"Timeline" Tag

30 Awesome Ways for Using RSS Feeds

RSS or Rich Site Summary is a widespread way for getting updates from your favorite news, blogs, forums and other sites without personally visiting each of them. Web feed goes directly to your reader service like Feedreader or Feedly providing all information in one place.

The first version of the RSS was introduced more than 15 years ago and lots of awesome web services going beyond traditional way of RSS usage were released since that time.

Let’s have a close look on variety of creative ways for utilizing feeds.

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Facebook Graph Search in Examples

facebook_graph_searchFacebook Graph Search is not yet released for everyone, however, the social network already published some examples of the new social search best practices. Facebook believes that people don’t use it actively and don’t know its full potential.

Therefore, in a recent blog post the company highlighted a few examples of searches: videos, old photos of friends, my engaged friends, images from popular news sources.
There are also examples related to the location: hotels nearby the sightseeings, ski resorts visited by your friends, your places, applications and videos that your friends like, recommendations from the people with the similar interests.

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Facebook Friendship Pages Redesigned

facebook_friendship_icoThe social network introduced a radically new design of the friendship pages. If you want to see how close you are online with a particular friend or a member of your family, your friendship page with him will show all the posts, photos and events that you shared online together.

This is a great feature – especially for those ones who are in a “relationship” with another user in Facebook.

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Facebook Tests Want and Collect Buttons

facebook_wantFacebook is testing a new “Want” and “Collect” buttons for online retailers, that can be used for adding products into wish lists called “Collections”. The new feature will allow Facebook users to see in the news feed items that their friends would like to have.

“Want” and “Collect” buttons are the latest in the series of the social network innovations, that were presented in the last few weeks in an attempt to find new ways to make a profit and attract investors interest.

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Facebook Rolls Out New Timeline Design

facebook_timeline_icon2It’s not a secret that Facebook team likes to experiment with design and test all kinds of innovations.

You may noticed that in April, the size of the Facebook timeline cover image was changed to a bigger one. Facebook decided not to stop on this, and prepared some new changes for the timeline’s design.

They are as follows:

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Facebook Action Links: Interact with Timeline Apps

facebook_timeline_iconYesterday, Facebook introduced the new function, which is called “Action Link”. This link will appear next to the Like and Comment ones, but its main purpose will be to “interact with your timeline app directly from Facebook.”

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TOP 7 Mistakes on Facebook

facebook_security_logoAs in any social network, Facebook is full of people who are not completely familiar with the privacy settings. If a person is engaged in serious business, and uses the Facebook page to attract customers, then open page is good, however, if the personal page is open to the public, it can lead to some problems, including hacking the page.

Let’s have a look at 7 common mistakes of the average user:

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Facebook Timeline Gets Email

facebook_page_emailIt’s been about six months since Facebook presented Timeline for pages. Now the social network introduces next innovation: starting from this week, each Timeline Page will get an email address.

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HUGE: Facebook Pages Timeline

facebook_pages_timelineThe world’s largest social networking site Facebook launched a new type of accounts for the public pages of brands, companies and celebrities. The new tool will allow Facebook Pages to submit information about themselves in a dynamic manner.

Administrators of Facebook Pages now can add a main head image, which is considerably larger then profile photo. In addition, starting from Wednesday, Facebook Pages will be able to place information in the form of timeline, which allows to highlight significant events or hide some of the posts.

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Facebook Timeline Apps Platform

facebook_time_line1The social network has finally launched its Timeline Apps platform, which includes a variety of applications based on Open Graph API.
This platform, which was announced last September on the F8 conference, allows third party developers and companies to build Facebook applications that can post information about any events in the life of the user, his interests, habits and preferences. What exactly should see other Facebook users, you can configure using applications settings.

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