Month: February 2011

Facebook makes some much needed changes with pages

by Matt Hand
I just got this in an email today:

Facebook pages are getting an updated layout and several new features to help you engage with your fans. Here’s some of what you’ll be getting:

• Notifications when fans interact with your page or posts
• A place to showcase photos along the top of your page
• A news feed for your page
• The ability to Like and post on other pages as your page

Preview your page and you’ll be given the option to upgrade early. All pages will automatically be upgraded on March 10.

These are some much needed improvements and if you haven’t ever built a page I would recommend giving it a shot by going here to start the process and look for the create page button which is in the top right.

I am not sure why it has taken so long for the notification piece, but I am very excited about being able to get those notifications which will increase the ability to interact. Being able to post as a business should be interesting as well as you will be able to interact on a B2B level now with other pages.

Honeycomb is not using Web M so why should Chrome?

by Matt Hand

Take a look at this video during the recent Honeycomb launch event:

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Watch only the part that shows CNN demoing the live video.

For those of you that may have missed this fact Google has discontinued support of the H.264 codec in the Chrome browser saying that they need to transition to a more open standard being Google’s Web M codec. I believe this is the wrong decision, but time will tell on this. I would like to highlight that this video playing on the Honeycomb platform however is not Web M. In fact it probably is H.264 and not even Flash. Why? Well the toolset (hardware & software) simply does not exist for a company like CNN to use Web M. It may in time, but right now it doesn’t. So much for open standards.

By the way for you Windows users of Chrome. Microsoft will be releasing an H.264 plugin for Chrome which ultimately will negate Google’s push to Web M.