Social-Networking

Twitter clients in Linux

Twitter has become a part of daily life. Since twitter allows only 140 characters of a status update, its like an SMS being sent to all of your friends to tell them what you're doing now. This can be done using many ways on your cell phone, laptop and desktop. Tweeting is fun and you can find new stuff easily just by following people and lists. So here, I'm listing some twitter clients for Linux users who often give up after not being able to find a good twitter client and revert to using some browser addon like Echofon which sucks.

Chat on Facebook using a client

Hi,

If you're a facebook user and chat a lot with Facebook friends, then you must be in search of a desktop client for use with Facebook chat, right ?

So in this HOWTO, I cover how to use Pidgin for Facebook chat WITHOUT any extra installation of plugins, etc.

This tutorial enables you to connect to Facebook chat using Jabber or XMPP protocol !

Tweeting through pidgin !

I was looking for some offline blogging client in Arch Linux's repos+AUR (I use Arch Linux). Though haven't installed anything, but I found something very special.

A LibPurple microblogging plugin !

Microblogging is done on sites like twitter, identi.ca (one more is there, but I don't remember what it is).

Facebook lite to normal settings

Get to the bottom of the screen, at the bottom of the page you'll have a feedback option.

In the feedback option, you can write a feedback to facebook, recommend facebook lite to other friends of yours already on facebook or switch back.

 

To switch back to the old settings-

Above feedback text box, you have an option to switch back to the old settings.

Hit on that and you are back with the old facebook interface people love

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FeedDemon and NetNewsWire now support Google Reader !

Hi there !

It seems like people using Newsgator's FeedDemon and NetNewsWire have a good news for them.

Facebook users say yes to changes

Facebook users have voted to back changes which give them control over data and content they post on the site.

Facebook User Link

 "Spread the word, I am in Facebook"

Facebook, perhaps the most popular social network in the world having over 200million users offers something called "badges"

Facebook to sell users' data

In abid to create revenue from facebook's 15 million members, the founder of the popular networking site has created one of the world's largest market research database.

How to Apply "Invisible" or "Appear Offline" Mode in Facebook Chat Application?

Updated: Feb 21st 2009.

Although Facebook is popular for its chat application it has one drawback.-We cannot apply Appear Offline Mode in It. However by following this simple trick we can carry out this task.

1.Browse to  http://www.meebo.com/

2. Select the Facebook Icon and then Click on Connect to Facebook.

3.Enter your email addess and password for your Facebook account and select Connect.

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