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What if Facebook Updates were Reality? [Video]

May 25, 2013 By Michael Leave a Comment

Facebook Updates are a pain, we get it. No need to incessantly write a status update complaining each time it changes, which is seemingly every week. Only weeks after the first 2013 facebook update, an updated profile/timeline, facebook is working on rolling out their recently announced new layout, one based on a more modern design and with a greater focus on search.

But one brilliant facebooker/filmmaker, also behind this brilliant video on honest cable companies, decided for his latest video to imagine what life would be like if run by Facebook. What would happen if our lives relied upon the latest update, and Facebook updates meant the entire layout of our homes shifting?

It’s pretty hilarious, and it’s embedded below. Check it out.

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New Flickr Redesign is Really “Snappy”

May 20, 2013 By Michael 2 Comments

Today Flickr unveiled an incredible redesign, featuring minimalist designs elements, and some awesome new features. The new look, expanded storage, and full resolution feature are all part of an effort by Yahoo to revitalize the dying social photo network.

The new design is minimalist, featuring a dark interface, full screen photos, and none of the clunkiness of the old design, which seemed circa 2006. It resembles its’ new cousin, Tumblr, in a way. Yahoo has just purchased Tumblr, a photocentric minimalist social network that seemed to be gaining real tranction, for a billion dollars.

Beyond the design, the new Flickr has some incredible new features. Flickr is giving each user (with a free account) 1 terabyte of photo storage FOR FREE. That’s a step up on their former rival, Google, who last week unveiled a limit on total documents to 15 Gigabytes for all google accounts, including on their popular social network, Goog-

le Plus. Yahoo’s offering is about 67 times as much space as Google’s. They are also offering full-resolution uploads – previously a premium feature – trying to attract amateur photo geeks by allowing them to display their work in all of its glory.

Even with the Flickr redesign though, Yahoo seems to be a bit Confused

Despite offering a terabyte free, Flickr refuses to get rid of their premium upgrades. They currently offer a “double your space” option, bringing the total to 2 terabytes, for $500 a year. Who would pay $500 a year, when they can just create two accounts, and not pay a cent? It’s really an awful idea, but sometimes it’s hard to let go of the past, so I’ll let it slide.

For the first time in five years, Yahoo’s goals seem focussed, and they seem to have a general sense of what they’re trying to do. With the purchase of Tumblr, and the redesign of Flickr, Yahoo seems to be shifting focus from the less-profitable news business, focussed on ad revenue, to the more lucrative social industry. Yahoo has been trying for years to penetrate the market, but it wasn’t until today that they were able to really penetrate the market.

Kudos to their CEO, Marissa Mayer, for seeming to make a real effort at revitalizing the company, and for seeming almost to be succeeding.

Check out the new flickr here.

Filed Under: design, news, social, Social Media, social network, tumblr, Yahoo Tagged With: design, Flickr, Marissa Mayer, news, Redesign, social, social network, Tumblr, Yahoo

How To Post a Blank Facebook Comment

March 3, 2013 By Michael Leave a Comment

We recently wrote a tutorial for posting blank facebook status updates, and everyone wanted to know “How can I post a blank comment?”. So, now we’re doing a followup tutorial on that.

Unlike the status update, Facebook doesn’t directly allow blank comments, so we have to use a little workaround. Right now this is only for PCs, but we’ll update this as soon as we have a Mac solution.

What we’re going to do is essentially create a blank character not classified as a space, which allows you to hit send without any words.

Steps to the facebook comment space:

Find a place you’d like to comment.
Press the num lock button on your keyboard. It’s normally in the upper left-hand corner of your num pad.
Hold down your computer’s alt key, and listen closely on this next step.
While holding the alt key, type in the number 0173 using your num pad. If you use the regular numbers, IT WON’T WORK. So do it right.
Hit enter, submit your comment, and you’ve got a completely white comment. You can add as many lines as you’d like by simply repeating the steps with a combo shift-enter in between to add lines.

Enjoy responsibly. Speaking of comments, leave a comment below this post. And help us out by sharing this with all your friends, or at least liking/tweeting this.

Filed Under: facebook, hacking, how to, social, Social Media, social network, tutorial, windows Tagged With: comment, facebook, Facebook hack, guide, how to, Mac, social, social media, social network, tutorial, Windows

Life on Lockdown: Using Social Media to Stay Calm In a Dangerous Situation

February 27, 2013 By Michael 4 Comments

I’m currently writing to you while hiding behind a table on lockdown. My school received an unconfirmed threat of some kind, and I’m hiding from that unknown threat.

At the start, when our heads finally processed “this is not a drill”, the room was tense. Everybody stared in silence at the door, hopefully shielding us from the unknown. We followed procedure, sat down in silence, and waited. One by one, each person realized that the light of a cell phone posed no risk in a brightly sunlit classroom.

As I write this, some girl accidentally starts up the unsilenceable siri while texting her BFFs. Others tweet and facebook their friends. I do the same. Some instagram, and some snapchat, and suddenly the tension in the room drops.

Lockdowns are so terrifying, because we hide from unknown threats. We barricade ourselves from an enemy unknown. This little bit of humanity, and connection goes a long way towards comforting the hundreds of students displaced. Being able to talk to people from inside and outside the school and compare notes was very comforting, and though we couldn’t talk, we no longer felt isolated.

We were in that locked down for about an hour and twenty minutes. A police officer was supposed to come escort our class, but they never came, so we sprinted to where we knew the cops were. We reached the safety of the state police in the lobby, and from there we were escorted to safety, where we could finally talk, and relax a bit. It was a very scary experience for me, sitting, not knowing what the next few minutes would hold (in the end, everything was alright) but I thank all the creators of social networks for easing the tension to a manageable level.

In the end it was just a threat by the way (as far as we know), but I just wanted to call to your attention the value of social media in connecting otherwise-isolated people.

Filed Under: breaking news, news, security, social, Social Media, social network, story Tagged With: facebook, firsthand account, news, social media, social network, Story, Twitter

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