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Facebook Prioritizing News Feed Content Based on Connectivity

Facebook Prioritizing News Feed Content Based on Connectivity   These days, our Facebook News Feeds are filled with auto-playing videos, large photos albums, and art-heavy news stories. It makes for a more engaging social-networking experience, but only on speedy connections. With that in mind, Facebook announced it will prioritize News Feed content based on your connection. Those

Facebook Introduces Big Changes to Profile Pictures

Facebook Introduces Big Changes to Profile Pictures   Facebook is introducing five big changes to user profiles starting today. While the features will become available to some users today, others might have to wait a bit to get the big update. Looping Profile Videos The most exciting change is the new profile video. Once you

Facebook Launching Its New layout

Facebook Launching Its New layout Facebook’s design has been widely discussed among designers and users, and I’ve seen plenty of criticism: Having reviewed some of the critiques, I decided to try giving it a facelift. What started as a fun side project eventually lead to the Facebook Flat Chrome extension. In this piece, I’ll explain

Facebook’s M is a Siri-like personal assistant for Messenger

Facebook’s M is a Siri-like personal assistant for Messenger Facebook’s Vice President of Messaging Products David Marcus today announced a new service called M. M is designed to be your personal assistant, which you can use to ask for recommendations such as gift ideas or restaurants to visit when you’re traveling. Currently in testing, M also helps

Facebook’s new video matching technology will make life a lot harder for pirates

Facebook’s new video matching technology will make life a lot harder for pirates Facebook is about to make life harder for video pirates. Following video’s explosive growth on the platform, the company is introducing measures to prevent content from being uploaded to the network without permission. Facebook is building new video matching technology that will

Over 1B people used Facebook in a single day for the first time ever

Over 1B people used Facebook in a single day for the first time ever Here’s a crazy statistic for you: For the first time in history, one billion people used Facebook in a single day this past Monday. That means one out of every seven people on the planet was logged into the network at some

Facebook’s newest product helps educators track students’ progress

Facebook’s newest product helps educators track students’ progress     For the past year, Facebook has been working with a group of public schools to help improve the software they use to monitor students’ progress. Now, it wants to give it away for free to schools across the US. The social network says its dedicated team

Facebook’s newest product helps educators track students’ progress

Facebook’s newest product helps educators track students’ progress For the past year, Facebook has been working with a group of public schools to help improve the software they use to monitor students’ progress. Now, it wants to give it away for free to schools across the US. The social network says its dedicated team partnered withSummit

Facebook is trying to make its workers check their privilege

Facebook is trying to make its workers check their privilege   When tackling the problem of diversity in the workplace, Facebook is trying to address it from all angles. One of the biggest tentpoles in its plan is to collect its workers and make them look at their own bias and privilege. Today, Facebook has made

Facebook makes it easier for businesses to private message customers

Facebook makes it easier for businesses to private message customers   Facebook is about to make it a lot easier for businesses to connect with their clients: today it’s introducing a set of tools that simplify private message communications between Pages and customers. Page admins will soon be able to reply to comments on posts