Android device owners who want KitKat but are still
waiting on their handset provider to deliver it need not wait any longer. A
newly released build of its CyanogenMod (CM) 11.0, a custom ROM based on
Android 4.4, brings the OS to a number of popular smartphones that are yet to
get KitKat, including some Galaxy S3, Sony Experia Z and HTC One handsets. CM
11 'nightly builds' now support more than 40 individual makes of smartphone.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
Facebook sympathise button alternative to the like button
Digest: Facebook has devised
a "sympathise" button as an alternative to the "like"
button for use in certain situations.
The problem is solved for when
you've seen something ... but can't 'like' it. Users have been demanding a “Dislike”
button for a long time. The social network evidently hears their complaints:
During a Facebook hackathon held "a little while back," an engineer
devised a "sympathize" button that would accompany gloomier status
updates, according to Dan Muriello, a different Facebook engineer who described
the hackathon experiment at a company event Thursday. If someone selected a
negative emotion like "sad" or "depressed" from Facebook's
fixed list of feelings, the "like" button would be relabeled
"sympathize."
How does Facebook’s sympathize button work?
It would work something like
this. When a user selects a negative emoticon such as “depressed” or “sad”, the
Like button would automatically be relabeled as “Sympathize.” However, it won’t
make its way to the site anytime soon, says Muriello. He said his fellow
engineers are enthusiastic about the creation, but it needs to undergo rigorous
analysis and testing before reaching the site.
Source: i) CompassionResearch Day
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Facebook updates its News Feed
Digest: Facebook will begin
adding related links with news stories, to help users find more content. Also,
older stories generating newer comments will bump back up near the top of News
Feeds.
Facebook is boosting its
efforts to put more news in its News Feed. That is, real news from the news
media, rather than status updates from friends.
Statement from Varun Kacholia, Facebook's engineering manager, and
software engineer Minwen Ji: “Starting soon, we'll be doing a better job of
distinguishing between a high quality article on a website versus a meme photo
hosted somewhere other than Facebook when people click on those stories on
mobile.”
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