Archive for the ‘Facebook’ Category

Facebook’s Improved Lists

Facebook makes changes to lists. Smart Lists are in! Facebook has had lists for years but they organizing them was a time consuming and tedious process. Finally realizing the need to make the lives of its users easy, Facebook has revisited the lists and made them better. To make them easy and more useful, its [...]

Facebook creates jobs and contributes billions to the U.S. Economy

Facebook apps add over 200k jobs and over $15 billion to the U.S. economy A new study by the University of Maryland Business School has revealed that  Facebook applications has created over 180,000 jobs and contributed over $12 billion to the U.S. economy. The study shows that Facebook applications have created 53,000 jobs in the [...]

Post Tweets to Facebook button in Twitter profile

Twitter has added a “Post Tweets to Facebook” button in its user profile section that will allow users to easily link their Twitter account to Facebook account. Clicking the button will ask you to enter your Facebook credentials and link the two accounts allowing tweets to be posted to Facebook as status updates.

Bangladesh blocks Facebook

In the wake of public protests in The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh against the caricatures of Prophet Mohammad, Bangladesh has blocked access to Facebook. The protests were in response to the pages on the popular social networking website like “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” which created large scale controversy in the Muslim world which followed a block in a lot of Muslim countries as the act of drawing pictures of the Prophet is prohibited in Islam.

Pakistan blocks Facebook indefinitely

Pakistan government instructed ISP’s to block the social networking website “Facebook” in Pakistan amid anger over the Facebook group that encourages users to post images of Prophet Mohammad.

Integrate Twitter & Facebook Into GMail

The social media world and their networks have become so intern-twined that its getting harder to keep track of all the places to visit and stay updated. Integration has become key in this day and age and now it is possible to link your Facebook & Twitter accounts amongst others to your GMail. Alright, Since everything is being integrated into everything else, why should GMail be left behind especially when it offers such great integration support. Behold the simple procedure to integrate Twitter & Facebook into GMail!

Project Titan, Facebook features Webmail service

Its no secret that the Facebook messaging system has been a royal pain in a lot of backsides. But now the news has spread that Facebook is completely rewriting its messaging system and preparing to launch a fully functional webmail system in its place. Initially when I started using Facebook, the messaging system was the [...]

Microsoft no longer serving ads on Facebook

Facebook is the largest social networking site on the internet today. With 400 million users connected to Facebook it is a giant in its own right. Of course when you have that many people online at one time, it is an advertisers dream to use the platform to target users. Even before Microsoft’s $240 million [...]

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