Entries Tagged as 'Facebook'

Facebook Grader Tells You How Famous You Are

What comes after finding out about your Twitter grade? Obviously, to know how you face in Facebook. Yes, in case you’re still not aware of it, this two web 2.0 application are the most popular and most widely used today.  So, if you want to know how you fare on your Facebook activities, based on [...]

Will You Drop 10 of Your Facebook Friends for a Burger King Whopper?

Apparently, despite being a ridiculous idea, many Facebook users have already done so – that is unfriend their Facebook friends to get Burger King coupon that will entitle them to a free Whopper. Sounds yummy right? To the more than 16,000 Facebook users, the temptation of the Burger King Whopper was too strong to resists [...]

Great! Facebook Hits 150M Users

The official Facebook blog has just reported that the social networking site has just reached a new milestone – 150 million users worldwide, with 50% of them using the social networking site everyday. No wonder, my 15-year old son is now on Facebook, and so does his throng of teen-age friends. And guess where they [...]

Reading Trails Makes it Easier to Find Books to Read

Libraries are so long gone with the advent of social media sites catering to books and reading. And that’s coming from a Library Science School graduate like me. Hopefully, my college friends and instructors will not chanced upon this post and crucify me for stating what most librarians refuse to admit. But how can [...]

Location-Based Social Network Brightkite Connects with Facebook

Remember that cool location-based social networking site we featured earlier this year called – Brightkite? Well, at lot of things has happened with the site, and the latest of which being its integration with, well Facebook Connect. It’s certainly nothing biggie, since everybody seems to be jumping on either the Facebook Connect bandwagon or the [...]

Voicetag Lets You Send Voice Message via Facebook

Although there are already a couple of applications that lets you send voice messages to your Facebook contacts, Voicetag however works well with regular phones and SMS messages. Meaning your Facebook friends can receive your voice messages even when they are not on online in Facebook – that is through their mobile phones or through [...]

Meebo Weds MySpace and Facebook, Sort Of

We know it’s the closest to the impossible thing to happen – the union of MySpace and Facebook as we all know that these two top social networks are nemesis for so long now. It would probably take a lot to make them work together, oh well at least Meebo wants to try as the [...]

Printable Online Coupons Come to Facebook

During hard times like what we are all experiencing right now, everyone could certainly use a discount coupon or two, especially now when Christmas is just around the corner. There are still a few days left before the holiday festivities begin, and just in time for this Coupons.com has announced that Facebook users can now [...]

World Economic Forum Embraces Social Media Tools

If there’s any indication that social networking and social media tools have become more relevant, it’s got to be the fact that even the World Economic Forum is utilizing some of the famous social networking and social media tools in advancing its cause and carrying out its socially-relevant activities. In time for its upcoming annual [...]

TVLoop.com Connects Passionate TV Fans

TVLoop is was used to be just a Facebook application that brings TV shows on TV Fans’ profiles is now a full-blown social networking site boasting of 16 million registered members coming from various social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace and now boasts of 200 popular TV shows.

Facebook Video Goes High-Definition and Embedabble Too

Although I don’t find time to post updates and make use of Facebook as often as a I want to due to busy schedule, I still make it a point to check on my Facebook account on a daily basis. But want I don’t really notice that much is Facebook’s video feature. If you’re not [...]

Facebook Ensures You’ll Never Forget Birthdays Again

Frankly, I’m wondering why Facebook took this long to implement this feature or service. Friendster has a birthday reminder for a long time now, where it sends you Birthday reminders of your friends through email alerts. And I must admit that I found Friendster’s birthday reminder alerts pretty useful in ensuring that I get to [...]