Facebook Cards

Facebook is to encourage users to take their virtual brand into the real world with the launch of a new service enabling them to create personalised business cards based on images and posts from their profile.

The new service, called Facebook Cards, is being positioned as a "new model of social-business networking" that "bridges the gap between online and offline".

Facebook Cards, which will become available for the social networkinggiant's 800 million-plus users globally from 5pm on Thursday (GMT), has been developed in conjunction with UK-based digital printing business Moo.com.

Moo.com, which is based in the so-called Silicon Roundabout in east London that counts companies such online music service 7Digital as inhabitants, is offering the first 200,000 Facebook users 50 free personalised business cards to promote the service. The standard cost for 50 cards will be £10.

The social networking giant believes that the time is right to launch the service because users will be able to make creative business cards thanks to the launch of the new Facebook Timeline product late last year.

Facebook Timeline – which founder Mark Zuckerberg called "the story of your life" when he unveiled a preview to developers in September – replaces the Wall each user's profile previously had with the aim of documenting their life from the cradle onwards.

"Timeline helps people tell their story on Facebook and feature the parts of their life that mean the most to them," said Jillian Stefanki, a spokeswoman for Facebook. "The Moo.com integration makes it possible for people to take the same experience with them offline."

Moo.com, launched in 2006 by entrepreneur Richard Moross, said that each of the business cards can feature a different photo image on the front and a favourite quote or saying on the back.

The aim, says Moross, is to allow Facebook users to have a unique stock of business cards to pair the "right images for the right business or social occasions".

"It is clear that consumer habits of sharing business and personal information are evolving," said Moross. "The lines between online social networking and offline business networking are not just blurring, but vanishing."

He described the new hybrid offering as an "offline social business card".

Moo.com has raised more than $5m (£3.2m) in venture capital from companies including the Accelerator Group, Index Ventures and Atlas Venture, investors behind internet ventures such as Skype, Betfair, LoveFilm, Last.fm and MySQL.

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Facebook Privacy Settings

Facebook definitely allows you to easily communicate with others, but if you’re not careful, certain information you would like to remain private can be exposed. Here we take a look at locking down your profile, and how to avoid other annoyances.

Keep it Private

Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends, family and other contacts online. It’s also a great place to spread personal information, pictures, and other data to everyone if you don’t use the proper settings. The first thing you want to do is change default settings under the Privacy Settings.

Take the time to go through each of the privacy sections and make the appropriate choices for your profile.

Go through each section to adjust who can see your information. Of course showing it to everyone will be the least private.

Make sure to go through the settings for both Basic and Contact information.

If you choose a custom setting you can select who sees it and even block out specific users (like your crazy ex).

Control what information is on your wall, and what posts to your friend’s wall.

Control what other people can see about you in searches.

If there are certain users you don’t want to be able to contact you then you can put them in the block list.

Avoid Quizzes and Other Snooping Apps

You might be enticed to take the multitude of quizzes and games on Facebook because you’re bored or other friends have recommended them. They can however, be aggressive data miners. So when you’re taking a quiz to find out “Who is your Celebrity Twin” the developers of those quizzes are gathering your personal data.

It’s not a secret that your information is being shared through Facebook applications. If you go into the Applications overview under Privacy settings, it states how apps interact with your data. Here are a few of the items in the privacy statement.

“When you authorize an application, it will be able to access any information associated with your account that it requires to work.”

“When a friend of yours visits an application or authorizes it, the information that the application can access includes your friend’s friend list and information about the people on that list.”

“If you interact with an application that has been restricted to users of a certain age and/or country without explicitly authorizing the application, the application might be able to infer your approximate birth date or location because you were able to access the application.”

Under the Privacy section and Application Settings you can control what types of information can be seen through apps. If you don’t want anything shared select that option at the bottom.

With Facebook being a central hub of social activity, you might have co-workers, supervisors, or the head boss as a contact. If you are playing games on company time, make sure you don’t get busted on Facebook. Under the same apps privacy page we were at above, scroll down a bit further and check the box under Beacon Websites. A Beacon Site where you play a game needs to be an affiliate of Facebook, but if you aren’t sure, you might want to check this box to be safe.

Conclusion

Facebook can be a lot of fun and is a great place to keep in touch with others, but by default it shares a lot of information that you might want to remain private. These steps should help you out in protecting your privacy, and avoiding potentially embarrassing or awkward situations.

source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5032/how-to-lock-down-your-facebook-account/

Facebook Comment Box on your blogger page?

Do you blog and use facebook a lot?
Haven't you wondered how those facebook comment boxes appear on your friends blogs?
Well here's how:

you first have to go to: Facebook Developer > Core Concepts > Social Plugins > Comments

or click facebook plugin


you should see

change http://example.com and put your blogger URL.
just change the color scheme depending on your blog template if its light or dark.


click on get code and you shuold see this:

copy everything on both boxes and in your blogger dashboard click on
Layout > Add Gadget > HTML/Javascript 
paste the code that you copied so you should get this:

click save and you're all set.

how to activate facebook timeline

facebook timeline

A lot of people have been wondering how to personalize facebook like the picture on top. I won't tell a hundred story about the so called facebook timeline. I'm just gonna go ahead and teach you how.


1. To enable Facebook Timeline, the first step you need to do is to activate the Developer status for your account. To do this, login to your Facebook account and type “developer” into the Facebook search bar. Click on the first result, and add the app 

2. You will be asked to grant permissions for the app to access your basic information like name, profile picture, user ID and so on. Click on “Allow” and you will be taken to the Developer page. Click on the “Create New App” button. Provide a display name, app namespace and click “Continue”

3. You will be taken to the Developer page. Click on the “Create New App” button.

4. Provide a display name, app namespace and click “Continue”

3. Now you will be taken to your app’s main settings page. On the left sidebar, click the “Open Graph” link.

4. You have to enter the action and object in order create a test action for your app, like “watch” a “movie” or “read” a book”.

5. On the next screen, just scroll down to the bottom and click “Save Changes and Next”. It might take a couple of minutes to save, so be patient until it loads the next page. 

6. Continue this for the next two pages. When you finished with the saving process, you will land on a page something like this

7. Now go back to your Facebook home screen and you will notice an invite on top of the page to try the Timeline feature. Click on “Get it now” and you’re done.

want to download an entire facebook album with one click?

If you are a big fan of facebook and you facebook a lot. Yes, you. you facebook a lot. i know you do. then here's something i know you'd like.

I recently got back from an out of town trip with my friends and of course after all the fun and relaxation you'd have to deal with the problems of uploading pictures in facebook. well since our group had like 5 camera's clickin' at a time. uploading pictures to our very own facebook is gonna be a big problem.

well I guess uploading pictures is not a problem. yeah right..

one other problem you're gonna bump into is downloading pictures from your friends photo albums, why? so you can post it on your own account of course.

ok, our trip was a 4 days 3 nights stay at some place out of town. 

we can only upload like 200 pictures per album. 

so my friends divided it to one album per day.

imagine if you are gonna go through all the albums one picture at a time right clicking and downloading each picture to your pc...

Well I wish you Good luck!

I would like to introduce to you an add-on to mozilla firefox which would be able to help you a lot in downloading these pictures in one go.

facePAD

it's an add-on application in firefox that would allow you to right click on an album and download it in one go. you can download all the pictures and it wouldn't even take you 5 minutes to do so.