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Facebook Friendship Pages – Telling the Story of Friendships

 Facebook is launching a new feature called Friendship Page – which is like a document all of your interactions on the network with particular friends on designated pages. The Friendship Page will display public Wall posts and comments between two friends, photos in which both are tagged, Events they RSVP’d for together and other information. As much as I am paranoid about privacy on Facebook, this is a welcome feature really. You’ll be able to see Friendship pages between yourself and a friend, or between any two other people in which you have permission to view both peoples’ profiles. After all, Facebook was is meant to connect, build and cherish relationships! I am sure some of you will still find a reason or two to curse Facebook, but this feature is a wonderful example on how user activity data can be used to tell a story by cross referencing and proper data analysis. Friendship Pages will probably be rolled out throughout the day, not all users are able to see...

Check out RockMelt – the ‘Social’ Web Browser

If you are not on Facebook or Twitter, you must be living in a cave. This is the age of social media and social networking. To spruce up your social life, here is a social browser too. Meet RockMelt , the social ‘Facebook browser’. From the developer blog - RockMelt does more than just navigate Web pages. It makes it easy for you to do the things you do every single day on the Web: share and keep up with your friends, stay up-to-date on news and information, and search. RockMelt is backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and has entered a private beta today. It lives in the cloud and uses Facebook authentication to synchronize a user’s browsing experience across machines. Your settings, bookmarks, etc., are all backed up online. RockMelt is built on Chromium , the open source project behind Google’s browser. However, as a Chrome user, you will notice three biggest changes to the browser as RockMelt is built around friends, feeds, and search results. The left rail is for friends...