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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

Image via WikipediaAdam Ostrow has talked about the changes in Facebook’s architecture. Facebook is going open and will be now sharing its architecture/source-code with the entire community. Adam has talked about a new server which is being built by Facebook. The server is a called as Scribe and like any other open-source application can be downloaded from as a project on SourceForge, where developers can track updates, request features, and submit bug reports.

I think the vital feature here is ’scability’. This is something which has always been a feature of Facebook and will continue to be ! You talk about other social-networking sites and they just simply aren’t scalable enough. While the no. of users keep on growing we see outages/down-times of popular websites like twitter etc.

Scribe is primarily a logging server for managing the network statistics. It is not the thing if you’re looking to build a social network.

As Adam says Scribe might be something worth a look

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.

Image via Wikipedia New Facebook has been announced that everyone was waiting for. The most amazing change is the applications menu, and user will soon be able to see in the lower left corner of the screen in the same bar where chat messages appear. In the new applications menu, all of a user’s bookmarks will appear and be easily accessible. In addition, up to six application icons will be shown to the right of the menu button. When users are using their application, they will be able to easily identify and bookmark your application with just one click. Initially users weren’t easily finding their way to their favorite applications.

By moving this menu and displaying a few icons at the new location, users will always be able to find the applications they use, as well as easily bookmark their favorite applications or the ones they use the most. With the new profile design, user

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.

Facebook has confirmed that it will launch in-line Mini Feed comments. The feed is a perfect place for personal & public conversation, exactly the type of communication. Updates on friends

” There’s so much you can do with it. It’s the next big thing. Everything else looks so small infront of it. Every one’s talking about it, there’s a buzz about it. Now, is time that you should join it and explore the world inside it. ” - I told my tech junkie buddy.

Politely he asked, “But man, we guys don’t get the time to do all these things, and after all it is just one of those many things available, I mean there is already so much of fuss about social networking. So why should I join? Just for the heck of it? Or is there something else which might ultimately provide value to me per se or more organization or my environment for that matter.

“Most certainly, Yes”, I told him. Essentially that’s why the blogosphere (the users) are going crazy over it as they realize the potential, the power of Facebook. It is your face after all, your face to the rest of the world.

Let us just discover and understand the 2 W’s of facebook. The what and why attached to it.

What? ” Facebook is a “social portal or more so a utility” connecting people with friends, business guys, people with similar interests and everyone else who has a similar line of thought.

Why? People are using facebook to stay in touch buddies, see what they’re doing, learning more stuff about them, see they’re networking with whom, discover facts which they never knew, find long lost school pals, share photographs of themselves in a network, join user-groups and communities, share their expressions and feelings all under on roof.

Facebook, is a terrific mix of social and professional life in the world wide web. It is the fun way of interacting with people.

Come, discover with us the journey in the world of Facebook, where we dig deeper to potentially find out the vast set of benefits it offers to me and you.

I just read the breaking news on Mashable that Facebook released a special version of Facebook for the iPhone. If you own an iPhone, head directly to http://iphone.facebook.com/ and check it out. All the essential features -overview, profile, friends and message inbox- are compressed to fit on the smaller screen. Looks awesome to me!