Category Archives: Social Media

GNU/Linux, Google+, Social Media

Find A Perfect App In Chrome Web Store By Taking A Little Help From Your Google+ Friend Circles

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Now Google Chrome Web Store helps you to share all your Google Chrome’s  items in your Google+ Circles. You may do so by finding them in Chrome’s Web Store and clicking +1 (located in store detail page).

And by clicking “From your circles” (located in Chrome Web Store’s category menu) you can review different apps and themes recommended by your friends. Now it is easy to find right app, you would be getting app suggestions from Chrome Web Store on the basis of all that apps +1’d by your friend circle in Google+.

Facebook, Social Media, Technology

How To Add Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

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1. Open Firefox browser.

2. Move to top navigation menu

3. Select Bookmarks >> New Bookmark

4. Place a new bookmark with following details:

  • Name it “Facebook Chat”
  • Set location at http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
  • Check this “load this bookmark in sidebar”

5. Load Firefox sidebar from View >>Sidebar >> Booksmarks

GNU/Linux, Social Media, Technology

Add “Pin It” Button To Your Google Chrome’s Bookmark Bar

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For installing “Pin It” button in your Chrome:

  1. Visit Pinterest Goodies.
  2. Display your bookmark bar if it is hidden: Visit Wrench Icon (present at the top right corner of chrome) >> Bookmarks >> Check Show Bookmarks Bar
  3. There is a “Pin It” button on that page. Drag it to your bookmark bar.
  4. Now while browsing the web you can pin any image by pressing this “Pin It” button.

Watch this video tutorial:

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Social Media

Add ‘Pin It’ Button To Images In Your WordPress Blog

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Without using Plugin: Add this code to your theme’s footer.php file before the </body> tag. Get Pinterest’s javascript at Goodies.

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js”></script>

Add this code to your theme’s single.php file wherever you want Pin It button to be visible:

<a href=”http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&media=<?php echo catch_that_image() ?>&description=<?php the_title(); ?>” class=”pin-it-button” count-layout=”horizontal”><img border=”0″ src=”//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png” title=”Pin It” /></a>

Add this code in your theme’s functions.php file:

function catch_that_image() {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = ”;
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all(‘/<img.+src=[‘”]([^'”]+)[‘”].*>/i’, $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];
if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = “/images/default.jpg”;
}
return $first_img;
}

Or You may use a WordPress plugin and that would be more easy for you. Use this plugin Pinterest Pin It Button For Images. Either search it on WP Plugin search or click the link and upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, Activate from ‘Plugins’ menu and Enjoy.

Facebook, Social Media, Technology

Facebook Marketing Team Released Facebook Posters For Your Business

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Facebook marketing team has released posters that you can use in your business stores after printing them. Its PDF so you can print them and put it in your office, stores or anywhere you want to encourage your clients, customers and others who visit your business place to join your page on Facebook. Also if you like you may put it in your website linking to your Facebook page but these posters are better for using as printable posters and for websites those old Facebook badges are fine.

Download all posters from here: http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/FacebookAds/Facebook_Signs.pdf

Facebook, GNU/Linux, Google+, Social Media

Facebook Is Less Trusted With Personal Data Than Others

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Fewer Internet users trust Facebook with personal data than other Internet companies.

According to Harris Interactive Inc. Survey:-

  • 1/3rd Internet users says that they are comfortable with Facebook’s policy of handling personal information
  • 41% respondents trust Google to show ads based on past Web searches.
  • 66% percent, are comfortable with Amazon using data on past purchases to recommend products.
GNU/Linux, Google+, Technology

Google+ Increased At The Rate Of 43.1% Reaches To 31.9 Million Unique Visitors

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The June social network traffic numbers from Compete.Com confirms that Google+ got huge traffic increase in June. It got 31.9 million visitors in June whereas 22.3 million visitors in May, Increased at the rate of 43.1%. Google+ gained 14.2 million visitors this year. According to Experian Hitwise Google+ had 0.85% of the visits to US social networks in June, compared to 0.63% in May.

Since the year started, Google+ has gained 14,2 million visitors, from 17,6 million visitors in December to 31,9 million visitors in June. For the first time, according to Compete statistics, Google+ is now larger than Linkedin, who had 24,6 million visitors in June. Linkedin had a 6,5% decrease in visitors in June compared to May.

