Taking in Janice Diner’s Facebook Open Graph for new social grammar infographic provides a few useful definitions of the new Facebook Ticker and Timeline. I must admit, I am not all that versed in these two subjects, so Diner’s interpretation is helpful.

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“What’s happening?” The text entry box on the Twitter homepage innocently asks us constantly, compelling us to type in a <140 character window into what we’re doing RIGHT NOW. For the most part, if you’re an active Twitter user, you partake voluntarily, contributing to a real-time hum of over 200 million updates daily.

On the receiving end of these updates are people who’ve chosen to subscribe to your one way broadcasting of your constant status. Like it or not, they’ve opted in to what you [...]

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After yesterday's announcement of its expanded Open Graph capabilities, Facebook has been sharing your music listening activity over its News Ticker, allowing for music discovery and the realization that as TechCrunch co-founder Michael Arrington put it, "A lot of you have just really terrible taste in music."

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Oh Chrome, and you wonderful Chrome development folks, today we sing your praises. After Facebook rolled out its new Ticker on the Facebook homepage, many of us have been distracted for hours by an ever-present, scrolling sidebar. But no longer!Someone has already hacked together a Chrome extension that will allow you to remove the Ticker from your Facebook page. It's a simple, free addition, and the results look great:As you can see, you still have sidebar information, including suggestions and [...]

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Oh Chrome, and you wonderful Chrome development folks, today we sing your praises. After Facebook rolled out its new Ticker on the Facebook homepage, many of us have been distracted for hours by an ever-present, scrolling sidebar. But no longer!Someone has already hacked together a Chrome extension that will allow you to remove the Ticker from your Facebook page. It's a simple, free addition, and the results look great:As you can see, you still have sidebar information, including suggestions and [...]

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One of Facebook's most important products is getting much smarter — and a little easier to use.

Less than 48 hours before its f8 developer conference, Facebook is rolling out an updated version of News Feed that does away with the two-tabbed interface that it's had for two years now. Before today you'd have to swap between 'Top Stories' (a feed of stories that Facebook thought were important) and 'Most Recent' (a feed of your friends' most recent actions on the site). Plenty of users clicked bo [...]

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Facebook has just spilled the beans on its games-related announcement for today: A more streamlined, engaged App Canvas page, including a ticker for game updates (see below). Canvas Pages, for those unaware, are the "blank canvas" that apps get to occupy on Facebook.

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