It's been a busy year here at Facebook. We've launched a lot of products, improved upon the existing site, and learned quite a bit in the process. In case you've lost track, here's the highlight reel from '06.
In January, we introduced Friend Details, which let you say how you knew your Facebook friends and build your Social Timeline. This was shortly before High School Facebook and College Facebook merged in February. By the end of February, we'd made search better by giving name, event, group, and profile matches to a word. We began March with our inaugural NCAA Basketball Tournament Pool on Facebook. Also, we redesigned groups and events so people could post photos and write wall posts related to them.
In the spring, we expanded to include work networks, and allowed people to affiliate with multiple college and work networks. We also began offering Facebook Mobile Texts using an SMS-based service. The My Messages page was redesigned, and Browse launched so people could easily look at everyone around them (depending, of course, on privacy settings).
We had a number of upgrades for photos along the way, introducing Mobile Photo Uploads, a My Photos page upgrade, and a partnership with QOOP to power the Facebook Printshop.
During the summer, we added search functionality specifically for former classmates and coworkers. For the first time, Global Groups and Events became possible. We also launched the Facebook Development Platform, which allows developers everywhere to create applications that work with Facebook. Shortly after, we launched Facebook Notes, and with it, the Company Blog. As summer wound down, we launched a third mobile functionality, Mobile Web, and got everyone geared up for Election 2006 by creating Facebook profiles for all the candidates.
September got off to a rocky start when we introduced News Feed and Mini-Feed without the necessary privacy controls. We fixed that mistake within three days and went on to add more privacy controls for your search listing. We added extra spam prevention systems before we expanded in late September so that everyone could join Facebook.
We haven't slowed down since then. We launched Share, added more privacy controls for when you poke, message, and add people as friends. We added News Feed Preferences, introduced the Holiday Center, and released the Facebook Firefox toolbar as an open source project.
Even this week, despite a few desks emptying out for the holidays, we've launched a new poke confirmation box that doesn't require so many page loads per poke, and a new profile picture photo album that automatically keeps a history of your profile pictures.
Stay tuned for more great things in 2007. Happy Holidays from the entire Facebook Team.
Carolyn, Facebook's resident blogger, has resolved to poke less and message more in 2007.
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