Category: Facebook Applications
Amie Street launches Fantasy Record Label application for Facebook
I'm presuming you've heard of Facebook, but you might not be so familiar with Amie Street. It's an online independent music retailer that offers downloads priced on popularity – so get in early and you could get some quality new…
BlogTV.com creates Facebook application to stream video live
Stuart wrote about BlogTV.com a few months back, the live-streaming video service which allows everyone to be famous for 15 minutes. If you can manage to find someone to watch you, that is.
If you’ve already fooled around with BlogTV.com in the past, but thought it pointless, as no-one you know ever watches…
Facebook opening up public profiles to search engines
Log in to your Facebook profile (of course you have one) and you may see a new alert letting you know that you could soon have a “public search listing”.
Facebook’s developers yesterday announced that they’d be opening up publicly-available member profile information to the likes of Google and other search engines, and allowing non-members to search for people from the front page of Facebook.
All users have a choice over whether their listings are accessible in this way, by altering their privacy settings. However, given recent member stupidity, that’s easier said than done. A lot of Facebook users, it has to be said, are more interested in adding bizarre applications and letting their personal information spread itself all over the place, rather than limiting their profiles.
BBC Olinda digital radio – DAB radio for the Facebook generation
The BBC is planning on mixing DAB radio with social networking with the BBC Olinda digital radio. Don't get too excited, this is still in development right now, but details have emerged via the Schulze and Webb blog. According to…
Opinion: why I think Bluetooth Facebook is a grand (if stalker-ish) idea
Katherine Hannaford writes…
I take back every mean-spirited thing I’ve ever said about students. Yes, even on those nights out in Kingston, Hammersmith, or Clapham, when they’ve filled the gutters, emptying their stomaches of all the Snakebites they can hold, when I’ve resembled a middle-class snob, shaking my head as I pass them soberly (well, vomitless, anyway), muttering under my breath ‘damn students’.
Why am I suddenly revoking my student-hating membership card? Why, because the clever little sods have developed possibly the world’s best Facebook application. Yes, even better than the Karl Pilkington quotes app. We’re talking Bluetooth Facebook. Read on, social-networking fiends…
Opinion: Facebook numpties deserve to be defrauded!
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
Two days into the week and TWO Facebook security threats appear. The first in The Guardian on Monday warned secret code from FB’s inner-workings had been published on the internet prompting warnings of a security risk for users. Boring! Code, schmode, it’s far too technical.
But then this piece of wonder appeared today in The Times and it’s far more worrying, not least because everyone I know does it – and also because it involves a frog!
Freddi Staur is a cute green frog who has stolen email addresses and mobile phone numbers from users on the social network website – in an experiment to show how easily people give out their personal information to strangers…
Top 5 new Facebook applications: Buffy, Beer Diary, Heat and more…
You can’t beat a good Facebook application, although you can bury it with hundreds of rubbish ones – something that due to the popularity of Facebook’s development platform, is in danger of happening.
I wonder if the site will introduce proper five-star ratings for apps, so you can sort through them that way. In the meantime, I’ve been combing through the list of recent new apps to find five worth putting on your profile. Starting with…
The 101 best Facebook applications in the world today
Facebook applications are the best thing since MySpace widgets sliced bread, as any fule kno. What’s more, they’re mushrooming by the day, as companies and individual developers alike catch on to the potential of having their content splashed over (potentially) millions of Facebook profiles.