More Facebook Evolution – Timeline And News Feeds Getting A New Look

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We knew changes were coming to Facebook. On March 1st Mafia Spirit shared a ReadWrite.com article that was titled ‘Facebook Tests Timeline Redesign In New Zealand.’

  The news today from acebook is there will be a new look for feeds. The new feed are designed with the intent of reducing clutter and to focus more on the stories that you care about (Like all our posts here at Mafia Spirit). In addition to having a brighter and more beautiful look and feel the types of feeds that interest you will be easier to locate and separate from those that don’t interest you.

A New Look for News Feed

March 07, 2013

To make sure you're seeing all the stories you want to see, we're introducing several new feeds to explore in addition to the same News Feed you have today:

News Feed Most Recent All Friends Photos Music Following Games Groups

- All Friends - a feed that shows you everything your friends are sharing
- Photos - a feed with nothing but photos from your friends and the Pages you like
- Music - a feed with posts about the music you listen to
- Following - a feed with the latest news from the Pages you like and the people you follow.

With the new design, now Facebook has the same look and feel on mobile, tablet and web. For example, the left-hand menu is accessible anywhere you go on Facebook. You also have a way to jump right to the top of News Feed whenever new stories come in.

Facebook will be rolling out the new design slowly over the coming weeks on the web and mobile devices. Facebook is offering you to get it early. Simply visit www.facebook.com/newsfeed and add yourself to the waiting list.

If you have an iPhone or iPad these design updates will be available in the coming weeks and soon after for Android users.

Behind the redesign

Learn more about the thinking behind the new look.

 

Get to Know the New Design for News Feed

By Greg Marra - Today at 2:00pm

Today we announced a fresh, new look for News Feed on web, tablet and mobile. This design aims to make it easier for people to access the things they care about. For developers, this new design improves how the content appears in News Feed and how people can use bookmarks to reengage with apps.

In the new design, the things people share through apps are larger and more engaging in News Feed. We're also making it easier for people to access their game and music feeds, now accessible from the top right area. To take advantage of this new design, we encourage you to optimize for high-resolution feed stories on both web and mobile by providing 600X600 pixel images (minimum 200X200 px).

Bookmarks are now more relevant for people and appear on every page. Bookmarks are an important way for people to reengage with apps, and we've made improvements so people can quickly access the games and apps they use the most. These ever-present bookmarks will also display the notification counter from the most recent game requests to help drive re-engagement with players.

We are beginning a slow rollout of this new design today. We will be testing and closely monitoring key metrics to optimize this experience for both users and developers.

 

Goodbye Clutter

Hello bright, beautiful stories.

Search for people, places and things

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Give it a try

Join the waitlist to get the new homepage for the web. Look for it on your iPhone, iPad and Android soon!

Join Waiting List

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Joel Willeby – The Philanthropist Winner

Joel Willeby has a new Home Away From Home thanks to his donations to The Fisher House through the Mafia Wars Charity Event – A Home Away From Home.

The following announcement was made on the Official Mafia Wars Blog;

UPDATE: Mafia Wars Charity Event- A Home Away From Home

Dear Mafia Wars players,

Thank you all for contributing to the Fisher House Foundation! You have helped provide a “home away from home” for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA medical centers.

As mentioned earlier, the highest individual contributor for this event will be featured in the game as a Non Playing Character- The Philanthropist.

Here are the top five contributors:

1. Joel Willeby
2. Amit Gill
3. Debra Monnington
4. Lori Whippo Eckman
5. Maf Bost

Congratulations to Joel Willeby for being the highest contributor in this charity event. As a token of our appreciation, we’ll be featuring him in the game as the The Philanthropist.

We will be contacting him via an in-game message in the next few days. For more information, please read theTerms and Conditions of this event.

Keep playing Mafia Wars!

-The Mafia Wars Team

More was posted on the Mafia Wars Facebook Fanpage;

You can visit either of the 2 pages if you wish to congratulate Joel Willeby yourself.

Joel Willeby will be featured (at some point) in the game as The Philanthropist.

• phi·lan·thro·py

φιλάνθρωπος philanthropos

1. The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations.

2. Love of humankind in general.

3. Something, such as an activity or institution, intended to promote human welfare.

With being considered a Philanthropist there is an image (or a perception) that comes with the label. We wish that everyone would/could be a Philanthropist and care about human-kind.

Of course there are some, like the following from the Urban Dictionary, who may have their own definitions of what a Philanthropist is.

1. Philanthropist

one who gives money to charity, often associated with the wealthy and given a negative connotation by people who have never donated more than a dime at McDonald's.

wow Dave donated 50% of his businesses earnings to charity, what a philanthropist!

by Austin23cook Jul 30, 2011

2. philanthropist

Person who has nothing better to do with his/her money so he/she figures that it would be more useful for his/her reputation to give it away to society all the while making it seem as if he/she is unintentionally a good person.

