Uncover The Internet

August 6th, 2008

Facebook Facelift Removes Privacy Wrinkles

I’ve been enjoying the new layout and design of the Facebook website.

If you’re not a Facebook user you can see the new Facebook layout homepage in the screen grab above from my profile. Compared to the old-style below there’s quite a difference in layout and simplicity on the page.

With all the changes in […]

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July 23rd, 2008

Posterous – Yet Another Place to Update the Masses

My friend Ben introduced me to the Posterous site this morning and I’m a little torn between my opinions.
On the one hand we’ve got yet another new social networking site that you post updates of what’s going on. Following in the footsteps of sites like twitter, Plurk, Facebook, tumblr and others.
Yet on the other […]

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May 16th, 2008

Making Custom Icons for Google Toolbar

I’m a big fan of Google and one of the products of theirs that I use regularly is the Google Toolbar. I’ve started customizing it more than just accepting the standard set of icons that they recommend, but I’ve run into a bit of a snag.
As you can see from the image above, I’ve […]

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May 9th, 2008

Facebook in the Real World

What would happen if what we’ve come to expect as normal when using social media apps like Facebook actually happened in the real world?
Uncovered by Mark Evans via twitter
Tags: BBC, Facebook, real world, reality, The WallShare This

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April 25th, 2008

Embedded Chat Now in Facebook

 
Facebook is one of those websites I’ve been trying to manage my time on lately. Between Facebook and Twitter, there’s a battle for which one will remain open the longest on my screen.
Now Facebook has added a new feature that may make it even more difficult to turn it off. They now have embedded […]

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