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As the new Facebook has been launched (not pushed out to everyone yet) only a couple of weeks ago, many suggestions are hitting Facebook and many things are getting added and updated daily.

Today I have found two new features that have been implented. The first is the addition of the Current City information for your profile. Facebook has always had Hometown, which I think confused people because people didn’t know if that was where you were born or where you live now. So now we have Current City and Hometown as can be seen in the screenshot below.

New addition, Current City

The second addition to the Facebook’s profile page has been the Settings link which now sits beside the All Posts, Posts by <your name> and Posts by Others links. This new Settings link has the same features as the old Import link (which allows you to import things like your shared Google Reader posts, YouTube videos and Flickr photos) which use be on the old Facebook but now has some extra added features like allowing you to chose whether you want friends to comment on your stories and friends to post on your wall.

New settings link

Check out the new Facebook if you haven’t already and keep an eye out for the new features being added daily.

Thanks,

Marat

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On Facebook each profile has a Mini-Feed which displays usefull information about that particular person, including their latests wall posts, added applications, shared blog posts from Google Reader and favourite YouTube videos.

You can view the entire Mini-Feed by clicking the See All link in the top right hand corner of the Mini-Feed, but from there you cannot filter the Mini-Feed by Google Reader, YouTube or WordPress from the right hand View menu.

However a simple way to do this is to click the the icons for each Mini-Feed post (the highlighted icons in the picture on the right). Clicking these icons will take you to the same page as clicking the See All link but this time will filter the Mini-Feed posts by that particular post category, whether that may be WordPress blogs, Google Reader’s shared blog posts or even favourite YouTube videos.

This allows anyone visiting your Facebook profile page to view all Mini-Feed posts related to that category.

Thanks,

Marat

This is the second time this has happened to me and I don’t really know what it is. Powering on the computer this morning I noticed neither Gmail Notifier nor Snitter (my twitter application) could connect to the Internet. Actually they still can’t.

gmail.com doesn’t seem to want to load which would explain Gmail Notifier and twitter.com doesn’t either which would then explain Snitter. But the weird thing is, Facebook doesn’t load either, and WordPress took one minute to load my Dashboard and another minute to load this “write post” page. Yet at the same time Google Reader is up and running while Google Calendar is down.

Like I mentioned above this has happened to me before, whenever Gmail didn’t work so didn’t Facebook and other large social/popular websites.

I’m finding this very frustrating and annoying actually. Half the websites I would normally visit in the morning are all down for unknown reasons.

If somebody knows the reason(s) behind all this I would love to hear it. Now I just hope I can post this blog

Thanks,

Marat

I’ve been using Google Reader for a month or so and as detailed in my post Google Reader – A must use RSS feed reader love every second of it.

But I was contemplating something just a couple of days ago, I actually wanted to submit this as a suggestions for Google Reader but unfortunetely couldn’t actually find a place to make that suggestions. What I’m talking about here is of course, search.

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