Tag: NEWSFEED

Instagram, the trendiest iPhone photo sharing app in the land, is on a roll. Fresh off the launch of an API, Instagram has updated its iOS apps with an improved news feed and a tilt-shift option to add some punch to your photos. The news feed used to show only activity on your own photos -- likes, comments, and new followers. Now it has a second tab that shows what your friends are liking ...

By default, Facebook uses a magical algorithm called EdgeRank to decide what makes it to your News Feed, and what falls by the wayside. Lots of factors affect what ultimately appears in your News Feed, but mostly it's determined by a) things you've explicitly signed up for ('liking' pages), and b) updates from friends that you regularly interact with. But what if you're bored of reading dull ...

Friendless Facebook user 'hotlou' seems to have picked up on a new Facebook feature! Unfortunately, other than the picture above, I don't have much to report. Facebook had a little to say to Business insider: "This is a test we're running to a small percentage of users who have very few friends on Facebook. This is simply to help them discover interesting content and create an instantly ...

You've probably gathered by now that the Facebook f8 conference is under away. Juicy details of Facebook's underpinnings are coming thick and fast -- and we're going to try and cover all of them -- but first: EdgeRank, the algorithm that generates your News Feed. In much the same way as Google returns relevant results, EdgeRank uses what it knows about you to produce hopefully-relevant news. ...

For someone who doesn't have a Facebook account, I've sure been Facebook-obsessed this week. I've been on the edge of my seat watiting to find out what changes, if any, Facebook's developers would make after many users freaked out about their new News Feed and Mini-Feed features. All told, the largest anti-News-Feed group gained more than 700,000 members in about three days, almost 10 percent of ...

That famous and cutting edge blogging company SixApart, responsible for TypePad, Moveable Type, Vox, and LiveJournal today announces that it will gobble up social news aggregator Rojo along with Rojo's Nooz. According to TechCrunch, SixApart is planning to "sell a majority interest in the services business within a few months" (Barak Berkowitz, SixApart.com). We're guessing that means part of Rojo ...

Yesterday I reported on Facebook's new News Feed and Mini-Feed features, which allow Facebook users to see all of their friends' and groups' public activity at a glance. I praised the feature, but it turns out that a lot of actual Facebook users are having a bit of a freak-out. Okay, they're having a lot of a freak-out. Since the News Feed went live yesterday, literally hundreds of thousands of ...

Last night social networking heavy hitter Facebook got a significant update in the form of the News Feed. The News Feed is a sort of dashboard that consolidates all of the recent updates relevant to you, e.g. your friends' profile changes, new members of your groups, new events, photos, and so on. Though I'm disappointed that there's no actual feed in the RSS/Atom sense, I am pretty impressed ...

How many times have you emailed the "webmaster" at a site, only to never hear back? Most companies have a generic webmaster address (if they bother to list it), but that address may never see the real webmaster's inbox. Worse, said webmaster might not care that his pages aren't compatible with Opera... Still more common is when a doofus like me can't figure something out, emails the ...