Back at E3 in June we learned that FacebookFacebook and TwitterTwitter as well as last.fm integrations were coming to Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming platform for the Xbox 360.
It marked a definitive expansion into social networking for the console and a strategy of broadening the Xbox brand into a wider entertainment realm beyond gaming.
Joystiq and Engadget both had a chance to get a first-hand look at exactly how these new integrations will work when they launch in beta later this month (and to the general public shortly thereafter), and were generally impressed with some of the user interface results… Read on at mashable.com
A few weeks ago, we learned that FacebookFacebook was going to get voice chat. The new feature wasn’t going to be powered by Facebook itself though, but rather through Vivox, a well-known voice chat provider for video games and the Second LifeSecond Life reviews virtual world.
Today, Vivox Voice Facebook app has launched in beta. And because we love to play around with things here at MashableMashable, Adam Ostrow and I took it for a test drive.
The app doesn’t work seamlessly, but it isn’t terribly difficult to set up either. After installing the Vivox Voice Facebook app, you must install a browser plug-in to integrate voice chat. Once you’ve done that, voice chat is activated. You can then invite friends that have the app to you voice chat. Inviting is done via a bit.ly link that Vivox sends via FbChat… Read on at mashable.com
As of today, FacebookFacebook now serves 300 million people across the world. It’s a large number, but the way we think about this is that we’re just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone.
Because we want to make it as easy and fast as possible for the world to connect, one of the things we think a lot about is how to make Facebook perform even faster and more efficiently as we grow. We face a lot of fun and important challenges that require rethinking the current systems for enabling information flow across the web.
The site we all use every day is built by a relatively small group of the smartest engineers and entrepreneurs who are solving substantial problems and each making a huge impact for the 300 million people using Facebook. In fact, the ratio of Facebook users to Facebook engineers makes it so that every engineer here is responsible for more than one million users. It’s hard to have an impact like that anywhere else… Read on at facebook.com
As you may know, FacebookFacebook rolled out its planned new feature that lets you “tag” other users in your status updates earlier today.
It’s very similar functionality to @replies on TwitterTwitter, and most folks will be pretty familiar with how it works and why you’d want to use it. Still, there are some differences to note, and some may appreciate a basic walkthough of how the new feature works.
Facebook’s version of the feature, like Twitter, also uses the @ symbol to invoke. However instead of having to simply know or remember the person’s username you’d like to tag, Facebook will generate an auto-suggest dropdown based on what you’ve typed after the @ symbol… Read on at mashable.com
FacebookFacebook’s most TwitterTwitter-like feature yet – the ability to include other users in messages using the “@” symbol – is now live.
As we reported last week, the feature doesn’t include just users though. Brands (Facebook Pages), events, and groups can all be included in status updates using the syntax.
The feature includes auto-suggest, so as you type after the “@” symbol, Facebook lets you select users from a drop-down menu. Meanwhile, after you’ve tagged someone in an update, they get a notification, as well as a post on their wall.
When you look at other user’s status updates that include use of “@” the names are clickable. In this example, Taylor Swift, Beyoncebeyonce, Kanye West, and MTV can all be clicked, which sends users to the respective fan pages of each… Read on at mashable.com
FacebookFacebook statistics show that it has 250 million active users each with an average 120 friends. More than 1 billion photos are uploaded every month by its users, over 70% of whom use applications like games and quizzes in Facebook. Unfortunately, most users don’t know the implications of entering personal information, making friends, and playing games on Facebook.
This guide will show what you can (and cannot) do to safeguard your Facebook privacy.
# 1. Organize Friends in Lists # 2. Customize Profile Privacy # 3. Set Facebook Privacy Level of Photo Albums # 4. Restrict Search Visibility # 5. Control Automatic Wall Posts and News Feed Updates # 6. Set Facebook Wall Privacy # 7. Avoid Appearing in Advertisements # 8. Protect Yourself from Friends’ Applications # 9. Privacy from Your Applications # 10. Quitting Facebook? Delete, Don’t Just De-Activate Your Account Read full post at makeuseof.com
Following the US rollout last night, Facebook Lite, the lightweight version of FacebookFacebook that hides distractions like Apps, is now available internationally.
As of this morning, our European editors are able to access the service at lite.facebook.com. Meanwhile, European Twitter users also report that the service is working for them. MashableMashable commenters in Singapore, the UK, Sweden, Estonia and many other countries report that it’s working for them too.
Some claim that if the site doesn’t work initially, you can get access by setting your language to US English.
Are you able to access Facebook Lite yet? Let us know in the comments. Via mashable.com
TweetDeckTweetDeck is fast becoming the de facto accessory for social media fanatics. The Twitter desktop application is certainly seeing formidable competition, mainly from the likes of SeesmicSeesmic, or web-based alternatives, but their ultimate mission is to become more than just a TwitterTwitter app and be a browser for the real-time web.
A new version of TweetDeck (v0.30), which launches this morning, aims to push the application in that direction. With Twitter still front and center, the new release also embraces a boatload of additional FacebookFacebook functionality and adds in MySpaceMySpace integration. It’s almost everything Conan envisioned for the year 3000.
The consummate Twitter follower will also love that today marks the simultaneous launch of the TweetDeck Directory which features predefined columns for one-click following en masse and instant column addition to your TweetDeck… Read on at mashable.com
FacebookFacebook used Nokia World, the mobile conference taking place now in Stuttgart Germany, to make a major announcement about the expansion of their Facebook Connect platform. According to Henri Moissinac, head of Facebook’s mobile operations, the company is launching a new program called “Facebook Connect For Mobile Web.” The Connect platform, which originally launched in 2008, is already available for traditional websites as well as Apple’s iPhone. With this update, it can now exist for any mobile platform, too.
Mossinac describes the implementation of “Facebook Connect for Mobile Web” as simple. With only four lines of code, developers can add a Facebook Connect button to their app in order to make it more social. The only requirement for implementation is that the handset has to have a web browser. In other words, “any site, any application, and any platform” can now tap into Facebook’s APIs… Read on at readwriteweb.com
With all the buzz around social media, opportunistic and shady businesses are savvy to the fact that those with less than perfect intentions want to take the easy street to instant credibility.
Enter social media salesman, uSocial, a company that has become somewhat notorious for previously selling Diggs and TwitterTwitter followers. In both instances, the startups tried to have them shutdown, but uSocial is back at it, and this time their promise is thousands of FacebookFacebook friends or fans.
uSocial is selling “targeted” Facebook fans and friends to would-be purchasers, starting at $177.30 for 1,000 friends or fans and going all the way up to 5,000 friends and 10,000 fans if you’re willing to shell out $654.30 or $1167.30, respectively. Buyer beware… Read on at mashable.com
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