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September 18, 2011

The Facebook Subscribe Button: What Is It and How Do You Use It?

Last week, Facebook added a new "feature" that lets you subscribe to another Facebook user. It has a similar function to following people on Twitter or Google+ but, not surprisingly, it's a lot more confusing. Because Facebook already has a model for connecting people—it's called being friends with them.

So let's take a look at what this Subscribing stuff is all about...

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QuickTip: You Can Now Like Comments on Facebook

For a long time, you've been able to Like a status update or link or photo that your friends have posted. However, in a lot of cases, the comments that other friends made on the post were more interesting/funny than the original. Then you'd often see comments along the lines of, "I wish I could 'Like' your comment!" Well... now you can!

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Facebook Users: Your Face Is Now on the Washington Post Website

Facebook Users: Your Face Is Now on the Washington Post Website

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Thesis: Using the New Page Redirect Feature in Version 1.7

In my earlier post about new features in Thesis 1.7, I mentioned that I was having a problem with the new page redirect feature. I now have a solution to the problem, so I'm going to explain how the feature works and then what to do if you have the same problem.

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Not Liking All This Facebook Liking Stuff

Okay, I'll be the first to admit I wasn't a big fan of the term "fan page" to describe Facebook's pages for businesses and other branded entities. But at least the invitation to "Become a fan!" worked pretty well as a simple call to action. Now what are we page admins supposed to say? "Please [...]

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How To Stop Facebook’s Latest Attacks on Your Privacy

Yes, Facebook is at it again. Now they're making us have to opt out of sharing information with certain third-party websites. They call it "Instant Personalization." I call BS.

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Bug Alert: Facebook Lite Brings Up Blank Page

I don't know how many people use Facebook Lite, but since yesterday I've been getting a totally blank page when I go to it. It happens in all my browsers, but fortunately I've found a fix for it.

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Thesis Version 1.7 Now Available

Last week, DIYthemes released Thesis version 1.7, an upgrade that includes new options for search engine optimization (SEO), behind-the-scenes performance enhancements, some interface changes, and my favourite part--an Options Manager that lets you save the settings you make in the options panels to easily reuse them on other sites.

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Bug Alert: Removing Image from Who-Viewed-Profile Apps on Facebook

My previous post, Beware of "Who Viewed My Profile" Apps on Facebook, received, by far, the most traffic I've ever received in a single day on this blog. Unfortunately, there's a new problem associated with the original one.

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Beware of "Who Viewed My Profile" Apps on Facebook

There seems to have been a rash of incidents on Facebook over the last couple of days where people are getting notifications that they have viewed one of their friend's profiles or that one of their friends has viewed theirs--even when neither of these things has happened in recent memory.

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Is Facebook Allowing Multiple Accounts Now?

In a post last year about setting up a Facebook fan page, I said, "I should also point out that having two individual profiles is a violation of Facebook's Terms of Service as well." That no longer seems to be the case.

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First Thoughts on the Latest Facebook Redesign

I'd been reading various snippets about the latest redesign from my friends and on industry blogs but still wasn't really sure what to expect. So when I finally got it yesterday, my first thought was that it didn't seem too bad.

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One Year Later: NOW Are You a Twit if You Still Don’t Tweet?

One year ago today, I wrote my very first post about Twitter. At the time, I said that, despite the ever-building buzz, I had my doubts about how important it really was to be on it.

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