Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
How can I, keep my Facebook account safe and secure?
Facebook Acquires Spool Team for Mobile
Facebook has acquired the team behind San Francisco start-up Spool in its latest talent acquisition aimed at getting better performance from its mobile business.
Using too much Facebook could create Junk Memory & Depressions
Snaptu 1.7.0
Access Facebook, Picasa, Live Score, Pub reviews, Movie review, RSS reader, Live score, Pub reviews, Journey Planner.....all accessible now through one tiny free application! Sanptu application browser boots your phone with iPhone like user experience.Install Sanptu on your phone to get free access to the web's best online services.
Automatically turn your photos into paintings, drawing and cartoons...
If spend lot of time at Facebook or you just looking for a quality multimedia tool which allows you to create beautiful works of art from your digital photos, for free....then FotoSketcher could be a right option for you. It provides users with a simple tool for re-imagining their photos as handmade drawings. While the program provides easy controls and a lot of flexibility, nobody will mistake the results for actual art.
Add a Facebook Pop Up Like Box to your Blogger
When a visitor lands on your blog a pop up box will appear with the option to like your Facebook page.The gadget will only appear on the first visit so your readers or you wont have to see it every time.
Share and stay connected with your friends with the Facebook for Android app.
The official Facebook for Android app is undoubtedly the best way to interact with Facebook on your Android smartphone. An overhauled interface (that closely resembles the iPhone app, we might add) presents seven icons for your news feed, profile, friends, photos, message in-box, events (like birthdays), and pending friend requests. Below the icon dashboard is a photo reel that lets you swipe through thumbnails of friends' recently uploaded photos, although there's no context surrounding the image until you click through to your buddy's profile page. Even then, you won't be able to enlarge the image until you click again.The start screen is also home to a notifications bar that slides up to share the latest news. In addition, there are shortcut buttons for updating your status and searching your friend list or the global Facebook roster.
Though the update is a vast improvement to the feature-thin predecessor, we're still looking forward to seeing Facebook further refine the app.
10 Things You Should Know About Facebook
Facebook is the largest social networking site available today. It was started February 4, 2004 and still growing with it's 845 million users, all over the world. After all this year Facebook had cross so many hurdles and now ranking #2, worldwide, as mention by Alexa. So, here is some 10 vital key points about Facebook and FB-Addiction.- 10 Things You Should Know About Facebook
- Facebook was started with $19,000 only, as a private company
- Facebook was first started, named "thefacebook". The company dropped "The" from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.
- Mark Zuckerberg is the permanet CEO for Facebook, as long as he wants.
- On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.
- Facebook reached one trillion pageviews in the month of June 2011, making it the most visited website in the world.
- Facebook never remove any images or media files once you upload.
- Facebook officially launched Messenger for Windows, which gives users of Windows 7 access to some Facebook services without using a web browser.
- Facebook is built in PHP which is compiled with HipHop for PHP, a source code transformer built by Facebook engineers that turns PHP into C++. The deployment of HipHop reportedly reduced average CPU consumption on Facebook servers by 50%.
- In April 2012 Facebook bought the application Instagram for US$1 billion.
- Facebook now is a public company, worth $100 billion, and earn at minimum $1,500,000 per day.
Facebook acquires mobile loyalty reward startup Tagtile
The co-founders of San Francisco startup Tagtile, Abheek Anand and Soham Mazumdar, are engineers with experience working at VMware Inc and Google Inc, according to their website.On 12th April, Tagtile announced “ we are joining Facebook, and that they are acquiring substantially all of our assets. It's a huge opportunity for us to take our goal - helping businesses grow - and do it on a much, much bigger scale than we could have on our own.”
How to add facebook comment box in your website?
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Steps
1) Sign in to your facebook account.
2) Visit comments page
3) Put URL of website which you want to make facebook comment box ready.
4) Click "Get Code" button to get auto generated code
5) Now paste that code as per facebook code integration guideline. At last refresh your browser to see how it is appear.
Here we have two images for better understanding.
