Like many, we tuned into the f8 conference a week ago and were introduced to the Spotify music app for Facebook. Once installed on your desktop, the app shares your music choices via Facebook, which allows your friends to see what your listening to and can join in and listen to your music list.
Spotify even goes as far as allowing users to enable private listening if some of your personal music choices are on the embarrassing side. For example, I have an unexplainable love for the Backstreet Boys but I am a little too embarrassed to let this secret out. With Spotify, you can enable the “Private Listening” feature for any song that you feel shouldn’t be shared amongst your Facebook friends. Founder Daniel Ek comments that the feature is part of a new desktop client and is designed to “temporarily hide your guilty pleasures” and works just like your web browser’s private mode.
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We’re pretty sure you know what we’re talking about when we say “Facebook News Ticker.”
No? What if we say the annoying news-feed-like window that sits directly on top of your chat window?
The new homepage ticker was pushed out by Facebook on Wednesday September 21st to all users of the social network. The new feature is programmed to give us more of a “news” insight into our friends activity (in real time) via Facebook. Creepy right? The news ticker shows when you have chat open, and if you close chat, it takes residence above the ads and everything else. Talk about a migraine!
Currently, this news ticker is not optional and we don’t know if Facebook will ever make it optional, fingers crossed. Until that happens, here are some nifty solutions to getting rid of that annoying Facebook news ticker courtesy of AllFacebook.com: Continue Reading »
Have you ever wanted to refine what you see daily in your News Feed?
Facebook will be rolling out a new site feature, which will allow users to choose exactly what they want to see in their individual News Feeds. With this new feature, you can block certain friend shares from showing up in your News Feed. Everyone has that one annoying friend who posts every hour; with the Subscribe button, you can block out this friend completely and easily.
Keep in mind that this new feature is opt in only (at the moment). If you would like to opt in for this feature, you can do so here: http://www.facebook.com/about/subscribe
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If you are one retailer out of millions in the world, how would you go about separating yourself from the herd in order to get noticed?
Hipster fashion retailer Urban Outfitters has found a creative solution via Facebook to get the masses interested and coming back for more. The retailer’s new interactive campaign will enable Facebook fans to browse through Urban Outfitter’s fall catalog on the brands page. Genius!
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We recently took a visit to AllFacebook.com and found an interesting infographic post by Jackie Cohen. The infographic (pictured below) show’s the contrast in number of parents who have joined the social network to just spy on their kids online behavior. After seeing the findings from this infographic, we were surprised that the numbers weren’t higher.
The infographic comes from OnlineSchools, which states that parents spying on their kids via Facebook maybe isn’t such a bad thing: “Children are vulnerable on social networks and many are on Facebook without their parents’ permission. That’s why many parents feel that they’re not snooping on their kids — they’re protecting them.”
Good point. If we were parents, wouldn’t we want to know what our children are talking about behind our backs? Or who is talking about them behind their backs? These questions bring up an important point, if parents are so interested on keeping their kids safe from harm, shouldn’t they just talk to them about it, person to person instead of finding out by Facebook? It’s obvious that with the rise of social networks, that the communication barrier between kids and their parents continues to grow larger and larger apart from each other.
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The popular Facebook layouts browser app, PageRage, has just launched their first, ever, Facebook layouts contest and they are giving away quite the grand prize. It’s an exciting opportunity for Facebook users; read on to learn more about contest details.
If you are unfamiliar with PageRage it is the first web application that allows Facebook users to place graphic layouts right on top of their existing profile. More than 1.6 million people visit PageRage.com every day, and more than 40,000 custom Facebook layouts are created every day with their custom Facebook layouts tool. PageRage is a free ad-supported Facebook layouts browser app and if users wish to experience ad-free Facebook layouts, they have the option to upgrade to PageRage Premium.
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[Source: Courtesy of Mashable]
Stay in “the know” of everything related to Facebook and Facebook layouts. There’s no need to stray, so why not stay?
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Stay in “the know” of everything related to Facebook and Facebook layouts. There’s no need to stray, so why not stay?
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