Facebook Crazy

$1000 Giveaway

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:34:00 +0000

To all my readers,

I will be giving away a $ 1000 dollors to anyone who can send me the most wackiest pictures for any of my blogs. Ofcourse, this has to be related to the contents of my blog. I am posting this contest in all my blogs. Please send your mails with pictures to bobby.gab@inquisitiveworld.net

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www.inquisitveworld.net
http://extremedubai.blogspot.com/
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http://facebookcrazy.blogspot.com/
http://guruoftechnology.blogspot.com/
http://indianchowk.blogspot.com/
http://bahrainproperties.blogspot.com/
http://arabianpropertyworld.blogspot.com/

I will post the winning pictures on my blog. I will contact the winner through email and will let you know how to collect the winning amount.

Thank you,

Administrator

Facebook Crazy

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:17:00 +0000

101 Facebook Hacks You Never Knew About

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:38:00 +0000

Facebook users, take note: this is the ultimate list for multitasking, productivity and shortcuts. Read below to find out all the cool things you can do with Facebook that you never knew about — saving you time and letting you combine all of your address books, contacts and calendars, advertise, and of course, meet new people and reconnect with old friends.
Facebook and…

Use these hacks to combine your Facebook account with your other social media accounts or online organizers, like Google calendar, Twitter and others.

Facebook events to Google calendar: This Greasemonkey hack lets you quickly add a Facebook event to your Google calendar with one click.

AIM Plugin: When you’re signed on to AIM, this plugin also lets you know whenever you’ve been tagged, poked or messaged on Facebook.

Digsby: Digsby is another tool that combines your Facebook, Google Talk, AIM, MSN, and other accounts.

Flock: This web browser works with Windows, Mac and Linux, and it features a sidebar that "pulls in your friends from Facebook (and Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube) so you can keep them with you as you surf the Web."
OutSync: Microsoft Outlook users who have this Facebook app will find that their friends’ profile pictures also appear in their Outlook address book entries.

My Photo Index: Easily organize and manage photos on Facebook and Flickr with this joint hack.
Timegram: Send pre-set Skype and Chat messages with this scheduler.

Twitter2FB: Update your status only once with this tool, which displays the same status on Twitter as it does on Facebook.

FeedBurner Facebook: This popular app displays headlines from your FeedBurner blogs and feeds on Facebook.

ma.gnolia: Display your latest ma.gnolia bookmarks on Facebook for maximum social media.
Access Hacks

Facebook View Photo in Album: Use this script to view a photo in the original album, even if you’re not friends with the person who made the album.

Cleaner: Get rid of some of the Facebook advertising and "sponsored by" sections with this tool.
FB People Redirect: If you’re logged in, you can view real profiles from the Facebook people pages.

Undo New Facebook Redesign: If you hate some or all of the new Facebook changes, undo them with these scripts.

View All Photos: Search for pictures of a Facebook member who has tight privacy settings with this hack.

More Friends: This smart hack goes through your list of friends to find more friends you may have forgotten about or didn’t know were on Facebook.

box: With this box widget, you can share files from your computer through Facebook.

Jobster: This application gives Facebook users unique access to job information, networking opportunities and other career resources.

Private Wall: The Private Wall combines the best of both worlds of Facebook: online convenience and communication with more serious privacy settings.

(Lil) Green Patch: Invite your friends to save the rainforest with this patch, which shows a running count of the square feet preserved from this app.

iThink: iThink is a more focused networking portal for Facebook users, letting you vote on opinions, start discussions and more.

fbquick: Get notifications for friend requests, event invites, group invites, messages, shares, wall posts and more on your desktop.

Dashboard Widget: Mac users get a constantly updated Facebook widget in their dashboard that gives a preview of your inbox, friend requests and more.

friend photos: This app automatically designs a screen saver slideshow of your friends’ Facebook pictures.

Friend Explorer: This hack offers a new way to view your friends. You can organize the list by picture, first name, last name, birthday and other cell choices.

EventSync: Link up your Facebook events with your iCal with this hack.

Synchronizer: This is another Outlook - Facebook hack that lets you import and export birthday, contact and work information.

FizzBoost: This niftly little box sits on your desktop and alerts you every time you get a poke, friend request or anything else on Facebook.

Fosimo: This desktop client for Windows users lets you keep track of all of your account changes while syncing up Facebook friends and your Outlook contacts.

The Social Bar: Internet Explorer users can view Facebook features and notifications in a special toolbar with this app.

DeskBook: Access Facebok features like friend lists, friend searches, profile information and more with DeskBook.

Facebook Photos Plugin for Wordpress: Easily blog your Facebook pictures with this smart hack.
Facebook Toolbar for Firefox: This toolbar lets you do a Facebook search wherever you are online, get instant notifications whenever you get a friend request, poke or invitation, and you can easily post an interesting link or page to your profile from the page itself.

Sparkey: Sparkey is sort of like an online dating app for Facebook. Users can find out who’s interested in their profile and rate other members.

Hatching Egg: This "gift" hatches over a period of four days, so your friends get to guess what you sent them. There are over 200 animals to send, including penguins.

Testimonials: Testimonials can be used for business or school purposes, letting you organize references from friends, co-workers and teachers.

Meet New People: If you’re having trouble making new friends with your standard Facebook profile, use this app to find friends in your area and bolster your business contacts.

Sticky!: Design your own sticky notes to tack onto your friends’ walls with this app.

We’re Related: This family tree organizer lets you keep track of your relatives through Facebook.

U.S. Politics: Get involved in the presidential campaigns by networking with other activists, getting updated on political news and even participating in debate groups.

Who is your neighbor?: Learn about your neighbors with this hack, which shows you where your friends are on a map.

Translations: Use this hack to translate a page or lend your language skills to edit translations for other countries.

Facebook Exporter for iPhoto: Mac users can more easily switch their photos back and forth between Facebook and their iPhoto library by using this shortcut.

