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The power of Facebook – Why Can’t I get a Feed of Facebook News in Google Reader??

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I convinced myself maybe a year or so ago that Facebook was getting old (it really is… even my grandma is on Facebook). So… naturally, my use of the website has dwindled quite significantly. Every now and then, though, when I do log in, I see something that catches my attention. Today, I found out [...]

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Facebook Inbox Search

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Facebook just announced that it will be adding an inbox search. This is similar to what all other email systems currently have (i.e. gmail, hotmail, yahoo)… I know I’ve really been wanting this for a long time and so I’m glad they’re adding it. So now you can search your Facebook inbox for that message [...]

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What is Twittering?

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A bunch of people have been asking me why my facebook status always says “Aydin is twittering:…”
Well, the reason is quite simple. I use a great tool called Twitter. I also installed the Twitter Facebook Application. With the facebook application, everytime I update my twitter status, my facebook status gets updated to and is prefixed [...]

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Facebook in 20 years

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I’m a big Facebook fan but in the last little while I have been wondering about what Facebook will look like in the future… Just thinking about the advantages of having Facebook (especially with all the new privacy features) for government agencies seems like a godsend. I mean, if you think about it, people “without [...]

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Facebook, please implement this!

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In one word, wow!
I’d love to see Facebook implement something like this for viewing its photo albums:
http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/highslidedemo/
Aydin.

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Facebook will soon have IM

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That’s right… according to a TechCrunch Story, Facebook is adding its own instant messaging…
Is this brilliant? Yes. It will be a threat to all the other IM services out there.
What’s my concern?
Please let there be privacy options
Aydin.

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Unlimited Data Plan with Telus

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After hearing all of the ads on the radio from Telus, I called them to see what all the commotion was about and ended up upgrading my plan… yes, yes, I know, again
So, what did I get?
$30/month Calling Plan:
150 daytime minutes + unlimited incoming calls + unlimited nights& weekends.
150 minutes is really [...]

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My Dad gets an iPhone before I do

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So, the other day, my dad sends me a text message saying that he got an iPhone… wtf?
a) text message?
b) iPhone?
Alright, so, what’s wrong with this picture? I don’t even have an iPhone -not available in Canada &  Telus [CDMA] has me locked in for 3 years- and now my dad [living in New York] [...]

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Happy Birthday to me from Facebook…

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My birthday (Feb 2nd – Groundhogs day!) just passed… what was special about this birthday was Facebook…
I got something around 30 Happy Birthday wishes from (yes, yes, I know that’s not even a significant number on Facebook these days…) a list of ~480 friends (in other words, 6.25% of my listed Facebook friends)… interesting ratio… [...]

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How Facebook Can Double its Numbers :-)

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Remember the race to register all the domain names in the world? Remember how registering www.your_name.com was a big deal (still is) and lots of people did so in order to prevent so-called “identity theft”? Well, here is a very sneaky marketing tactic that Facebook could use to help accelerate its growth…
Facebook could basically start [...]

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