Since the last post was Bill Gates’ Facebook Profile it only seemed right that next should come the profile of his biggest competitor, Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Steve may not be the richest man in the world but he was just named CEO of the decade by Fortune. For those of you who want more of these two giants of tech check out this video interview featuring Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together. Hope you get a laugh from the comedy profile below!
This is a Comedy Facebook Profile of Bill Gates. It is quite hilarious, but not real in the slightest. Apparently Bill Gates had Facebook but quit due to “too many friends.” Nonetheless, he is still awesome.
In the years that I have been using facebook I have not been able to login twice. Both times when facebook was broken it was probably just the result of crowded bandwidth at a packed library. On both occasions Facebook lite saved my night. Most people just use regular facebook, and many do not even know about Facebook lite. But if facebook.com ever goes down just call facebook lite to the rescue!
Facebook lite is a stripped down version of Facebook. It is optimized to be lightning fast, and has no application integration. That means you won’t be able to play Farmville but you will be able to do core facebook tasks in a way that is supposed to be “faster and simpler.”
Facebook Lite Settings:
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Profile on Facebook Lite:
What do you think of Facebook lite? Would you ever switch to using Facebook Lite instead of regular Facebook?
By: Adrian T. Dayton
A rule of thumb I use for Facebook and Twitter is this: Facebook for friends and groups, Twitter for business. That is not to say that either network cannot be used for both activities. There is plenty of crossover between FB and Twitter, and even a Twitter application for Facebook but there are fundamental differences between the two as well.
Twitter is very inclusive with respect to meeting new people. The inclusive nature of Twitter has even spawned the innovation of a special day of the week called #followfriday, which is a way of recommending quality people for your followers to follow by using #hashtags. Follow Friday has a few corresponding websites such as TopFollowFriday.com, which lists the people on Twitter with the most daily #followfriday endorsements. Facebook, on the other hand, is more directed towards real life friends. Following someone on Twitter can be a one way street, but Friending some on Facebook always involves a connection.
Facebook has filtering tools that allows you to organize and segment groups. If you create a group on Facebook you are able to message all individuals within the group. Facebook groups can cover most any kind of group you can imagine; parties, campaigns, meetings, you name it. The weakness of Facebook groups are that getting the word out to strangers or people that you are not directly connected with you is quite difficult without using advertising.
In sharp contrast with Facebook, Twitter is a noisy cocktail party where almost everything said can be overheard by anybody else. Profiles on Twitter can be private, but are almost always open for all to see. This open form of communication removes many barriers to conversation. Twitter helps to facilitate connections between total strangers by encouraging people to read each others tweets, communicate, follow each other, and become acquainted. By allowing others in on your conversation people can find connections with each other based on the content of the conversation rather than relying mostly on a pre-existing friend network, as Facebook does.
Conclusion
Facebook and Twitter both have their strengths, and both are amazing in their own ways. If you are only using one of these platforms, I suggest you take the time to learn to use them both, because from here on out Facebook and Twitter will help define how our society communicates.
By: Garin Kilpatrick
Generally speaking I am not a fan of Toolbars, many are junk, and they take up too much precious screen space. But for a few important reasons I really like the Facebook toolbar for Firefox and I think it is worth the space it takes.
I like this Toolbar is because it is east to use and very customizable. At first I disliked all of the notifications that it was giving me about every little thing happening in Facebook, but I soon discovered that by scrolling to the bottom of the “quick links” list and clicking on “toolbar settings” that I was able to customize exactly which notifications I recieve, if any!
With a few quick clicks the Firefox toolbar transformed from annoying, to very useful!
Another cool feature of the Firefox Facebook toolbar is the friends sidebar. The friends sidebar allows you to sort your friends by name, or in three other ways:
Besides that the toolbar gives you quick links to the most common aspects of your Facebook, a “share” button that makes it easy to share any page from the web on facebook, and a “Search Facebook” field as well.
