Google+ is now open to public as a beta site and Facebook is sure feeling the heat. If Google+'s dry run is any indication, then the new
service is all set to give a tough competition to Facebook. In last couple of days, Facebook has set off a change campaign and has introduced a myriad of changes. However, it still has some gas left and would be introducing a set of new features at F8 Developer conference, scheduled to be held in London.
According to the reports, in addition to Like button, Facebook is planning to have a couple of more buttons such as "watched", "listened", "want" and "read". So, now it will be easier for you to share the content you have just consumed. According to TechCrunch, Facebook may also be looking at introducing social music service. This is not the first time these rumors are doing rounds.
However, among this button frenzy, it looks like Facebook has put its Project Spartan on the back burner, at least for the time being. Project Spartan is a secret project Facebook is working on for promoting HTML5 apps. Spartan was expected to be ready for the launch by July of this year. However, now it is being rumored that Facebook considers the project to be ahead of its time and hence decided to go slow on it. When introduced, Spartan would be yet another blow to Adobe Flash, which is currently nursing its wound from latest Microsoft rebuttal.
The new buttons would be useful not only for the users but also hold great potential for advertisers. It will help Facebook in populating feeds on the basis of these buttons clikced by your friends and you will get updated about the latest activities of your friends. However the real question is that how much of this information we can handle? Are we entering the age of information overload?