Facebook has a much larger user base than Twitter and therefore it is obvious that more content gets shared through Facebook than on Twitter. Now the next important question — what happens after you share a web page (or an image or a video) on these social sites. Who is more likely to check the link that you just shared – your Twitter friends or your Facebook contacts? Twitter users click more.. According to ShareThis, while only 5% of the content-sharing activity happens on Twitter (compared to 33% on Facebook), Twitter users are more likely to click on shared links than Facebook users (see graph A). This however doesn’t mean that Twitter users are more engaging – they have no other choice but to visit the shared page because the short URLs that they see inside the tweets rarely say anything about the destination. Facebook users, on the other hand, get to see image thumbnails and page excerpts in the share itself so they can better decide whether or not to visit the destination page. ..but Facebook users will spend more time The other interesting part is that if a person lands on your site through Facebook, he will explore your site in greater detail than someone coming from Twitter. In numbers, a visitor from Twitter will check 1.66 pages on your site (average) while a Facebook user will spend more time checking out 2.76 pages.
The first feature is iChat’s support for the “/me” command from IRC (Internet Relay Chat). If you start an iChat message with/me, then anything you write after that will appear, after your name.
For example, typing /me hi johny
will display ajay hi johny
The second iChat feature is the very simple but somewhat hidden capability to find the timestamp on any chat message. iChat will, on its own, stick timestamps into your conversations at various times. But what if you want to tknow the exact time—to the second, even—that you sent or received a certain message?
To see any given message’s timestamp, simply hover your cursor over any portion of the message (it must be over the text in the message, not the icon next to the message or the box that contains it). In a second or two, a floating tooltip will appear, showing both the date and exact time that particular message was sent or received.
Learning Flash CS4 Professional: Getting Up to Speed with Flash offers beginners and intermediate Flash developers a unique introduction to the latest version of Adobe’s powerful multimedia application. Authored by Flash and ActionScript expert Rich Shupe, this easy-to-read book comes loaded with full-color examples and hands-on tasks to help you master Flash CS4’s new motion editor, integrated 3D system, and character control using the new inverse kinematics bones animation system.
No prior experience with Flash is necessary to enjoy this book, as you learn the Flash interface from the ground up, but there are plenty of new features of which veteran Flash designers and developers can take advantage.
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Learning Flash CS4 Professional will help you:
- Understand Flash fundamentals with clear, concise information you can use right away
- Learn key concepts and techniques in every chapter, with annotated screenshots and illustrations
- Develop an ongoing project that utilizes material from every chapter
- Learn how to package your work for distribution on the Web and through AIR desktop applications
- Download sample files and discuss additional Flash features on the companion blog
As part of the Adobe Developer Library, and companion volume to the bestselling Learning ActionScript 3.0 by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser, this is the most authoritative guide to Flash CS4 available. Get moving with Flash today!
