Facebook Tips: Understanding Privacy Use of Apps and Games

As you become active on Facebook, you'll probably start receiving invitations to use Facebook Apps and Games. Apps and Games are applications that irectories settings Page your setting for privacy are controlled from a single dashboard. This will control how (and and...

Facebook Tips: Instant Personalization

Instant Personalization allows sites to personalize your experience when you visit them while logged into Facebook. When a site is using Instant Personalization, it draws from the public information on your Profile to make guesses about the type of content you'll find interesting.  For example,...

Facebook Tips: Social PlugIns,Platform Apps

Social PlugIns are tools that let you easily share a site's content on Facebook. They also show you content that your Friends have shared. Platform Apps Platform Apps are applications that let you fully link your Facebook account to an outside site. When you add a site's Platform...

Facebook Tips: Exploring Facebook Home Page And Timeline

Since December 15, 2011, a Timeline is the new virtual space in which all the content of every Facebook user will be organized and shown. Replacing the Facebook Profile, in a Timeline the photos, videos, and posts ofany given user will be categorized according to the period of time in which...

Facebook Tips: Exploring Facebook Profile Page

While the focus of the News Feed on the purpose of your Profile page (also called your Timeline) is to record what you are doing and thinking. This is where you can post your recent thoughts and Facebook activities. When you record "What's on your mind," it appears in the appropriate...

Facebook Tips: Setting up Facebook Profile

1:  Set up Your Account Before you can use Facebook, you have to set up an account. Creating a Facebook account is free. All you need to get started is an email address and a few minutes of your time. Lets create your  Facebook account. You will also learn how to modify...

Facebook Tips: Account Settings Facebook Privacy

Before you get started using Facebook, you should check and adjust your account settings. To access these settings, click the Account drop-down button and select Account Settings. For your own safety and protection you should always review the privacy settings of any application...

Facebook Tips: Set Privacy Settings

1: Take a few minutes to really check your Privacy Settings. Be clear as to who can view  your posts and profile information.  In this day of open  Internet and stolen pics/videos...  you  would  hate  for  your  stuff  to  get  out...

Twitter Tips: Send your blog feed to Twitter

If you’ve got a blog as well as a Twitter account, you can send a tweet each time you post a new blog entry to let your followers know you’ve got some outside content for them to read. However, why bother with that extra step when you can get your blog post sent automatically to...

Twitter Tips: Using LinkedIn to track tweets about your company

If you have a LinkedIn account (www.linkedin.com), you probably find it a useful tool for making new business contacts. However, you can also use it to track tweets that mention your company. Sign on to LinkedIn and click Applications. Click the Company Buzz application to open the...

Twitter Tips: Displaying your latest tweet on a photo

SayTweet (http://saytweet.com/) qualifies as a tool if by the word tool you mean “a silly, pointless, but just plain fun mashup that you can display on your Web site.” The idea is that you upload a photo (or provide a photo URL) to SayTweet, click that photo, and then provide your...

Twitter Tips: Getting your Twitter account ranking

When a site turns up near the top of a Google search, that site is said to have lots of Googlejuice . So if your Twitter account is getting lots of buzz (followers, retweets, shoutouts, whatever), then I guess you could say that it’s got lots of  Twitterjuice . How would you know...

Twitter Tips: Tracking tweets by location

The next tool I’m going to tell you about comes with a warning: This site is so downright compelling that you should only visit on days when you have no pressing deadlines or other time constraints. That’s because twittearth (http://twittearth.com/) grabs tweets randomly from the Twitterstream,...

Twitter Tips: Tracking total tweets

The site Tweetrush (http://tweetrush.com/) provides fascinating data on Twitter usage. Its main charts (see figure 9.15) show the total number of tweets per day over the past week and the average number of tweets at a given time of day over Twitter’s lifetime. You also see data for the...

Twitter Tips: Following Twitter trends

As a source of information, your everyday experience with Twitter probably consists of reading your friends’ incoming tweets, and perhaps occasionally tuning in to the public timeline to marvel at the confusion and sheer incomprehensibility of it all. Looking at Twitter tweet-by-tweet...

