Archive for the 'Facebook' Category

One year ago: Facebook News Feed

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Photo: Emily Shur for WIRED
Wow, can you believe it?
It’s been a year since Facebook introduced the idea of the News Feed to its users.
Remember the initial backlash? Remember how Facebook immediately introduced its spectacular privacy settings in order to curb resent from users?
Now look where Facebook is! It’s a tip-top web juggernaut with everybody and [...]

Check (and change) your Facebook privacy settings

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

I just logged into Facebook and was presented with this message at the top of my News Feed. In a few weeks, your profile (or at least some information in it) could be searchable by people outside of your Facebook network.
It could even be indexed by Google!
For those of you who are worried about your [...]

The Facebook Song

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

First it was The Kings of Myspace. Now that Myspace is being upstaged by Facebook, a new song has come to light. Ladies and gentlemen, the Facebook Song!
Of course, Gym Class Heroes also had “New Friend Request” which referenced Myspace culture.

EXTREME FUN: PhotoPop Facebook application

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

An example of what you can do with the PhotoPop Facebook application
That’s right! This isn’t just some regular fun, this is extreme fun!
I have just come across the latest and greatest Facebook application. It is called PhotoPop and it allows you to turn your Facebook photos into single-image comics!
It has three standard comic-strip bubbles to [...]

Wordbook puts your Wordpress on Facebook

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Is that a confusing enough title for you? Well, don’t be afraid. Wordbook is harmless yet helpful at the same time if what you want to do is broadcast your Wordpress blog’s updates across the Facebook platform.
Like many other Facebook applications, Wordbook simply establishes a link between your Wordpress blog and your Facebook profile. There’s [...]

Facebook on the iPhone

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

There’s been some talk online lately about Facebook coming out with a version of their site tailored to the iPhone. I’ve read a couple of reviews of the site already and generally they all seem pretty impressed.
However, since I don’t own an Apple iPhone, I figured the iPhone version of Facebook would not interest me [...]

How to embed Facebook Video on your website

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

One of the downsides to the Facebook Video application is the inability to embed videos to an outside website. With all of the flash-based video sites popping up and taking over, it’s no wonder that one of the things people usually ask for most from these sites is the ability to share. Of course, with [...]