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How to Import Blog Feed to Facebook Pages

Ridhuan — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:42:27 +0000

Importing blog feeds to Facebook Pages saves you the effort of exporting or sharing your blog post on Facebook. Every time you update your blog, the article will automatically available in your Facebook page as a note. However not every content of your blog post will be displayed such as advertising banners, Flash files (swf/flv), or any video formats.

I present here a simple tutorial on how to import your blog rss feed automatically when you update your blog.

1. Go to your Facebook Page and click on the Edit Page link right below your page profile picture.

Edit Page link to the Admin page

2. In the Admin Page, edit setting for Notes.

Edit Notes settings

3. Next you’ll come to a page containing all previous notes for the page. On the right corner will be a link for you to import a blog.

Importing a blog

4. After a click on the Import a blog link you’ll be redirected to a page where you can enter your blog address. Fill in the address of the blog you want to import and click on the Start Importing button.

Entering website/blog URL

The process is completed and your Facebook page will automatically display articles from the blog you had imported every time you have and update.

How to Customize Your Facebook Fan Page URL

Ridhuan — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:49:07 +0000

As standard a Facebook fan page URL will look like http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fan-Page-Name/00000XXXX88888 which is long and not suitable for you to use it on your name card, banner, or other method of offline promotion. The long URL can be shortened to a URL of your choice depending on availability and I will show you how to do it.

Log in to your Facebook account and after you have logged in, type facebook.com/username in your browser’s address bar. You will be directed to the page to customize the URL.
The page will automatically show your Facebook profile URL (your username) and the link for you to customize your fan page URL.
After you click on the Set a username for your Pages a drop down menu will appear showing all your fan pages.
Select one of your fan pages and a box (Enter desired username) will appear next to the page name. *Note that this option will only available if your fan page has more than 25 fans.
Enter your desired username for the page and check the availability. This action can be done only once so choose your username (URL) very carefully.
When everything is done your page URL should look like this: facebook.com/yoururl.

Facebook Username Page

Custom URL setting

Hope this is helpful.

Now Everybody Can View Private Pictures in Friendster

Ridhuan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:57:59 +0000

Guess what? Friendster had published a new feature where everybody can view your private pictures. This might be a bug of the new feature of Friendster that allow your updates to be shared among all your friends. I haven’t checked yet if there is a setting for this “bug” to turn it on and off. Actually you still need permission to open and view the private pictures of somebody but when your friend left a comment on somebody’s private pictures, you’ll also receive the update. You can read your friend’s comment about the picture and also view the thumbnail of the private picture. The bad thing is people are using comment to send message and some of the messages were intended to be private. I noticed this when one of my friend wrote a “private comment” for a private picture of his girlfriend. Now I believe all other friends of his had read that “private comment” that was really should be private. Not only that, maybe all of his friends had also viewed the private picture of his girlfriend. What a bad luck.

Friendster

Friendster might be in a rush to gain back it’s popularity that had degraded since the end of 2008. If I’m not mistaken, in December 2008, the Alexa traffic rank for Friendster was 44 but currently the traffic rank is 47. Challenges by social networks and phishing problems was some of the factors that affect it’s popularity. The latest upgrade to it’s features is by allowing users activities to be shared among friends just like what you see in Facebook. The sharing feature in Facebook is accepted widely by users since it is the standard privacy setting since the arise of it’s popularity. There is also options for Facebook users to adjust the setting to be more private and only let some specific user groups to receive their updates. Friendster might had missed something during the rush to launch something that was hoped to increase it’s popularity but if this “bug” problem is not solved, the new feature will actually decrease it’s popularity.