28 Jun
In this interview with facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is asked a few questions by Justin Smith, of Inside Facebook and Mark provides lengthy responses about his plans for improving facebook growth both within the facebook.com canvas, and on the over one million sites facebook connect is enabled on.
For the full interview from June 22nd check out original post on Inside Facebook.
15 May
By: Garin KilpatrickDespite over 400,000,000 users on Facebook there has still been a lack of awesome information in one place about the very best Facebook tips and tricks. Until now.
While writing this post I scoured the blogosphere, the firefox plugin directory, the userscripts database, and facebook itself for the very best tips and tricks.
Enjoy! 
For example, the custom url of my personal profile is: http://www.facebook.com/garinkilpatrick/
You can customize the URLs of your own facebook profile and pages by surfing to: http://www.facebook.com/username/
If you go to facebook.com/notifications you will be able to choose how you would like to syndicate your status updates, as RSS or Text Messages.
With the Twitter app for Facebook. This app will import all tweets as status updates, which may alienate your fb friends with useless @replies if they do not have twitter.
Sendible.com is a site that allows you to import your contacts from a variety of address books, and schedule status updates to multiple networks.
Status updates supported by Sendible include: your Facebook Wall, Facebook Page, and other Social Media sites like Twitter and Linkedin.
OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook.
This application allows you to select which contacts are updated.
With this app you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.
With the Static FBML app by faceboook.
Using this app you can create a custom “welcome” tab for your facebook page, customize the sidebar of your wall, and more!
Add your facebook events to currently logged in Google Calendar.
FacePAD is a plugin for Firefox. better known as the Facebook Photo Album Downloader will allow you to download your friends’ entire Facebook albums with a click of a button.
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n unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader (bookmarklet).
This app allows you to easily upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.
The Google owned Picasa comes complete with an uploader app for Facebook.
This app also gives you the option of uploading the Picasa captions and resizing your photos before uploading them to facebook.
Add a simple button to Picasa that lets you upload your photos straight to Facebook! You can put photos in an existing album or create a new one.
24 Feb
February 24th – By: Craig Pen
Imagine life without the internet or the telephone. Imagine walking to the next town to deliver a message. Compared to days past, today’s far reaching and nearly instantaneous social networking technology is magic. With the new third 
party Facebook Chat Messenger integration, the new Facebook photo uploader and the new Facebook privacy settings, the magic keeps getting better.
Right: Chit Chat for Facebook makes it possible to use Facebook Chat from your desktop like you would another instant messenger network like Windows Live Messenger or Google Talk. The Facebook Instant Messenger supports conversation history, emoticons and sign in status alerts.
The Facebook Chat Messenger interface has been modified to stand out. It displays how many of your friends are online and lists some of their names. The text is small. The options are few. Facebook Chat Messenger requires an open browser window making it inconvenient when multitasking.
A stand alone application like Chit Chat for Facebook allows you to connect to the Facebook instant message network without dealing with the awkward facebook chat box within your browser. Chit Chat for Facebook can load and sign in automatically when Windows starts. It can log chats and alert you when friends sign in or out of Facebook. It even remembers its window size and hides away with a single click, simplifying multitasking. Chit Chat for Facebook will even let you leave a message on a friend’s wall. It is instantaneous message delivery, with no need to walk all the way to the next town.
Uploading photos to Facebook has never been easier or more convenient. The new uploading tool is easy to download and install. It may even look and feel familiar. It allows you to search your computer for the photos you want to share. You can select them by clicking on their thumbnail image and upload them to your profile. More file formats will be accepted to solve much complained about compatibility issues. The new uploader even allows the photo upload process to continue after you have left the Facebook website. This makes uploading last night’s party photos far less of a chore.
Back before the internet and the telephone, life must have been very private. New technologies like Google Streetview and Facebook threaten traditional notions of privacy. Facebook used to allow any of the friends in your network indiscriminate access to everything in your profile. Facebook’s new privacy features are set up to be the best to date. To protect your privacy, Facebook now allows you to customize exactly who sees what. The new Facebook magic will ensure your boss, your spouse, and your parents see only what you want them to. You can specify who can have access to each individual piece of content. You can allow access to friends only, to friends and friends of friends only, to everyone, or to custom lists of friends. This will return a little more confidentiality to our modern privacy compromised, technological world.
Today it is nearly impossible to imagine life without the internet or the telephone. Tomorrow it may be impossible to imagine a Facebook without apps like Chit Chat, the new Facebook photo uploader, and the new Facebook privacy settings. Modern social networking breakthroughs are magic and the magic keeps getting better.
About the Author: Craig Pen is a freelance writer writing for a living in Niagara Falls, Ontario. When not out hiking and biking, he can usually be found camped out in front of his 106 inch projector screen writing away.
5 Feb
In just four short days an onion ring has been able to accumulate over 1,300,000 facebook fans. The name of this newly viral facebook page is “Can this onion ring get more fans than Justin Bieber?”. Update: The day after this post was posted the fan page achieved it’s goal. Now this fan page cannot be found on Facebook so I am guessing that the publicist for Justin Bieber bought this group and had it shut down. The last time I saw this group it had over 2,000,000 fans, meaning it was also more popular then Miley Cyrus.
The case of this onion ring serves as an interesting example of how unique humor, when combined with a cause, can serve up a recepie for viral marketing success!
21 Dec
December 21st | By: Garin Kilpatrick
If you go to facebook.com/family/ you will find a nifty directory that allows you to search for people on Facebook with the same last name as you. Facebook also made the announcement, on mothers day of 2009, that now you can list family information in your profile. Now, not only can you list the person you are in a relationship with, but also your parents, and any siblings and children you may have.
There is also a Facebook app called We’re Related by FamilyLink that allows you to keep track of your relatives, and perhaps discover relatives you did not even know you had. We’re related also allows you to build your family tree. A testimonial from FamilyLink.com reads:
“This tool has made it possible for me to communicate with my children whom I have not seen close on nine years now. It has also afforded me the opportunity to keep in touch with my relatives far and near, I have even managed to find long lost friends. This is a really great tool.”
Facebook even has a custom page that makes it easy to create a group for your extended family on facebook.
Do you have your family on Facebook? Do you list your parents, siblings, or children on your Facebook Profile?
15 May
By: Garin Kilpatrick
The Facebook App is listed in the Apple App directory as one of the most popular apps of all time.
The first time I used this app I found that it was very easy to navigate and well designed.
All of the different parts of facebook are accessible via large icons.
The only problem with this app is that sometimes it is very slow. If you are searching for a friend it might take a while if you have over a thousand friends.
I have the latest version of the iPhone, the 3Gs, and although the S in 3GS is supposed to stand for speed I found this app to be very slow compared to accessing facebook on a computer.
A better way to access facebook on the iPhone is by using the Safari Web Browser built into the iPhone. Simply surf to: http://iphone.facebook.com/ and enjoy facebook on your iPhone.
The web version of Facebook is optimized for the iPhone and works great. The Auto-complete feature even works as I type a friends name in the search box.
I keep the facebook app installed if I ever want to do a quick status update.
The facebook application is currently shooting up the ranks as one of the most popular applications to date and there are already more than 15,253,000+ iPhone users who have installed the app.
Although the Facebook app for iPhone is slow a nice feature of it is how it is completely ad free.
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