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Facebook had announced it was working on a redesign earlier this year. In May, an idea of the redesigned was released to developers. But surely, now it’s easier to understand what’s going on with the people you have been linked to. The three main features called filters, stream and publisher makes it lot easier to use and user friendly. Filters make sure that the user stay updated on what the friends they are linked are posting.

The user can also create their own filters using Friend Lists. The user can also filter by applications, like Photos, videos etc. The other attraction is called stream. The stream shows the user all the posts from his friends in real-time. This keeps them up to date on everything that’s happening. User can also control who appears there. Next is Publisher. By using this user can publish his status, photos, notes and more into the stream. Posts show up both in the user’s profile, and on his friends’ home pages. The publisher lets the user to share his thoughts and content like photos and notes into the stream. The user can have one stream on the Wall on the profile, and one stream on the home page that represents the on-going, flowing conversation between him and his friends.

The focus seems to be on getting the information in real time, the ability to easily filter the information displayed, and making it easier to post links, photos and videos. The other changes in the redesign are like new menu Bar, mini-Feed and wall are now under the wall tab, a new “Bio” box, complete rearrangement of tabs for user’s wall, info, photos, and apps, Facebook Apps are now found in the “Boxes” tab, users can add extra tabs and user can user his webcam to take a photo or record a video to add to his collection or post on the Wall of his friends or relatives.

Image via CrunchBase Million banks and credit unions always desire young adults and the needy for the potential they offer as long-term customers, but it’s really hard for them to reach out to them from the traditional corner branch. As these customers are really difficult to find and hard to impress.
That’s why a unit of Brookfield’s Fiserv Inc. has come up with a computer application that it says will reach young people where many of them hang out — on the Internet social networking site Facebook. Again, thanks to Face book for making the two ends meet. But one of the biggest benefits is the free advertising to. When a Facebook user decides to join MyMoney, Facebook’s “news feed” feature announces it to friends of the customers — and friends of friends. That gives the user a chance to join online as well, including a link to help them find a participating credit union in their area. Kirsten Gardner, marketing manager for Fiserv Galaxy, stressed the importance of the “viral marketing” aspect that occurs when people sign up for it on the Facebook page. Viral marketing, in this instance, is the automatic spread of information about MyMoney from one Facebook user to another whenever someone adds it to their page.”If I go in and add MyMoney to my Facebook application, then all of my friends get a little notice that says I added it and they can click on it,” Gardner said. “That’s one of the ways they are made aware of it. Instead of the typical advertising, which that group really isn’t interested in, they are interested in what their friends are doing and what their peers are doing.” The program recently was cited as the best online innovation by the magazine The Banker at its annual retail banking technology awards. So far 37 credit unions are using MyMoney, and 1,200 Facebook users have signed up to use it.

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.

Through Digg, I came across this so called ‘Facebook Quest’, called “Who’s this Girl‘. Here’s a short summary:

“Please help us find this girl. We found her camera a week ago on a ski piste in Alpe D’Huez. We tried to locate her hotel, based on some pictures of this girl and her friends, and put a note on there, but didn’t got a reaction on it.

Therefore, we’ve posted some pictures of the camera on this Facebook group. Every person in the world is connected trough maximum 7 people, so with the aid of Facebook, we should be able to track her down. And of course, we’ll ship her camera back to wherever she may live. Based on her looks, whe guess she’s from Scandinavia somewhere?

Read the full story on http://www.asfaltkonijn.be/whos-this-girl/

So please forward this message/group to your friends (invite them to join the group), and if you know her, post it in the comments or get in touch by emailing to whosthisgirl.tips@gmail.com !”

Clearly, a lot of people think this is a hoax, but I don’t see why this can’t be real. The guys who posted this on Facebook do have a website, but it’s too small to do this as a viral for a big company. It’s also Dutch, so they don’t need a lot of international visitors. So I guess we can better help them by giving their Who’s this Girl? Facebook group a littlebit of attention. It would be really great (also for Facebook) if they really find the girl using the power of Facebook.

Insidecrm has a wonderful post on 100 tools and tips on Facebook Marketing. It is an exhaustive collection and covers most of the important links which would assist you to understand the nitty-gritty of Facebook marketing.

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The name Facebook was taken from the word paper “face books” of a college. This basically shows the details of the staff members who are the faculty of college students.

As Jeremiah’s friend Kit joined this site first time, there will be many like her who face problems with the poking feature (as till July 2007 the website has over 34million members!)

Poke is a special feature of Facebook having two key features:

> To attract new friends amongst so many users.

> To say Hi, Hello or buzz just like Yahoo messenger.

The main feature of poke is the phrases and the templates which depict your emotions and replies from your friend with whom you are talking too. It contains all kinds of emotions, like: angry, happiness, shouting & so on ………….

Secondly, it also means having fun with your group or friends. Here the poke is exchanged back and forth continuously between friends using poke back feature. Users neglecting to return poke while remaining active, are called as loosers.

There is another feature of poke called “X ME”, or superpoke. Well over here, you can replace poke option for other face book members with words of your choice for your friend..Poke should clearly depict what you want to say to your friend. When you poke someone, a poke icon will appear on his or her home page with an option to “remove poke” or “poke back”.

Once a poke is hidden, it’s gone forever. . I believe hiding a poke enables other person to poke you again, which is always a good thing. As said by Melanie Deitch, Facebook Director of Marketing - “Pokes are one of the social utilities offered by Facebook to spur connections among students”.

I think the social networking platforms like Facebook provide us the different ways to interact with our friends and make new friends over the course of our life.