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(Mashable) — Facebook is rolling out an update to News Feed that lets people sort information by Recent Stories or Highlighted Stories.

The update adds a “Sort” link at the top of the News Feed. Clicking it brings up two options for organizing News Feed content: “Highlighted Stories First” or “Recent Stories First.”

Highlighted Stories will push the most important content to the top of the page — the current way it operates. The Recent Stories option will order News Feed items in reverse chronological order, though it is not as comprehensive as Facebook’s real-time “Ticker”.

The social network revamped News Feed in September in an attempt to make sure users don’t miss the important events in their friends’ lives. This was accomplished through the launch of Ticker and an update that highlighted key events that occurred within users’ social graphs.

As part of this change, Facebook removed the “Top Stores” and “Most Recent” links at the top of the page. It looks like that some users still wanted a simple way to see News Feed items at any time, though. The new News Feed has the ability to see recent stories in News Feed if you had logged in recently, but it wasn’t a comprehensive option.

Facebook says that the Sort feature will be rolling out over the next few days. Do you think bringing Recent Stories back is a good idea? Let us know in the comments.

Hypo Venture Capital Headlines : Zurich voters take results in their stride - Saeo.net

Hypo Venture Capital Headlines : Zurich voters take results in their stride - Saeo.net

On a bright if somewhat crisp day after the parliamentary elections held every four years, it was very much a case of business-as-usual in Zurich.
This was despite a significant shift in the electoral landscape which saw major parties such as the rightwing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), the Radicals and the Greens in particular lose significant support to new centre parties, the Liberal Greens and the Conservative Democrats.

The general surprise expressed by most political commentators at the results – particularly the loss of eight seats in the House of Representatives by the People’s Party – was not repeated by many of the citizens of Zurich.

Heading into the city centre to talk to locals about their interpretation of the election results, this graffiti scrawled on a wall near the famous Hitl restaurant was an apt precursor to the response to come:

“Stop SVP Brainwash!”

Jacques, 50, a banker waiting for a tram at Paradeplatz, the symbolic heart of the Swiss banking industry, told swissinfo.ch the result was “as expected”.

“The new parties in the middle are getting a little bit stronger so it was not a surprise,” he said. “People are getting fed up with the old establishment parties who don’t change their political direction so people want to vote in the middle with new parties.”

Barbara, 47, a nurse, said she was happy that the centre parties had won more ground in the elections.

“I think it’s good that the parties of the middle have won more. I think it’s not good if the Swiss go too much to the left or too much to the right either. The middle is fine because that’s where the normal people are,” she said, adding that people had lost confidence in the People’s Party.

Too aggressive?
“They say one thing but they do something else. People don’t have trust in them,” Barbara said of the rightwing party, the largest in parliament.