Last night, Pete Bratach announced the addition of real-time notifications integrated into chat. As soon as an application sends a notification to a user, they will be immediately notified in the chat bar on their screen. This new addition has the potential to increase the conversion of users from notifications to application installs. I’m sure it will be a welcomed addition to developers.
No change is necessary for developers. Some may decide to increase their use of notifications though because the previous integration points for notifications didn’t seem very effective (at least from my personal experience). Pete Bratach states, “We realize this change requires a learning period for our users. During this time some of them might not respond to notifications as they did before. To offset this, we’re working on ways to introduce users to the new notifications interface.”
It will be interesting to see if notifications become an increasing source of application installations. Right now it’s impossible to predict what will happen but this is a welcomed addition to the application integration points on the Facebook platform.
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Why do they keep adding all these features when the site is loading so irritatingly slow? Fix the fundamental user experience, dudes! There is always some connection timeout here and there.Wonder if other users get it too?
Comment by Marcus — April 27, 2008 @ 5:47 am
Why do they keep adding all these features when the site is loading so irritatingly slow? Fix the fundamental user experience, dudes! There is always some connection timeout here and there.
Wonder if other users get it too?
Comment by Marcus — April 27, 2008 @ 6:47 am
I do NOT want to receive my notifications in real-time. I ONLY want to receive them when I visit the Facebook home page.Right now, I have to tape a black sliver of paper to my computer screen so that I do not see any real-time notifications.Does anybody here know of an add-on for Firefox that will prevent me from receiving my notifications in real time? I really want to be able to download one.
Comment by Anonymous — July 7, 2008 @ 3:19 am
I do NOT want to receive my notifications in real-time. I ONLY want to receive them when I visit the Facebook home page.
Right now, I have to tape a black sliver of paper to my computer screen so that I do not see any real-time notifications.
Does anybody here know of an add-on for Firefox that will prevent me from receiving my notifications in real time? I really want to be able to download one.
Comment by Anonymous — July 7, 2008 @ 4:19 am
I do NOT want to receive my notificationa. Only when I visit my Facebook home page.
Comment by Francina nPerrott — June 21, 2010 @ 5:12 pm