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Friday, October 26, 2012

Facebook Messages get a new look

While you were busy updating your status, uploading that pic from last week parties and commenting and liking and you know the drill........while you were busy facebooking, Facebook silently upgraded the way you share messages on Facebook

Facebook announced on 22nd August 2012, that they've improved the messaging features and overhauled the look. I just received the upgrade and hence sharing the info.

Here's how the new layout will look like.

My observations on the new features & layout:

Looks very much like MS-Outlook, isn't it?
You can now see thumbnails of pictures in a better fashion than before.
The typebox is more or less how it was before.
The recent messages list in the left is what I liked best. I don't have to go back a step to change the message window.
You can now know, if the person you've messaged has seen it or not. It will also give you the exact time the message was viewed. A privacy threat? Nah...
If you wish to learn more about Facebook Messages and care to improve them click here.
I am happy with the new layout, expecting Facebook to keep surprising me time and again.

What do you feel? Leave a comment and let's get talking.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Facebook's new ad - Chairs are like facebook?

You must have already heard or read that Facebook today has One Billion active users. Few hours ago Facebook also released an advertisement trying to suggest how it is now an everyday thing in our lives.

If you do not auto sign in to Facebook, you can check this advertisement on the LogIn window of Facebook.,

Like chairs, aeroplanes, bridges, floors etc which we humans use on a day to day basis to connect with each other, take a break, share emotions, etc. Facebook is also no different now.

The caption to the video suggests that they honor everyday things that brings us (we humans I presume) together.

However, is Facebook really like a chair? or a bridge? or a social tool? or just another avenue to past/waste time? What do you think? What does it mean for you?

See the video here:

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Twitter Blooper in Hyderabad - #ignitehyd mistaken for T agitation

The not so active twitter community of Hyderabad demonstrated a peculiar characteristic this evening.

The fourth volume of Ignite Hyderabad was scheduled to be held as part of the 2012 UX-India conference at the Indian School Of Business.

Like always, Ignite Hyderabad asked its audience to participate in the LIVE tweeting and like always the hashtag to be used was #ignitehyd

The event started as scheduled in the Khemka Auditorium of the ISB Hyderabad. A fast paced event with just 5 minutes per speaker the event got over in about 90 minutes and there were loads of tweets being sent by the audience and shown at regular intervals on the big screen.

Where did the Hyderabadi tweeple got messed up in all this?

An award for the best tweet was announced and thus the audience geared up a little more than usual and the tweets with the hashtag #ignitehyd started trending in Hyderabad in no time. While the tweeple in the auditorium were all high on design and were sharing instant feedback through tweets, those unaware of the Ignite Hyderabad derived a whole new meaning out of the hashtag.

The hashtag #ignitehyd was associated with the not so popular Telangana Agitation movement and the twitter community started blasting all over using the hashtag. Most of those did not even bother to check out what the hashtag was meant for and what others were tweeting. So much in the name of tweeting. An epic virtual drama followed. Check out all the screenshots attached towards the end of this post to see the user behavior for yourself.

It's been 3 hours since the event concluded and the hashtag continues to trend as I type this. What a perfect example of the power of 140 characters. Hail Social Media!