Lost Mobile: If you’ve ever lost your cell phone, you know how frustrating it can be to track down all your friends and contacts to trade numbers again. Use this very secure hack as a shortcut over Facebook.

Shots and Drinks: If you can’t make it to a friend’s birthday party or happy hour, send them a virtual drink with this app.

Reviews: Get feedback from your friends, colleagues, students or customers with this hack.
Cleaning up Facebook

BBC Ad Remover: This script specifically removes ads from the BBC news website.

Remove All Facebook Ads: Ignore Facebook ads by totally removing them from your pages with this hack.

UnFuck Facebook: Clean up Facebook with this hack, which removes third party apps and spam.
Facebook: This simple hack makes your Facebook pages a little wider and cleaner looking.

Re-Title: This neat hack makes titles of websites that you share or post shorter and less messy.

Bearable Facebook Wallpost: Increase the size of wall post text boxes with this app.

iLike: Add music, music videos and concert listings to your profile with iLike.

Facebook Video: Download, convert and embed videos from other sites with this script.

Facebook Monsters Enhancer: Monsters players can add their favorite actions and applications to Facebook with this script. Features include auto-attack, player organization, auto-feed monsters and more.

Texas Hold’Em Poker: Invite your friends to play Texas Hold’Em on Facebook.

Birthday Greeting Cards: Design or browse birthday greeting cards with this easy hack that helps you remember and celebrate your friends’ birthdays with minimal effort.

MindJolt Games: This simple hack hides over 300 different games to play on Facebook.

Nations: Set up your own nations in this simulation game via Facebook.

Scramble: Play this addicting word game on Facebook.

Pandora: Pandora for Facebook lets you share and search new music, create your own radio stations and organize your musical and artist favorites on Facebook.

Watch This Video: This tool lets you quickly share, search and comment on videos from around the web. Get friends to rank your videos so it will appear in the top ten list.

Scrapblog: Pull videos, audio clips and photos from around the web to create a scrapbook blog on Facebook.

Facebook Music Player: Upload your own music or tracks from your favorite artists to share and listen to music directly from Facebook.

urPics - myPics: Quickly pull all photos that you’re tagged in on Facebook and save them in a .zip file on your computer with this hack. It’ll save you all the time you would spend searching for and saving each one.

Mixlister: Give yourself a personal theme song with Mixlister.
Advertising Hacks

ShopCreator: This ecommerce software works with Facebook Marketplace.

viagogo: Buy and sell tickets to events through Facebook with this tool. Artists can also advertise their gigs by maintaining a list of events to share with friends.

Sponsored Groups: Attract friends, put up photos and videos, and advertise special events or sales by creating your own sponsored group on Facebook.

Facebook Ads: Design ads just for Facebook members and target very specific niche audiences with this system.

Marketplace: The Facebook Marketplace lets anyone sell and search for apartments, furniture, or anything else, kind of like Craigslist or another classifieds site.

Events: Create an event on Facebook, and then invite all of your friends or people in your network to advertise a sale, business opening or concert.

Badges: With this feature, you can send Facebook friends and followers to other websites, including your company site.

Share Partners: This hack makes it easier to share content from other sites on Facebook. That way, you can broadcast press releases, news stories, product reviews and more.

Facebook Insight: Learn more about Facebook demographics, your target audience and the success of your Facebook advertising campaign with this tracking tool.

Gydget: Gydget is a widget that lets "bands, teams and other organizations…connect with fans."

FunWall: Send mass announcements and greetings to all of your friends at once with this hack.

Facebook Refresh 2 Alpha: This in-the-works script refreshes your Facebook page every 30 seconds.

Facebook Mini-Feed Collapser: Get around the annoying mini-feed display by collapsing it with this script.

inYOf4aceBook: This hack brings up larger images of thumbnails when you mouse over them.

Shoes!: Make shopping for shoes more fun and productive by browsing styles from your Facebook account.

Notes QuickEdit: This hack adds a styling and formatting bar to your messages so that you can quickly italicize, boldface, insert a link, insert an image or change font size.

Birthday Calendar: This customizable birthday notification hack lets you export and import dates from other platforms, select holidays from 200 countries and more.

Forbes and Facebook: Trade stocks and track companies through Facebook through this Forbes hack, making it easier to take care of business whenever you log on.

ether: Have friends and business associates call you by clicking on this button that can appear on your profile.

QuikProfile: If you just want to quickly scan someone’s profile, you can utilize this hack, which lets you get a quick preview while hovering over the profile link.

Discussion Boards: Educators and business professionals can use discussion boards for easy and remote collaboration, homework help, class projects and more.

Interactive Friend Thing: Find contacts and understand how to approach new clients or customers by using the Interactive Friend Thing, which shows you how friends of friends are connected.

Studicious: Studicious is a shortcut study aid that lets you share and edit class notes with other students.

Transfer and Add Friend Invites: If you’ve used different e-mail addresses over your Facebook lifetime, you may have lost some friend requests or notifications along the way. This hack will help you out.

Superlatives: This is Facebook’s version of your high school yearbook’s "Most likely to…" awards, but you’ll find edgier and sillier categories here.

Texas 1: View your Facebook account in a Texas theme with this hack.

Bathroom Wall: Post anything and everything from poems to secrets to confessions on the Bathroom Wall without revealing your identity.

Pieces of Flair: Make like Jennifer Aniston in Office Space and show off your pieces of flair via Facebook with these buttons.

Sketch Me: This neat little hack constructs a sketch version of your profile picture.

Make a Baby: Fill in your hair color and other traits to see what your baby would like if you had it with different friends.

UK Friends Plotter: Figure out where your UK friends live or work by viewing them on a map with this hack.

EZPoke: Start using this script to set up automatic pokes for different friends.

Facebook Autologin v2: Get on Facebook faster with this autologin hack.

