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Facebook rolled out a new redesign to 80 million users tonight at its 6th birthday party, and the company’s vice president of product just prepped employees for potential negative reactions by telling the story of the original news feed launch.
After the new features went live, the company [...]
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With its big redesign, Facebook is rolling out its Games Dashboard for millions of game players today.
“The Games Dashboard will give game applications greater prominence with placement on the home page,” the company said in a blog post today. “While making it even easier for users to [...]
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Facebook is rolling out a new redesign live to 80 million users tonight. We’re here at Facebook’s offices with Peter Deng, a product manager, who is explaining the changes.
The left-hand navigation bar of the social network site has been beefed up with a [...]
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On its sixth birthday, Facebook launched a host of new features as it crossed the 400-million user mark.
The most interesting of them may be its revamped search. When you type in names, it auto-completes for people who are the closest to you by [...]
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Siemens is using Nvidia’s CUDA graphics technology to create three-dimensional ultrasounds of babies in utero and other medical applications.
It takes advantage of CUDA, which is a programming environment which makes use of the computing power of a graphics chip for non-graphics purposes. With CUDA, Siemens can take [...]
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Facebook is readying the launch of its Game Dashboard interface and other changes that will affect the way gamers experience and interact with games on the social network.
In FarmVille, Zynga has begun asking players if they will accept emails from the game, since, with the launch of [...]
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It’s OK if you don’t know about Hi Media. The Paris-based, publicly traded company (they’re traded on Eurolist B) has been around for ten years, but has kept its focus in Europe. Only last year did they set up shop in the UK. But Hi Media is somewhere between Microsoft and [...]
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We’ve all gotten used to taking lousy, out-of-focus pictures with our camera phones. But LensVector hopes to change that with its chip-based autofocus technology.
Today, the company is announcing it has raised a round of $30 million, bringing its total raised to date to more than $50 million. [...]
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New data from Experian Hitwise suggests that Facebook users are treating it increasingly like a portal — they’re using it as a source of news. Just under a year ago, less than 0.5% of visits to news and media sites came from Facebook, according to Experian Hitwise. Last week, 3.5% of [...]
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Facebook is assuming its rightful place in the Internet ecosystem as a significant distribution channel for media properties.
Hitwise reported today that the social network now drives the fourth largest amount of traffic to media properties behind Google, Yahoo and MSN. Facebook’s public relations team also has started [...]