Facebook Login

There is a free e-mail provider that offers facebook integration that we have found and will give your a ‘how to’ of how to set it up.

• Go to GMX website and click onto the facebook connect button in the top right corner, it doesn’t matter if you have an account with GMX or not. Log into your facebook accouint and click connect.
• If you already have a GMX email address, click the ‘use an existing GMX e-mail address’ Link and entre your details. If you need an e-mail address, go to the page that lets you set one up and create an account.
• To use the GMX Facebook widget you have to give it access to your accounr. Click the ‘Authorize’ button then ‘Allow access’ in the popup that appears.
• The facebook panel in your inbox displays the status of your facebook contacts, clcik ‘Refresh status’ to update them. You can comment on and ‘like’ others status’s by clicking the appropriate link.
• To make things easier you can even import your friends contacts list.
• GMX also lets you publish images directly to your facebook account.

Facebook will be releasing an update where you can not only let people know what you are doing but where abouts you are doing it too. Facebook has been working on a location-based tool for about a year now, but decided to wait until the product was completely ready for mainstream adoption before announcing it, said the people with knowledge of the project. There will be 2 features to this update, one will be to facebook users to add their location and the other will be offered to developers in the form of software or AP. This update will be out byt he end of april.

John Tinter (Manager of bing at Microsoft) has recently posted a blog entitled “Enchanced cooperation with facebook on search”. Microsoft, as you may or may not know, bought a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook a couple of years ago for $240 million. The new cooperation with Facebook will go deeper in web search experiences according to Tinter. Microsoft are alse bringing Facebook’s API into the search experince which should allow us and them to work together with a more friendly approach. Good or bad idea? Let us know.

Facebook might have a new rival that has been released in the last week. Google have stepped up into the world of social networking with their “google buzz”. Only available as a gmail user at this stage but soon to be for everyone to use. Is it too late for them to jump into this niche though? Time will tell and looking back at googles past conquests i can’t really see them flopping as everything google touch’s turns into gold. With the Nexus being released and doing very well who is to say “buzz” won’t. This might not be for a while anyway as it is still only available to gmail users. Google have said that they are not competing with Facebook and facebook have said that they will be looking forward to cooperating with google. Google vice president of product management Bradley Horowitz made this statement about whether buzz is to be a facebook/twitter killer:

“Absolutely not. Per what I just said, this is creating a new category of communication. It’s filling a niche, which is not currently met in the market. I think something unique is happening on Buzz that will continue to evolve. It’s hard to create a trend line or extrapolate too much from six days of use, but certainly conversation and the conversational Web is a place where Buzz has excelled. I think it is unique and offers a compelling, interesting experience.”

Does any of you out there use it? Plaese let us know what you think about it and whether it is as good as google says it is. Please leave you comments.

As you all may now know facebook has got a new home page. There are a few neat new things about this new layout. Here is an image to show you the key features :-

As you can see top right there are now highlighted icons letting you know if you have had new friend fequests, messages or notifications. There is a new account menu to the top left of your homepage allowing easier alterations to your account. Searches are available at the top of every page to make it easier to search for new friends.

The last feature is the menu system on the left which is very useful, this lets to arrange all your photos, messages etc from a drop down menu system. All in all the new system is based on making things a lot easier for the user. Now me personally, i can’t stand the constant changes and i am writing this to let others get to know the basic new layout.We must remember that facebook is only trying to make things easier for us and we’ll soon get used to this layout within no time at all. Hope this is some help to you all.