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Friday, January 13, 2012

Facebook Comments Box Now On Mobile, And Over 400,000 Web Sites

Over 400,000 sites currently use Facebook’s Comments Box social plugin the company tells me, and as of today they all support an optimized mobile commenting experience. Now you can criticize your least favorite bloggers — I mean participate in intelligent discussion while on the go. Just 10 months after the launch of the revamped plugin, Facebook is starting to creep up on commenting solutions like Disqus which appears on 1.1 million sites.
Comments Box has been a big win for Facebook, giving it exposure, driving use of its Subscribe feature, and demonstrating how Facebook authenticated identity can make the internet a more civil place.
Now when Comments Box detects a mobile device user agent, it will automatically show the mobile version. The new soft update to the Comments Box doesn’t require any developer interaction to enable, it just works.
Some sites using the old version of the plugin already supported mobile commenting. However, the buttons and entry fields looked too small and sometimes were unresponsive. The new version is the right size and makes it easy to comment, Like, and toggle posting to Facebook. You can try it out at m.techcrunch.com/2012/01/11/facebook-mobile-comments/
Facebook’s comment widget first launched in 2009 but became a serious contender with its March 2011 relaunch. Since then Facebook has been playing catchup to commenting systems like Disqus and Livefyre, as well the distant frontrunner WordPress. It’s been iterating rapidly, and giving publishers more incentives to integrate the plugin.

The inclusion of links to subscribe to a commenter’s public Facebook updates draws in blogs. That’s because these links help grow the following a blog’s writers who frequently comment, who in turn publish the blog’s articles to their Facebook subscribes. The one-click ability to publish a comment to Facebook alongside a link to the article can boost referral traffic better than other solutions.
Along with the Like button, Comments Box is leading Facebook’s march across the web. If sites find the plugin reduces trolling and improves conversation by making commenters log in with their real identity, they may become more open to using other Facebook widgets. One day that could include an ad network plugin which could turn into an enormous revenue stream for Facebook.

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FACEBOOK

Company: Facebook

Website: facebook.com

Launch Date: January 2, 2004

Funding: $2.34B

Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original idea for the term...

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Which countries really, really love Facebook? If you guessed the U.S., you would be somewhat right – this country ranks #7 on Pingdom’s new list of countries comparing the number of Facebook users as percentages of the population.
To be clear, we’re not talking about raw number of Facebook users. The U.S. is still #1 there. This is ranking countries by what percentage of the population (online and total) is on Facebook. Or, more simply put, it’s looking at how popular Facebook is in that country.
(The red bars show the number of Facebook users in each country as a percentage of Internet users, yellow bars as a percentage of the population.)
On the island of Cyprus, Pingdom found that 95% of the online population was on Facebook – that’s nearly everyone! And in Chile (#3), there were more Facebook user accounts than Internet users. That could be an anomaly in how the data Pingdom used was compiled, but it could also mean that people had multiple accounts (one for business, one for personal, e.g.).
In its findings, Pingdom also refuted a previous claim which stated that the Philippines was the top country on Facebook, when using similar rankings. Only 28.76% of the population there is on Facebook, says Pingdom, not 93.9%, as had been previously reported. (Note: The Philippine reference is referring to this data: “The Ten Nations Where Facebook Rules the Internet” via 24/7 Wall St.)
India and China, the latter which blocks Facebook, are the largest untapped markets for outside growth, with only 3.42% of India’s population on Facebook and a surprising 530,000 Chinese who have managed to establish accounts despite the country’s attempts to block it.
Facebook had once said that 70% of its growth comes from users outside the U.S. Pingdom says that’s more like 80%. There are now over 800 million Facebook users, out of the 7 billion+ people on Earth.
Since methodology is an important consideration, to generate these rankings (see chart below), Pingdom says it took SocialBaker’s data on how many Facebook users there are in countries around the world, data on Internet users from the World Bank, and population data from Wikipedia. It only looked at countries where the population was greater than 500,000.