Matchcookbook: If your school or office has Facebook blocked, you can get around the firewall or blocked page with this hack.

Source: College Degrees

Wealthy on Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:44:00 +0000

There are millions of dollars being generated by ads through social networking sites. Wouldn't you like to have a nice slice of that for yourself? With such an easy way to make money, anyone can use this method. Whether you're a college student, a stay-at-home mom or internet entrepreneur, you can cash in on these Facebook secrets!

If you're a fellow internet marketer, then you will benefit from this method most of all. The truth is that Google Adwords, Pay Per Click and other similar methods of getting traffic and making money just aren't cutting it anymore. With the competition and bidding that happens in most niches, you can be left out in the cold very easily. That's why this method is such a breath of fresh air. It is entirely possible to make $200 to $600 a day! I am going to show you how in my comprehensive eBook, 'Facebook PPC Secrets.'

Source: Facebookppcsecrets

Facebook Profile

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:50:00 +0000

Company Overview

Facebook is a social utility on the Internet. It allows people to keep up with friends, upload various photos, share links and videos, and learn about the people they meet. The company’s site has active users in various geographic, workrelated, collegiate, and high school networks. Facebook was founded in 2004 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

156 University Avenue

Suite 300

Palo Alto, CA 94301

United States

Founded in 2004

Phone:

650-543-4800

Fax:

650-543-4801

www.facebook.com

Key Executives

Mr. Mark Zuckerberg

Co-Founder

Age: 23

Mr. Eduardo Saverin

Co-Founder

Mr. Dustin Moskovitz

Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering

Mr. Andrew McCollum

Co-Founder

Mr. Chris Hughes

Co-Founder

Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2007.

Key developments

Microsoft Reportedly Eyeing Facebook

05/7/2008

Microsoft Corp. measured Facebook Inc.’s interest in a possible acquisition after its failed takeover attempt of Yahoo Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper reported on its Web site that Microsoft's bankers had sent out feelers to Facebook, to test whether the company would be receptive to an acquisition. The talks were first reported by All Things Digital, owned by Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones. In October last year, Microsoft took a $240 million stake in Facebook, which valued the start-up at $15 billion. Citing an unnamed source, the report said that there were no active discussions taking place between the two companies. The news came a few days after Microsoft dropped its unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo Inc. for $47.5 billion. Facebook spokeswoman Brandee Barker declined to comment on the report. Microsoft officials were not immediately available for comment.

Facebook Launches Chat Feature

04/8/2008

Facebook Inc. unveiled a new chat feature that rivals Google's popular Gmail chat program. A new chat bar appears at the bottom of the user's browser when signed into Facebook, showing the online status of the user and other friends signed on the networking site. Availability is indicated by a green dot similar to the one on Google's Gmail chat.

American Airlines Launches Exciting New Application Using Facebook Inc.'s Platform

03/25/2008

American Airlines is now bringing people together through cyberspace on Facebook Platform. American Airlines has launched Travel Bag, an exciting new application on Facebook Platform that makes it easy for users to share travel experiences with friends in their network; to offer and read reviews and comments on things such as restaurants and shops; and even to create countdowns for upcoming events or trips to let friends know what they're doing to.

Source: Business Week

"Facebook in the Dictionery"

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:44:00 +0000

FACEBOOK:

(verb) : to look someone up on a social website, to find one's information on a social website

When you get a chance tonight facebook me and we'll talk.

Submitted by: Adrienne Butler on Jan. 23, 2008 15:24

(verb) : To upload a photograph to Facebook so that it may be viewed by others.

Have you facebooked those photos from the party last weekend?

Submitted by: Don Brady from Louisiana on Dec. 12, 2007 11:34

(verb) : To create an event entry on facebook

I am going to facebook the party on Friday so everyone knows about it.

Submitted by: Anonymous on Dec. 12, 2007 10:13

(verb) : To get on a facebook website.

Did you facebook today?

Submitted by: Anonymous on Dec. 04, 2007 14:04

(verb) : to look up someone's profile on the popular Internet social network Facebook.

I facebooked Sarah the other day and posted a comment on her wall, but she has yet to reply to my comment.

Submitted by: Anonymous on Dec. 14, 2006 17:09

(verb) : 1.to search for another person through the online directory know as facebook 2. to send a message through the online directory know as facebook

I facebooked Lauren yesterday to see where she goes to college.

Submitted by: Anonymous on Dec. 11, 2005 23:24

(verb) : To add someone to your list of friends on the "facebook.com" website.

Hey, I saw you facebooked me. (also a noun, as in "Look him up on facebook.")

Source: Merriam Webster

Facebook Prom

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:39:00 +0000

Facebook held a prom for its employees in San Francisco last night at the Metreon. The shopping mall-cineplex's fourth floor was tastefully decorated with white flowers, and the gathered Facebookers were dressed up — and so youthful, you might think it was an actual prom, save for the booze being poured at the open bars. (Ubiquitous photographee Julia Allison, who was invited, did not attend, staying in New York for a book party instead.) Why throw a prom? Facebook is going all-out for prom season this year, with a tie-in to Sony's Prom Night and a prom-dress partnership with Sears. Why not reward employees working on prom marketing campaigns with a throwback prom of their own?

But besides the commercial rationale, there's a more disturbing reason for Facebook to throw a prom for its employees. With its cafeterias, gyms, and volleyball courts, Google likes to makes its employees feel like they never left college. Could Facebook be trying to make its workers feel like they never left high school? Infantilization is an effective employee-retention program. But it is not a particularly attractive one.

More pictures from Facebook's prom.

Source: Valleywag

Facebook Facts That Will Blow Your Marketing Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:24:00 +0000

At the CMA - Canadian Marketing Association - Digital Marketing Conference today and Mike Murphy - Vice-President Media Sales - for Facebook just finished his keynote address, The Power Of Social Media For Brands. He dropped some Facebook statistics that dropped some jaws (including mine).

