How to update to a page timeline in facebook ?

We can now see a lot of messages when facebook gives you this particular statement at the top of your beloved page

"On March 30, 2012, all Facebook Pages will get a new design. Preview your page now to see what it looks like and try out the new features."

What is this design and what should you do to get it properly on your page ?.

First step is to click on the preview button on the top left of the page

You will be redirected to a page that looks like this.

  

Next, you need to select a picture to be displayed as a banner on your timeline. I've selected this.

You can find out how It can be created, from my previous post.

 

Now click on the add cover button on the right side of the page .

Click on Upload Photo... and upload your created photo.

Now Reposition your photo just as you like.

 Save and click on publish now.

You will now be presented the administrator panel.

 

Finally your page along with your banner will look like this.

 

Now, since you've read this article,
 you know

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What is Pinterest and How to use it?

Development of Pinterest began in December 2009, and the site launched as a closed beta in March 2010. The site proceeded to operate in invitation-only open beta.On August 16, 2011, Time magazine listed Pinterest in its "50 Best Websites of 2011" article.
Pinterest is similar to earlier social, image bookmarking systems based on the same principle, such as David Galbraith's 2005 project Wists.

Users of Pinterest create themed boards, populating them with media found online using the "Pin It" button, or uploaded from their computers. Each such item of media is known as a "pin", and can be a picture, a video, a discussion, or a product. Pins can be grouped into so called "boards", which are sets of pins focused on a specific topic. Pinterest can be accessed by adding the "pin it" button to the desktop bookmark bar, "follow me" and "pin it" buttons added to personal website or blog pages.

According to the about page of Pinterest "Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests."

Just enter your email, if you do not want to share your facebook or twitter username, you can just enter your email address and then comes a confirmatory message.

Now that you've read this article, 
you Know

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Analyse your twitter page, effectively

How do you turn your twitter activity into an infographic showing your top followers, content, geographic impact and more? 

The answer is as simple as anything, Vizify. Vizify's TweetSheet showcases revealing details from your tweetstream, including: top followers, geographic impact, most-retweeted posts, and more.

The tweetsheet provides you a series of high quality analysis of your twitter data, better than any other. A complete graph of your tweet activity, maximum to 3200 tweets, The graph is one of the most important analysing tool, at Vizify.

 

In the most posts retweeted panel, Your recent tweets are shown that were most often retweeted, with the number of retweets shown in the badge.

In the favorite themes panel, proper nouns, place/person names, etc. are shown that showed up often in your recent posts. The size of the presentation reflects the frequency of your use of that word/phrase.

In the Best followers panel, vizify shows the followers who have been mentioning you the most in the recent past, with the number of mentions highlighted in the badge.

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How to Embed a working YouTube Widget

Several Times we see websites ladden with content and no place to keep it organised, So web developers found a solution of getting a widget/gadget.

What do you do when You have a YouTube page filled with videos that you want others to see but couldn't, just because it is too much work to embed videos one by one, going on changing them frequently so that it looks original when people visit it.

So, here is what you do, You find yourself, a nice cool gadget which is consisted in an iframe, where the visitors themselves have the opportunity to select what they like.

Here you will find how to find a nice gadget which can be embedded in your site. Though there are several widgets to be included in your website available at

http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/youtube

But when I tried, None of them seem to be working, 

So tried a Different approach. Google searched for Gadgets (YouTube Gadgets) instead of widgets, and Voila, here was it. So, mind what you search for in Google, after all it,still is a search engine, not a human like you.

  

Google through YouTube has released two different types of gadgets. The older version is a single Video version, where your different uploaded videos come and go on the same portion of the screen. The newer version has a grid of videos displayed along with a search bar.

1. Google modules, YouTube Gadget Single Video Version
2. Google Modules, YouTube Gadget Grid Version

The feat can also be performed with JQuery at

http://danhounshell.com/blog/add-a-youtube-widget-to-any-web-site-with-jquery/ 

However, It may or may not fit in your site.

Here is a video About how to embed a YouTube Gadget in Your Site.

Now you know,

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Prevent yourself from automated lewd video postings on Facebook

Recently, Facebook users have encountered situations where, their friends receive certain lewd messages or an inappropriate video from them,which they did not send.

Certain users are also getting unaccounted wall posts in their pages, which is thought to be a form of hacking. Some of them even lost their pages as admins and lost their power to edit them.

One solution is to prevent indulging in apps or applications which might look suspicious or inappropriate.

Another and more effective solution is to turn on safe browsing on Facebook. This has to be done on user level only. Following are the steps to perform the task.

First go to account settings.