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Facebook, Social Media, Technology

Bypassing Social Reader Apps In Facebook

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Many Facebook stories that appear on your newsfeed require Social Reader App to open access so you can read them. The main problem with the Social Reader App is that it broadcasts your profile activity to newsfeed of other sites hence each of your friend know what you are reading on Internet. If you don’t want your friends to know what you are reading then you should bypass the Social Reader App:

  • In most cases Facebook offers cancel button whenever you click any link that require Social Reader App. Clicking cancel button redirects you to the article without publishing it on other networks.
  • Some Social Reader Apps like Yahoo when posts links on newsfeed doesn’t give cancel button and immediately posts the link on your Timeline. In such condition move to: Privacy Settings >> Ads, Apps and Websites >> Edit >> Apps you use >> Edit Settings >> Select your App >> Click Edit And Now select “Only Mean” on Posts on your behalf . This manages who can see posts this app makes for you on your Facebook Timeline.
  • Now the easiest way to read any article that requires Social Reader without letting anybody know is to copy the heading of that article and paste it on Google search and read it. Actually all those articles that require Social Reader on Facebook are open on the web so you can read them from somewhere else.
  • If you need to block Social Reader App permanently then open App Menu present on your Facebook’s Homepage, look for Social Reader and click [x]  to remove it.
Facebook, Technology

Facebook Announced SPDY Support

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Facebook has announced SPDY support. Here is Facebook’s response to the call for expressions of interest in HTTP/2.0. Providing faster and more secure online services to users, the features in need for HTTP/2.0 are:

  •  Multiplexing
  •  Transport layer encryption
  •  Zero-latency upgrade
  •  Per-request flow control
  •  Server push

Check Details Here.

What is SPDY ?

SPDY means speedy. It is an experimental networking protocol developed primarily at Google for transporting web content. Its main objective is to reduce loading time of any web page. It modifies the way HTTP requests and responses are sent over the wire.

SPDY transports the web content using fewer TCP connections by multiplexing large numbers of transactions to one TLS connection. Read Mozilla Hacks: SPDY Brings Responsive and Scalable Transport to Firefox 11

Facebook, Social Media

Facebook Groups Start Showing Who Saw Each Post

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Yesterday Facebook introduced a new group feature on Facebook’s Newsroom. Facebook groups are the places for similar interests, activities, ideas where your are free to share things with the people having common interest on a particular subject. You can join a group to get connected with the communities, organisations etc.

Now when you visit any group  you can view who’s seen each post and you can easily get updated with the group’s ongoing activity. Like in Open Source Council (a Facebook group) if you share a link or may be your blog post then you will see who got its update.

Social Media, Technology, Twitter

Get Twitter Service Updates Through Its Different Accounts

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@twitter: Always wondering what’s happening.

@twitterapi: The Real Twitter API. I tweet about API changes, service issues and happily answer questions about Twitter and our API. Don’t get an answer? It’s on my website.

@twittermobile: To get Mobile Updates

@spam: Suspect Twitter spam? Let us know (http://bit.ly/Tweport)! Follow @spam & @safety for helpful info, and check out our favorite tips: http://bit.ly/spamfav

@feedback: Collecting ideas and feature requests! We can’t reply to everyone but we do actively read your @mentions!

@support: Updates from Twitter User Support. We’re unable to assist with account suspension/verification.

@safety: Twitter’s Trust and Safety Updates! Twitter HQ · http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/76036 

@fledgling:A Twitter wine project that promotes literacy around the world. San Francisco · http://www.fledglingwine.com

@hope140: Now @TwitterGood Highlighting forces of good in the Twitter community.

@twitterbusiness: Twitter for your business, community group, government organization or school

@twitterads: We tweet for brands. San Francisco, CA · http://advertising.twitter.com

@twittercomms: Talking to everyone, all at once! · http://blog.twitter.com/

@twitterSF: San Francisco born and bred. Looking to make a positive impact on our hometown.

