Online social network Facebook is now offering its users the opportunity to preview and test new features and functionality before they are made available to all of Facebook’s 80 million members over the coming days. In development over the past six months, the redesign includes an integration of all of a user’s various feeds in a single stream of updates.
The user is free to make any layout according to his convenience. PageRage currently works with Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.x & 3 on Windows XP and Vista, as well as Firefox 2.x & 3 on Mac OS X. The work is going on to make it compatible with Internet Explorer 8 as well as Safari for Mac. Other users who are using PageRage will be able to see the changes one makes to his Facebook page, but in the near future there will be options for users to change things that only will see such as changing the look of all Facebook pages and so that his changes are apply will appear on all the pages a user views.
We can also expect a release of a new version that will enable users to change their view of other pages to enable the ability to add a layout that shows up on all of the pages that a user views, although these layouts will not be visible to anyone else.
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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeThe US Election 2008 Web Monitor provides weekly snapshots of global Web coverage. Lists of keywords summarize the most important issues associated with each candidate, this helps the user to identify which one is the best and is eligible to e the next president of US. This application provides weekly snapshots of global Web coverage.
It captures the Web sites of international media from the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand, environmental organizations, the Fortune 1000 which is the biggest US companies in terms of revenue, as well as 1000 popular blogs on political issues and reflect the results. From these sites, the system processes more than 800,000 documents each week. It collects the data on Monday and publishes the results on Thursday. It keeps updating the current results which help the user to caste their vote for their candidate.
Image via WikipediaWith the Sentiment Quiz, Facebook users and their network of online friends can evaluate whether sentences from an archive of election-related news media articles express positive or negative sentiment. This will really help them to caste their vote to the right candidate and will know them much better. Participants earn points for matching answers, but can also lose them if their opinions differ from the answers of their opponent.
This kind of built in notification system will really help the Facebook users to move in a right path. This will help them to analyze their own decisions and will help them to understand them in a much better way. This phenomenon is really awesome and will really help the users to understand what they are doing and can compare with the algorithms and the statistics which are shown to them.
