Posts tagged with 'facebook'

 

How Facebook figures out the best cropping position for photos

Ever notice how thumbnails of photos on Facebook always tend to be perfectly cropped? Turns out that this isn’t just coincidence and that the engineers at facebook have actually come up with a clever algorithm to figure this out.

Facebook is worth more than

Did you know that Facebook is worth more than Kellogg, Whole Foods, Kroger, Kohl’s and Expedia combined?

Spotify-Facebook Fiasco

This is getting a lot of publicity right now. Spotify is an online service which lets you pay about $10/month to listen to all the music you want on your desktop or mobile device. They recently changed their sign-up policy so that you now need a Facebook account to sign up for a spotify account, and a lot of people are upset.

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/can_you_sign_up_for_spotify_without_facebook

And more comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3038815

It will be interesting to see if they revert this update since Mr. Zuckerberg seems to endorse Spotify.

Facebook Spam

Facebook Spam This is why I have never been a fan of Facebook. I started to get 5-6 of those requests from people to join a group or add an application and eventually i started ignoring them. Last night I logged in and this is what I found. (click on the image for the full version)

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