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Facebook gets a face lift

Jose C Gomez — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:14:28 +0000

This morning I woke up to find my Facebook page was completely re-designed. Over all it looks like an improvement except it will take me 10 days to figure out where everything is again. Here are some pics

Here is the help page that tells you more about it http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage.php

Blip.FM

Jose C Gomez — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:29:22 +0000

While listening to Net@Night from the TWIT Network I was introduced to Blib.fm, the best way I can describe it is Twitter for music. You go to the site and type the name of your song and or favorite artist and it plays it for you. At the same time the site pairs you up with people of similar musical taste and you immediately begin to get their blips, that is the music they are playing / searching for. This is extremely fun as you discover new music and songs you didn’t know you liked, its a new way of sharing music and getting to know people.

New Facebook Home

Jose C Gomez — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:21:03 +0000

Facebook has rolled out its new home to a limited number of users. It seems to be doing it in phases like every other company does these days. The changes aren’t very significant. They seem to be wanting to compete with TWITTER because the only new thing they offer is “live streaming” of posts and status changes from friends.

You’re looking at the real-time stream of posts from your friends and connections. Control the stream using the filters on the left. To hide posts from friends in this stream, click the “x” in the upper-right corner of a post. Learn more.

My fiance was one of the lucky first to be changed over and I am using her account to write this, it seems to me that either they haven’t turned the service fully on or they are missing the boat completely. I used my personal account to make an updated and I expected it to show automatically on her home page since its supposed to be a live stream. I waited several minutes and saw no change, I had to refresh the page for it to pull up the new status changes and updates. So far I am not very impressed although I must say that the change is small enough to get by without much trouble unlike the beacon feauture and the terms of service.

Here is a screens-shot of her profile after the change.

How do you like the new change? Did it work as advertised?