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How Did Users Influence Facebook’s News Feed Redesign?

Justin Lafferty on March 13, 2013 6:32 PM

Before Facebook unleashed its redesigned News Feed earlier this month, the social network asked users what they wanted. The answer was fairly general: less clutter. Facebook continued to ask users about this, and they specified that they wanted to see fewer posts from pages, fewer posts about things their friends are listening to, and posts their friends have liked or commented on. However, when given the chance to choose stories that they wanted to see, the results greatly differed from their initial preferences.

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UPDATED: Facebook, Google Team Up To Solve Android Gingerbread Dilemma

David Cohen on March 4, 2013 5:24 PM

The relationship between Facebook and Google continues to improve, as the two Web titans recently collaborated to solve an issue with Google’s Android Gingerbread operating system that was preventing the social network from updating its applications for the platform.

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Facebook Overhauls Like Box, Claims Plugin Is Now Two To Four Times Faster

David Cohen on February 26, 2013 5:11 PM

Developers like speed, and Facebook obliged by revamping its like box, saying in a note on the Facebook Engineering page that the plugin is now two to four times faster after being rebuilt from the ground up.

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Facebook Engineering Details Favorite 2012 Hacks

David Cohen on December 20, 2012 3:32 PM

With 2012 drawing to a close, Facebook celebrated its hacker culture by sharing its favorite hacks from the past year in a note on the Facebook Engineering page.

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HTML5 Standards WebSocket, Shared Worker Fuel Facebook Messenger For Firefox’s Social API

David Cohen on December 3, 2012 5:10 PM

Facebook Software Developer Pamela Vagata offered a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Facebook Messenger for Firefox’s Social API in a note on the Facebook Engineering page.

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How Does Facebook Improve Its Mobile Apps?

Justin Lafferty on November 9, 2012 3:40 PM

Earlier this week, Facebook released an update for its iOS application, integrating popular features from the stand-alone Camera and Messenger apps. On Friday, the site’s engineering team shared how they use these apps to see what shutterbugs and messaging mavens like best before they tweak the main app.

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Facebook Opens First Non-U.S. Engineering Center In London, With Focus On Mobile

David Cohen on October 16, 2012 11:37 AM

London called, and Facebook listened: The social network Tuesday opened its first engineering center outside of the U.S., with a focus on mobile.

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What Makes Facebook’s App Center Work?

David Cohen on October 3, 2012 2:00 PM

How does Facebook choose which applications to feature in its app center? The social network’s Wei Xu, Xin Liu, and T.R. Vishwanath explained the process in a note on the Facebook Engineering page.

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Facebook’s Matt Kelly Describes Process Of Creating Plugin For WordPress

David Cohen on September 26, 2012 12:47 PM

The plugin for WordPress launched by Facebook in June has been downloaded more than 180,000 times, and Engineer, Developer Relations Matt Kelly, who worked on the project, shared his experience in a note on the Facebook Engineering page.

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Facebook To Award 25 Scholarships For Women To Attend Grace Hopper Conference

David Cohen on August 22, 2012 3:15 PM

Facebook will award 25 scholarships to females who excel in computer science, enabling them to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computingconference in Baltimore Oct. 3 through 6.

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