Yes you have heard right! Facebook are launching a new e-mail service to make your life even easier. Mark Zuckerberg read a statement yesterday about the new sevice saying “We spent lot of time building a handful of products to fit what we think the need is in a modern messaging system”.

Zuckerberg insists that it is not trying to put companies like GMail or Hotmail out of business but instead make life easier for facebook users. The new service will of course as you may have guessed have an “@facebook.com” tail for all users, so for example joebloggs@facebook.com. Has a nice ring to it doesn’t it :)

Facebook Email will be released slowly over the next few months so expect to be seeing e-mail messages in your inbox. Imagine all your facebook e-mails being sent specifically to your facebook e-mail account! Bliss.

More news about this service as it arrives.

My Facebook Tutorial Part 4, going over more Facebook basics, and shows you about notifications, Facebook emails, and settings. Video URL: 403forbidden.dyndns.org Website: 403forbidden.dyndns.org Email 403forbidden403@gmail.com Twitter: www.twitter.com

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.

You might have heard about the Konami code that makes red blurry circles on your Facebook page. This might be one of the most popular Facebook hidden tricks. Here’s how to do it:

Press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter key then press up & down & Magic circles will appear!

To stop them simply reload your page.

Facebook has one of the largest collection of user uploaded videos.You can download most of the videos from Facebook by using a client like SpeedBit or DownFacbook, just google them!

Easily create a photo collage from profile pictures of all your Facebook friends using a simple Facebook app called Photo Collage.

Open up the Facebook Chat and click on Friends List. Start creating a new list called BlockList. When the list is created, add those friends to the list that you want to appear offline to. When the list is complete, hover your mouse to the little green icon adjacent to the list and click Go Offline. You will then be offline to everybody in the BlockList.

There is a plugin that lets you do exactly that. StatusPress lets you display your status updates to a widget on your Wordpress blog.

No need to go to Facebook.com if all you want to do is use Facebook chat. You can do it right from your desktop using clients like social.im , Adium or ChitChat.

If you want to schedule your Facebook messages to be sent sometime in the future, Sendible is a great tool to do that. You can also use Sendible to schedule your status updates.

My Flickr is a Facebook application that lets you display your Flickr photos and photo sets on Facebook so your friends can view and comment on them without leaving Facebook.

Ever needed to download complete photo albums from Facebook? You can easily do it with either a Windows desktop

Do you love talking like a pirate? You can set your Facebook to appear like a pirate page by going into Current Language Settings and setting it to English (Pirate).

Make your status updates interesting by inserting cool symbols. Simply copying them from this list and pasting in your status updates.

Don’t have enough time to poke back friends who poke you on Facebook? Automate it with a Grease Monkey script called Facebook Autopoke.

Upload photos to your Facebook account directly from Picasa using the Picasa app for Facebook. You can also upload the Picasa captions and resize your photos before uploading them to Facebook.

Not everybody knows how powerful Facebook search is. Similar to any large search engine, Facebook search has a lot of advanced options to help you search like a pro. For example if you are looking for a person named John Marsh and filter your results down to only people who are married, you can try name: John Marsh status:married.

Facebook gadget for Gmail allows you to update your Facebook status right from your Gmail.

If you seldom have to leave Facebook just to go check your Gmail inbox, check out Fmail. It is a great application that lets you check your Gmail from within your Facebook inbox.

There is a simple tool that lets you find all your Facebook friends that are using Twitter so you can easily follow them. Search for FB140.

This is a great tip for people attending colleges or working in places that block Facebook, but allow you access to Microsoft Outlook. Simple install the FBlook plugin and access Facebook from Outlook.

This is a cool and fun trick. To display upside down status updates, simply head over to www.FlipText.org and type in your status. Then simply click on Flip Text and copy-paste the upside down text into your Facebook status box.

Wouldn’t you love to update your status on both Facebook and Twitter at the same time. Just install the Twitter application for Facebook. Once synced, your tweets including the #fb tag would automatically be posted as status updates on your Facebook.