Facebook wants your past, present and future on open graph and a calendar

Facebook will soon allow its users integrate all of their music, media and the actions of style of life and the interactions with their profiles, Mark Zuckerberg at f8 Conference of Facebook announced yesterday. Linking profiles to services such as Spotify will allow users to complete their own curated "Timeline", sort of friends may see their media activities both as individuals and aggregate on their entire network, a gesture which will explode the amount of content on the site.

The new arrangement is part of two new initiatives for Facebook, which is the chronology. Users can fill out their deadlines with the two content from other services - for example, in an article "loved" on Ars Technica or played game - and the "real world" activities such as photos or status update. The real world content can be filtered by date in the chronology, so users can complete their history on the site with everything that happened before Facebook existence: moves in a new city, first as a baby, or each relationship words simple break before 2004.

Once in place, the timeline will be the new News Feed with updates to the friends of streaming past. But everything will be in the timeline: small updates, such as listening to the friends of music, can be relegated to the Ticker, the integrated online friends/status deployed Wednesday update bar. Users will be able to choose the activities that are important enough to appear in their timelines.

Zuckerberg has also focused on the new use of verbs in a calendar, which will allow people to sort their friends activities in different ways. For example, with an update of reading "Casey Johnston is watching Veronica March for the millionth time," users can click two "look" to see what friends remains display at the time, or "Veronica March" to see a list of other friends who love Veronica March.

These updates will feed into the second feature, chart Open of Facebook, which collects and class the activities or elements that interact with friends. Applications that integrate with Facebook will be sorted in graphic Open based on the popularity with a user and his friends, including Spotify, Hulu, Netflix, Foodspotting, Vevo, and Nike +, among many others. Open graph is intended to help with the discovery of the app, showing users what their friends are without flooding their food whenever a friend kills a gangster or a new crop of corn plants.

When the timeline was introduced, Chris Cox, Director of product at Facebook, noted that "nothing that we love to summarize more than time itself," declaring that with new features, it would be possible for users to create for months or years in review.

Of course, any motivation for Facebook is not just for friends to become more intimate with each other past and present. Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, spoke briefly at the Conference and noted that "because the selections of our [Spotify] are social, they [users] are more engaged." And because they are committed, they are twice as likely to pay for music. For Spotify, which boasts 2 million paying members worldwide as of Wednesday, exposure to the largest part of the members of Facebook 1 billion could mean big bucks.

The new Facebook completionist is a significant departure of competitors more hungry that Facebook, Google + and Twitter, now offer on their sites. If Facebook can lead users to buy with their stories of life whole on the site, the amount of content, it will explode and create an investment and the representation of itself users are not likely to surrender. And with more content comes more opportunities to target ads.

The beta version of a Facebook calendar begins today, to be deployed progressively the availability. Neither Zuckerberg, nor any of the interveners said a timetable for the new version, but we hope that this will be sooner than later.

Metro-style Internet Explorer 10 ditches Flash, Plugins

Windows 8 will be two versions of Internet Explorer 10: a conventional browser who lives on the Office of the legacy and a new browser Metro-style, touch-friendly in the world of Metro. The second of these, the Metro browser will not support plugins. If Flash, Silverlight or some app custom business, sites who need plugins only will be available in the non-touch, Office-based browser.

Should it ever arrive through a page that requires a plugin, the browser of Metro has a button to go to that page in the desktop browser. This you yanks of the experience of Metro and you place on the traditional desktop.

The rationale is a familiar: content plugin shortens the battery life and comes with problems of security, reliability, and privacy. Sites currently depend on the capabilities of Flash or Silverlight should move to HTML5.

Microsoft has been vigorously promoting HTML5 for the last year and a half as the best way to provide rich interactivity on the Web. HTML5 potentially achieve well beyond that of Flash, since it can affect conventional browsers and closed ecosystems (such as iOS) both. However, until now, the Microsoft messaging was somewhat temperate: use HTML5 when you can, but if you do not - if you need support Media DRM-protected streaming, for example - then it is reasonable to switch to alternative technology-based on the plugin.

With Windows 8, however, these reasonable decisions to use Flash or Silverlight will now strongly penalized. Technically, it is nothing wrong with the desktop browser, of course; the rendering engine and performance will be identical between the Metro and Office. But the experience will be significantly lower. The desktop browser is not designed for touch input, which means that users will switch to a mouse and a keyboard or escaped with an interface which was not built for the fingers. The switch to the desktop browser also seems to throw things like historical back button and the current state of the page.

