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Re: Facebook Home

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post #158

I could not help but notice one of their Cover feed screenshots showing an advert -- http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/yY/r/fNNR8sV8Y3W.png . OK, this one I think I get. Why have full-screen standby ads only on Kindle?

That isn't an advertisement. People legitimately want content from Pages to show up in their news feed. If it was an advertisement, it would say "Sponsored".

But yes, ads are not out of the question in the future.

Re: Facebook Home

#192

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It's pretty, but I left with no idea what exactly the product is.

It's a Facebook. Same problem as ~4 years ago when people first saw the iPad: "What exactly is it?" "It's iPad." "How do I quantify it in my paradigm of notebook computers?" "You don't." You're trying to quantify it as a smartphone. Facebook is positioning it as...well...a Facebook.

I like your analogy. People have been talking about a "Facebook Phone" for years now, but Home actually makes a lot more sense than trying to compete directly by forking Android or building their own hardware. It feels like one of those ideas that seems so obvious after the fact that you wonder how you never thought of it.

Re: Facebook Home

#193

Facebook are trying to do to Android what Google is doing with Chrome to the desktop.

With the difference that Facebook's efforts help Android compete against iOS (at least for the moment) while Chrome is agnostic between Windows and OS X.

Re: Facebook Home

#195
post #22

The greatest benefit of a facebook phone to me has nothing to do with photos, status updates, etc (although I am likely in the minority). Facebook, to me, has become an address book of all of my friends, with contact information that updates itself when it changes. If facebook replaced my address book with my facebook friends list, and texting and calling to them "just worked", hopefully using facebook-to-facebook ov…

do you really have that many friends who put all of their contact information on their facebook profiles?

Re: Facebook Home

#196
post #164

What happens to Facebook when the original generation of users have kids and those kids see Facebook as their parent's social network?

They use their existing technology platform to launch a new brand. Or else they just keep buying small new social networks as they gain popularity, like Instagram.

Re: Facebook Home

#197

Just looked at all the videos. I wanted to like this but I'm really unimpressed. I don't understand why anyone would install this. All my friends seem to be using Facebook less and less and this seems to be another way to lock me into Facebook's ecosystem. While they could easily allow you to contact your friends in all the ways which you normally communicate with them - SMS, Email, Phone, the only thing they integra…

No Wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

Re: Facebook Home

#198
post #38

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The source reveals that the video mast is actually an animated gif (or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as). The stutter in the beginning kind of gives it away, but still quite impressive they included such a long edit and got it to load relatively fast (coming from reddit where uncompressed gifs run amok).

Could you perhaps screenshot what you're seeing or paste a code sample? I'm seeing the same thing as cocoflunchy, just a element, no gif.

Well, on second look it seems like the mast is using for me as well- I originally looked too far and thought the id "fbhome-cinemagraph-canary" led to an animated gif. Apologies on making the wrong call!

Also, as a previous reply pointed out, what they're doing really doesn't count as a cinemagraph- FB needs to stop butchering words.

Re: Facebook Home

#200

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Last week would have been pretty annoying -- every single little circle would have contained the exact same red and pink equal sign. The image would have been absolutely useless as any sort of UI indicator. Perhaps this will encourage people to use pictures of themselves for their profile pictures? Might be a chicken/egg situation though.

The reality is, this rarely occurs and really isn't that bothersome. We've been building Frontpage - a similar product for making RSS, news and social feeds all available from the Lock Screen - for a few months now. Same idea, no inputting passwords. No fumbling through multiple apps. Just easy access to your content. http://www.frontpageapp.com

Got this when I attempted to install it:

"This item cannot be installed in your device's country."

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