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Warning: Viral Facebook Free Credit Scam

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There's a scam going around on Facebook around their credits program, mostly tied to the company giving away free credits, according to reports.

For those that don't know, Facebook Credits is virtual currency you can use to buy gifts and virtual goods in many games and applications on Facebook. You can purchase Facebook Credits using your credit card, PayPal or a mobile phone, which of course, is why scammers target such programs.





A quick scan of Twitter will show you various tweets about the free Facebook Credit they've received. However, if you search on Facebook for "Facebook Credit" you'll come across a slew of event pages where some of the event pages include the recognizable Facebook logo along with the yellow colored coin, signifying free credits.

According to the event page details, users will get free "Facebook Credits" if they'll follow the instructions on the page, which includes sharing the scam pages with their friends and contacts over Facebook.

To be safe, do not follow the instructions such as these or others that might be fishy on event pages. The Credits program is easily attacked because of its popularity with games like Farmville, so user beware.

Best thing a user can do is check their various banking accounts and change their Facebook password immediately.

As of right now, there hasn't been any official word from Facebook on this issue.

Olga Kurylenko To Hold A Live Q&A On Facebook

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Now social media is a viral for everyone. Ever Company and Brands using this medium to grab the attentions of adiance. Twitter and Facebook, myspace and youtube is providing great platform for these type of events and obviously it also supply a great audience to these events.

James Bond actress and model Olga Kurylenko will do a live question and answer session with fans on Tuesday November 24th, 12pm PT on Facebook hosted by ClickCast for promotion of upcoming theatrical release, There Be Dragons.


DBA West developed this application ClickCast where fan can ask questions to personalities, celebrities and brands and get answers by their favorite people via live video cast. ClickCast takes the power of the live press conference and puts it into a social media feeding frenzy.

Recently Shakira did a live stream the debut of her latest music video, Give It Up To Me on Facebook which attracted quite a crowd. Over the course of the ten-minute live stream, Shakira’s video had 95,000 unique viewers during the initial broadcast. And over the course of the last 24 hours, the video has seen a total of over 500,000 views.

Clearly brands and companies not using that much standard TV route we probably would have seen a few years ago.
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Share Facebook Pages Activity Over Twitter

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It's Official, Now you can share your Facebook activity over Twitter. Till now you Facebook Pages user will able to do that by using the third party apps and official Twitter App for Facebook which pull the status update from Facebook pages over to your Twitter account but now you can share it via the Facebook only. This will only link Facebook Pages to Twitter, not your individual profile.

Public figures, musicians, businesses and organizations of all types who've created Facebook Pages often want to share a status update, a photo or an event with as many of their supporters as possible. Celebrities may want to share personal news or charities may want to put out calls for help to both their Facebook fans and their Twitter followers, all at the same time.

Today, Facebook add these new changes to all Facebook pages so now Facebook Pages admins able to share the activity over to Twitter. The main difference is that if any page user using any App like Twitter then also the admin only able to share the status update but not the other updates & things like Photos, Events, Links, Notes.

If you manage a Facebook Page, you now will be able to decide whether to share updates with their Twitter followers, and you also will be able to control what type of updates to share over Twitter.

To do that just go to this page and make sure that you have the admin rights for the particular page. If you are an admin more then one page then you will able to see all pages and also able to configure different Twitter account for Each page. By clicking the twitter button it will redirect you to Twister's oAuth page where you need grant access for your Twitter account to Facebook. After doing this App will ask you that which updates you wanna share with Twitter like Status updates, Links, Photos, Events, Notes. Select the option according to your needs. that's it ! see the screen shots.


( Get Started by link your Twitter account with the Facebook Page)

( It will show the Facebook pages for that you got admin rights, Link to Twitter)

( Select the option that which Faebook Page activity you wanna share over Twitter )
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Now Share Photos and Videos to Facebook via Email

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You already can upload photos from your mobile phone via MMS or through Facebook applications on your iPhone, Blackberry and other devices. Now Facebook added the ability to upload photos and videos by e-mailing them to your Facebook account.

