I mentioned in my reading round-up for July that a lot of the article I have read over the past month have been about Google+. There are links to the best and most useful articles at the bottom of this post. What I want to share with you here is my first reaction to Google+ and my experience one month in. And that can be described in one word… Meh! I just don’t get it, or perhaps more accurately I just don’t need it. I got an invite quite early on and set about creating some circles. What I found [...]
The great Facebook debate
When my Facebook homepage changed last week at first I was optimistic. Amid status updates from friends calling for Facebook to revert to the old layout my status read: Getting to grips with the new homepage. So far so good – and I’m not seeing double any more! and then Am I the only one who actually quite likes the new Facebook homepage? No more duplicate posts and less likelihood you’ll miss something new. and finally Don’t know if it’s the new homepage or my increasing interest in Twitter that means Facebook just doesn’t do it for me that much [...]
Facebook updates
Yesterday Facebook announced a couple of major changes. Most notable are a new design for Pages and a real-time News Feed. I am quite excited about the changes to the News Feed. Basically, instead of your News Feed updating every 10-15 minutes, it will update automatically. I’m hoping that this will stop updates from weeks ago randomly appearing on my feed (a problem which seems to be happening more and more frequently for me). You can watch a video of the announcements at AllFacebook
