Facebook turns into a stack overflow in power developer forums

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If you've ever roved around Facebook developer forums, you may notice that — in addition to loaded with complaints and error messages-they are pretty basic. There's nothing wrong with them per se, but they feel like a pretty universal forum, not a hub for developer on one of the Web's most popular Web platforms.

Today, Facebook announced he is going to fix the situation: this is abandoning its old forums which he said "showing their age, and run custom site on stack overflow, hub, Q&A, which is very popular with programmers (and is loaded with useful content). You can find the new site at facebook.stackoverflow.com.

Benefits of swaps are obvious. Stack overflow has the reliable reputation system, more structured platform Q&A and generally easier to sift through.

Stack Exchange is the parent company of stack overflow, which is a network of 60 + Q&A portals. Post and discuss News stack Exchange Chief Alex Miller writes that this Facebook launch also marks the introduction of a new component to the platform, which allows you to create customizable mini sites.

But facebook. so it's not just a subdomain is a completely new set that we review and works for months. Since the beginning, we have received requests to start a dedicated programming communities for niche topics, but we have always been reluctant to do so for fear of balkanizing the great community we have already. So we came up with a solution that provides the best of both worlds. Now we can create a mini site, selecting the appropriate tags (in this case, anything related to Facebook) and merge only the content of those tags. When you visit the mini-site, you will only see the contents of these tags. Not only you will see only questions related to Facebook, but user pages ranking reputation on the show, earned a reputation only to questions tagged Facebook.

Facebook is the largest social network, with more than 500 million users. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in February 2004, originally as an exclusive network for students at Harvard University. She ...

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Stack Exchange is a network of free, community site Q&A. StackExchange was created by the founders of the StackOverflow function. The StackOverflow function is a knowledge sharing community for programmers.

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With search and big publishers Showyou turns your iPad into Visual, social remote control

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When Showyou started in April for the first time last year, we noted that sort of like a Flipboard for video content. New update today kicks it up a notch, making things more visually appealing when you add more content and making it easier to find.

Version 2.0 Showyou shows iPad improved user interface, which is really fantastic looking. Grid as pre-look, but it is now much smoother and easier to manage. It feels like a way to view video should be done in the form of tablets. Most recent videos are in the top left corner and you move on and down to move through time.

The grid concept remains key. And the new version expands on it to add content from the new, large publishers, such as The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Ted, BBC and others. Each of these publishers now has its own grid, which you can subscribe with a single click. And you can hop between grid focus on specific content.

In addition, you can now search for videos on Showyou. And things that you are looking for can be saved and in their own grids. The search also is nice because it's socially-infused. Showyou is not scanning all YouTube, it simply returns the results to what people are divided into large social networks. There are about 12 million videos available to search for right now, "said Showyou.

But my favorite aspect of the application must be integrated with AirPlay, Apple over-the-air, streaming video technology. If you have an Apple TV connected to your TV, you can browse for the video to Showyou and quickly lead them to be watched on the big screen. He really turns your iPad into a Visual, social remote. This is something Showyou had in mind when they started work on the application, says CEO Mark Hall.

"This is an incredibly addictive environment for watching video," Hall said, noting that the reverse chronological path was not ideal for the tablet. "This is a tragedy for presenting it in such a way," he said.

You can find Showyou 2.0 in the App Store here.

Remixation is the company behind Vodpod.com and a new annex to Showyou, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. For both services is a central idea: what better ...

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