(Upload Photos and Videos to Facebook via Email)

To do that, Visit the Facebook Mobile page to get your personal upload email. This is a unique email address where you can send photos and videos from anywhere you have email access.

After you attach your photos or videos to an email, you can include a subject line that will be used as the caption for the photos or videos you upload. If you're uploading more than one photo or video in the email, the captions will be the same for all of them. You can always edit the captions later by logging into your Facebook account.

( Share photos on Facebook on immediate bases)

You can send as many photos or videos as you want in a single email, within the file size limits of your email provider. As soon they'll get the email, then your files will be uploaded to ur Facebook account.

Just rememeber, the photos you send to facebook via email will go to the "Mobile Upload" photo album by default and follow that album's privacy settings. you can edit your settings for Mobile

So now by this new email option, you will be able to more easily share photos and videos anytime you want from anywhere by just using a email id on immediate bases, remember every account will get a special email ID

StumbleUpon's Short URL Service Su.pr is Now Open for Public

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Su.pr is a URL shortening service from StumbleUpon similar to Bit.ly or TinyURL, and dozens of other services that let you create short url in few characters that you can share in an email, Twitter, Facebook status update, or anywhere else.

But there are somethings that Su.pr make it different from other service. First, like Bit.ly, Su.pr also offers analytics that will give you information like how many times users have clicked on your links. And secondly, Su.pr is run by web site discovery service StumbleUpon so every time you shorten a link, you also add a web-based StumbleUpon toolbar to the link that lets users vote on the story and submit it to the StumbleUpon website. so by this you're not only getting short url with good analytics but also exposes your content to StumbleUpon's nearly 8 million users!

Beyond that it also provides personal API key like Bit.ly so you can use it in third party service. and soon you'll able to post your own urls with su.pr!!

Until, the service was only available to beta testers. But now Su.pr dropped the beta label, and Anyone can use Su.pr to shorten a link. it also integrate your Sumbalupon account. if you want to post updates directly to Twitter and Facebook using Su.pr, you'll need to enter your login info to do that.

Facebook Added Alternate Name Support.

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Everyone has a name, but some people are known by more than one. I 'm one of them. Many people do have nickname. Some people are popularize in collage by some funny name or some people known by some name tag in work place. It happen to many people, it's not our official name but sometimes our friend and family recognized by that name.

Sometimes people do change names like if you have a maiden name, a different married name or are otherwise known by more than one name at that time people do try to search you by that name and it's possible that because of different name you want appear in the search, or sometimes people confused by your name because they do not know you by the name you're using but know you by the nick name? possible.

Like wise my name is Aniruddh but my close friends call me "Ani". In work place people do call me Andy. My mom called me by different Nike name and same time in my family some people called me with a different nick name.

Till now, I could only show one name in my Facebook account. This made it difficult for all of my friends to connect with me. I've even received messages from old friends asking who I was before they would approve my friend request because they didn't recognize my name, even though the profile photo looked familiar to them.

So to secure your real identity, and clear out the confusion. Facebok added option to add your nick name. Now you have the ability to display such alternate names on Facebook. Previously you could associate another name with your account, so friends who knew you by that name could find you in search results. Now, you can further choose to also display your alternate name so it is visible on your profile, in search results, in friend requests and on every other places on the site. It also will appear in parenthesis alongside your primary name

( Add your alternate name or nickname in Facebook)

To enter an alternate name, go to your "Account Settings" page here. Check the box for displaying your alternate name if you also want it to be shown on the site.

International user also able to add their alternative names in in different languages such as chines, Farsi and etc.

AutoShare in YouTube, Now Share your instant Video Uploads with Twitter, Facebook & Google Reader.

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You can now have your YouTube account automatically update your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, and Google Reader shared items when you upload a video. YouTube add OAuth support for twitter accounts, Connect your Fecebook Account via Facebook Connect and also add to your Google Reader shared items.

Find all these link to your YouTube Upload page where you can connect your existing Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader account. YouTube called this feature AutoShare which share your upload instantly to these social services.


But remember to do that your Google Account needs to be linked to your YouTube account in order to use AutoShare. Sorry but i could not able to find a link that how can we merge the both accounts. If any one know that please let me know.