1. The average Facebook user spends about twenty-one minutes plus per day at the online social network.
2. The average Facebook user visits four times per day.
3. Facebook is adding about three hundred and fifty thousand new users every day.
4. Just this morning Facebook surpassed fifty million worldwide community members.
5. Facebook's size doubles every six months.

Interestingly, Canada does a little better for Facebook. The average Canadian Facebook user spends over thirty minutes on the site per day.

What also intrigued me was that sixty-five percent of Facebook users return the next day. As Murphy says, "that's a sticky site."

Murphy also gave three things all Marketers must be aware when trying to to bring their brands into Facebook:

1. Be a part of the experience. Advertising in Facebook is effective, but integrating your brand and making it exciting for the Consumers is where Marketers are having the most success.
2. Maintain a daily dialogue. Nothing new to those who live and breathe Social Media. Conversations don't happen when only one side is talking.
3. Give them a reason to share. This is a big one. A lot of time Marketers are trying to define how they will join the conversation. Murphy suggested something very similar to what I preach. It is important for companies to understand social media and the power of the channel, but one of the most effective things a Marketer can do is empower their consumers (and Brand Evangelists) to connect to one another by giving them stuff they can really use - and stuff they really want.

I was also reading the November 2007 issue of Wired Magazine on the flight over and caught an article called, Iconoclast - The mother of all Happy Macs gives the gifts of Web 2.0. It's all abut Susan Kare - the person who was hired by Apple in 1983 to design the look and feel of the Macintosh interface. Her work included the development of the icons we've all come to know and use. Kare is now one of the people developing the gifts that you can buy and send to friends in Facebook. The price is usually about one dollar and they are limited editions. While the profile of Kare was fascinating, here's what really took me by surprise:

"Launched last February, the site's gift shop offers icons for every occasion, from balloons, puppies and champagne to mojitos, handcuffs, boom boxes, and a can labeled Whoop Ass. To date, users have exchanged more than 20 million virtual gifts, paying up to $1 for each, making them one of the site's most successful revenue stream."

So, Facebook is not just a sticky Website... there's a business model behind it. No matter how simple it may seem to us.

Source: Twist Image

Interesting Facebook Facts

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:20:00 +0000

Facebook is growing at a rapid rate, signing up around 100 000 new members per day. Here are some interesting facts about the popular social networking website.

Early Days

–Facebook was started in February 2004

– In the beginning, the membership was restricted to students of Harvard University. It was subsequently expanded to other Boston area schools, Stanford, and all Ivy League schools within two months

– On August 23, 2005, Aboutface Corporation sold the domain name facebook.com to Facebook for $200,000

– The name of the site refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of the campus community that US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff.

–The website is built on PHP-MySQL and is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world
Basic Facts

–Facebook has over 300 employees

–The website has 31 Million active users

–More than 100,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007

–An average of 3 percent weekly growth since Jan. 2007

–Active users have doubled since Facebook expanded registration in Sept. 2006

–The site receives over 15 billion page views per month

–It currently hosts over 1.7 Billion photos
Facebook finances

–Facebook received ‘three rounds’ of funding : $500,000 from Peter Thiel in the Summer 2004, $12.7 million from Accel Partners in April 2005 and $25 million from Greylock Partners

– In April 2006, revenue was rumored to be over $1.5 million per week

–The company already rejected a $975 million offer for the site

– Peter Thiel, a board member of Facebook, indicated that Facebook’s internal valuation is around $8 billion based on their projected revenues of $1 billion by 2015

Source: My Broadband

How Facebook Works

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:59:00 +0000

Inside This Article

Introduction to How Facebook Works

Facebook Profiles

Facebook Applications

Third-Party Facebook Applications

Facebook Mobile

Facebook Facts and Figures

Lots More Information

See all Community & Social Networking articles

Facebook Facts and Figures

While the company began as the pet project for a group of Harvard students, today it calls Palo Alto, Calif., home (the company also has an office in New York). Facebook has more than 350 employees, and the benefits package sounds pretty sweet. It includes:

Medical, dental and vision health plans with no premiums
401(k) plan
Four weeks vacation and eight company holidays
Free catered breakfast, lunch and dinner every day
Dry cleaning and laundry services
An IBM Thinkpad or Apple MacBook Pro -- employee's choice

Facebook's popularity continues to grow day by day. The company claims that it has more than 57 million active members -- users who have logged onto Facebook over the last 30 day period -- on the site. Since January 2007, the average number of new registrations per day is 250,000. Facebook says that the number of active users doubles every six months. Members from the United States account for most of Facebook's population, followed by members in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Facebook also claims to be the No. 1 image-sharing service on the Internet, drawing more traffic than the second-, third- and fourth- place sites combined. In terms of image numbers, this means that Facebook receives more than 14 million uploaded images every day. Because there's no limit on how many images a member can upload and new members arrive at Facebook every day, this number will likely continue to rise exponentially.

Since June 2007, when Facebook first allowed third-party developers to create applications, developers have debuted more than 7,000 programs on the Facebook platform. Every day, developers introduce another 100 applications to the site. Facebook estimates that more than 80 percent of all members have used at least one third-party application.

Image courtesy Facebook
Mark Zuckerburg, founder of Facebook, explains the concept of Facebook's social network. The site has grown from Zuckerburg's vision of connecting the Harvard campus to connecting users across the Internet.

Because it is so popular and heavily trafficked, Facebook requires massive amounts of storage space, both in a digital and physical sense. According to one Facebook employee, the company relies on around 200 memcached servers for production (day-to-day operation of the site) and a few more for developmental purposes [source: Grimm]. "Memcached" stands for memory caching, a method of temporarily storing data. A memcached server temporarily stores information in the server's memory, reducing the need to search a database for information. This decreases the amount of time it takes between a request for information and the delivery of that data.

