Facebook recently launched a location based service by the name of Places which gives Facebook’s 500 million users the ability to check in to places (businesses, schools, cities, etc) via their Facebook app on the iPhone or the Facebook touch site for other mobile devices. Although Places is defaulted to only share check-ins with your [...]

Do you feel that all pictures of you are trapped inside Facebook? Think about all of the tagged pictures that others have uploaded of you from parties, family events, and nights out. Imagine trying to go through each album to try to copy and paste those pictures so that you can save them to your [...]

With the recent launch of Facebook Places and the ability for your friends on Facebook to see where you are and at what time, some users may be concerned with certain friends having access to this information. By default Facebook Places only shares your check-ins with your friends on Facebook so there is no need [...]

If you’re a Foursquare, Gowalla, or other social check-in website user, you now have another option to check in to places you visit and share with friends. Facebook recently announced the roll out of Facebook Places which allows its 500 million users to check into places using the updated Facebook App.
What’s a check-in and why [...]

How many times have you been confronted with the problem of trying to figure out what to buy a friend for his/her birthday? You can always use Amazon’s Wish List feature, but that would require that your friend has an Amazon account and keeps a wish list…if that’s not an option then you can tap [...]

Believe it or not your next group project may be completed with your friends while using Facebook. In an attempt to bridge the gap between the social web and collaboration, Microsoft through its Fuse labs has created Docs.com. This service (still in Beta) allows Facebook users to create, share, and collaborate on PowerPoint presentations, Word [...]

After reading this you’ll think twice next time you accept a friend request from Facebook’s People You May Know feature. Over the weekend my wife and I discovered that my brother-in-law’s Facebook profile wasn’t really his. About 10 different family members had already “friended” the brother-in-law impostor which led Facebook to suggest him as someone [...]

Believe it or not the United States is listed as a country that has banned social networking sites, however the bans in the United States are mostly at Federal facilities and schools. In other countries, like in Vietnam some of the sites are banned entirely from the general population and for political reasons.
On Vietnam banning [...]

Do you want the opportunity to reach 500 million customers? With a Facebook page you can. Facebook allows users to create pages for their business, a product, causes, and other communities. These pages can be used to communicate with fans and customers that are already part of the Facebook ecosystem. Customers or fans can Like [...]

Why install a program on your computer to create collages when you can use Facebook and not install a single thing. The Photovisi app in Facebook allows you to create collages from photos stored in your computer and in your Facebook albums. The provides you with about 21 templates that can be used to style [...]