Guide Post for Facebook Username

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For Facebook URL, the count down is over and people are rushing to secured their username that easy to remember for friends & family instead of some random number like "id=592952074."

so how you gonna take your user name & which username you should take?

Well to help you out this post will give you some tips for choosing the Facebook user name.


Now to take a username first of all you need to login to your Facebook profile. after the log in go to http://www.facebook.com/username

now you already logged to Faebook so it will provide some predefine username lake your firstname your last name and firstname.lastname where you can choose the username according to your needs. or you can set your own username if it's available


Now point to be noted before taking a username.

  • Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms
  • You can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer.
  • Only one username is allowed per Page.
  • Your username must be at least five characters in length
  • Only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (".")
  • Once you have claimed a username by clicking the “Set Username” button, it is not possible to edit it
  • It is not possible to transfer your username to a different account on Facebook.
  • When an account is removed from the site, its username will not be made available to other users for security reasons.

Now what if your name is short then five character?

well you can user your first and last name with a dot format (firstname.lastname). If this format is not available try for reverse format (lastname.firstname) or you can use your firstname and lastname initial.

Here one thing to remember that Facebook provide a universal username format so for Eg: if you your name is Mark Jons, and if you are taking MarkJ for your Facebook username then if anybody try to go for

http://www.facebook.com/markj
http://www.facebook.com/m.arkj
http://www.facebook.com/ma.rkj
http://www.facebook.com/mar.kj
http://www.facebook.com/mark.j
http://www.facebook.com/m.a.r.k.j

It will land to the same page. so this is something you need to know before you go for your username. here dot(.) is useless unless you try to take firstname.lastname as a username which look decent.

Now if some also confused that if everything if available as a username then what should they take? Means, should go for first name or should go for last name or should go for firstname .lastname.?

According to me if all username available to you and you have a choice then should choose your firstname as a Facebook username, if its available.

why?

well I mark one thing, My Facebook profile is http://www.facebook.com/aniruddh. Now before the dedicated url, my profile want appeared in top ten list of Facebook search. if anyone try to search for "Aniruddh" but of course by searching firstname and lastname in Facebook search box you can get the accurate profile listing. so by taking a firstname you can hit the top list for your name search.

If you wanna add me As a Friend ,Of course you can but in Message just write WeboLobby Reader.

So keep all the things in mind and grab your identity that will be on Internet for a lifetime.


Facebook Announced the Forthcoming Availability of Usernames

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Like in Twitter user able to get a url that can be land to his or her twitter profile page but like wise in Facebook it is not possible to get a url that attached to our profile. The URL was just a randomly assigned number like "id=592952074." but that soon will change. Facebook announced the forthcoming availability of usernames for user profiles and Facebook Pages. Now you can have a personalized URL for your Page (facebook.com/yourname). Beginning at 12:01am EDT Saturday, June 13, 2009. user you'll be able to choose a username on a first come, first serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/



Facebook also put a countdown clock to that page so all can get the detail for remaining timings so don't worry about the time zone just see the remaining time & calculate it according to your time.

But why you need a personal url?

Well, Usernames allow public entities to easily promote your presence on Facebook with a short URL .This username can be used in your marketing communications, company website and business cards. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you.

But Facebook also add some conditions to it like Once you have claimed a username by clicking the “Set Username” button, it is not possible to edit it, or to transfer your username to a different account on Facebook. Additionally, when an account is removed from the site, its username will not be made available to other users for security reasons. Only one username is allowed per Page. so think carefully about the username you choose for your profile.

Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer. Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop ("."). see the screenshot below and get the idea.


Another thing is If you signed up for a Facebook Page or user profile after May 31, you may not be able to sign up for a username immediately.

If you keep the rights for a trademark or other protected name & If you want to ensure as a rights holders interested in preventing their trademarks from being registered as usernames just contact Facebook here.

