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How To Add Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar
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
Facebook Marketing Team Released Facebook Posters For Your Business
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 Is Less Trusted With Personal Data Than Others
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.
Bypassing Social Reader Apps In Facebook
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 Announced SPDY Support
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 Groups Start Showing Who Saw Each Post
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.
Facebook Introduced App Center
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
- 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.
Now You Can Listen Music With Your Friends On Facebook
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 Is Working On Want Button
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 Has Removed The Home Page Ticker
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:
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.
Multiple Login For Facebook
Tired of writing your long Email address on Facebook login page ! Never mind, reading this tutorial you may starting logging-in to Facebook using multiple username:
- First is your main Email address associated with your account.
- Second is your mobile number associated with your account. So you may login as Email: your mobile number Password: **********
- Third is your Username that you have chosen from Account Settings=>Username=>Edit. Mine is shardul.pandey so I can login to Facebook as : Email: shardul.pandey Password:**********
Facebook Password Is Not Case Sensitive
Many of you try to give strong password to your Facebook account by giving some Upper Case and some Lower Case characters. It’s useless Facebook takes all same. Facebook password is not case sensitive.
Facebook password is not case sensitive means that you can Login to your Facebook account either by Caps-Lock ON or Caps-Lock OFF and it doesn’t matter if you write some alphabets Upper Case and Some Lower Case.
If your Facebook password is opensourcebook then you can write it in many ways like as shown below:
- opensourcebook
- OpenSourceBook
- OPENSOURCEBOOK
or whatever you like.