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In the short time Facebook has been around, it's gone through many significant changes. These updates have seen features come and features go, but there's one feature that's been around almost forever, and is fortunately still available today: the ability to hide apps and even people from your news feed.
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One incredibly effective use of a Facebook hosted brand page is to incentivise people to like the page by creating some secret members-only content; commonly referred to as a "fan gate". Facebook has also partnered with Heroku - a cloud hosting company - which means you can create your own basic Facebook app, and host it for free, on a secure server. Read on as I make a basic Facebook fan-gate page tab app, hosted for free, on Heroku.
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Many of you may be on the waiting list for Facebook's new Graph Search, and if you are, you have even more to look forward to. Facebook announced on Friday that it would be improving Open Graph by adding nine new common actions for lifestyle apps. The new actions will be available for fitness, books, and movie and TV partner app categories. Although simple, the new additions have a great deal of potential.
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Windows Phone has a great relationship with social networks, integrating Windows Live, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook into its People hub. This integration means that the user can quickly check statuses, reply to posts and messages, share photos and generally save time by keeping their online social experience centralized. It doesn’t always work this way, however. While these services are integrated into the OS, some of their functions are limited.
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Facebook apps are a way for third parties to offer features and services inside Facebook. If you spend a lot of time on Facebook and love to share activities with friends, such as playing games or listening to music, apps are a godsend. The downside, however, is that most apps need access to your personal data and some require additional privileges. Hence, third party apps can become a security risk.
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Music lovers of Facebook, now is the time to have your mind blown. I'd guess that many of you have tried one or two music-related applications on Facebook and maybe decided on your favourite one and left it at that. I'd also guess that you don't really know just how many great music applications are out there and that you have no idea how much you could enjoy yourself by checking them out.
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Apps on Facebook can be great, but they can also be a right pain in the neck. On one hand, there's useful apps like Spotify or Last.fm which make it easy to share your music taste with your friends. Mostly these are welcomed and vaguely interesting for the friends to view. On the other hand, there's annoying games and spammy viral apps that post things on your timeline. There are several ways to clean up the apps you're using.
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If you look up 'procrastination' in a dictionary, chances are you'll find a big picture of me. I'm terribly good at finding new excuses to postpone work. A frequent and very popular excuse is Facebook. A quick click to see if you have any new notifications or pending messages can turn out with another half an hour wasted. Recently, I've found a solution. And weird though it may sound, the trick to waste less time on Facebook, is to engage it more.
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The new McAfee Social App adds another layer of privacy to your Facebook photos. When you upload your photos using the app, you can blur out specific photos and thumbnails and make them indistinguishable to the contacts you don’t want to open it up to. McAfee’s new app for Facebook fills in the space between a user’s unrestrained use of Facebook as a photo-sharing platform and Facebook’s nearly perplexing privacy features.
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If you love using social apps for your favourite blogs and newspapers, yet worry about your privacy then you'll love this tip. How often have you seen notifications from friends which you swear they never would have wanted you to see? You know, the sorts of updates which give away their embarrassing tastes or desires, which you know only got to your eyes because the other person doesn't have a clue how to hide it from you.
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Another group of malicious people have started a new Facebook scam that will spam your poor unsuspecting friends with wall posts and constant annoyances. Chances are, you will stumble across this scam via a friend who themselves fell for it. You may see a wall post or message that “tells” you how many people viewed [...]
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I have to admit that I've never really been one to use a long list of Facebook apps. At least, not the sort that are used from right inside Facebook. Of course, technically Facebook apps aren't just the ones that you use inside Facebook. Any time you connect a browser plugin, a mobile app or a blog add-on to your Facebook account, you've just activated a Facebook app,
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Almost every computer these days is equipped with a microphone and speakers, often used for Skype or Google Chat calls. Meanwhile, Facebook is a great way to update our friends with what we're doing. So, it's time for us to grab our microphones, get singing and sharing our music with friends. It's time to play Enjoy! Karaoke.
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Rovio has taken its hugely popular pig-popping game to the next social level by launching Angry Birds Friends on Facebook. Players can now compete against their Facebook friends in weekly tournaments, earning new trophies and power-ups as they play. The game launches with four new levels already available, with more due to be added on a weekly basis. Competitions run from Monday to Sunday and players with the highest scores can earn gold, silver and bronze trophies which are saved to their accounts forever.
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Do you own a Facebook page? Well if you do, and you need to manage it while on the go, you'll be pleased to know that Facebook has finally launched their Page Manager app. It grants page owners the power to keep their fans up to date on all the latest happenings while on the go. For people that run their own page, this application is exactly what they need. The Page Manager application allows admins to keep track of multiple pages from one app. If you own multiple blogs, or manage one for your own blog and one for someone else, this is incredibly useful.
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