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• How to filter friends (and others) in Facebook

  

  By macslocum : 23 March 2010 - 05:04 AM

  When it comes to Facebook, do you unfriend or filter? It's funny how a question that had zero relevance five years ago is now so important. Anecdotally, I know a number of people who have really strug...

  Tags:

  • social network
  • privacy
  • friends
  • filters
  • Facebook
  • social graph

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• How do I uninstall ghost apps from my Droid?

  Asked by anoren : 10 March 2010 - 05:42 PM

  

  Answered by BrianSawyer : Mar 10 2010 06:05 PM
  Do you mean the icons are still on your desktop, or are they in your application list? If the former, have you tried long-pressing the icons and dragging them to the trash? full answer >

  Tags:

  • uninstall apps
  • droid
  • facebook
  • virtual voicemail

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• Google Buzz: 5 Things You Need to Know

  

  By macslocum : 09 February 2010 - 11:00 AM

  Google Buzz brings status updates, links, videos and other shared features into the Gmail interface. If you've updated through Facebook or Twitter you'll be comfortable with the process: enter a quick...

  Tags:

  • Social Media
  • Google
  • Social Networks
  • Twitter
  • Google Buzz
  • Gmail
  • Email
  • Facebook

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• How to Expand Your Brand on Facebook: Groups vs. Pages and Marketing Passively

  

  By Travwha : 16 November 2009 - 11:31 AM

  From Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook, by Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo, November 2009, ISBN 9781593271992. [attachment=491:fwb_fcvr02.jpg] Groups or Pages: Which to Use? ...

  Tags:

  • marketing
  • social media
  • facebook
  • groups
  • pages
  • promotion
  • fans
  • publicity

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• The best place to host your Facebook application

  

  By MaryO : 11 November 2009 - 10:22 AM

  Finding the right hosting provider for your web application can be a real chore. This excerpt from FBML Essentials provides some direction if you are stuck wondering where to host your new Facebook ap...

  Tags:

  • Facebook
  • fbml
  • hosting
  • EC2
  • S3
  • Joyent

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• Be Careful What You Say on Facebook & Twitter...

  

  By powersitedesign : 04 November 2009 - 03:49 PM

  In case you haven’t heard this already, Google and Microsoft (Bing) both announced that they will be displaying tweets from Twitter and status messages from Facebook in their search results. Now fo...

  Tags:

  • blogging
  • bing
  • google
  • twitter
  • facebook
  • social media

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• How to Measure Your Facebook App's Success

  

  By Jay Goldman : 29 October 2009 - 01:12 PM

  The two key metrics that need to be closely monitored to ensure a successful application are:The viral factor, sometimes known as the “k-factor,” an indication of viral ...

  Tags:

  • social media
  • facebook
  • apps
  • stats
  • measure
  • metrics

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• How to Tell a User Added Your Facebook App

  

  By Jay Goldman : 29 October 2009 - 01:04 PM

  If you need to check whether a user has added my app, use the Users.isAppAdded⁠(⁠ ⁠) method:$hasAdded = $facebook->api_client->users_isAppAdded();Users.isAppAdded⁠(⁠ ⁠) re...

  Tags:

  • community
  • social media
  • facebook
  • apps
  • validation

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• How to Create a Facebook Test Account

  

  By Jay Goldman : 29 October 2009 - 12:59 PM

  If you want to test your application as another user who isn’t a developer, but the Facebook ToS prevents you from creating accounts that aren’t linked to your real identity, use...

  Tags:

  • community
  • social media
  • facebook
  • testing
  • test account

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• How to Integrate Drupal and Facebook the Easy Way

  

  By Jay Goldman : 29 October 2009 - 12:48 PM

  If you have an existing site built with Drupal (https://drupal.org/) and would like to create an associated Facebook application quickly and easily, use Drupal for Facebook (https://drupal....

  Tags:

  • community
  • social media
  • facebook
  • drupal

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