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Facebook has now become a good source for yet another thing: gifts. Yes, Facebook Gifts is finally rolling out, as we've been expecting ever since its recent acquisition of gift-giving service Karma. Facebook Gifts is all about giving gifts to your loved ones, friends, or even colleagues and acquaintances, without ever having to leave Facebook's interface. And unlike previous attempts, this time we're talking real gifts.
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If you're an Android user and you love Twitter and Facebook, you really should try using Seesmic as your go-to client for both. Seesmic for Android is a very comprehensive application, which allows you to do some really advanced organisation of your Twitter and Facebook accounts, leaving you free to just enjoy the fun stuff and ignore the rest.
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Several of my friends who use Facebook almost every day recently told me how they hate always getting notifications for dumb games people want them to play, or updates about these games in their home feed. Obviously, if these people can be avid Facebook users without knowing there's a fix, then there's bound to be a few more of you out there too.
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So, you made a Facebook group but there's hardly anyone in it? Or maybe you made a group for a specific bunch of people, but can't seem to get anyone to be active within the group? Or have you started a Facebook page and want to get some attention over there? What you need is a little marketing, a little viral magic and just enough push from you to get other people creating some of the content and keeping it alive.
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Facebook and Fox Sports are coming together to give watching sports a social twist. Starting Saturday with the College Football game between Hawaii and USC, fans will have a direct impact on the game's broadcast through the popular social network. Facebook and Fox Sports are calling this new program Social Sidelines, and it will be used in sports events in the future. We should see Social Sidelines implemented in Major League Baseball, NBA and NFL games fairly soon.
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Have you ever wanted to make a real hard-copy book of the things you have in Facebook? Maybe you have relatives who aren't on Facebook but would love to see the pictures you've put in there. Or maybe you're keen to preserve a snapshot of what your life was like this year. Did you realise that it's really easy to make a book of your Facebook?
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If you’re not one of the lucky few to already enjoy it, you might like to know that a major Klout redesign is coming your way. The update, which is one of the biggest in Klout’s history, includes a complete interface overhaul, new features and, according to Klout, a more accurate calculation of your Klout [...]
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Facebook has announced that it will now permanently delete photos that users have deleted on the social networking giant. This is a huge improvement over the previous situation. Users have been able to press the delete photos for years, but this only deleted photos from Facebook’s interface. The permalink created when the photo was posted to Facebook would still work even after the user requested its deletion.
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Facebook's pretty good at letting you waste your day away checking out pictures from your friends. But could it be better? You bet! Consider Pinterest and how easy it is to just keep browsing through an infinitely scrolling page of interesting pictures and pithy comments about them. Now here's the neat thing - Facebook can be like this too. Yes, the folks at FriendSheet realised that Facebook was good, but not perfect, at sharing all those photos with you.
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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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Facebook has introduced a gambling app that’s presently only for users in the United Kingdom. The unusual bit about it is that users aged 18 and over can use real money to play on the app. The Bingo & Slots Friendzy app has been developed by Gamesys, who also are one of UK’s biggest online gambling companies.
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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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Maybe you have just one Facebook account. But there are people around the world who opened multiple Facebook accounts for the heck of it; or for some undefined purposes. Facebook is now paying attention because quite simply it impinges on their revenue-per-user estimates. Facebook said that nearly 8.7% of its accounts – approximately 83 million – could be classified as false accounts.
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Watch out Instapaper; Facebook is getting into the read later game. Facebook is launching a new feature that allows users to save interesting articles that they come across in their news feed for later reading. There's also a chance Facebook will choose to take this feature to the next level and roll it out on other websites.
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Not everyone uses Facebook to store their photos and video, but alternative photo and video storage still doesn't seem to have the best social integration just yet. Most of the alternatives are designed for more public sharing and aren't always great at alerting your friends when there's something new to look at. There's also no denying that there are plenty of bored friends our there who love to see photo and video updates from you via Facebook.
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