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Manifestos

Posted on13. Dec, 2011 by hotlou.

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Google for good

Posted on11. Mar, 2011 by hotlou.

The Japan quake is so huge that, for the first time ever, Google is using the real estate on its home page for broadcasting a safety message.

Half a world away, feeling helpless.

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New filters for Facebook Page walls

Posted on27. Jan, 2011 by hotlou.

Looks like Facebook is adding new filters to Page walls (see screenshot). Here’s a breakdown of the modes. Top Posts A Facebook algorithm seems to be applied to display and sort the posts that are “top.” This would be particularly cool if it’s personalized for the viewer. Most Recent Posts by everyone (the Page and [...]

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Facebook’s New Photos Browser

Posted on14. Oct, 2010 by hotlou.

I caught a glimpse today of Facebook’s new photos browser: When Facebook initially announced that high res photo sharing would be an option, I immediately wondered what impact it would have on comments/likes, page views, and ads, but as you can see above, an ever-present footer allows frictionless commenting/liking and includes dedicated real estate for [...]

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NEW: Facebook Page Spam Filter

Posted on24. Sep, 2010 by hotlou.

As of today, you can now see a “Spam” option among your Facebook Page filters: I’ve personally noticed a huge spike in “work from home” type spam posts. Initially I had dealt with this by flagging the post and banning the user. Later I realized that many of the posters might not have been personally [...]

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Facebook Games

Posted on22. Sep, 2010 by hotlou.

There’s a new Facebook side bar with a slicker inbox tally and applications notifier: The new design brings a lot more focus to those unread messages and notifications you’ve got and as a part of the big games announcement on Tuesday, just plain increases the visibility for the return to a more complete viral loop [...]

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New Type of Facebook News Feed Story

Posted on27. Jul, 2010 by hotlou.

I spotted a new type of news feed story tonight on Facebook.  Check it out in the image to the right: What you’re seeing here is an aggregate view of the same ESPN link of an Ultimate Highlight that was shared by several of my connections. Genius. A URL is such an easy vector to assemble [...]

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How to Become a Quora Killer

Posted on09. Jul, 2010 by hotlou.

Those that read my post about the new News Feed feature that Facebook is testing for users with few friends will be pleased to see this form: Apply to be a Facebook beta tester. It’s an application to become a beta tester for new Facebook feature that Facebook claims “will be as exciting as Facebook [...]

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Reporting Yahoo! for form creation abuse

Posted on23. Jun, 2010 by hotlou.

A spammer added my email address to a Yahoo! group today. In the email notification, there was a message about Yahoo! caring about my privacy with a link to report abuse on Yahoo! Here’s a screenshot of the form in case you don’t want to visit Yahoo.com (I don’t blame you). By comparison, here are [...]

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Facebook News Feed changes

Posted on19. Jun, 2010 by hotlou.

Facebook appears to be testing a new feature and removing a feature from the News Feed. The images appearing at the top is AWESOME. My posts on my popular pages and my personal profile tend to do much better when images are included and I feel I interact with image posts more frequently. So as [...]

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