@mobilesupport: Updates from Twitter Mobile Support. · http://support.twitter.com/groups/34-mobile

@twi: The official Twitter India account

@twitter_kr: 트위터 관련 다양한 소식을 전해드리는 공식 트위터 대한민국 계정입니다! 대한민국 · http://blog.kr.twitter.com/

@twitter_es: ¡Bienvenidos a la cuenta oficial de Twitter en español! ¿Eres nuevo? Empieza aquí https://twitter.com/#!/welcome San Francisco, CA · http://blog.es.twitter.com

@twitter_fr: Bienvenue au compte officiel de Twitter en France ! Pour plus d’infos rendez-vous sur http://blog.fr.twitter.com ! San Francisco CA · https://twitter.com/welcome

@twitter_de: Der offizielle deutsche Twitter Account!———http://blog.de.twitter.com Bei Support-Fragen findet ihr Antworten unter https://support.twitter.com/forms

@twitter_pt: Bem-Vindos à conta oficial do Twitter em português!http://blog.pt.twitter.com/

@twitter-ru: Приветствуем вас на официальной учётной записи Твиттера на русском языке! Сан-Франциско, Калифорния

@twitter-tr: Twitter Türkçe resmi hesabı http://blog.tr.twitter.com

@twitter_twj: 日本語版Twitter公式アカウントです。東京 · http://blog.jp.twitter.com

@twittermedia: Tracking cool, meaningful uses of Tweets in media, tv, sports, entertainment and journalism. Send us tips! San Francisco ·  http://media.twitter.com

@jointheflock: Twitter Recruiting: All the deets about who we’re hiring, what we’re doing and why you should come and work here! Check out www.twitter.com/jobs for more. San Francisco, CA · http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vccZkELgEsU

@gov: Updates from the Twitter Government & Politics team, tracking creative & effective uses of Twitter for civic engagement. RTs & examples≠political endorsements.

GNU/Linux, Social Media, Technology

Google+ iPad App Is Now Available

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Google+ new app for iPad is now available at iTunes App Store. Today Google announced this app’s release on its blog.

The best feature of this app is  Google+ “Hangouts”. Using this app one can start video chat with up to 9 friends anywhere, anytime. You may turn on ringing notifications to make your friends know about the Hangout. Google recently launched events feature on Google Plus, using this app you can manage them right from your iPhone.

Introducing New Features of this App. Google writes:

The Google+ app for iPad was designed with the device in mind. Your stream styles content based on popularity, type and orientation. We’ve also added unique ways to interact with the app—lean back and try these out:

  • Pinch and expand posts right in your stream to add your comments
  • Use two fingers to drag a post from your stream to easily re-share it
  • Start a Hangout from your iPad and stream it to your TV using AirPlay
Social Media, Technology, Twitter

Twitter Introduced Search Autocomplete And Search Within People You Follow

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Twitter has introduced new search features.

  • Search Autocomplete And
  • Search Within People You Follow

In addition to recent updates to searching feature these two new features would be making twitter search more complete by putting you closer to what you are looking for.

Search Autocomplete displays a dropdown set of like keywords while you enter them in the search box. It is more useful if you are searching any topic with hash-tag.

Following list gives a brief introduction to new features. List was released by Twitter with its new search update:

  • Spelling corrections: If you misspell a term, we’ll automatically show results for your intended query.
  • Related suggestions: If you search for a topic for which people use multiple terms, we will provide relevant suggestions for terms where the majority of that conversation is happening on Twitter.
  • Results with real names and usernames: When you search for a name like ‘Jeremy Lin,’ you’ll see results mentioning that person’s real name and their Twitter account username.
  • Results from people you follow: In addition to seeing ‘All’ or ‘Top’ Tweets for your search, you can also now see Tweets about a given topic from only the people you follow when you select the ‘People you follow’ view. Viewing Tweets about a topic from just the people you follow is a great way to find useful information and join the conversation.

Here are some tweets showing how people reacted on this new feature:

Features of related search suggestions, search autocomplete and spelling corrections are also available in Twitter for iPhone and Android.

Social Media, Technology

Social Crawlytics – Free Social Sharing Analysis Tool

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Social Crawlytics is free service used to scan website and provide reports on each page for all  major social networks.

They give you there plans out of which two are free and for the third plan which is for super large websites they ask you two contact them for information. As shown in the given image:

Start by logging-in with your Twitter Account. Click Login With Twitter.

It will ask for your permission to authorize Social Crawlytics to use your account. Authorize the app and you will be redirected automatically to your Social Crawlytics Dashboard.

Now enter the URL you want to analyze, click SUBMIT, follow few more steps and get statistical overview of progress of your articles which have fared across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Delicious, Google+ and Stumbleupon.

