Inspired by Google+, Facebook Engineers build Circle Hack for Facebook lists

Since Google+ Launched last week, A lot of its users have said that it’s heavily influenced by Facebook considering it has a news-feed like home page and a sidebar showing photos and other additions. Circle Hack is a tool built by Vladimir Kolesnikov, Peng Fan, Zahan Malkani and Brian Rosenthal that let’s you easily create and add people to your Facebook lists and it looks like the Circles feature in Google+ On Facebook, the only way to create lists normally is... Read More

Facebook Now Knows You by Face

Facebook has recently rolled out a new facial recognition-based photo tagging system. Basically, this means when next you go on Facebook and upload a photo or album, Facebook will find the faces in your photo and suggest who they may be based on photos of your friends already on their database. This seems to be a useful tool but privacy advocacy groups all around have raised their complaints about the privacy implications of this move. It seems that though Facebook informed... Read More

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