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Facebook redesigns Events, adds new list and calendar views


Facebook has made it easier for its over 900 million users to keep track of upcoming events such as birthdays and parties with a its Events makeover. This comes close on the heels of Google launching feature rich events for its Google Plus social networking service.

The new additions to Facebook events are the Events calendar and a List view that highlight upcoming events so that users can plan well in advance for them.

A note by Facebook engineer Bob Baldwin on the Facebook engineering page said, "Today we announce a new list and calendar view that makes it easier to scan upcoming birthdays, invites and suggested events. Scroll through these events and respond to invites without leaving the page. Suggested events are recommended to you based on your friends, Pages you like, places you've checked in at and the apps you use on Facebook."




This Facebook Events redesign is the result of a Facebook hackathon, where Facebook engineers get together to hack on new ideas and try to build a prototype overnight. The Events hackathon project had started about a year ago.

 

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Facebook launches App Center in India

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Facebook has launched its application centre, called App Center in India. App Center is now available to everyone in the US, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK, according to a post on the company's official blog.
To go to the App Center, a user has to click on the left side of the home page. Users are directed to the App Center on clicking. Once in the App Center, a user can choose various apps from several categories that include music, photos, games, news, videos, entertainment, sports, travel and tourism.
Every app is available with an app rating that provides the user with information on how many times other users have played or downloaded the selected app.
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Facebook revamps photos with new mosaic view and simpler UI

Facebook just started rolling out a new look to its user Photos page that includes a mosaic view featuring all of a user's photos, as well as three new tabs that adorn the top of the page: photos of you, photos you've shared, and albums you've created. The new photos view appears to be the work of the design team within Facebook that created Facebook Camera, a wholly independent photos app that launched May 24th. Facebook has increasingly placed an emphasis on higher quality, bigger photos.

Facebook's grid photo view has been long due for an update and hasn't changed much recently — even after Timeline profiles launched in late 2011. The new view incorporates Timeline functionality by letting you actively highlight and edit posts within the photo viewer. Highlighting a photo here will create a page-width photo layout for that image on your Timeline profile. If you hover your mouse over a photo, you can Like, comment, star, or edit a photo within a convenient pop-up module. Albums also get a detail view that align them much more closely with Facebook's Timeline profile pages, while streamlining editing options.

The new photo viewer undeniably looks like Google+'s photo viewer (pictured below), as well as many popular themes inside both Tumblr and Blogger. With the update, Facebook is clearly saying that the days of a static grid view are over. The company is also saying that it's still keen on rolling out updates inspired by other sites — still one of the characteristics that makes Facebook so tough to compete with.

Facebook said that the update will roll out over the next few weeks to all of its users worldwide. The company didn't say when or if the new mosaic view would roll out to its mobile apps.

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