First, if you want to get right down to it, here are the codes you type into Facebook chat to get various faces:

Poker face [[129627277060203]]
Forever Alone [[227644903931785]]
OK guy [[100002752520227]]
Me Gusta [[164413893600463]]
Lol guy [[189637151067601]]
Fuck Yeah [[105387672833401]]
Problem? [[171108522930776]]
[[218595638164996]]
[[100002727365206]]

Huzzah! We are truly living in an age of wonder!
Second, why does this work?
There are various ways to bring Facebook content into chats. For example, you use Facebook Pages like a little TC by typing [[techcrunch]]. The numbers above are actually the IDs for pages that someone, for some terrible reason, made featuring all of those rage faces (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Poker-Face/129627277060203, for example). There are more to be found here thanks to Reddit so I’ll leave further discovery as an exercise for the reader.
All I can say is I’m glad there’s an Internet because the long minutes between sips of whiskey on Christmas Eve, spent staring malevolently at the fire, fingering my ratty smoking jacket, drawing from an unlit cheroot that had gone out hours before, and plotting the destruction of my many enemies would be a lot darker without the MeGusta face keeping me going. Happy holidays!
via Reddit [upvote Sky_Prodigy]

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FACEBOOK

Company: Facebook

Website: facebook.com

Launch Date: January 2, 2004

Funding: $2.34B

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Facebook Opens Mobile News Feed As Viral Channel For Games

Once upon a time, Facebook game companies like Zynga fattened up their user counts thanks to viral distribution to non-gamers through the news feed. Facebook later curtailed this channel, forcing developers to concentrate on paid marketing and true word of mouth to grow. A new boom period could be coming, this time for mobile developers, as Facebook announced today that it is testing game stories in the mobile news feed. This could attract devs to its recently launched HTML5 mobile gaming platform with bait of reaching hundreds of millions of daily active Facebook mobile users.
Facebook learned a lot about balancing developer success with user experience during that first boom period, often called the wild west days. Game spam such as users asking all their friends to install and give them virtual good overran the news feed, making it a bore to non-gamers. Facebook will surely be monitoring the volume of mobile news feed game stories to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Rather than pepper the feed with individual stories, Facebook is using aggregated stories that read like “Rose Yao and 9 other people recently played games”. Below users see a few friends names and links to the games they played, and can tap to expand to see the whole list. Tapping a game will launch its HTML5 version, or that native app if already installed. The aggregated stories give users control, so those that want to discover something to play can, while those uninterested can breeze by.
Earned viral channels also democratize the Facebook platform, as they provide exposure to small developers without big marketing budgets. Facebook launched the HTML5 platform to make sure Apple and Google weren’t the only ones making money off mobile games. Developer adoption of the channel has been a bit sluggish so far, though. The opening of this viral channel could convince developers to experiment with Facebook mobile.

Facebook also made a few other announcements to the benefit of web Facebook game developers. Users will now see 6 bookmarks instead of 4 while playing games, which should boost retention and re-engagement. Home page bookmark notifications will now clear when clicked, making the arrival of new alerts more noticeable. The separate Games & Apps dashboards have been combined so users don’t have to check two places, and game categories have been refined so Facebook can more accurately feature high quality developers. Finally, the company launched a Games Tutorial to ease the path to developing games for its platform.

