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Facebook New Subscriptions, If you’ll need to understand some key concepts. Here are five caveats before turning on the subscribe button on your profile.

Sep 27th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: facebook

Subscriptions, which launched last week, lets you see people’s public posts in your News Feed, without having to friend them.
And while Facebook Subscriptions is an interesting way to broaden your network and connect with people you otherwise wouldn’t have contact with, some critics have panned it for its complexity.
If you don’t use it correctly, Facebook’s [...]



Introducing the Subscribe Button.People make Facebook a more trusted environment.

Sep 20th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: facebook

Safety has always been a social experience as friends and family, we look out for each other and pass along advice to help each other stay safe.
Safety on Facebook works the same way. By keeping each other informed, people make Facebook a more trusted environment.
Until now, it hasn’t been easy to choose exactly what you [...]



Facebook plans to release a new feature, Smart Lists, which will let users automatically group friends into categories to help protect and control privacy.

Sep 15th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: facebook

Facebook last month announced other improvements aimed at letting users be more selective about who gets to see what they post at the social network.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based social network, which hasn’t officially announced the new feature, has been testing the feature with select users and may release it site-wide in the next few weeks.
Facebook [...]



Well-known apps to make your Facebook page more interactive for free Twitter, Youtube, Flickr

Jul 30th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: facebook

Create customized Facebook tabs for your Facebook fan page by using FBML and iframes. These customized tabs act primarily as an engagement-enhancer for your Facebook page and create more possibilities for attracting others to your page, then ultimately, to your blog or website.
Creating these tabs for a novice is a painful thing if you do [...]



Facebook working with news outlets on “Facebook editions”.

Jul 16th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: News, Social Networking, facebook

Prepare for more news content on Facebook than ever before. Facebook is reportedly working with publishers to create “Facebook editions” of their products to deliver news to social networkers. Facebook is looking for new ways to hang on to its now 750 million users and avoid becoming the next social networking ghetto.With new competition looming. One way the company is looking [...]



History of Facebook and Timeline of Facebook

Jul 16th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: News, facebook

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984 is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur.He is best known for creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is Chief Executive and President. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University.
Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the [...]



Facebook launches new app for ‘Every Phone’

Jul 13th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Social Networking, facebook

Consumers using standard mobile phones can now download the social network’s Facebook for Every Phone app. According to the company, users will be able to see their News Feed, check for messages in their Inbox, and view photos. Users can also upload images and find friends from their contacts list.
Much of Facebook’s growth can be [...]



Bringing Civ World to Facebook .Q&A With Civilization Game Developer Sid Meier

Jul 11th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Gaming, facebook

The legendary Civilization game franchise of has officially gone social with last Wednesday’s launch of the open beta for Civ World. The Facebook offering aims to bring complex strategy to a space currently dominated by more casual games such as FarmVille.
Will longtime Civ fans be satisfied by a social version of the game? Will Facebook’s [...]



Facebook launches video chat with Skype

Jul 10th, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: Internet of Things, Social Networking, facebook

California (Reuters) – Facebook will add Skype video chat to its pages, aiming to spice up the appeal of the world’s No. 1 Internet social networking service while fending off increased competition from Google.
The agreement, announced by Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg at the company’s Palo Alto, California, headquarters on Wednesday, deepens the company’s cooperation with Microsoft Corp, which is in [...]



Will T-Mobile and Facebook Make Up So We Can Call Each on Facebook?

May 2nd, 2011 | By omar shaikh | Category: facebook

Watch the video to see how it was supposed to work.

The T-Mobile Bobsled voice over Internet service announced a little over a week ago which let Facebook users make calls on Facebook to each other. We clicked to try the service, but it doesn’t work today. Why? According to their Facebook page, T-Mobile has temporarily [...]