Events Page Redesigned

16, Jul, 2010

mashable.com

Facebook has rolled out a redesign of its Events Pages. The company has yet to publicly announce the new design, but the alterations are drastic enough that any user who visits an Event Page would immediately notice the changes.

The new Facebook Event Pages now show attendee information on the left-hand side of the page, position the event RSVP options as buttons in the upper right-hand corner, include the standard Facebook Publisher and make the Event Page feed appear more prominent (as seen above). Essentially, the Event Pages are styled to more closely mirror the design of profiles and other Pages.

The makeover doesn’t appear to include any additional functionality, but the redesign was a much needed facelift to the aged look of the previous Event Pages. We imagine that the motivation for the new design was simply to standardize the Facebook look across the site.

Bye Bye Bit.ly

16, Jul, 2010

mashable.com

Don’t try to use bit.ly links on Facebook: they have been marked by the world’s largest social network as abusive, leading to dead end pages and frustrated users.

Posting bit.ly links on Facebook is currently impossible: attempt to share a link with your network and you are presented the following message:

“This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy. Let us know if you think this is an error.”

Existing bit.ly links are also affected: If you attempt to click on a bit.ly link, you will be lead to a Facebook abuse page (screenshot above), detailing that Facebook users have reported the link as abusive.

Bit.ly is the world’s most popular URL shortener — this problem likely affects millions of links all across Facebook. Thus, it’s unlikely the world’s largest social network would block these links purposely. Instead, it seems as if Facebook’s algorithms have marked bit.ly links as dangerous and abusive. We’re not sure exactly how this could have happened.

We’ve reported the issue to Facebook and requested more information

Download flash using chrome

13, Jul, 2010

Yup, you read it. Downloading Youtube Videos and other flash files using google chrome. Getflash plugin is used to download the flash files.

How to use it:
When the browser see a flash files, an icon will be displayed to the right of the URL bar.
You will see ‘(Download) Video’. Don’t click download because it might not work. Instead, right click on video and hit ’save as’

Lockerz Invitation

13, Jul, 2010

There’s a new site called Lockerz that will offer the coolest brands (read: iPad, iMac, iPod Touch, PS3, XBOX360) at the lowest prices, exclusive video and music and the hottest games… all in one place. You’ll really like LOCKERZ PTZ (or “POINTZ”). PTZ are Lockerz’ proprietary loyalty “currency” that you earn whenever you buy, watch, play, share, invite friends, or even just show up on Lockerz. Redeem PTZ for incredible prizes, great products and dream experiences.

Members are rewarded PTZ for almost everything they do on the site–whether it’s buying a new brand, watching a video, playing a game, answering a daily question or even just logging in. At launch, Lockerz will have more than 15 ways for members to earn PTZ.

Lockerz is invite only. To get invited, comment below. Hurry up! I will only invite 20 people.

Google Maps Gets Shorter URL

13, Jul, 2010

I always use Google Maps when I want to check some direction. When I have to copy the link, I would have to copy a long URL. Not anymore, Google have updated their URL to be short.

Let’s use the Manhattan
“http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=41+11th+St,+New+York,+NY&sll=40.745612,-74.008065&sspn=0.010794,0.020707&g=41+11th+Avenue,+New+York,+NY&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=41+W+11th+St,+New+York,+10011&ll=40.734925,-73.997099&spn=0.002699,0.005177&t=h&z=18”
Too much right? with google labs that long URL would be something like http://goo.gl/maps/2cl8.

Much better right? I believe so.

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