Remember, After 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Sunday, June 28, 2009 all can sign up for username so just add up this date in your Google calender or reminder service so you don't miss the event. Now I'm really wondering that there are 300 million Facebook user and mostly many do have common names so it will be a competition for getting the names. what will happen if all people named Mark come to gather in same time for getting a name? at that time, to whom system will assign a user name?

well, just keep the finger cross for your user name. if your name is most common then just use a unique combination, if desire username is not available. I suggest just create a list for your user name. create a combination of your first and last name or may be add a middle initial and put the name in a way where most desire name should come first so if you're not getting that name you can search up for another name according to your list and by this you can save time and there are good chances to get your name.


Get Facebook Friends’ Status Updates via SMS

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Don't be the last to know about what's happening with your friends, family or co-workers just because you're away from your computer. You now can subscribe to receive text messages of your friends' status updates directly from their Facebook profiles. This feature was the before, but Facebook user need to subscribe his friends status updates from the" settings" but now you can do directly from profile page.

To get started just click on the "Subscribe via SMS" link below your friends' profile pictures to get their latest news while you are on mobile.You'll get SMS from 51555. You can also comment on your friends' status updates directly from your phone by replying to the text messages you receive. You can even subscribe to mobile updates from the Facebook Pages of your favorite celebrities, public figures, businesses and organizations. Isn't that great?, Now stay updated on the go.

If you already have Facebook Mobile activated for your phone or device, then you will begin receiving the text message updates after confirming your subscription. If you haven't yet set up Facebook Mobile, you will be taken through a series of steps to activate it before receiving text messages.

While Facebook does not charge for this service, your mobile-service provider's standard text messaging rates will apply so be sure to check with your provider. You also can stop receiving text message status updates from your friends and connections at any time.
To do that, there are three ways

  • Reply directly from your mobile phone with "unsubscribe,"
  • Return to a friend's profile and click the "Unsubscribe from SMS Updates" link, below your friends' profile pictures
Facebook is offering this service in 18 countries service providers like the U.S., U.K., India, South Africa, Indonesia and New Zealand, There is a screenshot besides, find all 18 countries

If your country is not in the list, don't worry you can visit the mobile site m.facebook.com, or get the from device-specific applications for iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Widsets, INQ


Use your OpenID to Login to Facebook

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Facebook recently announced that it support Open ID so now Facebook user can use third party username for login this is a big step from Facebook. As of now Google, AOl, My Space all support as a Open Id Provider. means Google is happy if you're using Google Account to login other OpenID enable websites but it's not happy to let you in with others Open ID.

Facebook is the first big web company which allowing user to let you in via other OpenID instead of your Facebook credentials. To do that First off all you need to linked your Open ID accounts with Facebook. Once you do that then you can login in Facebook via the OpenID that you liked with Facebook.

To get started just login to your Facebook account, After that go to Settings > Account Settings > a page will open says "My Account", Now go to " Linked Accounts" where you can select different OpenID providers like Yahoo, Google, AOl, Vidoop, MyOpenId, Verisign PIP, or any OpenID you can linked with your Facebook Profile. Just grant access to your Facebook account.


That's it, After this step user can auto login with OpenID, For Example you already loged in to your Google Account & you open up a link which opens in Facebook. Usually you need to log in to Facebook Account to do that but if you already Linked your Google Account with Facebook then it will directly open up and it will skip the Facebook login. It's fast and secures.

Remember Auto Login feature is not allow via Yahoo & Myspace. You can link multiple Open ID but you can link only One Google Account, Yahoo Account, My Space Account so link the account which you frequently use.


Facebook announce FBFund Winners

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Facebook has unveiled a list of 20 applications for the Facebook Platform, Facebook Connect, and Facebook Connect for the iPhone. This round’s winners will awarded investments from its FBFund seed funding program and invited to participate in a summer incubator workshop in its hometown of Palo Alto, this summer.

The workshop, called FBFund REV 2009, will run for ten weeks from June through August.which range from a paintball game app to a dating service to an e-mail management program.

Here is the full list of winners, along with some brief introductions provided by Facebook:

Frintro

Find friends of friends to date…or play matchmaker! If you’re single, you can search your friends’ friends and ask for intros. If you’re taken, you can set friends up. Friends of friends are the best people to date. It’s social dating via friendly intros.

