Filed under: Photo, Web services, Social Software
Facebook is trying out a new photo upload tool, and it doesn't suck!
Facebook ditched the old-school Java uploader they'd been using since 2005, and built a plug-in from scratch with newer tools. Aside from looking better and running a lot more smoothly, the new uploader can also run in the background, so you don't have to stop browsing while you wait for your pics to upload. The first time you try to upload photos after turning on the prototype, you'll be prompted to install the Facebook plugin. It doesn't take long, and it's well worth the extra 30 seconds to get a better, faster photo uploader.
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Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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gwangi said 5:21PM on 11-20-2009
Since 1995, I didn't realize Facebook has been around that long.
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Sebastian Anthony said 5:45PM on 11-20-2009
You weren't in on the internal beta back in 1995?
Newbie.
loisquestnet said 5:46AM on 11-23-2009
i like to see any photo or video in this facebook
lois
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