http://facebookblogged.com Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:17:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/08/15/pagerage/ Image by Kables via FlickrMinggl’s new Facebook application, called the Political Wall. This enables the user to cast his vote for one candidate or the other. He is free to leave a comment explaining why he voted that way and others vote for the same candidate. This is something like ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/08/10/minggls-political-wall/ 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 ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/08/05/us08-election-monitor/ 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. ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/08/01/us08-sentiment-quiz/ Facebook today announced that Web pioneer and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen has joined its board of directors. Currently co-founder and chairman at Ning, Andreessen is an investor in several Internet startups. A prominent Silicon Valley veteran, Andreessen co-founded Ning as a complementary platform to Facebook that allows people to create ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/07/17/marc-andreessen-joins-facebook-board-of-directors/ Facebook users who haven't yet specified their gender in their profile will have to do so in the coming few weeks. Under a new gender policy introduced by the Web site, it will start prompting users to choose whether they'd like to be referred to as 'him' or 'her', 'he' ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/07/12/what-is-your-gender/ Ubersoft has launched a new Facebook application “Swoopin”. This application lets users choose from 800 free games and either download the titles themselves, or send them to friends on Facebook. The files are side loaded onto phones, rather than sent directly. It's one of the first ad-funded mobile game services ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/07/07/swoopin-download-share-free-mobile-games/ 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’ status, application engagement, and new friend connections are compelling contexts for in-feed conversations. The update makes the profile page more ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/07/01/facebook-mini-feed-commenting/ Image via WikipediaThis release includes the API infrastructure, the FQL parser, the FBML parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags. It also has extensibility points built in so user can add his own functionality, such as the user owns FBML tags, API methods, etc. ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/06/27/facebook-releases-fbopen/ The feed feature has been expanded on Facebook to make it friendly for users to publish a social stream of their activity outside of Facebook and publish into their mini-feed. On the facebook profile page, the user can see at the upper right side of the mini-feed and click on ... http://facebookblogged.com/2008/06/23/facebook-and-mini-feed/