Facebook has rolled out a new feature which allows users to see upcoming events and birthday on a calendar. This feature was originally developed in the hackathon and now live on the social networking website.
“A couple of us felt there should be a better way for people to see their friends’ birthdays a few days in advance and make plans for the weekend. So we built it,” Bob Baldwin, the Facebook software engineer said in a blog post.
“Before a recent hackathon, a few of us created a Facebook group called “Social Calendar Dreamers” to spark discussion around making Events more visual. At the next hackathon, engineers from the events, photos, messages and other teams hacked through the night to build a better way to view events. By 6 a.m., we had a prototype that worked,” he explained.
This new feature will help users to know about upcoming birthday and events on the calendar. Go to the event list, and you will see upcoming events with a calendar. Click on calendar at the top and see the full calendar view. This is really a nice way of showing upcoming events.
You can also respond to each event individually from this calendar view without going to event page. Calender view is being rolled out. To check this, go to your event page and then click on Calender tab.
“The great thing about hackathons is that you get to dive straight into building a concept with your friends without having any concrete plans or directives,” says Baldwin. “It’s pretty cool that a night of hanging out and hacking on an idea can turn into something that my friends and everyone else on Facebook can use.”
This new feature seems to help in better way. What do you think about this calendar view in event page? let us know via comments.