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FACEBOOK

Company: Facebook

Website: facebook.com

Launch Date: January 2, 2004

Funding: $2.34B

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We’re creatures of habit. We go where we’ve already gone. That’s why Facebook’s new Suggested Events feature I just discovered is so powerful — it knows where we’ve been thanks to our checkins. Replacing the old Friends’ Events sub-tab of the home page’s Events bookmark, Suggested Events helps you discover things to do that take place at venues you’ve checked in to, that friends are RSVP’d to, that are hosted by Pages you Like, or a combination. The feature could reduce the need third-party event discovery apps, and get more people out of their houses to attend concerts, club nights, and conferences.
[Update: Facebook tells me it is testing the feature, though it has now been rolled out to the entire user base. A spokesperson also says suggestions can be based on the music you listen to through Open Graph apps, which can help improve recommendations for those who checkin via Foursquare or don't share their location at all.]
By promoting offline interaction, Suggested Events should quiet critics who say Facebook weakens real human relationships and leads people to sit at home. It has huge potential to generate good will for Facebook and make the service seem even more indispensable. If you go to a great show, have a fun night out with friends, or meet someone new at a suggested venue, your perception of Facebook’s value to your life will undoubtedly improve.
Sure, you should branch out and find new places to go, but new events at your favorite places are still unique experiences. The feature exposes you to events that are relevant and that you might drag friends to, even if you weren’t invited to them and don’t have friends already RSVP’d.

“What should I do tonight?” is a very prevalent question lots of startups are trying to answer. Just this month we covered the launch of UpOut for real-time discovery, and SeatGeek’s Columbus that’s a “Pandora for live events”. Established players include Plancast and EventBrite, the latter of which closed a huge $50 million funding round and also suggests events your Facebook friends are going to.
But the problem with these services is that they can’t produce as relevant suggestions because they don’t automatically know where you spend your time, which is a proxy for what type of events you go to. Facebook’s Suggested Events adapts to your preferences.
I go to lots of concerts, and Facebook effectively knows this because I check in to the venues or the events themselves thanks to a mobile feature added last year (possibly to collect data for this). Now, Suggested Events recommends me concerts taking place at my favorite venues. The music industry stands to gain a lot from the feature, since concerts are thrown frequently, and occur at Places people commonly check in to.
If you’re in college, Suggested Events might recommend parties at campus dorms, whereas professionals might get clued in to meetups or conferences at local convention halls they visit. The feature also alerts you to Events hosted by Pages you Like, which could encourage more venues, performers, or production companies to officially host the events they throw. One day the feature might be able to show events where a band I Like was mentioned in the description.
With third-party apps you enter your preferences or upload them via Facebook Connect, but then also have to remember to visit. Facebook’s new native event discovery feature makes finding fun things to do a seamless part of every day browsing. That means more outings, more moments, more memories. And you know where you can display the photos, checkins, and status updates about those memories? Timeline.

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FACEBOOK

Company: Facebook

Website: facebook.com

Launch Date: January 2, 2004

Funding: $2.34B

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Playdom’s Gardens of Time took the #1 spot of Facebook’s Most Popular Games of 2011 list. But wait, Zynga’s CityVille was ranked #3 despite peaking at over 100 million monthly active users and 21 million daily active users — far more than Gardens of Time’s peaks of 17 million MAU and 4 million DAU, or its current stats according to AppData. That’s because Facebook’s list was mostly based on vaguely described “recommendations”, and hardly on active users.
It’s almost as if Facebook used its cloudy methodology to keep Zynga from completely dominating the list, as the Mark Pincus machine currently owns all 5 Facebook games with the most DAU and still ended up with 4 of the top 10 spots on Facebook’s list.
[Update 9:25pm PST 12/21/11: Facebook has integrated the feedback from this article and updated its Top Games post to more clearly explain what it means by 'Most Popular'. The methodology note now reads: "This list was compiled by looking at the top games on Facebook with more than 100,000 monthly active users and giving priority to those games with the highest user satisfaction scores. The result is a list of the games that received the most user recommendations in 2011." As long as it's transparent, we're happy to see Facebook finding more ways to feature high quality games, and not just those with the most users.]
Here’s an image of the list Facebook published and the note on its methodology:

A Facebook PR representative denied my theory. She told me that in the methodology, “the top recommended apps (from surveys presented to users in the canvas ticker where they can answer yes/no to, ‘would you recommend this to a friend’?”)…were ranked higher over highest monthly active user numbers. Another way to say it is that these apps were the highest rated among users.”
But why not just say in the post that this was based on ratings, not on active users? The list should have been labeled “Most satisfying games” or “Most recommended games”, not “Most popular games”. Missing the top spot probably won’t help Zynga’s stock, which IPO’d last week. Zynga and Facebook have partnered for years to help Zynga attain traffic goals. However, that relationship may be strained as the gaming company plans to serve games directly to users outside of the Facebook platform.
Facebook could have predicted that people would ask why the #3 game peaked at 80 million more monthly users than the #1 game. If CityVille had a 20% ‘Yes’ rating average and Gardens of Time had an 80% ‘Yes’ average, then fine, the rankings make sense. But if the ratings were even somewhat close, it seems a little fishy that CityVille didn’t take the #1 spot, and Facebook didn’t disclose the actual rating scores or even that they were the core of the methodology.

To really win big on the Facebook platform, you need a substantial marketing budget, existing games to cross-promote from, and sophisticated A/B testing technology. Zynga has all of these and most developers don’t. #1 Playdom and #2 EA (The Sims Social, with peak MAU of 66M MAU and 11M DAU) both do too. Still, Zynga taking the top spot would have really driven home the point that the Facebook gaming business is run by the big boys.
That’s a problem, because attracting the long tail of small and medium developers is essential to retaining gamers who are always looking for something new to play. Facebook went out of its way to feature smaller and non-Silicon Valley developers. It included categories such as Top up-and-comers (Battle Pirates by Kixeye) and most popular games with 50,000-100,000 users (Super Slot Machines). It also cited top sports app TopEleven as having a team of just 30 out of Serbia in an email to us, and noted other develpers from Germany, Japan, and Prague.
There’s nothing wrong with Facebook promoting developer diversity, but it needs to be up front about how this list was calculated. It’s in Facebook’s interest to avoid making it seem like the platform is winner-take-all or like it depends on Zynga. Through obscured methodology, Facebook didn’t have to highlight this by giving CityVille the top spot.
Update 9:23pm PST 12/21/11: Facebook has edited its Top Games post to integrate the feedback from this article. The more transparent explanation of the Most Popular list’s methodology now reads: “This list was compiled by looking at the top games on Facebook with more than 100,000 monthly active users and giving priority to those games with the highest user satisfaction scores. The result is a list of the games that received the most user recommendations in 2011.”

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Company: Zynga

Website: zynga.com

Funding: $860M

Zynga was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus and is named for his late American Bulldog, Zinga. Loyal and spirited, Zingaâ€™s name is a nod to a legendary African warrior queen. The early supporting founding team included Eric Schiermeyer, Michael Luxton, Justin Waldron, Kyle Stewart, Scott Dale, John Doerr, Steve Schoettler, Kevin Hagan, and Andrew Trader. Zynga’s mission is connecting the world through games. Everyday millions of people interact with their friends and express their unique personalities through our...

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In 2012, Facebook will be making 45 privacy-related changes to comply with the recommendations of an audit by Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) released today. Below I’ve compiled a roadmap of all the changes Facebook will implement based on the the 149 pages of DPC recommendations and how the social network says it will address them.
First, read my analysis of the audit’s findings from this morning. It explains why these changes won’t seriously interfere with Facebook’s business model or product development. That’s very good news for Facebook. Still, complying with the audit’s recommendations could prevent the company from building a huge stockpile of historical data for some unknown later use.
The changes mostly deal with how long Facebook retains data, and how people are educated about Facebook’s usage of that data. Some will require engineering work, such as irrevocably deleting user data within 40 days of an account deletion request. Others will simply see Facebook adding additional links or messaging within the product to improve transparency and user understanding.
Facebook avoided having to make some big changes that could have hurt its business, such as needing users to explicitly opt in to ad targeting based on their personal data. It also won’t have to discontinue its facial recognition feature, or requires users to opt into having their content used in Sponsored Stories ads.
Here are the 45 changes Facebook will implement and their due dates:
Privacy and Data Use Policy