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What's New: Facebook users 'unfriending' in greater numbers to guard privacy
London, Feb 25 (ANI): People are managing their privacy settings and their online reputation more often now than they did two years earlier, a new report has revealed.According to the report released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, whether it's pruning friends lists, removing unwanted comments or restricting access to their profiles, Americans are getting more privacy-savvy on social networks.or example, 44 percent of respondents said in 2011 that they deleted comments from their profile on a social networking site. Only 36 percent said the same thing in 2009, the Daily Mail reported.The findings come a day after the Obama administration called for stronger privacy protections for people who use the Internet, mobile devices and other technologies with increasingly sophisticated ways of tracking them.
Pew's findings suggest that people not only care about their privacy online but that, given the tools, they will also try to manage it.Along those lines is "profile pruning", which Pew reports is on the rise.Nearly two-thirds, or 63 percent of people on social networks said last year that they had deleted friends, up from 56 percent in 2009. And more people are removing their names from photos than two years ago.This practice is especially common on Facebook, where users can add names of their friends to photos they upload.All together, there has been a 7 percent average increase in deleted comments, friends and untagged photos between 2009 and 2011.However, despite cutting and downsizing of profile information being up, the activity on social networking sites like Facebook is up too according to the report.Other findings of the report included women being much more likely than men to restrict theirprofiles. Pew found that 67 percent of women set their profiles so that only their "friends" can see it. Only 48 percent of men did the same.It also found that people with the highest levels of education reported having the most difficulty figuring out their privacy settings. That said, only 2 percent of social media users described privacy controls as 'very difficult to manage.'The report found no significant differences in people's basic privacy controls by age. In other words, younger people were just as likely to use privacy controls as older people. 62 percent of teens and 58 percent of adults restricted access to their profiles to friends only.Young adults were more likely than older people to delete unwanted comments. 56 percent of social media users aged 18 to 29 said they have deleted comments that others have made on their profile, compared with 40 percent of those aged 30 to 49 and 34 percent of people aged 50 to 64.Pew's phone survey of 2,277 adults was conducted in April and May 2011. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. (ANI)
By ANI | ANI – Sat 25 Feb, 2012
Pew's findings suggest that people not only care about their privacy online but that, given the tools, they will also try to manage it.
How to Create a Custom Facebook Page
You can have a custom Facebook landing page up and running within 5 minutes. Here’s how:Give your app a name and agree to Facebook’s Terms of Service.
On the next screen, give your app an official name (this is the one the public will see). The About and Website tabs are optional, however it’s recommended to create and upload a custom icon and logo.
Click on Facebook Integration:--
Now here’s where most of us get hung up. Facebook is asking for a whole lotta URL’s and canvases, secure this, and iFrame whats? Fear not, there’s no need to bring in the development team. If you’re familiar with WordPress, you’re already half way to publishing your first custom landing page.
Provided that you have admin rights to your WordPress based blog (or site), head on over to the plugins directory and search Facebook Tab Manager. Found it? Great, install it, and let’s get this party started! Once you’ve installed and activated the Facebook Tab Manager, you will next create a custom Facebook page within the confines of the self hosted WordPress installation, and then tell Facebook where to look for it. To do this…
From the Facebook Tabs icon in your WordPress sidebar, select Add New. You should be greeted with a very familiar WordPress interface. In essence, what you’re doing here is creating a new page within your WordPress installation, but hidden from public view. To this end, I like to title these pages the same as the app for quick and easy recognition.
Once you’ve titled the page, the wysiwgy editor is your new best friend. Here’s where you’ll want to design and edit your HTML. If using the visual interface is more your style, no problem, edit away.
For this example, I’m employing my own narcissism, and using my World’s Smallest 3D printer article as my landing page, but you can use any HTML based code you want (images, iframe code, etc.). I’ve copied the HTML code from the article, and pasted it in the editor box (under the HTML tab and not visual tab).