Funji

Funji is an avatar-based social networking app for the iPhone and iPod touch, satisfying users’ desire to express themselves and communicate with others in a fun, creative way. The team has more than five years of experience in the mobile market in both South Korea and the US.

Gameyola

Gameyola is a distribution and monetization platform for casual Flash games. Flash games currently monetize poorly, but Gameyola solves this problem by providing Flash developers tools to sell virtual goods and to acquire users through social channels

Life360 (private beta)

From keeping track of your kids to protecting your identity and getting back your lost stuff, Life360 is the place you go to keep your family safe, secure, and prepared for daily life.

MyChurch.org

Churches create their own social networks on MyChurch.org. They extend their community between Sundays with tools to connect and engage their members. Over 30,000 church congregations are represented on MyChurch.org.

Navify

Navify is a visual encyclopedia that combines Wikipedia articles with images, videos, and comments. It is the only general encyclopedia that allows you to listen to music videos, watch movie trailers, and browse news and celebrity photo galleries.

Nutshell Mail

We previously covered it which Simplify the way you manage Facebook and other social networks. NutshellMail consolidates activity from all your accounts into a single email digest delivered on your schedule. Don’t let email alerts clutter your inbox. Get informed, not interrupted. Get the Nut!

Networked Blogs

Bring your blog to Facebook, and Facebook to your blog. Pull your Feed to your profile and business pages, add widgets to promote your network, and read the news from blogs you follow on the largest community of bloggers and blog lovers on Facebook.

Paradise Paintball 3D

Paradise Paintball is the first game developed on Cmune’s next-generation social gaming platform. It is the first casual, 3D multiplayer FPS game on Facebook, Apple Dashboard, and Mac and PC. Play with up to eight friends and buy virtual items to enhance the gameplay.

Photos I Like

Photos I Like is a digital media sharing and discovery site emphasizing lightweight social content, self-expression, and communities.

RentMineOnline

Combines the success of resident referral programs with the power of social networks. Residents refer their community to friends through social networks like Facebook, and email to earn rewards and live with friends.

RunMyErrand

RUNmyERRAND is a social networking inspired web and mobile marketplace that provides people and businesses an easy and trusted way to get everyday tasks done in their own hyperlocal community.

RunThere

RunThere is a social-networking service for runners and cyclists. Users can map and measure their favorite routes (no GPS required), keep a running/biking log, and find athletes and routes nearby

Sortuv

Sortuv lets you start with something you like, and discover more. Instead of searching for a “great restaurant” just say what you mean: “Find me a place sortuv like Spago in Seattle”. Check them out on the Web, on the iPhone, and on Facebook.

TravelBrain/GeckoGo

Travel Brain by GeckoGo helps you track (and show off!) your travels, share experiences with others, and discover new places to visit. Learn from the knowledge of over 600,000 travelers, and get expert guide info from their Bradt Travel Guides partnership.

Weardrobe (private beta)

Weardrobe is a fashion-focused community for discovering different ways to wear clothing. Weardrobe provides a platform for people to share reviews of their own clothing, post photos of their looks, catalog their closet and search for style inspiration.

Workstir

Workstir is a community that connects users with trustworthy local service providers. Anyone can post a job and choose a provider with confidence by browsing their past reviews. For businesses, Workstir provides a wealth of jobs in their area of expertise.

Worldly Developments (private beta)

Worldly Developments is building online services that will help you connect with the people, places and events in your local community. Its first product makes it a snap to plan, promote, and communicate around group activities.

Non-profits

Samasource

Sama is Sanskrit for “equal” – Samasource finds and trains reliable QA professionals to test Facebook apps with a user-friendly interface that lives on Facebook Platform. With Samasource, developers lower costs, reduce poverty, and improve their applications.

Vittana

Vittana enables you to lend directly to students in the developing world, $25 at a time. Their mission is to bring student loans to the developing world through the power of person-to-person microlending.

Two nonprofits, a developer assistance program called Samasource and a student microloan project called Vittana, will also participate in the incubator program but can't receive funding due to the terms of FBFund. the average amount of investment is $25,000, with over $500,000 distributed in total. as I mention non profit will not get the fund Investments.

