Tagged: Facebook

Top plug-ins to enhance Facebook experience

20 Aug, 2012

Top plug-ins to enhance Facebook experience

Plug-ins today not only enhance your experience of a particular software but complete it. Once you start using the right plug-ins, you will wonder how you ever got through never using them at all. Every application has something that you can add to – whether it is browsers like Chrome or Firefox, social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, or your own smartphones – Android or iOS. For Facebook however, the most popular social media network, plug-ins can personalize your experience all the more. You can choose from a variety of plug-ins depending on your need, which do everything from reading aloud your Facebook messages to returning a poke automatically, but here are a few which have made the top list, by popular use, and which are used across platforms.

Display your Facebook Status on your WordPress Blog

15 Aug, 2012

Display your Facebook Status on your WordPress Blog

With more than 3 billion global monthly searches, ‘Facebook’ has become the most searched keyword on Google. This social networking website has pioneered and revolutionized the domain of communication, sharing, and socializing. With roots originating from a university dorm, Facebook has grown in leaps and bounds over the past five years to become a billion-dollar public company.

Facebook Advertising – A New Avenue of Making Users “Like” Your Brand

30 Jun, 2012

Facebook Advertising – A New Avenue of Making Users “Like” Your Brand

There are many things that offer you plenty of opportunities to promote your products and services to the defined target audience. With growing demand, Facebook and other social media channels have managed to get up to the marketing expectations of the companies. With a great platform, Facebook presents the clients with an excellent engagement site. The latest avenue which has worked wonders for many companies offers a versatile system that can create links for the visiting users. Such a system helps the company in measuring the liking trend and thus; it will further assess the exact shares.

5 Ways to Make Facebook More Productive

25 May, 2012

5 Ways to Make Facebook More Productive

Social media has become the new preferred platform for a company, or a person, to speak and communicate with the greater public. No longer is it necessary to have a public relations expert or media exposure, because social media allows a person or company to do it entirely by themselves. Of course, it does take some effort and expertise to do it properly. These days, Facebook is one of the most popular- if not, the most popular- social media site on the internet. For many, Facebook is a way to waste time and procrastinate, but there are ways to be productive on Facebook, and there are ways to get the most out of it in the process.

Educational Leadership: Taking a Page from Social Media

19 May, 2012

Educational Leadership: Taking a Page from Social Media

The popularity of social media continues to expand as technological improvements make it possible to connect with people in whole new ways and this has not only caught the attention of marketing departments. Those creating educational policy and attending educational leadership graduate programs have begun to pay very close attention to the development of some of these tools. While many K-12 districts place restrictions on social media use within schools, many others have found ways to take advantage of these services and tools. Oftentimes, this integration is controlled and monitored, but it still engages students in a way that traditional measures do not.

Facebook buys Instagram! Do you know why?

20 Apr, 2012

Facebook buys Instagram! Do you know why?

Facebook has added yet another feather to its cap and this time it’s the Instagram app. It is a free app initially developed for iPhone users to share photos and videos. It has about 17 filters and colour balance to allow users make changes before it is uploaded. It’s quite amazing that Instagram has grown from zero to a drastic $1 billion in just 18 months of time with just about 13 employees in its credit.

The New Facebook Photo Viewer

7 Feb, 2012

Facebook photo viewer gets a makeover

Facebook keeps introducing changes to certain parts of their system off and on. The latest change brought about by Facebook is their revamped photo viewer. I was just checking out Facebook and noticed the new photo viewer. The photo viewer has gone through many changes in the past. I am sure you will like this new light box photo viewer.

How to easily add your app to your page on Facebook

29 Jan, 2012

How to easily add your app to your page on Facebook

You must be familiar with beautiful landing pages on Facebook. A lot of companies these days have set a default landing page for their Facebook like page that looks beautiful and in most of...

How to easily insert memes in Facebook chat

15 Jan, 2012

How to easily insert memes in Facebook chat

Memes can also be inserted in Facebook chat. But inserting memes as such isn’t very easy. Facebook chat emoticons Bar is a greasemonkey script that adds the functionality to easily insert memes on Facebook chat.

