Tagged: Facebook

14 Dec, 2010

Let visitors comment on sections of your blog with Highlighter

Visitors to any post on your blog may land there for a bunch of different keywords. A visitor could be intrigued by a section on your article and thus write a comment regarding it. But he will have to scroll all the way down to the comment section and type the comment referring to the particular section on your article. Highlighter is a Wordpress plugin that enables your visitors to highlight any section of your article and add comment to it.

11 Dec, 2010

Chit Chat for Facebook – a cool desktop client for Facebook

Facebook chat has been integrated into chat applications like Pidgin, Digsby and recently Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger as well. Chit Chat for Facebook is a standalone desktop chat client for Facebook that serves solely for letting you chat over Facebook. Chit Chat for Facebook has a neat interface and resembles MSN Messenger in some ways.

Firefox Addon F1 by Mozilla Labs for social sharing

18 Nov, 2010

Firefox Addon F1 by Mozilla Labs for social sharing

Facebook’s social plugins, “Share” and “Like” are immensely popular on the web. All sorts of websites and blogs have incorporated these social plugins to make sharing easy. But some still lack them and sometimes you would be looking for one when you won’t be able to find any in the end. For Firefox users, a plugin has been made recently available that enables quick sharing over Facebook, Twitter and Gmail with just a few clicks. Firefox Addon F1 that has just been released officially by Mozilla labs is just the right one for social sharers.

18 Nov, 2010

Tools for creating a collage of your Twitter friends

Have you ever wanted to have a collage of your Twitter friends? If you have thousands of friends, having a collage with a picture of all of them wouldn’t be possible practically. But here are a few tools that let you create a collage of you twitter friends within seconds.

14 Nov, 2010

Funnelscope – A hotel search engine based on the social networks

How often do you travel places? If you are a traveler you must have had experiences of looking for hotels of your type. There are a lot of sites on the web where you can look for hotels appropriate for yourself. But Funnelscope is one of its kind as it lets you search hotels based on the data from social networks.

How to automatically publish your blog posts to the New Facebook Groups

11 Nov, 2010

How to automatically publish your blog posts to the New Facebook Groups

If you are a blogger, you can share your blog posts over a group, the members of which would be interested in your posts. How about automating this task; i.e. sharing any new post on your blog automatically to a group? With Networked Blogs application for Facebook, you can now automatically publish feed from your site to a Facebook group.

11 Nov, 2010

Now search friends on Facebook in a better way

The friends list on your Facebook profile or the “Edit Friends” page lets you browse through your friend list. Facebook has enhanced the Friend search feature by letting you search using various filters like city, hometown, school, workplace, interest etc.

How to fix the font size for Facebook updates in News Feed

8 Nov, 2010

How to fix the font size for Facebook updates in News Feed

You must have noticed smaller font size in News Feeds recently on Facebook. Facebook has been testing this smaller font size in the News Feed for a couple of days now; to be precise, since 3rd November. The font for status updates is the same size as that for comments. The larger font size was better and less strenuous to read. You can fix the Facebook font size for updates in News Feed by using browser bookmarklets or scripts.

7 Nov, 2010

Creating custom Facebook tabs using Grid system

Customizing your Facebook pages by adding useful content can keep the visitors to your page indulged for a longer time. 520grid can help in creating custom FBML pages for instance the Welcome tabs seen on many Facebook pages.

28 Oct, 2010

How to translate status updates on Facebook

You might have some friends who update their status in a language alien to you. So, you just skip them. You wouldn’t generally bother to copy it and head over to Google Translator for translation. Wouldn’t it be great to get them translated on the fly? Facebook Translate Addon for Mozilla Firefox can help you do that.

28 Oct, 2010

Estimate the visitors to a site using VisualizeTraffic

Every webmaster strives to drive more traffic to their blogs. Have you ever wondered how much traffic any blog or website gets everyday? There are many places on the web like Statcounter, Sitemeter etc. where you can have such information. VisualizeTraffict is also lets you have a rough data on the traffic for a site.

Adobe launches a new application – Project Rome

24 Oct, 2010

Adobe launches a new application – Project Rome

Adobe has launched a new application called “Project Rome”. Project Rome is a content creation and publishing application for consumers, small businesses and educators. The tool is for users who don’t have technical knowledge in designing applications. Users can create rich multimedia content, websites, design and other stuff without the knowledge of desktop applications or say the Adobe Suite. Moreover, Project Rome is currently free for use.

22 Oct, 2010

How to block Facebook social plugins on websites

If seeing too much of them has distracted you, Facebook blocker can be of help. Facebook blocker can block all Facebook social plugins and make them disappear altogether from any site. It is available as a browser plugin for Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.

Clear chat history option is back on Facebook

15 Oct, 2010

Clear chat history option is back on Facebook

Facebook had removed the “Clear chat history” option which was a bit odd as there was no point in removing it. Many users had protested the removal with a point that it was violating user privacy. Facebook has responded to their protests and has conceded that the “Clear Chat history” option shouldn’t be removed.

15 Oct, 2010

Add images, Tweets and more to any page with Layers

How often do you bookmark a page or share it over social networks? Sharing isn’t a one step procedure but there are many applications that make it easier. Layers is a Google Chrome plugin which is lets you do more with webpages by letting you add sticky notes, images, videos, maps from Google Maps and even tweets to any web page. You can then share it to your family and friends over social Facebook or Twitter.

13 Oct, 2010

Five ways to automatically post updates to Facebook from your site’s feed

Every company and website has a Facebook fan page. The best way to share updates from your blog to Facebook is to automate the task of sharing any post to Facebook as soon as it gets published. Applications like Twitterfeed, Networked Blogs, RSS Graffiti, Objective Marketer etc. will help you do it.

7 Oct, 2010

Facebook’s New Groups and Profile Backup plus better Privacy options

The chat box on Facebook had recently started showing thumbnails instead of names. As evident from the new features rollout today, the changes in chat box was a beacon for the New group chat feature, an added treat to the New Facebook Groups. Other options like Advanced Privacy settings and downloading all your data uploaded to Facebook have been added.