Facebook also uses custom-built servers for back-end operations and a monitoring system to keep track of all the servers. Servers take up space, so Facebook leases facilities from vendors for server storage. In 2007, Facebook signed an agreement with DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) to lease 10,000 square feet of space in an Ashburn, Va., storage center [source: Data Center Knowledge].

So how does Facebook make enough money to cover its expenses? It generates some revenue by selling web advertising space, but the majority of its funding comes from private investors. According to Facebook, it has received more than $40 million in funding since it launched in 2004.

To learn more about Facebook and related topics, follow the links on the next page.

Source: How Stuff Works

Learn How to Make Facebook Applications

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:14:00 +0000

Create a Facebook application like Top Friends, which has almost 3 million active users, and you could be into some serious Internet dough.

To date more than 80,000 developers have created over 6,000 Facebook applications.

Facebook Application Developers in High Demand

Do a search on any of the major job search sites for ‘facebook developer’ and you’ll see just how large the demand for developers is. Many large companies are paying top dollar to developers who have the know how to build Facebook applications.

Stanford offers Facebook class

Stanford’s computer science department is offering a course on creating Facebook applications. Class started on Sept. 27 and has over 100 students enrolled. I imagine that many more computer science and digital media programs will begin offering similar courses in the near future. They’d be crazy not to.

You can follow the Stanford course online at this Facebook Group.

Facebook application development resources

I have created a list of resources for those who can’t take the Stanford course but still want to learn how to create Facebook applications.

Facebook developers area - Documentation, resources, tools and news for Facebook developers provided by Facebook. They say it is ‘Everything you need to get started building Facebook applications.’

Facebook application basics - A brief overview of the fundamentals to building a Facebook application.

Facebook application tutorial - Excellent information and a great tutorial on how to create a Facebook application using Ruby on Rails.

Now go create the next great Facebook application.

Source: Virtual Marketing Blog

FaceBook Source Code Secrets

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:55:00 +0000

I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company. The interesting highlights of the Facebook code are:

1. Facebook writes pretty clean code & maintains coding standards. The code is readable.

2. To Facebook coder: Calling a function to do the magic isn’t an example of clean code; in response to Facebook coders comment - “Holy shit, is this the cleanest fucking frontend file you’ve ever seen”

3. Facebook doesn’t do MVC. There isn’t any separation of concerns as far as I could see. It is also not a designer’s job. It is created by developers with tons of procedural PHP code.

4. Facebook also doesn’t do much object oriented coding either, at least it wasn’t apparent from these source files. It is plain and simple procedural code.

5. Facebook uses templates which is nice.

It does some interesting stuff with advertising, specifically estimates the length of page and attributes to determine advertisements to show. There are few interesting ideas here.

Did you expect more? There isn’t much more really, take a look yourself. I wonder if MySpace’s code is as clean.

Source: Taragana

Layout Codez

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:39:00 +0000

This is another great site for themes, the best place on the internet for Facebook layouts, graphics, and thousands of other cool things designed for Myspace. This site offers a ton of Facebook Glitters, Facebook Layouts, graphics and much more, all available for you to make your profile the best there is. Don't settle for a profile that looks like everyone else's profile! Add our quality layouts to set out the style of your webpage, then add some graphics, use a generator or two and make the content on your page look fabulous, you'll receive more friends because of a cooler profile.

Go to Layout Codez

Mashable and Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:46:00 +0000

Here are the Top news about facebook from Mashable.com

Kongregate Adds Facebook Widget

Fresh off of their funding by Jeff Bezos last week, popular flash-based gaming site, Kongregate has decided to add a Facebook application to their arsenal.

Thus far the app only allows you to do things such as feature your high score on your profile, but down the road they are expecting to add the ability to play their games directly on the social network . They will also be adding high score leader boards according to GigaOm that will allow you to compare your scores and results with all of your friends.
The app is live now, so get in now and start showing off your mad Flash-based game skills to all of your friends!

PikiWiki Webpage Creation Service Launches Facebook Application

So you want to create a cool, media-rich custom webpage to share with friends and family, either out on the World Wide Web or, more specifically, on Facebook. You have options. If you own a Mac with a reasonably current version of OS X, you can purchase Apple’s iWeb utility, though anything created within that application will not migrate over to Facebook. You can try an online editor like Weebly on for size, though that also won’t satisfy your Facebook contacts. Okay, then how about PikiWiki?

Currently in alpha, PikiWiki, with its adjoining PikiPages Facebook application, offers users the option to create simple sites, complete with photos, audio and video, to easily share with associates listed within your social network. Just install the services within your Facebook account, you can immediately begin creating pages.

The PikiPages editor is relatively simple to operate. It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing device in the Facebook application marketplace, but it’s no eyesore, either. And more importantly, it gets the job done. As long as the job is a fairly elementary one. No finagling with CSS here from what we can gather. Just options to add backgrounds, change layouts, add text, designs, various embeds, photos from your Facebook archive (or uploaded from your PC), audio and video recordings. Is that enough to get by? Only the individual user can decide that, of course, but for most people interested enough to find a place for the application in their personal library of choice services, what’s included may generally be what’s needed.
Some things prospective installers of the PikiPages application should consider before investing much time in trying to create a page with the utility is that, if one is using a Mac, and has Firefox or Safari as one’s preferred browser, one should be prepared to do without several conveniences, including the audio and video recording functions as well as the drag-and-drop option with which to add photos to a page. According to the disclaimer for the application, Mac users will see these features fully supported soon.

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Personal phone numbers made public on Facebook…Crazy!

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:43:00 +0000

While browsing Facebook the other day, I came across an open group that shocked me. The group’s creator had lost his mobile phone and needed to populate his new phone with numbers. So the group was an attempt to ask his mates for their mobile numbers.