Facebook, Social Media

Facebook Introduced App Center

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I just logged in my Facebook account and got a notification “Introducing App Center” on side bar. I clicked it and now I can see a left sidebar showing category group of ALL, WEB & Mobile followed by a list of different categories:

  • Games
  • Entertainment
  • Facebook
  • Lifestyle
  • Music ‘
  • News
  • Photos & Videos
  • Sports
  • Travel & Local
  • Utilities
  • Requests

You must be knowing about each category and what it stands for as Facebook Apps are not new, only App Center is development.
Now I come to header which is showing two blocks on top left corner with these names:

  • Mobile Apps
  • Timeline Apps

Top Right corner of header shows random adds of different apps.

Body section shows two columns:

  • Suggested Apps (left column) Personalized app suggestions for you.
  • Friends’ Apps (right column) Apps that your friends have used recently.

After I scrolled a little I can see a menu of The highest rated and most used apps as follws:

  • Top Rated
  • Trending
  • Top Grossing

After moving back to home I can see icon of App Center in apps menu on left sidebar under groups and favorite section.

Facebook, Social Media

Now You Can Listen Music With Your Friends On Facebook

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Facebook launched new music feature. Now you can listen music with your friends on Facebook . If one your Facebook friend plays music then you and a group of other friends can join him and each one can listen the same track at the same time.

How Facebook Music Feature Works?

Check music note in the Facebook chat sidebar to know which of your friends are listening to music. You can listen the same track with your friend by hovering over their name and clicking the listen button and the music will play through the service your friend is using.

You can chat with your friends about what you are listening, others are also free to join that chat and listen along but if you want you may control your listening with others through settings.

Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Web Services

Facebook Is Working On Want Button

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Facebook is testing Want Button similar to Like Button which is used across all pages on Facebook. Developer Tom Waddington said that a Want Button is added to the Facebook Javascript SDK as an XFBML tag <fb:wants>. Facebook has yet not listed this extension publicly. The button is for the objects marked as products on Open Graph.

Developers may use this new feature of Facebook for creating their Want Buttons  but authorization of any third party application is necessary to make it work.

Facebook Want Button is a Flop or Not?

Facebook Want Button would be quiet different from Facebook Like Button. Like Button shows individual interest but Want Button would be good for business purpose.

On one hand Facebook Like Button shows the user interest in product. Anyone can show his interest on certain product likewise a person who don’t have money to buy Apple I-Pad doesn’t mean that he don’t like it.

And, On the other hand Facebook Want Button would be showing individual’s interest on getting the product or buying it. Hence it reduces ambiguity for advertisers and target audience become more clear.

How Facebook Want Button Works?

Following is the tag released by Tom Waddington for Facebook Want Button:

<fb:want href=”…”></fb:want>

Reaction of Facebook Regarding Want Button

They responded that they are always testing new Platform features, however they have nothing new to announce.

Facebook, Social Media, Technology

Facebook Has Removed The Home Page Ticker

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I just noticed that Facebook removed the home page ticker but some of subscribers of mine are telling that it is still visible on their home page. I just figured out that many others are also experiencing the same as many stories are appearing on Twitter (check latest ones here and here) about the vanished Facebook Ticker. Some are telling it would be back soon like Randy Hamilton. Some are telling that Ticker is back again etc. etc. But it is still not visible on my Facebook home page.

What is a Facebook Ticker?

Facebook Ticker shows you the things  in real time.

Features of Facebook Ticker:

  • It keeps up with the latest news as it happens
  • You can listen to music with your friends
  • You can hover (or click) over a story to join the conversation

Ticker shows live happening stories like status updates, friendships, photos, videos, links, likes and comments. This activity is visible elsewhere on Facebook but Ticker let you see this as soon as it happens.

Facebook, Technology

Changing Facebook Page’s Username/URL

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I Just Changed Facebook Page’s Username. Now URL of Opensource Book page on Facebook  is not www.facebook.com/OpenLAMPbooK but now it is www.facebook.com/opensourcebook  You may also do so just follow the following steps:

  1. Login to your facebook account.
  2. On the left sidebar, just above the chat faces click the Page of which you want to change the URL.
  3. On the top you will see  three buttons: Edit Page | Build Audience | Help
  4. Click Edit Page 
  5. Form the drop-down menu select Update Info.
  6. On The Third line You will see Username 
  7. On the right side of Username click Change username link
  8. You will seeing your old Username side by you Page name.
  9. Change it, type the new one and click Check Availability.
  10. That’s all. Save the new Username and start using it.