WeboLobby Congratulate to every winner who won the FBFund program!

Now Plaxo with Facebook Connect !

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Plaxo roll out of an integration of Facebook Connect with it's website core. Facebook which is a social network site & Plaxo which helps keep people connected by solving the common and frustrating problem of out of date contact information. Users and their contacts store their information on Plaxo’s servers. When a user edits their own information, the changes appear in the address books of all those who listed the user in their own address books. Because contacts are stored in a central location, it’s possible to list connections between contacts and access the address book from anywhere. By this integration both networks user will get more comfort for their data sharing.



Main benifit from this integration:
  • Share your Facebook content such as photos, videos, links, and events over to your Plaxo Friends
  • Sync your status updates between the two services (in either or both directions)
  • Automatically connect with your Facebook friends who use Plaxo
  • Share a link or post a review in Plaxo & you can also share it over to your friends on Facebook.
By this integration you can leverage the friends list you’ve built up on Facebook to help you get more connected on Plaxo & now you don't have to manually refriend those people

This integration will give benefit to all. It's a win win thing for Facebook, Plaxo & Both sites users

Plexo also planning to add the ability to sign up and sign in to Plaxo via Facebook Connect.

To start over just connect your Facebook Account with Plaxo via Facebook Connect.


Digg Shout Comes to an End

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Digg's founder, Kevin Rose, and CEO, Jay Adelson, recently announced that Digg's shout feature would be removed sometime this week and replaced with a share feature. Now the changes are live. Users on Digg used to be able to share stories on Digg with other users right on the site, a feature called "Shouts". This thing has been changed from now on. Shouts which was a digg own feature replaced by Facebook and Twitter. Now, Digg's users can only email stories, or share them on Facebook or via Twitter.

(Now share stores via Email, Facebook, Twitter)

According to Digg "We’ve listened to your feedback, crunched some user data, and decided to remove shouts As some of you know, shouts have been a controversial feature since their inception and considering the ever-changing landscape of the social web, we've elected to remove them in favor of more popular options."

To share stories with friends just hover over the 'share' link on the digg homepage and select the service that you want to share the stories. You have three options email, Facebook & Twitter.

If user choose Email then a new mail message will open from your default email client and all you’ll need to do is enter email addresses. If you click on the Twitter icon, It will open Twitter in a browser window and populate the update field with the story title and URL (note that you’ll need to be logged in to Twitter at the time).

Digg also removed the 'Blog This' feature, because of really low usage, According to Digg.

Phishers' target Facebook with Spam.

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Have you been hit like millions of Facebook users by a new phishing scam that can result in crashing your computers or mobile phones and steal your passwords? If not, beware, do not open the files ending with '.at' or '.be'

The phishing scam is being run through spam messages which steals the sensitive information of the Facebook users.

In the attack, the messages are circulated with a subject line of 'Hello" and a prompt to check out 'areos.at'. The mails with the subject line 'Look at This" and links like goldbase.be, greenbuddy.be, silvertag.be, picoband.be which leads to some malicious websites, which if visited, could secretly download malware onto computers through a 'drive by download application.

The URL connectivity, before being blocked directs the visitor to a fack Facebook page and the mail ID and password are stolen as soon as it is logged in again.

According to the All facebook blog. Facebook, The password in such cases should be changed immediately. The site has blocked links to the new phishing sites from being shared on Facebook and has added them to the block list of browser.

Facebook’s New Application Directory and Verified Apps Program Live

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Facebook’s new application directory and Verified Apps program are now live The new directory allows users to sort through apps using a number of new categories like, Applications You May Like, desktop applications, and iPhone apps that use Facebook Connect for iPhone, External website that use Facebook Connect. At the top of the directory is a section for featured items called Featured By Facebook, where Facebook staff can feature some of their favorite applications even if they aren’t the most popular.

Also new is a feed that is incorporated into the directory itself. At the bottom of the page, you’ll notice an area called “Recent Activity From Friends”. This includes updates from all of the third part applications your friends are using, the idea being that it will help you discover new applications that you might be interested in that your friends are using right of the moment.

