Tag Archives: facebook

Facebook’s New Photo Uploader – a Plugin Fail

I have the utmost respect for the engineers at Facebook. They are a very talented bunch, and the few of them I’ve had the pleasure to meet in person have even been nice folks to boot. Generally, they come up with very innovative and progressive engineering solutions to the huge problems they face, but their [...]

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Should You Show a Useless Page?

Zizhuang Yang, an engineering intern at Facebook this last summer, recently put up a very interesting and detailed post on the company’s engineering blog describing extensive user testing of various loading styles and times for Facebook he conducted as part of his internship. While the whole post is worth a read, one point really piqued [...]

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Aggregate Opinions on uTag

Launched at Startup Camp Australia last weekend, uTag is a new service aimed at rewarding users for the value they pass onto their online social networks. At its core, it is a URL shortening service – the difference is that uTag place a banner ad frame on top of the redirected website, sharing revenue with [...]

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