Archive for category Facebook
Facebook Launches New Photo Album Design
Facebook rolled their new photo album design, as part of a series of improvements scheduled to their photo application.
Whats New:
- Photo thumbnails are larger now and all have same size, which make it look better.
- The old photo albums display 20 photos per page, while the new photo albums would display up to 200 photos per page.
According to Facebook, the new changes wont slow the browsers, because photos are populated on the page while you scroll down.
What do you think of Facebook’s new photo album designs? Either you can post in the comment here or send them your feedback: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=ui_photos
You can check Cleartag’s photo albums here: http://www.facebook.com/cleartag?v=photos
Facebook Reaches 500 Million Members
Facebook announced that it has reached 500 million members, and to celebrate it, they launched a new application called “Facebook Stories”.
The new application allows people to share their own stories and read hundreds of others, categorized by themes and locations.
Click on the image above if you would like to share your story.
Facebook in Arab World
Facebook: New Homepage Design
Facebook celebrated their 6th “birthday” with a new homepage design, new photo uploader and over 350 million active users.
Some Facebook statistics based on their own press release:
Facebook rolled some new changes:
New Photo Uploader:
The new facebook photo uploader is a browser plugin that requires installation and will be rolled out gradually during the next few weeks.
Facebook promises this will make it easier and faster to upload photos, as the site is now one of the largest photo sharing websites with 2.5 billion photos uploaded each month.
New Home Page Design:
Facebook also has a new home page design, labeled as “simplified” and easier to understand design. As it is the case with every design, some people are frustrated and want the old design back!
This is a screenshot of the new homepage, but I am sure you have already tried it, if you logged to your account.
You can explore more with the site tour: http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage.php
What do you think of the new homepage design?
Facebook Statistics
- More than 300 million active users
- 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older
- Average user has 130 friends on the site
- More than 6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
- More than 40 million status updates each day
- More than 10 million users become fans of Pages each day
- More than 2 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
- More than 14 million videos uploaded each month
- More than 2 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week
- More than 3 million events created each month
- More than 45 million active user groups exist on the site
- More than 65 translations available on the site
- About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
- More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
- Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
- More than 350,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
- More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users
- More than 15,000 websites, devices and applications have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008
- There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
- People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
- There are more than 180 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.
Link Facebook Page to Twitter
Now, you can link your Facebook Pages to your Twitter accounts. Click on the image below and follow the instructions.
A good feature from Facebook to keep them ahead in their competition with Twitter. What do you think?