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24 Jul, 2011
Video embedding and link previews in Facebook comments
We all are familiar with how one can tag a friend on a Facebook comment, i.e. by using the @ symbol and typing the name of the friend. But Facebook has recently introduced a new feature that automatically embeds flash videos from external link and/or show preview of the link shared in comments.
13 Jul, 2011
If you have become an ardent Google+ user, you might want to post your Google+ updates to Facebook and Twitter. This can be done with a combination of a couple of applications.
10 Jul, 2011
Wouldn’t you like to see the photos you have liked or commented on? Pixable is an application that lets you see a timeline of photos you have liked on Facebook.
10 Jul, 2011
Google+’s rival numero uno Facebook’s owner Mark Zuckerberg is also on Google+. But you’d be surprised to know that Mark Zuckererg has the highest number of followers on Google+ followed just by Google’s co-owner Larry Page.
7 Jul, 2011
Facebook thus has lots of pages and applications containing malwares. There are some malwares that create likes on your behalf for pages without your knowing. If you happen to see such pages and videos, you can report them to ESET.
3 Jul, 2011
If you are a fan of both Facebook places and Foursquare, wouldn’t it be handier to do so from a single place? 1st Place is an application for Windows Phone 7 with which you can easily checkin to both Foursquare and Facebook.
23 Jun, 2011
Scaling up link building efforts is something that every webmaster wishes that they could find the time to do. However it is not something that is easily accomplished, and the days of submitting to endless amounts of article directories are now completely over with as the Google algorithm update called Panda totally wiped that Internet marketing stagey off of the board.
22 Jun, 2011
Every day, new people, brands, businesses, bands, groups, and other organizations create profiles for the most popular or the emerging social media sites. If you’re thinking about entering your business or brand into the masses, the following portion of this post will discuss some ideas and pose some questions that you need to mull over. This will help you think through if the social networking scene is a correct route to take for you to reach your business goals.
22 Jun, 2011
The way we look for information is changing. It’s not just about using the web instead of picking up the telephone any more. While Google.com is still the most popular site on it, the internet is getting more and more social. Instead of trusting a search engine we can now ask real questions of real people, read real reviews, and use them to get better data.
29 May, 2011
Facebook allows tagging friends on status updates and comments as well. You can even tag Facebook pages on Status updates. To tag friends in status updates or comments, you simply start typing a friend’s...
21 May, 2011
Facebook has added many options to control and filter your friend list, photos, your profile etc. You have lots of options to control your profile’s privacy settings to control the visibility of different sections of your profile. Well now you can also choose who to show your Posts on Facebook. For the pages you admin, you can select the countries and places where people would be able to see a post.
4 May, 2011
When you search on Google, you get the results that Google thinks is the most relevant one. Wouldn’t it be great to quickly see the number of Facebook likes next to each search result on Google? With the Google +Like extension, you can have this benefit.
26 Apr, 2011
Sometimes, you might want to share something with just a few select people; an image uploaded on imgur for instance. In such case, Like buttons may not be the best way to share. Realizing this, Facebook has brought forth the Send button with which you can share a link with only the people you choose.
5 Apr, 2011
Google has introduced +1 button as a social recommendation system for Google users. One can hit the +1 button on Google search results page to recommend it to their friends. The +1 likes can be made public or can be set private.
31 Mar, 2011
The new tech company Whowish has launched itself by offering a Facebook application namely CollegeSwap aimed at helping college students on shoe-string budgets trade for products and services instead of buying them. The app though is not only for swapping stuff.
22 Mar, 2011
Facebook recently introduced a feature, letting users comment by just hitting Enter, i.e. without having to press the “comment” button(this feature was also first rolled out for the New Facebook Groups). The good news is that you can now edit your comments even after posting it.
17 Feb, 2011
Facebook keeps introducing new features to make the whole social networking experience better. Facebook just replaced its standard photo viewer with a pop up viewer. This pop-up viewer comprises of a light box overlay which at first may surprise you.
16 Feb, 2011
The New Facebook has a plethora of added options and tweaks as compared with the older version. The News Feed from your friends is fully customizable and you can even sort the feeds by Status Updates, Photos, Links, Page Updates or Pages. But have you noticed lately that you are seeing the updates in your newsfeed only from the same people? You can change the default settings of your Facebook news feeds to fix it.
1 Feb, 2011
Blogs and other regularly updated websites like their content to spread like a jungle fire through social networking sites. Almost all such websites use social sharing plugins to let people easily share content on their site over Facebook, Twitter etc. Insitebar is a utility that site owners and bloggers can add to their website to enhance social sharing.
21 Jan, 2011
Even if you are a workaholic who spends much of his time working on the computer, you manage to save a few minutes or even hours to keep track on your friend’s activities over Facebook. Facebook has also been sometimes referred to as the biggest time waster on the internet. For this very reason, many companies don’t allow their employees to use Facebook. But yeah, there is always a way out for anything and some witty ones figure out a way to do it. NewsFeedEmail can be a very handy application for people who aren’t allowed to access Facebook directly.
