Thursday, September 17, 2009

Users invited 'inside the walls of social media site'

The release of Facebook Prototype will allow users to try out experimental applications that have not been launched yet and offer feedback.

Facebook users have been invited to look at new ideas and applications being developed inside the walls of the social media service.

People can access Facebook Prototypes within their application directory and leave feedback on how well they work or offer suggestions on how to improve the programs, according to a post by Lee Byron on the company's blog.

He listed several examples of applications that were never released to the mainstream user base such as Enhanced Events Emails, which allows people to add Facebook Events directly to Microsoft Outlook or Google calendars.

Mr Byron added: "You'll be able to test any of the products and features we launch as Facebook Prototypes and then provide feedback directly to those of us who built them."

Some applications, he pointed out, can be a little esoteric to be given a full-scale launch on the social networking site, but Facebook Prototypes offers developers a chance to tweak their creations from customer suggestions.

This week, the founder of the social networking site Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company now serves 300 million users.

17/09/2009

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