This puts the browser Metro in a particular situation. Microsoft has positioned tablets as just another type of PC. Which the company supports, provides functionality not possible on the iPad-style devices. But PC browser plugins - more generally, they have the ability to use technology to work. If Metro does not include this flexibility, which could be regarded as diminishing the "PCness" of the platform.

HTML5 is not a total replacement for plugin technologies. The gap is narrowing: Web Sockets, Web workers, integrated support for webcams and microphones and more, are all coming from HTML5 browsers (or are already available), and these features obviate the need for plug-ins for many applications. But some corners are likely to remain; Protected by DRM video, for example, could never be impossible in HTML5, and while many people find unpleasant DRM, many broadcasters feel they have little choice but to use it.

The solution to this dilemma on the iOS platform was the app: companies like Netflix and the BBC have applications to watch video on these devices. The result is that in the desire to push an open, free plugin, Web businesses are forced to migrate away from the Web entirely. Silverlight developers, will have at least an easy migration available path: the new Metro development environment used to produce native applications of Metro, borrows strongly Silverlight and making the switch to an application in the browser plugin for a standalone application Metro should be relatively easy. Flash developers will have to wait and see what tools Adobe offers.

Design and developer of HTML5 tools remain as low, even if the situation improves with the creation of products like Adobe Edge.

With the promotion of Microsoft of HTML5 and the precedent of iOS, the decision to get rid of the plugins in the browser of Metro is perhaps not surprising. But it is not clear that this will really help Windows 8; clumsy user experience penalizes users who, for no fault on their part, need to use the plug-ins and removes PC from Windows 8 claims. A switch to a more HTML5-powered Web site occur despite everything - Microsoft really need to force the question like that?

New parameters 'Geofence' of Flickr protect your Geoprivacy

Fencing in the range with new Geofence featuresThe popular sharing site Flickr photo Flickr introduced a new way to geotag your photos without revealing your location for the entire web. New "Geofence" of Flickr settings give users more granular control over their geocoded photos.

Perhaps the best part of the new Geofence features are simple how dead, they are to use - simply to draw a circle on a map, choose a setting of geoprivacy for this domain, and you are done. Your new fence will apply to any future photo uploads and Flickr offers update parameters for the protection of personal information on existing images within your new fence.

To get started head over to Flickr Geo Privacy page.

These days geotag is not only something for geeks. In fact, the chances are that your camera (especially the camera in your phone) is registration of location data in your images if you know it or not. As the other services of location-aware geocoded photos become fast a large part of the current cultural debate on who should be able to see which parts of your life on the web.

"A few years ago, controls of privacy as this would have been overkill. The geo data were new and underutilized and the response to the concerns of privacy was often "download, you deal with it," "Flickr developer Trevor Hartsell, written on the code.flickr blog." "" But today, physical places are important for the use of the web. Sometimes, you want everyone to know exactly where you took a photo. "And sometimes you don't."

Previously, Flickr has limited its geotag options to a simple Yes or no - either you shared data location with everyone or no one. Now you can share data of location with only the people who you trust. For example, you can leave the geodata to your holiday visible for all photos, but limit the data of location of photos around your home for only your friends and your family.

In cases where there may be overlap between the two geofences default Flickr to more restrictive of the two. For example, if you draw a circle your home autour and limited to the most restrictive group, "Family" and then draw a circle around your whole neighbourhood and limit "Friends", all the areas where the two overlap will always be only limited to the family group.

New Geofence of Flickr settings are among controls implementing privacy best that we have seen, the almost perfect balance between the control and simplicity. And while we are pleased to see Flickr taking the lead here, hope Facebook and others will copy these features in their own privacy controls.

Faviconist: Create beautiful Favicons with HTML5

All Web sites have a favicon, if for no other reason to avoid litter your server with 404 error logs. If you have not yet received a favicon on your site, see Faviconist, a new developer Michael Mahemoff favicon generator.

Faviconist is built on two basic premises, that you should not need Photoshop just to create a favicon, and that most of the favicons are only a letter on a background color. As Mahemoff writes on his blog, Faviconist is "the 95% of people who do not want to micro-conception their icons;" the rest will always be need for PhotoShop. »

Once you have your favicon look the way you want simply click on the button "save favicon" on Faviconist generates some cut and paste the code, you can deposit into your pages. If you prefer to host the image yourself, just right click on the image and save it.

