New Facebook Features

Facebook has released a series of new features which will be welcomed by most.

The groups functionality offers real opportunities for targeted communications as this video below explains.  It has always been a failing of Facebook that any communication went to every friend listed. This doesn't need to be the case anymore.



There are a variety of privacy settings that can be applied ranging from public to completely secret. Group chat is included.

A new privacy dashboard lets you see how apps are using your info in one page and you can change the settings.

You are now able to download your total uploads to Facebook in a zip file. It presents in an html coded format.

What's included in the zip?

 - Profile information
 - Your friends list
 - View of your wall
 - Photo albums
 - Videos
 - Notes you created
 - Events you have RSVPed “yes” to
 - Inbox messages

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Flickr Focus - Brighten Up Your Presentations

Here is an interesting tool called Tag Galaxy that demonstrates image association with a product, company or term.

In this example we type in a country name; Singapore.  The galaxy presentation demonstrates those sub categories of images that are associated with the principal term.

The next step is to select either the principal "planet" or one of its satellites by double clicking on it.

Images are pulled from Flickr under the search term.

The completed visualisation can be rotated and is a useful tool in demonstrating image association with a product, place or service.

A screen shot of the graphic will also brighten up any corporate presentation.

And here is another handy tip.  If you plan to upload whole albums of images to Flickr why not consider using a free tool like Bulkr to make the task easier.

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