The group was available for anyone to browse or join. When I saw the title of the group and its open status, I thought he must be having a laugh if anyone replies. Then I guessed it may be a joke group, set up to tempt people into clicking it.
Unfortunately, I was wrong. Despite being a totally public group, this guy’s phone number was listed in the description of the group, while 20 or so friends of his had happily posted their mobile numbers for anyone to view.
I couldn’t believe that this was taking place on an OPEN group! So when I next went on Facebook, I decided to find the group again and let him know what was going on.
I thought this find was scary enough…
But here’s the even scarier part. I didn’t find this guy’s group when I searched for it. The reason why? Because there are hundreds of public groups all asking for their friend’s phone numbers! And most people are happy to oblige. Huge numbers of personal phone numbers on open groups, available for all to see.
I was amazed at how few of the groups were closed to general viewers and browsers.
Does anyone even realise that this is happening in the open? I mean, it’s bad enough with so many public Facebook profiles containing personal content (and even photos they surely wouldn’t want the public viewing) available for anyone to see. But it’s even worse to see that people can recreate hundreds of people’s phone lists. It disturbed me, anyway.
What’s going on? Are these users unaware of this? Or is privacy a thing of the past? Am I worrying about nothing? What are your thoughts?
[UPDATE: Here is some statistical and analytical insight into personal details and privacy issues surrounding social networking sites...lots of people seem to keep their profiles open.

Source: The University Blog

Facebook Wiki

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:38:00 +0000

This wiki is a reference for developers interested in the Facebook Platform. The Facebook Platform is a standards-based Web service with methods for accessing and contributing Facebook data. We've made the methods as easy to understand as possible, and this wiki includes full documentation to help you learn more.

All content is created by users, so feel free to contribute! We currently have 438 articles. See the most viewed articles.

Facebook Security Flaw

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:57:00 +0000

I am not sure if people at Facebook know about this flaw in their security settings. What I am trying to say is that, even though you might set the access level and restrict who can view your Albums, people who are not on your friends list or even people who you dont want might still be able to see some of the Albums. Now you may ask how is this possible, well, what I have noticed is that, in your daily news feeds, where you see what all your friends have been up to during the day, if anyone of your friends made a comment or even tagged someone you know in one of the the photos which you dont have access to, you can click on that photo, which will take you to that particular album which contains that particular photo. And by doing this, you can see all the photos in that particular album. Ofcourse, you will not be able to see any other albums other than that or the full profile of that person. I feel this is a serious flaw in Facebook and the developers at facebook should rectify this as soon as possible.

Feel free to add any comments or situations that you might have noticed this flaw.

Beware of hacker attacks via Orkut, Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:42:00 +0000

As per the 2007 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) compiled by anti-virus and security solutions major Symantec, social networking sites have become the latest target of hackers to attack home and enterprise computers. �With the web emerging as the seamless medium of communication, information and interaction, online users are prone to get infected by engaging in social networking and browsing frequented websites due to malicious online activity in the form of worms, bots, viruses and Trojans,� Symantec India Managing Director Vishal Dhupar told IANS here.

Some of the popular social networking sites on the worldwide web are Bebo, Facebook (70 million registered users worldwide), Flickr (9.6 million users), MySpace (1.1 billion users) and Orkut.

About six million Indians are actively involved in social networking and spend nearly an hour of their online accessing websites providing such networking activity.

�The use of social networking websites in phishing attacks is symptomatic of the trend towards targeting people rather than their computers or laptops because users are the weakest link in internet security. As a result, personal information, confidential data or corporate dossiers stored insecurely face the risk of being corrupted or stolen,� Dhupar noted, citing the report.

Phishing is an e-mail fraud method by which a hacker sends out legitimate-looking e-mail in an attempt to gather personal and financial information from recipients. Typically, the messages appear to come from well-known and trustworthy websites.

The report found that 65 percent of malicious attacks in India were through computer worms as against 22 percent globally due to lack of a fool-proof security patch or failure to install updates of anti-virus software in time.

High proliferation of viruses in India due to malicious code propagation vectors such as file sharing or executables has made net-surfers or browsers vulnerable to cyber attacks. �Unlike in the past, when netizens became victims by visiting malicious sites or clicking on deceptive e-mail attachments, hackers operating underground economy are targeting popular websites, accessed for a host of interactive services ranging from chat, messaging, e-mail, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging to discussions,� Dhupar pointed out.

�Of late, Indian consumers and enterprises are subjected to savage attacks in the form of phishing and botnets that choke the mailboxes. The study, conducted from July-December 2007, revealed India had a whopping 32,502 bot-infected computers and over 60 command and control servers, which is an increase of 50 percent over the previous study in 2006,� Dhupar recalled.

According to the report, there were 345 phishing URL (Universal Resource Locator) links with IP (Internet Protocol) addresses hosted in India. Even reputable Indian banks were not spared, as about 400 phishing attacks were detected in the second half of last year.

Among Indian cities, Mumbai had the majority of bot-infected computers (56 percent), followed by Chennai (16 percent) and Delhi (14 percent).

�Social networking sites are soft targets for criminals to spoof as their pages are trusted by netizens,� Symantec Security Response Director Prabhat Singh asserted. �Profiles on these websites contain a wealth of personal information of users, which are abused by hackers in many ways. Spoofed pages include links to false downloads that seek users' confidential information such as authentication details or credit card numbers for subsequent fraudulent use for financial gains,� Singh said.

The report also found attackers leveraging a maturing underground economy to buy, sell and trade stolen information. Symantec detected 711,912 new security threats to computers and networks of individuals and enterprises in 2007 as against 125,243 in 2006, an increase of 468 percent. Similarly, malicious code threats shot up to 11.2 million last year.