Even if you do not have to generate a new favicon, the site is still well worth exploring just to see what can be done with the tag HTML5 Canvas and processing client-side. In fact, the only thing that server-side is a .png to .ico favicons format file conversion to use. Node.js, Kaffeine, JQuery and Google font are other tools that faviconist relies on design and generate files of icons. Don't forget to throw a blog of Mahemoff for more details on the operation of the Faviconist.

YSlow now available for the Opera Yahoo

YSlow, a Yahoo web development tool designed for you help speed up your site page load time by showing you exactly which slows down their, is now available for the Opera. YSlow began life as an extension for Firefox, but has since been brought to Google Chrome, and is also available as a JavaScript bookmarklet for mobile and other browsers.

The new extension YSlow Opera is basically the bookmarklet JavaScript wrapped in native code so that it gets its own toolbar button and the settings file. If you wish to add to the Opera, head on over the Opera modules of the site and download a copy.

Opera is already delivered with Dragonfly, an impressive set of tools for web to compete with Firebug development or anything, you will find in Webkit browsers. YSlow add to the Toolbox for the Opera are the browser even more compelling choice for web developers.

Improved Firebug works with Firefox 5 +.

Firebug, the add-on web development popular Firefox released version 1.8 with a host of new features and compatibility with Firefox 5.0. More importantly, for those of you using the beta and Aurora Firefox strings, line alpha Firebug 1.9 has been published with the support of Firefox 6 to 8 Firefox. The alpha version will be obviously less stable, but if you want to Aurora and Firebug, this is your only option.

If you have already installed Firebug it should automatically update shortly. If you wish to resume the site Firebug get the latest version for a spin, head.

Much of the work of Firebug 1.8 was a behind the scenes and improvement of the speed optimizations, but there are a few notable new features, including a HTML preview reworked in the Net Panel, a few new options in Control Panel of DOM and better CSS color of ToolTips with values of RGBA, HSL and hsla.

For major details on the head of new features on the Mozilla Hacks blog. For a complete list of everything that is new in 1.8 Firebug, see the release notes.

How long is my blog?

If the first question of burning for bloggers: how often should I date my blog? While the second is: how long my blog posts be?

I have a new splendid copywriting client who asked me to write a series of articles of the blog for them, each about 300-600 words. They are probably more search engine optimization advice because usually the search engines such as contained at least 300 words long, and they are a company with several authors of blog, so guidelines are required to maintain the consistent blog.

But, if the owners of small businesses may be that prescriptive with their blog post length?

My own soft blog to be about 1000 words long and longer posts are better for search engine optimization if they remain relevant. I try to write detailed, useful messages to less than 1,000 words.

If you have more to say, rather than to write a very long blog note, you would be better to create a series of blog posts because your blog will grow faster if you display messages shorter more often rather than long positions less frequently.

Performs a series of blog posts also helps your readers to anticipate that you will post on the future and encourages people to subscribe to your blog so that they are not missing anything.

The best length for a blog note is, however, several words, it allows you to get your message across and make it of course, but I try to keep my long blog posts from 500 to 1,000 words and recommend do you too much.

The Facebook team successful blogs (to join us click here) has recently discussed blog post length.

Robin Dickinson and Karrine Elizabeth indicated that they read not long ago the blog unless they are well formatted you can therefore be neglected with more short but blog formatting if you want people really read, and not just skim your long messages facilitate with good blog post formatting of your blog.

Penelope James and Seana Smith agreed that long blog is great as long as they are not being updated daily, so if you post frequently you can keep the shorter.

Experienced public relations Catherine White added:

"I operate on the principal of press release." Short, sharp, not more than 500 words and the information contained in an upside down pyramid in order of importance. »

With a reminder timely quality is more important than the amount or frequency, Catherine went:

"I believe that my voice should be used to persuade, influence and make a difference." My player must therefore rest assured that I post only when I have something to say. "I know I have my ears of readers, because I do the folding of form".

It is easy to lose track of your real discussion with blogs because there are so many technical issues and other distractions but keep your attention on the quality of your blog.

No matter how long or short that they are, how often, or how improperly, you update your blog, make sure that each item satisfies vos needs of readers.

Your goal is educational, inspirational and fun to your readers to focus on this and make some change of post blog carefully each ticket blog doing its job in as few words as possible.

How long are your blog? This position of too short or too long blog for your reading preferences? (In the case where you'd ask it is nearly 600 words long.)

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