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  Is Facebook News Feed copied from Google+?

According to Sina Tech, Facebook released its new News Feed this week. However, this design is considered to be copied from Google social network the Google+.Google senior vice president of technology infrastructure Urs Holzle said: "Proud to see +Mark Zuckerberg promote G+.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!"Although technology companies will learn from each other's designs and there are not any effective ways to display pictures on the web and mobile devices, Facebook's new design is indeed similar to Google+. But Facebook's new design may make the user happy since it pr...

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  Facebook will release new News Feed

According to 36Kr, Facebook sent out invitations to media to release a new version of the News Feed. This new News Feed will be released at 10 o'clock on March 7th(PST time) at the headquarters.The web version and mobile version of News Feed was updated in September 2011 and May 2012, Web version adds a dynamic display feature, if you login to Facebook per day, it will recommend popular content to you first If you frequently log in to Facebook, it will recommend the latest content. The mobile version focus more on multimedia content.Last month, TechCrunch author Josh Constine saw the look of t...

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  Google feels the threat from Samsung

In response to Apple's iOS system, Google and Samsung stood on the same side. But with the increase of market share of Samsung Android devices, Google begins to feel the threat from Samsung.On MWC in Barcelona, a group of business executives said Google increasingly worried about Samsung after a private party. Because its equipment has occupied 40% of the Android devices, which could erode the Google advertising service. Google hopes manufacturers such as HTC and HP can challenge Samsung.It is reported that on an activity on Google last winter, Andy Rubin, Google Android responsible person pra...

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  Crazy! 618 million daily active users on Facebook

Facebook released 2012 Q4 financial report. Facebook total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2012 is $1.585 billion, an increase of 40% over the same period last year, about 23% of the total revenue are from mobile advertising. Net profit is $64 million, down 79% over the same period last year.Now Facebook monthly active users reach 10.6 million, daily active users reach 618 million. The daily active users from mobile are more than the daily active users from desktop side the first time.In the entire 2012 fiscal year, Facebook's total revenue was $5.089 billion, a net profit of $538 million. Fa...

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  The video Twitter is coming

 Last October, Vine was acquired by Twitter before it released. Now Twitter launched this app.Vine only supports 6 seconds video recording, when you tap on the screen, the video recording starts, when you finger leaves the screen, the video recording stops. It can contain a few frames in 6 seconds. You can share the video on Twitter and Facebook.Vine seems like a video version of Instagram because it allows user to record video and share it. It has the same features as Instagram such as Like and Comment, you can follow the people you are interested in and share videos on Twitter and Faceb...

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  12 useful Chrome commands

Many useful features of Chrome don't show up on its menus. You can access them through the chrome:// command. In this article we will introduce 12 useful chrome:// commands.1. chrome://flagsIt can be used to turn on or turn off some chrome features.2. chrome://dnsThis command will show the domain name list caught by the browser.3. chrome://downloadsYou can access this through chrome menu as well. The shortcut is Ctrl+J4. chrome://extensionsThis command equals to Menu->Tools->Extensions5. chrome://bookmarksThis equals to Menu->Bookmarks->Bookmark manager. The shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+...

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  Focus of Baidu in the future

In addition to the new generation "Baidu ladies", The biggest highlight of the annual meeting of Baidu is undoubtedly the passionate speech delivered by CEO Yanhong Li with a "Zoro" suite. He emphasized four business focus of Baidu in the future, i.e the traditional search, mobile cloud, LBS and international strategy. Although the strategy is clear, but what's more important is that there must be some corresponding products to align with these focus. How will Baidu carry out four key business?Yanhong Li did not hesitate to put the traditional search in the first place, and he stressed the nee...

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  What have been Facebook’s greatest technical accomplishments?

To maintain a large website which gets billions of requests er day and keeps very fast response speed is not an easy task. Many big companies are trying best to improve user experience by adopting different techniques. There is a question on Quora which asks "What have been Facebook’s greatest technical accomplishments?". There is a person who worked in Facebook before provided an answer which helps us understanding how Facebook handles huge amount of traffic each day.Here is the answer from Robert Johnson.I ran the infrastructure software team at facebook for five years, and was in...

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