Source: Sify

10 things you didnt know about Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:34:00 +0000

You can syndicate your blog. Through Facebook Notes, you can import one RSS-syndicated site, and items fed via RSS will appear on Facebook, to all your friends via the News Feed. This can also be done for each Facebook Page you create, in the same manner as your regular Facebook account. For information, see my blog post on the subject.
You can post images and set your status via your cell phone. Just add the "Mobile" app, and soon you will be able to add photos you take with your cell phone's camera, by simply sending it to mobile@facebook.com and registering your phone with Facebook. You can also receive and send statuses directly to Facebook via SMS. SMS features are supported by almost all carriers but T-Mobile, and even with T-Mobile you can still send photos and check Facebook through your cell phone's web browser.
You can post "Polls," or "Surveys" to different demographics. Click on the "Business" link in the footer of your Facebook account, then click on "Facebook Polls," and you'll soon have access to create your own polls, of which you can target towards certain age groups, interests, and other demographics, and track the results. You can even set a budget of how much you want to spend for the entire Poll. Polls are $.25 a response. You can also create a Poll by clicking on this link.
You can track available demographics directly in Facebook. Similar to Polls, you can use Facebook Insights to find out how many people are within a certain demographic on Facebook. To get there, click on "Business" in the footer, then "Facebook Insights." Click the "Get Started" button, and then act as though you are creating a Page or trying to advertise another link. Under the audience tab, you can click around on the various form options, and it will tell you how many people are within that demographic.
You can track your friends' statuses via RSS. On your main page after you login to Facebook, click on "see all" next to "Status Updates." On the right-hand side you'll notice a "Subscribe" link - click on that to add your friends' status updates to your RSS Reader and keep in touch with everything they are doing, very similar to Twitter!
You can post Flash and HTML directly in your brand's Facebook Page. Facebook Pages (that's with a capital "P") are a way you can create a "Profile" for your business. Facebook gives a few more options for Facebook Pages however, one of those being you can add Flash and HTML direct to a Page, similar to the way you would do for a MySpace Page. This Flash or HTML can replace the main image on your Page, giving you one more venue to broadcast your brand to your Fans. You can learn more details about this in my post here.
The largest demographic on Facebook is the 25 and older group. Believe it or not, per Facebook's own statistics, the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is those ages twenty-five and older. Facebook is quickly becoming not just place for friends to meet friends, but for business users, baby-boomers, and even the elderly like Guy!
Through a Facebook Page, you can track the traffic of a brand's Profile. Once you create a Facebook Page, be sure to visit your Page Manager on the left after logging into Facebook. There, you can track valuable statistics about your Page: number of visits, Male-to-Female ratio, Page Views, and more. If you aren't getting what you want out of your Facebook Profile you may want to consider creating a Facebook Page.
You can tag anyone in a posted note, video, or photo. Often the first instinct on videos, photos, and especially notes in Facebook is to tag only the people in the subject uploaded. There is nothing I am aware of in Facebook's Terms of Service stating it is illegal to tag people that aren't in the photo, video, or note. I personally like to use this for my blog posts, tagging those of my friends I would like to get attention from. See how to do this here.
Give others an easy-to-remember link to your Facebook Profile. Through SocialToo.com! - by registering at SocialToo.com and following the instructions to link it to Facebook, you can have yourusername.socialtoo.com automatically redirect to your Facebook Profile. This can be an excellent way to tell your friends how to find you on Facebook.

Source: Guy Kawasaki

Facebook Chat Popout

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:30:00 +0000

The Digital Inspiration blog suggests that Facebook's new browser-based chat system, which we stood up against Gmail's web chat yesterday, works well running inside a Firefox sidebar. To anchor it there, simply add this Facebook Chat popout URL from Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks, and make sure "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" is checked. The intended two-column layout can make the sidebar a little intrusive into your actual browsing, but you can resize to a narrow strip and still get chat functionality, simply by clicking inside the sidebar to re-order things.

Source: Digital Inspiration

List of popular facebook applications

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:22:00 +0000

You can only View these applications if you are logged into Facebook.

Traveler IQ Challenge

By TravelPod.com

Compete to find where famous places, cities, and travel destinations are located. Your Traveler IQ is based on how close you clicked and how quickly you found the spot. Just install and go! Have fun!

20,589 daily active users (1%) — 951 reviews

Likeness

By RockYou!

Find out who you're like! Compare yourself with friends and movie stars like Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba, Keira Knightley, and many more. Can you find a perfect match?

282,571 daily active users (2%) — 2922 reviews

SuperPoke!

By Slide, Inc.

Why just poke when you can SuperPoke!? Hug, throw a sheep or choose from over 180 other actions to do to your friends!

415,179 daily active users (2%) — 4743 reviews

Super Wall

By RockYou!

Share videos, pictures, graffiti, and more with your friends!

2,315,981 daily active users (7%) — 3444 reviews

Movies

By Flixster

Compare your taste in movies with friends. Share reviews. Discover new movies. Test your movie knowledge with the Never-Ending Movie Quiz.

554,311 daily active users (3%) — 2682 reviews

Bathroom Wall

By Kudos Media

The Bathroom Wall is a place to post secrets, confessions, and messages... while remaining completely anonymous!

9,995 daily active users (2%) — 313 reviews

Pillow Fight

By Shikha and Anand V. Chhatpar

Pillow Fight with your friends, crushes, affair, love or enemies! Time-sensitive game and the winner is announced within two days if the opponent fails to hit you back!

22,368 daily active users (8%) — 61 reviews

iLike

By iLike, inc

iLike lets you add music to your profile and find your favorite concerts (not to mention see who else is going!). Bonus: Use it to get free mp3’s that match your tastes and try to beat your friends at the Music Challenge.

302,113 daily active users (2%) — 4558 reviews

Top Friends

By Slide, Inc.

Show your friends some love! Add your BFFs to your profile! Each just one-click away! No more searching through pages of friends just to check up on them. The only question now is: Who’s in your Top Friends?

