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Re: Facebook Timeline Remover: Works, but Malicious by rhizome on Thursday September 06, 2012 @03:53PM (#4485871)
The thing that gets me is, what's behind that? FB has many many well-paid designers and interface people...how did that flip model come to be? Is that really the best they can do with the resources of Facebook? I'm reminded of Microsoft (yet again)...
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Re: Facebook Timeline Remover: Works, but Malicious by drcube on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:13PM (#4485986)
My guess is getting people to scan left to right rather than top to bottom increases ad views.
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Re: Facebook Timeline Remover: Works, but Malicious by rhizome on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:11PM (#4486272)
By that token I would think that it's more like "a disjointed reading experience will allow for more cognitive 'slots' in which to place advertising."
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Re: Facebook Timeline Remover: Works, but Malicious by leviathan on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:48PM (#4486457)
I had a phone interview for a engineer position at Facebook, and the interviewer told me that the timeline project began as an internship project that got traction.
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Re: Facebook Timeline Remover: Works, but Malicious by rhizome on Thursday September 06, 2012 @06:10PM (#4486543)
As I get older, one of my most peevish interpretations of some companies' development models is "putting their student loans to work."
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