Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

June 3rd, 2008

New Facebook Redesign

For those of you who like to be ahead of the curve, access your facebook account via http://www.new.facebook.com. It gives you a preview of the new version of the facebook design that is due to be released in the upcoming weeks. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I like the lack of [...]

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February 1st, 2008

Facebook Utility

Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system. The analogy that Wikipedia uses is that “a single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because [...]

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September 12th, 2007

Facebook iPhone Application

The facebook iPhone application is by far the best designed iPhone web app I have seen to-date. The functionality of it mimics a native iPhone application and is just as smooth on a wifi connection. On an EDGE connection, there is a noticeable preload (naturally due to the connection) but facebook preloads it using AJAX [...]

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