Facebook Prototypes: Facebook’s Version of Google Labs

September 15th, 2009 admin

Last week, we covered a new Facebook feature for Mac users: desktop notifications . Apparently, the feature is part of a new Google Labs-like part of Facebook called Facebook Prototypes.


Originally posted on Mashable

 
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