Twitter Tips: More Twitter Tools to Play With Scheduling tweets

The Twitterverse is so crowded with Twitter-related tools that it would take another book this size, heck another two books this size to cover them all. I might just do that one day, but for now I’ll  delve into a few tools that I think are useful, fun, or just plain cool. Scheduling...

Twitter Tips: Posting to Multiple Social Networks

It’s becoming increasingly rare these days to find anyone who can make do with just a single social network. Most of us have two or three or more groups of online friends that we pester with status updates, but logging in to each site and firing off a message just gets too time-consuming.  Fortunately,...

Twitter Tips: Getting started with Ping.fm

Your first chore is to sign up, which you can do by following these steps:  1.  Make a beeline with your browser for http://ping.fm/. 2.  Click Signup. 3.  Type your e-mail address and a password (twice).  4.  Click Signup.  Ping.fm creates your account...

Twitter Tips: Getting your Ping.fm application key

If you plan on using Ping.fm with third-party applications such as twhirl (see the next section), iGoogle, or Facebook, then you need to provide those applications with your Ping.fm application 1.  Click Dashboard at the top of any Ping.fm page. The Your Dashboard page appears. 2....

Twitter Tips: Configuring twhirl to use Ping.fm

If you use twhirl  to post to Twitter, you can also use it to pass along your tweets to Ping.fm. Here’s how: 1.  In twhirl, click Configuration (the wrench icon).  The Configuration dialog box opens.  2.  Display the General tab.  3.  Select...

Twitter Tips: Posting with Ping.fm

Posting a status update with Ping.fm is this easy: 1.  Click Dashboard at the top of any Ping.fm page. The Your Dashboard page appears. 2.  Use the Ping My list to decide where you want the message to go: A:  If you want to update all your networks that accept status...

Twitter Tips: Other photo sharing services

TwitPic may be the Big Kahuna of Twitter photo-sharing services, but it’s not the only game in that particular town. Here are a few others to check out:  1:  Mobypicture (http://mobypicture.com/). This service lets you share photos not only with Twitter, but with a wide variety...

Twitter Tips: Sharing videos

Although photo sharing is the type of media most often shared by tweeters, video is right up there, as well. That’s not surprising given the immense popularity of YouTube and other video sharing sites. Here are four Web sites that make it easy to share video with your Twitter tribe:    1:...

Twitter Tips: Sharing music

Got a favorite song you’d like to share? That’s awfully nice of you. Fortunately, sharing a tune on Twitter is easy if you use any of the following music sharing sites:    1: Blip.fm (http://blip.fm/). This site lets you set up your own broadcast station. Create an account and...

Twitter Tips: Using TwitPic

The gold standard in photo sharing for Twitter is TwitPic (http://twitpic.com/), which is by far the most popular photo sharing service for tweeters. This is partly because almost every Twitter application that comes with some sort of “Share a photo” feature uses TwitPic to handle...

Twitter Tips: Sharing Photos, Videos, and Music

Facebook users get to share photos and videos with their friends, and MySpace users also get to share their favorite MySpace bands with their peeps. Twitter is, obviously, a text-only medium, so sharing media with your tweeps is out, right? True, you can’t embed media directly into...

Twitter Tips: Adding a Twitter gadget to your iGoogle page

If you’ve got a customized iGoogle page loaded with gadgets, why not add a Twitter gadget into the mix.  Here’s how: 1.  Head directly to your iGoogle page by surfing to www.google.com/ig. 2.  If you don’t have an automatic sign-in, click Sign In, type your Google e-mail address...

Twitter Tips: Displaying tweets in Firefox

If you’re a Firefox fan, you probably won’t be surprised to know that you can customize the browser with Twitter-related extensions. These are mostly simple apps that show your friends’ tweets and let you post updates. Here are the three most popular Twitter extensions for Firefox. 1:...