Filed under: Social Software, Search
Facebook adds inbox search, makes inbox actually useful
The only thing Facebook messages have ever been good for is getting a friend's real contact info so you can talk outside of Facebook. But what happens when you lose that critical message with your buddy's new address or screenname? Facebook fails you, and you have to scroll back through all your messages to find the right one. Not anymore! The 'Book has introduced a search bar for your inbox. Rejoice! A new feature that should have been there all along! We think this is a step in the right direction, even though it's not exactly the highly-touted data portability we're still waiting for. At least this gives us something better to do on Facebook than tend to our very impressive L'il Green Patch.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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dgtljunglist said 7:06PM on 6-21-2008
Dude, this is nearly two months old.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/08/facebook-email-gets-better-with-search/
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Jay Hathaway said 7:07PM on 6-21-2008
The Facebook Blog entry I linked to is dated 3 days ago.
Zack said 8:53PM on 6-21-2008
If this is two months old, I can't believe I never noticed it until today! I've often wished I could search my messages for stuff I said a long time ago that I need to reference.
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keeves said 3:03AM on 6-22-2008
I don't seem to have this ability yet
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hyperwill said 4:24AM on 6-22-2008
me neither..
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