As you may know, FacebookFacebook rolled out its planned new feature that lets you “tag” other users in your status updates earlier today.
It’s very similar functionality to @replies on TwitterTwitter, and most folks will be pretty familiar with how it works and why you’d want to use it. Still, there are some differences to note, and some may appreciate a basic walkthough of how the new feature works.
Facebook’s version of the feature, like Twitter, also uses the @ symbol to invoke. However instead of having to simply know or remember the person’s username you’d like to tag, Facebook will generate an auto-suggest dropdown based on what you’ve typed after the @ symbol… Read on at mashable.com
FacebookFacebook’s most TwitterTwitter-like feature yet – the ability to include other users in messages using the “@” symbol – is now live.
As we reported last week, the feature doesn’t include just users though. Brands (Facebook Pages), events, and groups can all be included in status updates using the syntax.
The feature includes auto-suggest, so as you type after the “@” symbol, Facebook lets you select users from a drop-down menu. Meanwhile, after you’ve tagged someone in an update, they get a notification, as well as a post on their wall.
When you look at other user’s status updates that include use of “@” the names are clickable. In this example, Taylor Swift, Beyoncebeyonce, Kanye West, and MTV can all be clicked, which sends users to the respective fan pages of each… Read on at mashable.com
Following the US rollout last night, Facebook Lite, the lightweight version of FacebookFacebook that hides distractions like Apps, is now available internationally.
As of this morning, our European editors are able to access the service at lite.facebook.com. Meanwhile, European Twitter users also report that the service is working for them. MashableMashable commenters in Singapore, the UK, Sweden, Estonia and many other countries report that it’s working for them too.
Some claim that if the site doesn’t work initially, you can get access by setting your language to US English.
Are you able to access Facebook Lite yet? Let us know in the comments. Via mashable.com
GoogleGoogle today released a host of new gadgets and an “Update” feature to its customizable home page offering, iGoogle, in the U.S. that mirror many of the functions on social networking sites like FacebookFacebook and TwitterTwitter, such as the ability to share story links on status updates, play multiplayer games and comment on photos and videos. The additions were made in response to users’ demands for more features that allow them to connect with their friends, according to Google’s VP of search products and user experience, Marissa Mayer, further evidence of how social networking features are becoming standard fare. In fact, if you mashed up Twitter’s status updates and Facebook’s news feed together, iGoogle’s new “Update” feature would be your end result — except it lacks Twitter’s real-time capabilities… Read on at gigaom.com
Yahoo’s social bookmarking service DeliciousDelicious launched a new home page this morning, combining recent tagging activity and cross-referenced links on TwitterTwitter to deliver what it calls the hottest news from around the web in real time. While the exact formula behind the front page remains unclear, its contents are clearly changing minute by minute. It’s something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like DiggDigg, look all the more behind the times. The move could also help Delicious survive the coming Yahoo Search purge at the hands of BingBing… Read on at ReadWriteWeb.com
According to Inside Facebook, the blue giant may be working on a native TwitterTwitter application as evidenced by engineer Blake Ross’ tweet from an application named “Penguin FB” on Facebook’sFacebook development servers. Asks Inside Facebook’s writer Justin Smith, “Is Facebook about to become the largest source of tweets?” The company did not comment on the “Penguin FB” project and Ross has since deleted the “Penguin FB” test tweet. For now, the public is left in the dark as to what all this means… Read on at RedWriteWeb.com
As you may know, FacebookFacebook
rolled out its planned new feature that lets you “tag” other users in your status updates earlier today.
, and most folks will be pretty familiar with how it works and why you’d want to use it. Still, there are some differences to note, and some may appreciate a basic walkthough of how the new feature works.