So far, so good. The Facebook Tab Manager plugin also offers you the option to change and/or alter your CSS styles, but let’s keep it simple, and assume that the existing style sheet is to your liking. Likewise, you can add additional scripts and style sheets, but K.I.S.S.
You will, however, want to pay attention to the tick boxes below the extra code box. Open Links / Post Forms to a New Window is just as it says, or for the hidden coder in you, think of it as a target=”_blank”. Unless you’ve got some super fancy code going on in your header or footer, don’t worry about the “Template should execute…” options, but do pay attention to the “Set resize/autoresize” box, as well as the “Hide post title…” option. We’re now 80% complete, and only a bit more copy/pasting to go.
Now that you’ve perfected your HTML code via the editor and selected the options for your page, go ahead and publish your masterpiece. Again, fret not, as this page is not publicly viewable on your site/blog. Once published, the Facebook Tab Manager plugin will present you with a number of URLs. Remember that URL, canvas, and iframe information Facebook was previously requesting? Voilà .
Back at the Facebook Integration tab, you now have all the URLs you need to fill in the form. Note: The Facebook Tab Manager plugin will also allow you to get a bit fancier and create two separate posts, one to act as a tab manager, the other as a stand alone application canvas. Again, for the sake of simplicity, let’s skip the canvas, and stick with what we've got.
Copy/paste the appropriate URLs from the plugin to their corresponding fields within the Facebook Integration tab. As the plugin states, “Make sure the radio buttons are set to iFrame, not FBML, for both the Canvas URL and the Tab URL.” Also note that those who choose to browse Facebook under the “Secure” (https) feature may have trouble viewing your custom landing page if your domain does not have an SSL security certificate installed. If you’re in doubt, consult your IT manager, and/or hosting company. Now click on that awesome “Save Changes” button, and let’s see what we’ve got.
Head back on over to your page, and you should now see your app appear in the left column navigation, just below your profile image. Clickit, and let’s confirm we’re seeing the same thing as we did in the WordPress editor. This is where that “Set resize/autoresize” option comes in handy, as the plugin with automatically reformat your content to fit within the constraints of the available Facebook real estate.
We’re now 95% complete. Click on “Edit Page” at the top right corner of your wall. Under “Default Landing Tab” select your new app from the dropdown and click “Save Changes”.
Now log out, or visit your page from another browser where you’re not logged in, and ….Presto! a custom landing page for new visitors.
Yahoo expands sharing of stories through Facebook
The latest bond announced late Tuesday will enable Facebook users to share more of their activities on Yahoo's websites, including which stories they are reading.Yahoo introduced the Facebook-sharing option in its main new section three months ago. The same feature will now be available in 26 other parts of Yahoo's site, including its "omg" service for entertainment news and sections devoted to television, movies and games.
By tying more of its services to Facebook's popularity, Yahoo is hoping to give people more reasons to visit and stick around its website. Yahoo ultimately wants to sell more online advertising. That's an area where Facebook has been gaining ground as its website has emerged as a top Internet hangout.
As Facebook has become more influential, Yahoo has been struggling to remain relevant among Web surfers and online advertisers.
It's been a daunting challenge so far. Yahoo has gone through three different CEOs in the past four years while its revenue and stock price have drooped. The difficulties have prompted a board review that will culminate in a sale of all or part of the company.
Yahoo has been pleased with the results of Facebook-sharing so far. Traffic to Yahoo's news section from Facebook has tripled since that sharing feature was introduced, according to the company, which is based in Sunnyvale, California.
Apparently, a relatively small percentage of Yahoo's 700 million users want their online social circles to know what they're reading on the Web. Yahoo says about 12 million people have opted to share their tastes in news stories so far. The feature is particularly popular among young adults ranging from 18 to 24 years old, according to Yahoo.
Facebook sharing still isn't available on two of Yahoo's most popular sections, finance and sports. The company says those sections will be linked to Facebook early next year.