Simplify the explanations of its Data Use Policy- End of Q1 2012
Add a mechanism for controlling personal data to the registration process – End of Q1 2012
Increase the size of links to the privacy policy and statement of rights in the registration process - End of February 2012
Add privacy policy, statement of rights, and Help Center links to the left side of the Facebook home page – End of February 2012

Advertising Use of User Data

Clarify how it employs user data in ad targeting to ensure full transparency – End of Q1 2012
Limit data collection from social plugins, restrict access to this data, and delete it on schedule, though social plugin data is not currently used in ad targeting – Immediately
Move option to opt out of having one’s content shown in social ads from the Account Settings to the Privacy Settings – End of Q1 2012
Prior to implementation, discuss any plans to provide individuals’ profile pictures and names to third parties for advertising purposes – Ongoing
Switch from retaining ad-click data indefinitely to a 2 year retention period – Review in July 2012

Access Requests

If identifiable personal data of users or non-users is held, it must be provided in response to an access request within 40 days - Beginning in January 2012
Provide easier access to this data via the profile, Activity Log, and Download Your Information tool – Beginning in January 2012

Retention of Data

Clarify to users how deleted data such as received friend requests and removed tags is retained – End of Q1 2012
Provide users with the ability to delete friend requests, pokes, tages, posts, and messages on a per item basis – Begin in Q1 2012, show progress by July 2012.
Change Groups invitations so user won’t appear as members until they’ve visited the Group and been given an easy way to leave – End of Q1 2012
Delete personal data once the purpose for which it was collected has ceased – Immediate, ongoing, review in July 2012
Delete all social plugin impression data with 90 days of a website visit
For non-users and logged out users, delete social plugin impression data within 10 days
Anonymize data about a user’s searches on Facebook with 6 months
Anonymize all ad click data after 2 years
Significantly shorten the retention period of log-in information
Educate users through the Data Use Policy about recording of login activity across browsers and devices – End of Q1 2012
Work with the DPC to identify an acceptable retention period of data from inactive or deactivated accounts – July 2012

Third-Party Apps

Roll out updated granular data permissions dialog box to all applications – End of February 2012, review in July 2012
Clarify that use of an app is visible to friends by default (Facebook has fixed this with the audience selector of its granular data permissions dialog box) – Review in July 2012
Educate users on the importance of reading app privacy policies, possibly increase size of links to report an app or view app its privacy policy in the data permissions dialog box – End of February 2012
Implement a tool that determines if links to app privacy policies are live. First, Facebook will asses the technical feasibility of such as tool – Review progress towards implementation in July 2012
Examine alternative privacy controls for allowing friends to provide one’s data to applications, as currently users must turn off apps entirely to prevent friends from giving apps their data – Report back to DPC in July 2012
Investigate technical solutions to reduce risk of abuse of authorization tokens via one app transferring a token to another – Immediate assessment, solution by end of Q1 2012
Expand mesaging to developers regarding policy prohibiting sharing of authorization tokens – End of January 2012
Refine automated tools that detect and prevent abuse of user data by developers – Progress review in July 2012

Disclosures to Third Parties

Improve system for disclosing data to law enforcement by requiring validation from a senior officer and a full explanation for why the data is needed – Commence in January 2012, review in July 2012

Facial Recognition / Tag Suggest

Notify users that Tag Suggest exists with a series of home page prompts and link to an explanation of how it works – First week of January 2012
Prior to implementation, discuss with DPC any plans to extend tag suggest to allow suggestions beyond confirmed friends – Ongoing

Security

Formally document security policies and procedures – Review in July 2012
Monitor employees to ensure user password resets aren’t used to gain unauthorized access to user data – End of January 2012
Implement a new access provisioning tool to allow for fine-grained, role-specific control of employee access to user data to ensure all access is authorized – Review in July 2012

Deletion of Accounts

Continue devoting engineering resources towards improving the system that irrevocably deletes user accounts and data within 40 days of receipt of a deletion request – Review in July 2012

