What Makes a Hero?

What trials unite not only Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins but many of literature’s most interesting heroes? And what do ordinary people have in common with these literary heroes? Matthew Winkler takes us step-by-step through the crucial events that make or break a hero.

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How Facebook Rank Posts

Your News Feed is made up of stories from your friends, Pages you’ve chosen to follow and groups you’ve joined. Ranking is the process we use to organize all of those stories so that you can see the most relevant content at the top, every time you open Facebook.

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Facebook News Feed

Facebook News Feed, first introduced in 2006, highlight information that includes profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays, among other updates. Using a proprietary method, Facebook selects a handful of updates to show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of a few thousand updates they can potentially receive.

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