Facebook’s new features announced
published: February 5th, 2010
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Some new features announced at last night’s Facebook launch party:
Product releases included:
- The new home page to 80 million of Facebook’s now 400 million users worldwide
- Better chat accessibility
- The games and apps dashboards
- New search type-ahead, and a new method of finding and displaying people whether or not they are your friends
- A new image uploader, built from the ground up by Facebook
- HipHop, the new project it open-sourced earlier this week
Zuckerberg also told us tonight that the updated News Feed UI should alleviate a lot of user confusion between the meaning of “News Feed” and “Live Feed,” and that friend lists are getting demoted from the home page because they’ve “always kind of been a power user feature.”
Zuckerberg said, “Improving chat is the biggest request we get from our users…”
I said, “thank, God.”