 

 Now click on security tab

 

Click on the edit link at the Safe Browsing option

 

Check the box and click on save changes

Now you will notice, you will surf the Facebook website in https (secure mode).

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Create a google plus page

It is always said, go with the tide. So, here comes your necessity to go with the current trends. first came Myspace then came facebook then foursquare and now its google plus. 

Just like everyone else, google plus also allows you to create a page, i.e. a personal space (Not for you but for your creation). This post will show you how.

1. > Go to Google pages, Click on Create Google Plus Page

 

2. > Pick out a category from the left and fill out the form.


3. > Add your page name, and website address in the website field and Click create

 

4. > Give a tagline, upload your photo.

 

5. > Click finish

 

6. > And its done ! You will be redirected to your newly created, Google plus page


Visit codemakit's google plus page at codemakit google plus.

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Update your blog posts to your facebook page

Bloggers often face this question. How to update your blog posts to your facebook page, automatically but free. Here comes RSS graffiti in the picture. Over 600,000 brands, online publishers, and individuals use RSS Graffiti to publish things like blog posts, news stories, images and videos to Facebook.

The setup for RSS graffiti is simple enough.

1. >  Go to RSS Graffiti page at http://apps.facebook.com/rssgraffiti

       or search for RSS Graffiti at the facebook search bar.

2. >  Allow for permissions (Suggest read it first)

3. >  Next add your feed url in the text box after clicking on the 'add feed button'

4. >  If you are not sure of your feed URL, better to click on the 'fetch and preview' button.

5. >  Once done, you'll see your blogs' content in the window.

 Also if you do not want to clog your page with your blog entries better to change the schedule first.

 

6. >  Satisfied with the way it looks, you can now move ahead and change its styles and filter settings.

and you're done.
Now posts will be shown from the given blog. finally It would look like this.

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Personify your Facebook page through Wix

With the advent of facebook pages, web designers have always been in the seach of a good technique to personify their pages on this highly acclaimed social networking site. You too can personify your pages and add nice little additions of your own.

The facebook app, wix your page claims 'The WixYourPage application enables users to create super-cool Facebook Pages with fully integrated Flash Wix websites. Make your Facebook page stand out by spicing it up with Wix.'

 First step is ofcourse having a facebook page ready with yourself as its admin.

For newbies -
Here is where you can create your facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

And Here is how you can do it.
http://mashable.com/2011/05/22/how-to-facebook-page

To start personifying your page you need to go to the WIX facebook app at
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=129982580378550

1.> click on go to app.

2.> click on the blue box at the top right corner of the page.

3.> You will be diverted to Wix website

4.> To create your page, you need to login/register.

5.> After the process click on create and you will be sent to a template page. Choose any nice template and click.

6.> Once clicked you'll be taken to the template (be sure to chose the free one else you'll be asked to upgrade to premium. Premium sites will be tempting but have a hold on you ), just click on edit at the top right corner.

7.>Next you'll be maneuvered to the editing site.

8.> You just have to click on text to edit.

9.> Inserting pics too is easy.

10.> Finally for advanced users you may also resort to flash content.

11.> After that just click on Publish.

 And you're done, the page will be added to your facebook page as a tab, with name My site.


Final product looks like this bellow (codemakit facebook page) at http://www.facebook.com/codemakit

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Foursquare, the Next Buzz..

There’s a reason Google is working at a rapid pace to bring location services to the forefront of many of its products (Maps, Search, Latitude, etc) — new potential business models.

This is because of a simple logic, you can link very well with people living closeby, than those, living far. And so foursquare came into being. 

Foursquare seems to be an unstoppable phenomenon. The growth of users is staggering. In 2010, 93 percent of people from the ages of 18 to 29 have mobile phones. Thirty nine percent of people use location sevices like GPS on their phones. Seventy three percent of people use a mobile application to check in to social networking services. As of July 2010 there are two million users on FourSquare. There are 5.8 million businesses and locations on FourSquare. And, in June 2010 17 people checked into FourSquare every second as per socialmediapathways.com. With FourSquare, users can rate a business they are visiting, for example, ‘the food is great here at Jain’s restaurant,’ and send out the message to all users in the network, sometimes thousands of people. The tips or reviews of the businesses pop up on other network users’ phones when they look up or are near the location of the business.  This is free publicity for your business, and if people like what you offer, it is the best kind of publicity – word of mouth.

The Inside of foursquare too is great.

Ranging from simple menu bars to blue boxes

 

  

Like all other social networking sites, It too is available on mobile.

 

And above all you can make lots and lots of friends.

 

Its business perspective will be touched later.

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