Facebook gets a timeline feature – Will it be hailed or rejected

5 Jan, 2012

Facebook gets a timeline feature – Will it be hailed or rejected

Facebook has recently rolled out its Timeline feature. The timeline feature makes users’ entire history accessible with a single click. Before the site launched this featured, many of the things users shared would get buried in archives within a few days. Facebook is the only social media site, which has more than 800 million users. Now for the first time the users will be able to see the traces of all of their activities on Facebook.

Facebook is Where It’s At for Small Businesses

30 Dec, 2011

Facebook is Where It’s At for Small Businesses

In the immensely saturated market for emerging small businesses, how do you stand out? With spurts of technological innovations from left to right, any new business trying to break into the current competitive stream of trade has to optimize the value of ease, accessibility and effectiveness of nothing else but strategic social media marketing.Indubitably the fastest, easiest and most widely-used marketing tool today, Facebook remains on top of its game with an overwhelming number of users reaching to more than 800 million people around the world.

Memes on Facebook Chat

24 Dec, 2011

Memes on Facebook Chat

Facebook chat is pretty plain. Although it lets you have group conversations, send emoticons etc., its features are too less when compared to other chat services like Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger. But if you are a meme lover, there’s good news for you. You can now send memes to your friend on Facebook chat.

How to tag a friend or a page on Facebook on mobile devices or with Javascript turned off

14 Nov, 2011

How to tag a friend or a page on Facebook on mobile devices or with Javascript turned off

Its been long since Facebook let users tag their friends or like pages in status updates or comments. The feature first came to status updates and later on to comments as well. You can simply type the @ symbol and start typing the name of your friend and select one from the autocomplete. But this feature won’t work if you are using Facebook from a mobile browser that doesn’t support Javascript or if Javascript is turned off on your browser. But still, you can tag your friends using an alternate method.

How to get the older Facebook chat sidebar back

4 Sep, 2011

How to get the older Facebook chat sidebar back

Facebook chat sidebar now covers full length of the screen and spans vertically to take up all the height. This surely makes it easier to have a glance at more number of friends as compared to the earlier one. But many of you may not be very fond of this longer sidebar(including me) and would want to revert back to the older Facebook chat sidebar. Wouldn’t you wan’t to have the older sidebar for Facebook chat? If yes, the Facebook Sidebar Chat reversion script for Greasemonkey can be of great help.

Do your friends see you online on Facebook all the time?

29 Aug, 2011

Do your friends see you online on Facebook all the time?

As we all know, a green circle next to a friend’s name on the Facebook chat list means that the friend is online. And a grey circle would mean that the friend is away or either busy. But do you have had complaints from friends saying that you don’t reply to them even when you are online 24 hours a day? Sounds strange but for many people, Facebook shows an online status even when the person is offline. Well it could possibly be because you could be using some instant messaging application on your mobile Phone. If you use IM+ application on your Windows Phone for chatting over Facebook and are being shown online all the time, here’s how you fix it.

ESET’s Facebook app can scan you computer online

24 Aug, 2011

ESET’s Facebook app can scan you computer online

There are many antivirus websites that offer free online scanning services. But beware, there are similar malware as well, that look like online scanners but instead infiltrate your PC. ESET, the company behind the popular antivirus software ESET has released an online scanner. The best thing about this online scanner by ESET is that it is a Facebook application and you can use it right from Facebook.

31 Jul, 2011

Your Facebook Network around the world

Have you ever wondered how many friends you have living in each different country? You must have had friends scattered all across the globe but you cannot tell outright which friends reside where. But thanks to a very cool app by Western Union World that lets you quickly visualize your Facebook friends on a map.

Changes Facebook has brought about

27 Jul, 2011

Changes Facebook has brought about

Although primarily a social networking tool, Facebook has brought changed to all areas of life. Facebook has brought changes in sectors like business, recruiting, relationships and more.

Facebook’s Video Chat: Not Really Too Awesome

26 Jul, 2011

Facebook’s Video Chat: Not Really Too Awesome

At a recent media event, Facebook unveiled its in-browser video chat solution for its social networking powerhouse. The online social media titan heralded this as an “awesome” feature, and backed up its claim by showing integration with Skype as well as a new design for the site’s existing Facebook Chat application.