Wednesday, August 26, 2009

New Blog Topic: Facebook Tweaks!



Moving forward, you are going to see more posts about online media and social media on this blog. I had to take some time away from my blog to think about the info I really want to distribute to the world. Being that I have my company's website www.industrysalternative.com which is all about using various new media and online destinations to get high profile artists exposure on the internet. Check out the website for more detail.

Therefore this will be the first official post that represents a new entity to the blog. I will still continuously post relevant urban entertainment news, but only if it is related to digital music and social media.

With that said.... for all you facebook junkies.. check out some of the facebook tweeks and upgrades to make the usability much more fruitatious.

"Facebook has made a few subtle changes to its design, which a lot of users have been noticing for the past couple of hours (thanks for telling us, y’all) and tweeting about. The two most apparent tweaks: the blue header bar now covers the entire width of the screen and rounded corners have been dropped from the social network’s web pages.

In addition, feedback on display ads has been changed from “Thumbs up/Thumbs down” to “Like/X.”

Here’s how the decision to drop the rounded corners, which were apparently subject to debate at Facebook ever since they were introduced a few years ago, gets explained by the company’s design team:

Since we introduced rounded corners to Facebook, their consistent use has been spotty at best. The corner radii vary, and it sometimes feels arbitrary which corners are rounded and which are not. Additionally, they add an extra layer of complexity to the code (note: IE, please add support for border-radius).

As part of the effort to simplify our visual style, the design team recently decided to go back to our square corner roots. In doing so, we hope to champion cleanliness and the razor cut look that Facebook is known for."

Courtesy of tech crunch

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