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After being rumored to be testing a new “Pages Feed” feature and after launching a new look on friendship pages, it looks like the insanely-famous social networking site will be introducing a new threaded comment system soon. According to Mashable, Facebook is exploring a new feature that could allow its users to specifically reply on comments posted on Timeline. Facebook’s Meredith Chin has confirmed to the publication that the company is testing a new way to add comments to a post on Facebook.

“Now you will be able to reply to another comment as well as the original post,” Chin told Mashable. If indeed Facebook will launch this new feature anytime soon, many will surely find it useful since it will make it easier for its users to reply directly to individual comments. It will also save you a lot of time because it would mean not having to tag a person in order for them to see your reply. However, it’s important to note that threaded comments are already being used on a few third-party websites.

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Disqus, our favorite online discussion and commenting service, is announcing a slew of enhancements today that are based on the feedback it has received over the past months. One of the enhancements that it is introducing is font styles which is a new appearance feature and comment text will switch fonts whenever appropriate. Moreover, the appearance options are now available as manual overrides in the admin settings, including a new feature to emphasise moderator comments with custom badge text. Disqus is also introducing a “core change” to the rules.

Beginning today, downvoting comments are now reserved for users who are logged in. It’s also re-organizing the community rules in the site settings page by making it clearer. Disqus has also heeded the advice of the global community by supporting 7 new languages including French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish. Lastly, there’s also a new hover state to reveal the absolute timestamp. The company hopes that the new enhancements mentioned above will provide more engagement, increased traffic and better discussion for its users.

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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 together mark a rare confluence for Microsoft: they represent the first instance of the company’s desktop and phone platforms sharing the same browser base, and that has wide-reaching implications for what developers can do. The Redmond team doesn’t want anyone plunging headlong into web apps without knowing what to expect, however, and it just reminded us in a blog post that there are still a few off-limits areas for Internet Explorer 10 on the mobile side. Not surprisingly, elements that demand a truly big screen or a windowed interface won’t fly — there’s nowhere to drag-and-drop from or open a new window to. A few other aspects are more likely to catch web developers off-guard, such as the lack of in-line video, a handful of touch inputs, ActiveX and the level of file access. The most important common ground stems from simply having a modern rendering engine whose HTML5 and CSS3 support will prevent any rude shocks. There’s much more at the source link, although Microsoft and designers may just be happy that any Windows Phone web development is a question of finding those few things that won’t work, rather than reinventing the wheel.

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If you are receiving an email from Twitter prompting you to change your password, then it’s probably best to heed what the company is saying. After all, it’s better to be safe than to compromise. For some reason, Twitter has reportedly sent emails to a number of users asking them to change their passwords because of a potential security threat. The email reads, “Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a Web site or service not associated with Twitter. We’ve reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account.” (more…)

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Egyptian web users will find their XXX entertainment cut off, after the Prosecutor General ordered the government to ban all pornographic content on the internet on religious, moral, and patriotic grounds. Adbel Maguid Mahmoud ruled in favor of an initial ruling in the country three years ago, Almogaz reports, which had argued that the potential for restricting “freedom of expression and public rights” was justified by banning the “venemous and vile” content which disturbed “the fundamentals of religion, morality, and patriotism” of Egyptian citizens.

Unsurprisingly, the decision has been met with approval from social conservatives, concern from liberals and free-speech advocates, and confusion by internet experts. The latter are unclear on how the Egyptian authorities will actually clamp down on pornography, with censorship being notoriously difficult to enact with any degree of broad effectiveness.

One possibility, the EFF suggests, is maintaining a list of banned sites, much as is operated in Pakistan. There, government watchdogs periodically add sites in their thousands to a roster of “unsuitable” content, though pornography still proliferates as the censors attempt to corral it.

Alternatively, a full block could be put into place, filtering all internet traffic within Egypt. That, however, would be expensive, technically very demanding, and could well have a negative impact on overall connectivity speeds, leaving other use of the internet at a disadvantage.

As Egyptian web users have previously demonstrated, there’ll always be ways to circumnavigate bans and limits; the government was forced to cut off the internet altogether in order to curtail protests and social unrest back in January 2011. VPNs and other private browsing tools are likely to become the order of the day.

Egypt must ban internet porn orders legal chief is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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