Apps categorised in Lifestyle, Business & Finince, Education, Sports , Utility and many more.



Share Larger Photo Albums with Facebook

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Sharing feature is so popular on Facebook & Every month, more than 850 million photos are uploaded on Facebook which making it the largest photo-sharing site larger the flickr ! !

Photo sharing is the feature mostly used by Facebook user for share their memories with friends and family. User can create albums according to their photo sets & until now Facebook was allowing 60 photos per album but now Facebook extand the limit by 200 per album so now you can display all the images from a trip or event in one place.

Facebook using Haystack storage system, to store large amount of photos.

Flock version 2.5 is out with more social features.

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Flock, Sister browser of Mozilla which works on Mozilla technology has rolled out new version 2.5 with very new features that's more social.

Flock browser is one of my favorite browser that I'm using it. love Mozilla because of it's security, speed and add on support and flock also support the Mozilla add on and it performs as same as Mozilla.

Flock add support for Bebo and improved support for Twitter, adds facebook chat within browser and much more.
  • Bebo has been integrated as a People service so now user able to see their friends in Flock sidebar
  • Based on the Firefox 3 technology, providing a faster, safer, and more stable web surfing experience.
  • Facebook Chat has been integrated as an Instant Messaging service so now it's easy to chat with your facebook friends with in browser interface.
  • Improved Twitter features in the People Sidebar with several new options.
  • Twitter Live Results have been added to the search chrome.
  • Twitter Search widget has been added to MyWorld so now you can save twitter search.
  • FlockCast has been integrated as a new feature in Facebook, allowing you to easily broadcast your actions from around the web directly onto your Facebook page.
  • Magnolia service support has been removed.
and many bug fixes and updates has been implemented in this new version. New version is do support Google Toolbar and Cooliris add on.


Friend Lists integrate with Facebook Chat

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Friend List let you group friends to more easily share with and view information from specific sets of people. You already can use them to filter your home page, send Inbox messages and manage privacy settings.

Now it comes to Facebook Chat also which provide ways to organize your connections and to control which friends see you online. Maybe you want to be online with your best friends but offline with your work colleagues. You can now do that by using Friend Lists to filter your connections in Chat.

To do that, From the bottom right corner of your browser, go online with Chat and choose which lists you'd like to include in the Chat pane. You can use your existing lists or create new lists directly from Chat. Earlier you had to completely turn off Facebook chat in order to hide your online status from other contacts.

Alongside each list, you'll notice a green switch; when you turn off the switch, you'll be logging off of Chat for that list. Friends in lists that are switched off will not be able to see that you are online or chat with you, nor will you be able to see whether they are online.

In other IM networks like in yahoo chat you can hide your status but you can see your friends status if he or she sharing its online status but in facebook if you hiding your status then you also not able to see which friends are online which seems to me odd.

To create a new list, simply select the "Friend Lists" menu on the Chat pane, enter a new list name, and drag the names of people you want to include into the list or you can create list form your friends page

Facebook Notifications goes RealTime

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Facebook Notifications let you know when people take actions on Facebook related to you, so you can quickly know when your friend tagged your in a photo or read a new posting on your Wall. They already are available from your home page or from the notifications icon within the Facebook Chat bar at the bottom of your browser, but from now you able to know i mmediately when your friends are sharing something new with you.


So when you are online with Facebook Chat, entire notifications will appear automatically and in real time above the Chat bar as pop-up alerts. After a few seconds, the notification will automatically disappear, but you'll still be able to see a list of all of your notifications when you click on the notifications icon. You'll also continue to see a count of all the notifications you've not yet viewed, indicated in red.

You can turn off specific types of notifications if you don't want to receive them. When a notification appears, click the "X" to close it. You then will be asked if you want to permanently turn off future notifications of that same type. For example, if you choose to permanently delete a notification about posted links, you won't receive any future notifications about posted links from your friends.

Recently Facebook rolled out live updates for streaming which streams news feeds in real time & now a days all web companies focusing in real time updates.