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Facebook Preps Up Help Center for 2010’s Surge in Userbase

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As early as now, Facebook is already gearing up for possibly a surge in membership base come 2010.  And first from Facebook’s list of feature improvement is something that we may have never checked at all in our entire Facebook life – the Facebook Help Center.

Yes dear readers, there is such a thing. If you’re aware of this Facebook section, let me ask, when was the last time you’ve read it? Or did you read it at all before you begin your Facebook life?

If you haven’t check it out before, now is probably the best time to do so, as Facebook recently made some changes to the Help Center to make it more – helpful especially for Facebook newbies.

Some of these improvements include, a new search interface, navigation filters on the left side, separate user-to-user support, new privacy and safety pages, separate user-to-user support navigation and unique web addresses or URLs.

The Facebook Help Center is loaded with useful information about making your lives better, easier and more fun as you become part of the Facebook community. So, there’ s no harm in actually visiting it from time to time.  What? You don’t know how to access it? Just hover your mouse cursor on the Settings tab and select “Help” from the pull-down options. Better yet, just click on this link to visit the Facebook Help Center.

Twitter’s New Mobile-Optimized Site Might Kill Third-Party Apps

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A post at the Twitter blog  has just just revealed a surprising fact – there are still many Twitter users who access their account on their mobile phones using Twitter’s mobile site.  So, to make their experiences more pleasant Twitter has just revamped its mobile browser-optimized site. m2-medlyIt was really surprising that there are still many Twitter users who access their account through the old mobile site despite the fact that there are several third party Twitter apps available. Whether you are using an iPhone, Android phone, Nokia S60 and Palm Web OS phones, you will surely find one or two Twitter apps that you can download for free or for a minimal fee.

Anyway, the new Twitter mobile browser-optimized can be found by pointing your phone’s browser to http://mobile.twitter.com. And one thing I can say about this new site is that it’s an all new look – almost similar to how Twitter apps look and feel like.

Feature-wise the new mobile site offers just about the basic stuff that you can do on Twitter – post tweets, view DMs, Retweet tweets and more. What it won’t allow you to do is to access multiple Twitter accounts at the same time. But if you’re just using one Twitter account, the new mobile site has enough features to please you.

This made wonder whether Twitter is hitting on the third-party apps that have kept the interest of mobile users into using Twitter on their mobile phones? Like I said, the new Twitter mobile site is as good as what you can get from those third-party apps.

So, if you haven’t downloaded any third-party Twitter app, would you be using this new mobile site instead?

Twitter introduces public and private lists

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If you’re a Twitter fan and still use twitter-team-listthe web interface a lot, you may be interested in the new “lists” feature that’s being rolled out across accounts.

The concept is very similar to the sort of contact management you’ll find in many third-party Twitter applications, except with the added feature that you can make lists public, so other people can follow those people all in one go.

For the uninitiated, lists are useful when you have a lot of contacts but would like to separate them into more manageable sets.

Say you follow family members, work colleagues, celebrities, some bloggers, and then others you’ve had some kind of conversation with online. Instead of having to wade through a single feed with everyone’s tweets on, you can select to view just the tweets of a particular group, by putting all of those people in a list.

Lists can be made private, if you don’t want others to see them, or public.

I still think for power Twitter users, using a desktop client for reading and tweeting is the best option, but for keen Twitter users who like the web interface, lists can add just a little bit of clarity to an otherwise cluttered tweet space.

What do you think of Twitter lists?

Oh So Now, Twittering is a Cool Job for Summer Interns?

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In these trying times, the regular workforce are having a hard time looking for work. What more for newly grads who are looking for a nice internship program to get them by during the summer before their transition into the regular workforce.  Thanks to Twitter, some of the these interns have found a new job opportunity – as “Twinterns”.

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Did Technorati Just Stopped Indexing Blogs?

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When was the last time you’ve visited blog aggregator – Technorati? Well, it looks like the site has suddenly stopped indexing blogs. If you check it right now, the last times its index was update 4 or 5 days ago. Did we miss on any announcement about this? Is Technorati closing down, or just having a grand vacation? [Read more…] about Did Technorati Just Stopped Indexing Blogs?

Friendfeed Now Has Six New Themes

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Are you using Friendfeed? I hope you do. It’s the next best thing to using Twitter and Facebook for sharing and communicating with your online contacts. In fact, Friendfeed loyalists might even say that Friendfeed is better than both Facebook and Twitter. But that depends on individual preferences though. Anyway Friendfeed has just added several themes to make your profile livelier. [Read more…] about Friendfeed Now Has Six New Themes