The Average Jo Blog

Tonight I tried to explain to my mom what I was doing in dreamweaver and photoshop to make a facebook application/tab and she didn’t get how it worked, then she showed me this awesome quilt that she is sewing for my uncle and how she has to sew all these pices together and line up panels and her color scheme and I didn’t get how it all worked.  I told her “we are both creating something using little bits and pieces, I’m using code and images, and you’re using fabric and string to make something unique. Either way we are both making something from scratch, just in different ways and it makes sense to us how we do it.”  

Currently the iPhone facebook app doesn’t support “likes” for comments. I find this is a popular feature that people us on the normal facebook site. The “like” feature is a dynamic way for people to agree and interact with comments on facebook. A lot of the time I find it frustrating that I can’t like comments from the facebook app being that 75% of my facebook usage is thru the iPhone app. Currently this is what the normal commenting system looks like. Lately when I use the Facebook app I have been getting the ability to “like” comments. I don’t always have the ability to do this, and I haven’t figured out how to active it. So this is what it looks like. As you can see I now have the ability to “like” comments thru the Facebook app. I find that this ups my interaction rate with friends and pages. Hopefully this will be something that is pushed out to all users.

Questions 1. Have you seen this enabled on your account? 2. What do you think about “likes” for comments in general?

(p.s. This was written on the iPhone tumblr app so please excuse any errors.)

Today Feb. 9th 2011 it seems that facebook pushed out an update to how we view pictures in feeds, and on recently tagged photos in profiles.  Before when you clicked on a picture you were taken to that pictures photo page where you could comment, tag or like a picture.  Now when you click on a photo it takes over your screen and allows you to comment, tag or like a picture without leaving the page you were at.  

This seems like a cool little improvement to how photos are handled in facebook.

Questions?

Is this working on your facebook account?

What do you think of this improvement?   

Today with the announcement of new Facebook Places Deals, we are blessed with updates to iPhone and Android apps.

Here is a quick look at the new iOS app. 

(Facebook 3.3.1 for iOS)

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So we all hate when we “like” or comment on a friends status on facebook and throughout the day we get 20 plus notifications sent to your mobile device or email. I know a lot of times people won’t “like” or comment on someones status just because they don’t want to be bugged all day.  

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Today while chatting with a friend on facebook I noticed a little redesign.  

Before facebook chat used to look like the picture below  The person who you are chatting with would have their photo at the top, and while you chat it would just show the persons name and for your messages it would say “me.”

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Ok so I run a Facebook and Twitter community for my family’s farm. I’m promoting green and red chile which we are going to be selling online.  Today I posted a blog post that someone else wrote about our farm.  In the comments on Facebook a local competitor posted a message promoting their own website and farm. (See post here:  New Mexico Green Chile Facebook Fan Page )

Question:  Being that it is my Facebook Page and I specifically made it to promote our own website should I be able to delete the users comment?  

So allot of us are probably seeing the hype today about the upcoming movie “The Social Network”  the Facebook story.  Let me first say that even though I check Facebook about 30 times a day I still somewhat dislike the company.  Not so much because of how the site works but more because of the origins of the company.  We all probably know the story about how facebook got started and how Zuckerberg “borrowed” the idea from ConnectU.  (here is a good timeline of events on the origin of facebook and ConnectU. http://bit.ly/9MWEWF ) I see myself as an entrepreneur and hope one day to start my own web company. So seeing where I come from the whole Facebook past rubs me the wrong way.  

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iPhone App Review: iLoader (lite) for Facebook

Upload pictures, video, create albums, edit video and photos, add captions and tag friends all on the go with this iPhone app for Facebook.

Get more info and download at http://facebook.com/iLoader