Facebook’s changed the rules again and these ones are worth noting.
3 things have changed since Tuesday…
1. Notifications and Invitations on your profile page have now been bundled together. Application invites now have less real estate on people’s profile pages than they did a week ago. This is bound to be a good thing for people; not so good for application developers.
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2. NewsFeed ranking. Feed stories published onto a person’s News Feed which requires that person to download and install the app before reading the content will be penalised. This is analagous to web sites which force you to create an account before viewing content and I’m sure a welcome change - but not for developers who used it to increase their download base. Read more here.
3. Freind lists. You can now group your friends into personal silos for invitations and notifications. Profile page settings based on these groupings are sure to follow so that work colleagues and perspective employers can only see some aspects of your profile whilst close friends can see the full gory details.