Rich-ass bitch: hmm im rich what should I do? I already have a mansion with 23555 rooms and 6 pools and 345 cars. And my garbage disposal broke from all the money i tried to get rid of, what should i do with it now? Oh i know! I know! I'll pretend to be a good person and give it away! Hmm isnt it called being a philanthropist? (looks at himself in miror) what would the world do without me?

by nvrtell Jun 26, 2006

3. pHilanthropist

A term that describes phony corporate philanthropists, particularly Bill Gates, who is closely linked with pResident George W. Bush.

So how much money will Bill Gates invest in his own investment firm before people realize he's actually a pHilanthropist?

by David Blomstrom Oct 3, 2007

4. philanthropist

A guy who gives money to other guys in hope of possibly screwing their girlfriend in the near future

That dude, he's a total philanthropist.
or
That dude gave me $2,000 dollars so now I don't go to work anymore. He's a total philanthropist.

by Denver McAllister Apr 22, 2005

There are people in need in EVERY country around the world, including the United States. These people just need more to care about them.

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St Patrick’s Day Crates - Available NOW

It’s Lucky Time. Featuring an Indie Rock Artist and her band Rainbow’s End. The Green Eagle’s (her fan’s) will be Shamrock’n to the hit song ‘Clover Truncheon’ from the album ‘Dirty Luck’. This Indie Rock Artist is no Fluke Shot! 

Sunday, March 17th is St. Patrick’s Day and Zynga is getting ready to celebrate by adding St. Patrick’s Day Crates soon.

NOW AVAILABLE

Get your R-O-C-K on and get some RP’s to buy you some of these loots.

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Winners of Family Inheritance Event: 3/4/2013

The Official results for the Family Inheritance Arena Event have been released. A reprint of the Official Mafia Wars Blog Results is below;

Winners of Family Inheritance Event: 3/4/2013
Mobsters,

Here are the winners of the Family Inheritance event.

The rewards have been credited to the winning Family accounts on March 4th 2013 PST.

Ranks	Family ID	Family Name	Total No of Crests Earned	Leaderboard Reward
------	--------------	------------------------------	----------------	----------------
1	1274	[RUS] Russian Mafia Group	244009	100 RP
2	58	Mafia Wars Gods	181043	80 RP
3	6411	мęŧâмΘяŤթħōşíŞ	135069	60 RP
4	1039	Hungarian's Arrows	111350	40 RP
5	5156	Assassin-a-Nators	86505	20 RP
6	1340	Garda de Fier	86196	15 RP
7	132	nWo Wolfpac 4 Life	75504	13 RP
8	22344	Czecho Slovak Legion	59286	12 RP
9	3773	★★★★★ HIT TEAM ★★★★★	57890	10 RP
10	1056	AYLBTU	49370	8 RP

Congratulations to all the winning Families!

-The Mafia Wars Team

I would like to congratulate the winners of this event.

However, if you are like me you NEVER get overly excited about ANY event that involves competing to finishing number one. That includes IceBoards, JobBoards, and Bang Your Head Boards. Why? You may ask. Because all you see is the same players or families at the top of every one of these types of events. They aren’t fun for ALL the players of Mafia Wars. They only favor a select few players or groups of the game. If I have NO CHANCE  then why bother? These types of events only succeed at alienating too many players from the game. 

If you compare the winning families of the 2 most recent Family Inheritance Events you will notice that 7 of the 10 winning families won in each event. In the chart above I highlighted in yellow the 7 families that made the top 10 in the previous Family Inheritance Event. I also left the 3 new families in white. In the chart below I highlighted in red the 3 families that did not make the top 10 in the most recent event.

Ranks	Family ID	Family Name	Total No of Crests Earned	Leaderboard Reward
------	--------------	------------------------------	----------------	----------------
1	132	nWo Wolfpac 4 Life	211805	100 RP
2	11178	╠Sραßαr╣	207990	80 RP
3	58	Mafia Wars Gods	103006	60 RP
4	1274	[RUS] Russian Mafia Group	95939	40 RP
5	5156	Assassin-a-Nators	95382	20 RP
6	6411	мęŧâмΘяŤթħōşíŞ	80554	15 RP
7	1039	Hungarian's Arrows	52146	13 RP
8	13218	UnLeashed	43067	12 RP
9	1026	Loyal 2 the end	42349	10 RP
10	1056	AYLBTU	41489	8 RP

We scratch our heads and wonder why players have left this game in droves. One reason is the simple fact of the unfair nature of the events within the game. One works hard and plays for countless hours day end and day out to what end?