Friend Finder

Provide education about and review alternatives for reducing risks inherent in transmitting contact information via plain text for use in the contact sync feature – End of Q1 2012
Add text explaining that deactivating the contact sync feature does not remove previously synced data – End of Q1 2012
Prevent Pages that have uploaded email addresses to send messages to European users or non-users via geoblocking of major EU domains and warn businesses using the feature about ePrivacy law – Geoblocking immediately, warnings by end of Q1 2012

Tagging

Review implications of DPC’s recommendation to allow users to prevent themselves from being tagged in photos or other content – In advance of July 2012

Posting On Other Profiles

Review implications of DPC’s recommendation that prior to posting, users be shown how broad the audience will be for a potential post on the wall of another user, and notify users if that wall’s owner changes that audience size – In advance of July 2012

Facebook Credits

Add information to the Data Use Policy regarding Facebook’s role as a data controller and that information about a user’s use of Credits is linked to their account, and launch a privacy policy dedicated to its payments systems in approximately 6 months – End of Q1 2012

Compliance Management / Governance

Develop documented procedures for direct marketing by Facebook employees and train employees to ensure data protection – Completed
Review European data protection laws and consult with the DPC when developing new products or uses to ensure compliance with data protection law

Additionally, the DPC’s audit made statements, indicating its satisfaction with how Facebook handles these potentially controversial issues:

Cookies are not used for profiling or ad targeting
Apps were found to not be able to access user data without consent
Disabling Tag Suggest deletes a user’s facial recognition profile
User data is available to employees on a need-to-know basis
There is no threat to user photos during upload to Akamai or during deletion
The site protects against large-scale data harvesting through screen-scraping
User contact info, including phone numbers and email addresses, is only stored and not used unless users choose to supply email addresses for use in the Friend Finder
When users give Friend Finder access to their third-party email accounts and other services, their passwords are held securely and destroyed
Facebook has provided sufficient justification of its policy of refusing pseudonymous accounts
Facebook provides sufficient ways to report abuse on the site

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FACEBOOK

Company: Facebook

Website: facebook.com

Launch Date: January 2, 2004

Funding: $2.34B

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What is Facebook?

Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. It is the largest of the networking sites, with the runner up being MySpace. It began as a college networking website and has expanded to include anyone and everyone.
Facebook was founded by 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and originally called thefacebook. It was quickly successful on campus and expanded beyond Harvard into other Ivy League schools. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg enlisted two other students, Duston Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, to assist. Within months, thefacebook became a nationwide college networking website.
Zuckerberg and Moskovitz left Harvard to run thefacebook full time shortly after taking the site national. In August of 2005, thefacebook was renamed Facebook, and the domain was purchased for a reported $200,000 US Dollars (USD). At that time, it was only available to schools, universities, organizations, and companies within English speaking countries, but has since expanded to include anyone.
Facebook users create a profile page that shows their friends and networks information about themselves. The choice to include a profile in a network means that everyone withing that network can view the profile. The profile typically includes the following: Information, Status, Friends, Friends in Other Networks, Photos, Notes, Groups, and The Wall.
Users are able to search for friends and acquaintances by e-mail address, school, university, or just by typing in a name or location for search. When people become friends, they are able to see all of each others' profiles including contact information. E-mail notifications let users know when new friends have chosen to add them to their list or when someone has sent a message to them within the system.
A popular feature on Facebook is the ability to share photographs uploaded from a phone, camera, or hard drive. As with other private information, users have the option to allow only friends to see their pictures or anyone. There is an unlimited amount of storage available, which is a major advantage of Facebook's photograph sharing capabilities.
Groups can be created by users. These can include anything from grade school connections to hobbies and interests. Groups can be public and available to everyone or private, meaning only those invited can join and view discussions. Similarly, the Events feature allows friends to organize parties, concerts, and other get togethers in the real world. Users can also become fans of everything such as people, organizations, television shows, movies, and musicians.
There are countless applications available to add to a profile. They range from a list of Top Friends to movie compatibility with others, and maps of where users have traveled. These applications are created by individuals outside of Facebook's employment who are known as Developers.
Users of Facebook can share news stories, video, and other files with friends. Most news and video websites have buttons that can be clicked to automatically share the story or video on a feed. The person sharing can make comments about the shared item that their friends will see.
Personal notes can also be written and shared with friends. When sharing an item, users can attach the item to their Wall for all to see, or can tag individual people that they think would be most interested in seeing the item. When a user is tagged, they receive an e-mail notification.
Facebook had a redesign in late 2008, intended to streamline the website and make it easier to see what friends were doing. It has seen outstanding growth since its inception and is poised to maintain its dominance in social networking. In early 2009, Facebook users worldwide were nearly double that of its older competitor MySpace.