Privacy Tips For Facebook Timeline Applications
If you’re a Facebook user, you’ve probably recently started to use the Facebook timeline on your user page. You’ve probably also noticed changes such as the ticker feed and new behaviours of open graph applications like Spotify. Well, Facebook has very recently opened up their timeline applications so that many more applications can do the things Spotify can do, such as sending data to your timeline, news feed and ticker. New timeline applications that let you showcase your activities can be found in a Facebook directory, but there’s a few privacy things you should know before you get started. Start by checking your Facebook timeline privacy settings and other privacy controls generally. Then when you add applications, ensure you know exactly who can see your activities and where those activities will be seen online by using the following guide.
Use Friends Lists To Filter Which Timeline Apps People See
Friends lists in Facebook are the default way by which you can manage your privacy and filter the information people see about you. At MakeUseOf we’ve gone into great detail on many occasion as to how and why you should create Friends lists, in particular for your privacy using the timeline.
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You Give Application Approval Once Only
When you click on the application from the Facebook timeline application directory, you’ll often be taken to the application website and asked to log in. Then you’re directed to the application approval page from there.
You only need to approve the application once to ensure your information is shared in many different places. This makes it easy to set up, but it might come as a surprise to some. If you already use the application, you’ll need to re-approve use to enable the timeline application, but the custom sharing settings you’ve previously set for that application will be maintained.
Know That Your Activity Is Shared Internet-Wide
So, you’ve approved the application for Company X. Now your activity can be seen in your Timeline Application section, in the News feed and in the ticker. It can also be seen on Company X’s website by default because you’ve allowed that access too.
You Can Change Settings Using Your Activity Log
If you need to change your privacy settings for any application it can be done using the application settings or via the timeline’s activity log.
Every Song/Movie/Book/Recipe Is shared
These applications will share every little thing you do, unless you can specify privacy options with the application itself. If you’re listening to music on Spotify all day, those tracks will show up individually in the ticker and in a bundle on the news feed and your timeline. That’s a lot of ticker updates (not that many people mind)!
And what if you occasionally listen to or watch something a little embarrassing in a live streaming application like Hulu or Spotify? Make sure you’ve enabled some sort of private mode first or it will be seen by everyone on Facebook who can view that application. If it’s a possibility, maybe consider protecting yourself against this by limiting whoever can see that application in the first place to just close friends. Your friends might still laugh at you down the pub, but at least you won’t break your grandmother’s heart or lose your job.
Keep Your FaceBook Account From Being Hacked
How FaceBook Is HackedThe main way your Facebook account is hacked is by someone obtaining your password.
Hackers gain unauthorized access through fake apps or website links. This is commonly know as phishing.
When you click on a link to a Web site which looks identical to the Facebook log-in page you automatically enter your username and password. The hacker now has immediate access to your account. Now all he has to do is use his newly found credentials (yours) to log in and send a personal message to all of your friends. When your friends click on the link he gains access to their accounts also.
Hackers can also gain access to your Facebook account by retrieving your saved passwords from your browser. They send out emails that contain malicious software embedded in them. If you open the email, you send your information back to the hacker.
If you”re a mobile phone user you may also be susceptible to hacks since in some countries the network signal is not encrypted. The hacker can possibly enter into the data stream that flows between the mobile and mobile operator and gain access to all of the information that you are sending out.
Facebook Viruses
The Bredolab Virus- According to mxlab, the email includes downloadable files which include the trojan virus: Bredolab. If you receive an email requesting a “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation” email you should delete it right away.
A sample email may look like this:
Hey (your name), Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed. You can find your new password in attached document. Thanks, The Facebook Team
Imitating official emails is a standard method for spammers. Always avoid downloading email file and attachments.
Special Note:
If your account is getting hacked then you should do the following. Clean our cookies and temp files on your PC first. Then login to facebook. Disable apps then change your password. Type your new password into a notepad file and copy paste it "always" when changing or logging into facebook. This will detour any server side keylogger. Also make sure you log off when done using FB. Its spammy apps that cause most of the problem. Apps can be what makes the facebook experience fun so if you have to use them, disable them after you do. When you sign on with an app you agree to giving it access..