If you grant permission to the toolbar you can also update your status updates from a field on the right hand side. Overall the toolbar is very useful, and for any avid facebooker I highly recommend you download it.
Not enough screen space because of the Toolbar? Try this tip: Simply press the F11 key and the top browser bars will dissappear until you press it again!
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By: Garin Kilpatrick
The most common way that people broadcast Facebook updates elsware on the web is by installing the Twitter Application for Facebook. The disadvantage of this is that once you sync the Twitter application with your Facebook status you cannot choose which tweets also post as status updates. With the Twitter app for Facebook it is all tweets to facebook, or nothing.
Selective Twitter provides a simple solution to this dilemma. I will start off by saying that Selective Twitter is the simplest Facebook application I have ever encountered. Adding the application is a simple one step process that involves you entering your Twitter user name. And that’s it!
Once you have followed this one step process simply post #fb at the end of any Tweet and the Tweet will also post as a Facebook Status Update.
Broadcasting your Facebook Status beyond Twitter
For social media butterflys there is another solution called Ping.fm that allows you to post updates to Twitter and Facebook, and also to over 30 other social media Websites.
Once you join up with ping you can add thedifferent social websites you belong to, including Wordpress and Blogger blogs, and choose to broadcast your message to certain sites, or to all of your networks at once.
Ping.fm is used by people like @ChrisPrillo, @Mashable, and myself. I can personally testify to the simplicity and effectiveness of Ping.fm
Want to Broadcast more than just a Status Update?
A service that allows you to broadcast not only status updates, but also content, is called Pixelpipe.
Pixelpipe’s motto is “Free your content” and they already support over 60 services and counting.
Conclusion
The above are just three ways to move alot of content on facebook and across the web, with little effort, and certainly there are many more.
What are your experiences and thoughts about the above services and others that are out there?
By: Ray Miles
It seems like whenever Facebook makes a big change, thousands of people will be there to complain.
The newest complaint is coming from Facebook’s new redesign.
These are some recent comments that were made concerning the changes:
But despite these comments, with a user base of 175,000,000 these groups represent only a tiny fraction of the Facebook population. Even if 1,000,000 people are unhappy with the new Facebook this is still less than one percent of Facebook.
Facebook did try to warn it’s users by posting a blue box on the top of their home page that read, “Changes to the Homepage are Coming Soon.” They even offered a tour of the new homepage, so users could prepare themselves for what it would look like. These changes to the Facebook homepage were then echoed through the Blogosphere but apparently this was not enough.
Many users were still outraged at the fact that their homepage did not look the same and they might have to learn slightly different navigation scheme. Many users demanded the change be reversed, some making groups that allowed users to express why they don’t like the new features, or describing how to get the old Facebook back.
My question is: Why all the complaints?
The general consensus amongst the Facebook crowd is that the new layout is confusing and mixes up their information.
What the users did not try to grasp was if the new design made more sense than the old one, which is does. Redesigns like this are essential to the growth of Facebook, and to make it as user friendly as possible to the ever growing Facebook user group. Keeping up with the times and the latest technology are part of what Facebook and Web 2.0 are all about.
Not to mention, there are many good things that come with the redesign:
Facebook may also be trying to compete with “The New Kid on the Block,” Twitter.
Many Twitter users were not impressed with the new Facebook design because it looks so similar to Twitter that is seems like a ripoff.
This is the second major redesign and layout change Facebook has made in the last year. There will certainly be more to come.
One innovation that will be coming to Facebook in the future is a news feed that updates itself without having to refresh your browser. This innovation is already implemented in FriendFeed, and may take some time before Facebook can afford the bandwidth to implement it across it’s wide user base.
So, what’s better than complaining about the new layout of Facebook?
Embracing it!
Use the time that you might use complaining to learn about the new Facebook its features. By learning how the new facebook works instead of fighting it you will ensure that you maximize your social-networking experience.
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