in the works for a while, but it seems that today was the mass roll out of the Facebook Chat Application, well i say application but it isnt the usual FB app whereby you install it on a canvas page and then it shows up in your profile, oh no sir e Bob […]
Facebook finally lets users block application requests
I am not sure how long Facebook have been doing this but today i finally realised that Facebook are letting users permanently block application requests from those damn annoying applications such as owned or lil green patch. This is especially welcome to me as having the name Dean Chew means that i frequently appear at […]
Facebook hacked? Some application’s can post on users walls
I was hanging around on Facebook over the weekend when i noticed a couple of strange wall posts from two of my friends. Both of them included url’s to “ringers” which in English means ring tones. I was quite fascinated by this because i have been playing with FB apps for a while and have […]