Posts Tagged ‘a-news-feed’

Facebook Users Can Now Edit Their Comments Within a Few Seconds of Posting

Facebook users can now edit a comment they’ve left on a news feed story or wall post by clicking the ‘x’ button within the first few seconds after posting the comment. Instead of deleting the comment as before, the ‘x’ button re-opens the comment input field and lets users edit the previously entered text

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Facebook Users Can Now Edit Their Comments Within a Few Seconds of Posting

Facebook users can now edit a comment they’ve left on a news feed story or wall post by clicking the ‘x’ button within the first few seconds after posting the comment. Instead of deleting the comment as before, the ‘x’ button re-opens the comment input field and lets users edit the previously entered text.

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In Trying to Follow Copyright Law, Facebook Takes Down Innocent Pages

Recently, Facebook has removed several Pages of well-known organizations in response to copyright infringement claims that have turned out to be bogus. Facebook is experiencing the same problem with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act as other user generated content sites such as YouTube and Google’s blogging platform Blogger — namely that if it doesn’t work to ”expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing upon” copyright, it can lose its safe harbor status offered by the  Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act and can itself become financially liable for the copyright infringement

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Facebook Redesigns Questions Product for Quick Polling and Recommendations

Facebook has overhauled the design of its questions and answers product Questions, refocusing it on quickly polling friends and getting recommendations instead of seeking long-form answers and following topics. Questions is now more lightweight, viral and a more seamless part of the Facebook experience that will appeal to wide audience, rather than a niche destination. The new Questions product becomes available today to the beta tester group who had access to the old product as well as to anyone who’s specifically asked a question, and those who opt in at  www.facebook.com/questions

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Fontself Allows Facebook Users to Chat, With Fonts That Use Their Own Handwriting

Fontself is a new Facebook application and stand alone website that allows users to create their own fonts, or even use their own handwriting , when chatting, using email or blogging.

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Facebook Displays Old Status Updates in Memorable Stories Sidebar Module

Facebook is testing a new Memorable Stories sidebar module which shows users four of their old status updates and when they were posted. The module is sometimes displayed in the right sidebar when users click “View Post” on a news feed or wall story.

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Pixable’s Photofeed App Is the Best Way to Discover and Browse Facebook Photos

Today, startup Pixable launches its addictive photo discovery and consumption Facebook app Photofeed . It arranges all the photos shared by your Facebook friends into a highly relevant stream based on Likes, comments, and tags.

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The New York Times Is Latest Newspaper to Tightly Integrate Facebook

The New York Times introduced Facebook integration earlier this week, allowing users to more easily share stories to Facebook, and see what stories their friends have already been sharing.

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Amid All the New Hires, a Few Early Facebook Employees Slip Out the Door

Facebook is busy hiring in the US and around the world , notably pulling in engineering and product leaders from Google and other companies around Silicon Valley. But a few well-known employees, especially early ones who have vested, are no longer with the company

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Facebook Continues to Roll Out Hovercard Previews for News Feed Items

Facebook has slowly been rolling out “hovercards” to show previews of profiles, Pages, events and groups when their names are moused over on the news feed.

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