How To Add Perfect Share Box to Blogger

In this tutorial, I am going to show how to add a useful share box for your blogger blog. This share box contains official Tweet button with counter, official Facebook share button with counter, official Google Buzz button with counter, official Stumbleupon button with counter, BlogThis! link, Email This! link, Print This! link, Comments count link and Facebook like button. I have configure all this button for Blogger blogs, so you can add this share box quickly to your blog.

Now follow the steps given below to add this share box for your blog.
1.Login to your blogger Dashboard and go to --> Design- -> Edit HTML
2.Click on "Expand Widget Templates"
3.Scroll down to where you see below code:
<div class='post-header-line-1'/> 4.Now Copy Share Box code given below and paste it just below the above code.
NOTE: If you can't find <div class='post-header-line-1'/> in your template, paste your "Twitter tweet button" code just before <data:post.body/> .

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<style type='text/css'>
.multisharebox {
 background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #EFEFEF;
 float: right;
 margin: 5px 0px 3px 10px;
 padding: 0 5px 0;
 text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #FFFFFF;
 width: 260px;
 border:4px solid #d8dfea;
}
.fb-like-boxtop {
 background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #EDEFF4;
 border: 1px solid #D8DFEA;
 color: #000000;
 float: right;
 font-size: 11px;
 margin: 0 0;
 padding: 5px 10px;
 text-align: left;
 width: 230px;
}
.fb-like-boxtop a {
 color: #000000;
 text-decoration:none;
}
.fb-like-boxtop a:hover {
 color: #000000;
 text-decoration:underline;
}
.fb-like-box {
 background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #EDEFF4;
 border: 1px solid #D8DFEA;
 color: #000000;
 float: right;
 font-size: 11px;
 height: 60px;
 margin: 5px 0;
 overflow: hidden;
 padding: 5px 10px;
 text-align: left;
 width: 230px;
}
</style>

<!-- Perfect Share Box : Created by www.bloggertipandtrick.net  -->
<div class='multisharebox'>
<table><tr>
<td><table><tr>
<td><a class='twitter-share-button' data-count='vertical' data-lang='en' data-related='' data-via='' expr:data-text='data:post.title' expr:data-url='data:post.url' href='http://twitter.com/share' rel='nofollow'/>
<b:if cond='data:post.isFirstPost'>
<script src='http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js' type='text/javascript'>
</script>
</b:if></td>
<td><script expr:src='&quot;http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5&amp;r=&quot; + data:post.url'/></td>
<td><a class='google-buzz-button' data-button-style='normal-count' data-locale='en_IN' expr:data-url='data:post.url' href='http://www.google.com/buzz/post' rel='nofollow' title='Post on Google Buzz'/>
<script src='http://www.google.com/buzz/api/button.js' type='text/javascript'/></td>
<td><a expr:share_url='data:post.url' name='fb_share' rel='nofollow' type='box_count'/>
<script src='http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share' type='text/javascript'/></td>
</tr></table></td>
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<td><div class='fb-like-boxtop'><a expr:href='data:post.sharePostUrl + &quot;&amp;target=blog&quot;' expr:onclick='&quot;window.open(this.href, \&quot;_blank\&quot;, \&quot;height=270,width=475\&quot;); return false;&quot;' expr:title='data:top.blogThisMsg' target='_blank'>BlogThis!</a> | <a expr:href='data:post.sharePostUrl + &quot;&amp;target=email&quot;' expr:title='data:top.emailThisMsg' target='_blank'>Email This!</a> | <a href='javascript:window.print();'>Print This!</a> | <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'><a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 0'>No comments</b:if><b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>1 comment</b:if><b:if cond='data:post.numComments &gt;= 2'><data:post.numComments/> comments</b:if></a></b:if></div></td>
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Do you like this post?
<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=230&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:230px; height:40px;'/>
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Note : This share box now will add to your Blogger post pages only. If you want to show it in every pages, then simply remove green lines from the code.
5. Save your template and you are done.

