There are quite a number of free third party commenting systems available online but there is

always a dilemna over which one to choose. The most used and prominent ones are Disqus and Facebook comments.

I was also confused but decided in favor of Disqus and here are some of the key points that i
considered before making a decision. You may also find them useful to decide for you. [More]

The primary method of creating a Facebook application is to create a page on your OWN
website and then point your FB app. to load that page. When somebody or you add this
application to your FB page, it automatically loads the web page that actually resides on
your own web site.
So, can you put up Google ADS on your FB App? Is it allowed by Google or Facebook? [More]

This article aims at demystifying the steps to create a Facebook application. The app. creation is fairly simple but a complicated as far as configuration steps are concerned. Follow these steps and your app. will be up and running in 5 minutes.

Facebook app. is nothing but a page on facebook which actually shows a page from your OWN website inside an iFrame. This iFrame can have a width of maximum 520px.. Hence, you can show your content inside this 520px with no height limit. If the height is more than facebook page, it shows the scrool bars. [More]

Facebook or any other social sharing platforms generally pick up an image from shared web page
using their own algorithm. But there is a way that you can point them to an image that you want to be shown as a thumbnail.
The solution is to add an open graph meta tag in your web page with the link to the desired image. The open graph standard is followed by many social sharing sites including Facebook. Here is an extension to add the meta tag on its own to your BlogEngine's posts.
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Google is seriously facing the heat these days from Facebook and is trying to woo as many users as possible.
Facebook has the power of socially connected 500+ million users whereas Google is the most preferred search engine by billions of people.

We all are familiar with FaceBook LIKE button is one of the most popular way of sharing the content with other Facebook users.
Now, Google is coming out openly to give some competition to this LIKE button. They have developed a similar button with same functionality but with a different name called +1. [More]

Is it a bug in Chrome or Facebook's Fan Box? I am not sure about but looks like a bug in Google chrome.
I tested the Fan box on Mozilla and Internet explorer and they both show the same Fans count but chrome somehow makes me feel happier as it always shows the count with an added fan. [More]

This one is a new feature that has been added to Facebook today itself. You can now opt to show your Facebook page (could be any business or community or any other page that you have created) on your Facebook profile itself.

All the wall postings of your Facebook page will be shown on your Facebook profile page. So, in a sense your profile will be impersonating your Facebook business page. [More]

Some time back, Facebook introduced new features on the people profiles. The photographs on the Facebook profile were allowed to show on top of the window. Many creative people made use of this opportunity and arranged the photographs in such a manner that they conveyed some kind of meaning.

Now, the same feature has been introduced on Facebook pages also. i.e. if you have created a facebook page for your business or community or something else, you can now use this feature. [More]

Vincos.it maps social network dominance around the world according to traffic data from Alexa and Google Trends.

As a matter of fact, the Facebook was not the preferred social network in India and Brazil. But, it has taken over Orkut in both these countries quite fast. [More]

India is a great country. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world!!
I was just going through some Facebook intrinsics and collected data Facebook users based in India. [More]

I have got some friends on Facebook that i just don’t want to talk to, but they bug me every time sign into Facebook chat and it seems they are just waiting for someone to come online and start chatting.

I just wanted to block them anyhow as they were eating a big chunk of my online surfing talking non-sense. I found this solution which can be of use to you also.

The solution is to create a new List for the friends you want to hide from, and then set that list to offline in Facebook chat. [More]

It seems Delhi Traffic Police (DTP) is making use of technology and social networking power to catch hold of traffic rule violators in the city. The DTP has created a Facebook page and is answering general public queries and supposedly taking action on the traffic violations as reported by the Facebook users.

The move looks more motivated by the commonwealth games (To be hosted by Delhi in October 2010) than the frustration of catching city's unruly drivers. As a resident of Delhi, I have been part of this traffic for a long time and wished traffic rules had been implemented for all!! [More]

I just found Mark Zuckerberg's (Founder of Facebook) picture on one of the site. He is wearing an Indian ethical dress and is dancing too.

I am not sure if this is an original image or is a morphed one. But just wanted to share as it looks good. [More]

Recently, I received an email from Facebook saying that my account has been accessed on a mobile somewhere in New York. It was strange for me as i had not visited New York in the last one year.
The facebook security alert immediately guided me to change my password in case this was not me who accessed my account via mobile. [More]

The artist Charis Tsevis, has apparently hit on a pretty clever design theme that has now been duplicated for multiple influentials, including Mark Zuckerberg. Wired magazine contracted with Tsevis for the magazine’s U.K. edition to create a mosaic portrait of the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. [More]