1,915,311 daily active users (7%) — 4489 reviews

FunWall

By Slide, Inc.

FUNWall! The name says it all! Videos, Photos, Graffiti, Greeting Cards, Flash Embeds and more!

2,532,684 daily active users (8%) — 3006 reviews

Likeness UNRATED

By RockYou!

Find out who you're like on mature topics like purity, vices, and the seven deadly sins. Can you find a perfect match?

95,490 daily active users (2%) — 497 reviews

Hug Me

By RockYou!

Hug Me opens up a whole new world of action-based communication, for example 'Hug Her, Slap Him, Tickle Them!'

205,091 daily active users (1%) — 2784 reviews

Friends For Sale!

By Serious Business

Buy and sell your friends as pets! You can make your pets poke, send gifts, or just show off for you. Make money as a shrewd pets investor or as a hot commodity! Friends for Sale is the bees knees!

611,174 daily active users (8%) — 43144 reviews

You're a Hottie

By CLZConcepts.com

Think your friends are hot? Let them know by adding them to your 10 Hottest Friends List! Get friends to add you to boost your own Ranking!

191,860 daily active users (3%) — 177 reviews

Owned!

By Coolapps.com

Own Your Friends! Give Human Gifts! Put yourself on the market and find out how much your worth!

716,304 daily active users (14%) — 5772 reviews

Pop Culture Quizzes

By Fantasy Moguls

Test your knowledge of pop culture with fun quizzes and games about your favorite movies, celebs, TV shows and sports. New quizzes added all the time!

615 daily active users (1%) — 31 reviews

Friend Advisor

By Chainn Inc.

Ask your friends for advice or advise your friends. Create your own questions and get public or anonymous answers. Don't go through life alone! Use the wisdom of your crowd to solve your problems.

179 daily active users (0%) — 29 reviews

Scrabulous

By Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla

Play Scrabulous within Facebook using this cool application. Invite your friends and play simultaneous games. It's the best word game!

629,577 daily active users (18%) — 8996 reviews

(Lil) Green Patch

By Ashish Dixit and David King

(Lil) Green Patch needs your help to fight Global Warming. You build a Green Patch with your friends. The application shows a running count of the square feet of rainforest saved by everyone as they use the application. Square feet saved so far, 20M.

530,407 daily active users (13%) — 3479 reviews

What Color Is Your Heart?

By FunApps

Some people have an aggressive personality while some are emotional. Some are self asserting, others muti-faceted and some even full of desire. Some are affectionate lovers while others gentle. What color is your heart?

11,635 daily active users (1%) — 143 reviews

Texas HoldEm Poker

By Eric Schiermeyer, Mark Pincus

Play Texas Hold'Em with your fb friends. Get 200 free chips and another 1000 free chips for every friend that you invite.

608,523 daily active users (7%) — 4532 reviews

Bumper Sticker

By Jimmy, Steven Stegman and 6 other people

Your mom is in my TOP FRIENDS. You looked hotter online. Thank You For Pot Smoking. What wouldn't Jesus do? I don't deserve self esteem. These and lots more. Make up your own! Stick your friends with funny stickers! Win facebook!

1,409,128 daily active users (12%) — 13262 reviews

Premier League Picks

By Fantasy Moguls

Pick the winners of every Premier League match. Put your picks and favorite club on your profile, and compare your scores to your friends and all of Facebook. It’s simple and free to play!

13,830 daily active users (4%) — 213 reviews

Birthday Calendar

By BigDates Solutions

Birthday Calendar is a powerful calendar and alerting service that makes it a snap to view and remember birthdays. Get advance notice with alerts on Facebook, email or cell phone and have fun with our ecards, group ecards, and gift suggestions

166,234 daily active users (3%) — 170 reviews

MindJolt Games

By MindJolt.com

Play over 250 games. At MindJolt Games you can play any of the Arcade, Puzzle, Strategy and Sports games we offer for free. Challenge your friends or play by yourself. Either way, you're sure to have hours of fun.

162,063 daily active users (7%) — 989 reviews

Full list of applications

Tools for Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:14:00 +0000

Here is a site which contains a detailed report on some of the most popular application in use on Facebook. It has plugins, Apps development, hotties, videos, hacks, programming, tips, tricks, gotchas, tutorials, marketing, etc, etc..

Go to Tools4Facebook

Facebook Blast

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:04:00 +0000

Check out Facebook Blast, they have thousands of free graphics for you to insert straight into your Facebook. Facebook have quite restricted controls over exactly what can be placed into your profile page - the tools here have been tested and are fully functional in Facebook.

At Facebook Blast it contain lots of graphics for your profile, such as, Icons, kisses and Cartoons.

We also have about 20 of the very latest generators for your profile, such as the very popular LED Scroller, Painter and Lavalamp.

Go to Facebook Blast

Facebook Developer Site

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:23:00 +0000

The Facebook Developer application allows for easy access to application settings all within the Facebook environment.

When you're ready to build a Facebook Platform application, just add the Developer Application to your Facebook account. Then download the client library of your choice, open your favorite development environment, and you're ready to go.

Go to Developer Site

About Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby) — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:17:00 +0000

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Anyone can join Facebook
All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To connect with coworkers or classmates, use your school or work email address to register. Once you register, join a regional network to connect with the people in your area.

Discover the people around you
Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a company, region, or school. Join the networks that reflect your real-life communities to learn more about the people who work, live, or study around you.

Do more
Facebook's Platform enables anyone, anywhere, to build complete applications that you can choose to use. The possibilities are endless. Define your experience on Facebook by choosing applications that are useful and relevant to your world.

Keep it private
At Facebook, we believe that people should have control over how they share their information and who can see it. People can only see the profiles of confirmed friends and the people in their networks. You can use our privacy settings at any time to control who can see what on Facebook.

About the company
For corporate information and press materials, check out our press page.

Source: Facebook