All posts tagged facebook

Twitterbook v2

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Twitterbook has been updated! Download the new script and use it to update your Twitter account with your Facebook status.

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Face Off Extension for Firefox

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I find Facebook to be a very useful tool for networking and keeping up with what my friends and acquaintances are doing. However, with the proliferation of optional add-ons for profile pages, I sometimes miss the simpler and more focused Facebook of a few months ago.

To make the site easier to work with, I wrote a little add-on for my favourite browser. The Face Off Extension for Firefox let’s you turn off 3rd party Facebook applications.

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CSS Facelift for Facebook - Part 1

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

UPDATE: These techniques will no longer allow you to customize your Facebook profile.


Facebook now has over 24 million active users keeping in touch with friends and colleagues. Some people are predicting that it will become the de-facto social networking tool for the web. It’s certainly a very useful service, but as I spent more time with Facebook looking at all those identically designed profile pages I started to miss the individuality that accompanied personal websites and blogs.

Let’s look at how you can take a Faceook profile and using a bit of CSS and the new Facebook Markup Language, create something a bit more personalized. In Part 1 we’ll look at how to start adding your own xHTML and CSS.

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Twitterbook: Update Twitter using Facebook Status

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

How to use Twitterbook to get the status from your Facebook account to update your Twitter.com status as well.

Twitter is the South by Southwest award winning social networking service that allows members to keep each other updated on what they are currently doing or thinking.

Facebook, another social networking service, was originally developed for college and university students but has been opened to anyone with an email address. Now with over 17 million accounts, Facebook allows users to keep a list of friends, blog, share photos—and post their current status.

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