Surprising Facebook Revamps
Published on April 26th, 2010.
Just like all successful start-ups, Facebook has evolved to be one of the leading social network in the world. The are an approximate of 400 million active FaceBook users in the world- believe it! With 400 million people who make FB a part of a daily routine there is no stopping this start-up from developing and introducing additional features. A better set of social platform have been introduced and some plug-ins which are alternatives to popular plug-ins- they’ve been modified to integrate Facebook’s vision for sharable information.
Open Graph protocol
Out goes the ‘Connect’ button and in comes the Facebook Open Graph which represents a person’s social graph. The platform maps a person’s social relationships and is mapped out to local venues. Even outside websites are given added access to Facebook’s ‘gated network. ‘
If let’s say John has a social network of 86 friends, John has access to the 86 friends social network too, which multiplies his reach- if he chooses to. While John visits Facebook partner sites, the site finds whom among your friends from the network have visited the site and their activity in the site.
Graph API
A person has a social network which is represented by an Open Graph that simplifies whole social connection of an individual. While the API Graph is the unique social ID of a person’s social notwork or simple they get to tag their pages. According o Facebook bigwigs, this platform initiative is “to make every website on the internet sharable across its network”.
Targeted Search
Similar to Google’s idea, Facebook revamps its platform to suit a user’s preference which is based on their on site activity. The difference is a person’s connection with friends, their interests and also their own connections as well.
Privacy Settings
Setting an account to be private is still upheld by Facebook. Yet it is up to the user when they join groups or even click at the ‘Like’ button. The revamp of the Public no longer means public to just the Facebook community but the whole Facebook ecosystem. The difference is that sites connected to Facebook will get the information you deem worthy to go public. Be warned that before you decide to click at the ‘Public’ option you will be giving away information about you to roughly 400 million Facebook user’s and community sites.
‘Like’ button
The ‘Become a fan’ was changed to the ‘Like’ button. With the simple Like statement, you keep your privacy since this will just appear in your profile and not in the community. Clicking Like Page on the other hand are said to be rolled out by Facebook as community pages.
User Profiles
The revamp actually is Facebook’s way to get you to integrate all your pages. You also get matched to your likes- that is if you haven’t been a fan yet.
New Plug-ins
Both the Open and API graphs are a user’s social map the addition of new plug-ins like : Recommendations, Like Box, Login Face, Comments, Live Stream and the Activity Feed make it easier to identify and involve people within these connections.
Facebook credits
These are vital for everyone who would like to purchase things an application .
Docs.com
A cloud based document sharing application that has functions inspired by Google Docs. And like it, Docs.com is an application that enables file sharing on Facebook and run using Microsoft Office. For what it’s worth Facebook is making waves with partner sites that will expand user’s social connections and data sharing.
On the whole there never was anything wrong with change. The only question is : are these innovations and revamps one way to pave the way to monetize Facebook?
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