How To Add Facebook Like/Recommend Button For Blogger

This tutorial will explains how to add facebook like/Recommend button to your blogger blog and how configure it as you like.To add this facebook like button to your blog follow steps given below.

The Like button enables users to make connections to your pages and share content back to their friends on Facebook with one click. Since the content is hosted by Facebook, the button can display personalized content whether or not the user has logged into your site. For logged-in Facebook users, the button is personalized to highlight friends who have also liked the page.

1.Login to your blogger dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML
2.Click on "Expand Widget Templates"
3.Scroll down to where you see below code:

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

4.Now Copy your "StumbleUpon" bookmarking buttons code and paste it just below the above code.
NOTE: If you can't find <div class='post-header-line-1'/> in your template, paste your "StumbleUpon" bookmarking buttons code just before <data:post.body/> .

<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/>

You can customize above facebook like button changing its values:
You can change,
layout=standard to layout=button_count .
show_faces=false to show_faces=true.
action=like to action=recommend.
font=arial to font=lucida+grande or font=segoe+ui or font=tahoma or font=trebuchet+ms or font=verdana.
colorscheme=light to colorscheme=dark.
5.Now save your template and you are done.

How To Import Blogger blog to Networked Blog in Facebook

This tutorial explains that how to create a facebook networked blog using your blogger blog.After creating this you can invite your readers to follow your blog directly or adding the NetworkedBlogs widget.I give the explanation step by step how do this.Follow the steps below to create your facebook Networked Blog.
1.First login to your facebook account.
2.Now go to below address.
http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/index.php
3.You can see a screen like this:

Click on "Allow".
4.In next window,click on "Yes,share my email" (If you like).

5.Now go to below address.
http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/editblog.php
Now you can add your blog from here to Networked Blog.

6.Fill your blog details and click on "Next".

7.Now Give your blog Feed URL and click on "Next".

8.Now you have to verify the ownership of your blog.Click on "Yes".

9.In next window click on "Use our widget to verify ownership".

10.Now add their widget code to your site.You can remove the code from your site,after verification.

11.After adding code,click on "Verify Widget".
12.You can see a message like below.Click on "Next".

13.Now you have successfully added your blog to the Networked Blog.Look at the picture below.

14.From the Blog Feed section click on "Pull Now".

15.After that refresh your page.

16.Now you can see your latest blog posts in Networked Blog.

17.Click on "Feed Setting".

18.Check the box "Auto-publish to personal profile".

19.Click on "Allow Publishing".

20.Click on "Allow".

21.Click on "Publish a Test Post".

22.Click on "Back to blog page".

23.You are done.Now your latest blog post automatically published in your networked blog and also your fackbook profile wall.

Invite your readers to follow your blog

How To Setup/Create Facebook Fan Page For Blogger

In this article I hope to explain how to create a facebook fan page for your blog,and after that how to setup it to publish your blog post/articles.After you doing this, your facebook friends can read your blog post from your facebook fan page and can become fans of your blog.This is very helpful to become your blog more popular.To do this follow the steps below.
1.First login to your Facebook Account.
2.Now go to this link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
3.You can see a screen like below.Fill the information and click on "Create Page".