Piratebay’s All Links Blocked By Facebook

In last month, ThePirateBay — the largest torrent based websites which enabled a great functionality which will help to connect with millions of facebook users but two weeks later, Facebook.com - the world’s largest social networking site just blocked all piratebay’s torrents links from facebook. When you’re trying to share any links of piratebay’s you will get a warning which says, “warning: this message contains blocked content” - frustrating sounds for piratebay.

According to Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt, “Given the controversy surrounding The Pirate Bay and the pending lawsuit against them, we’ve reached out to The Pirate Bay and asked them to remove the ‘Share on Facebook’ links from their site. The Pirate Bay has not responded and so we have blocked their torrents from being shared on Facebook.”

After having blocked still thepiratebay.se accepted and lots of discussions going on torrentfreak. The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak that this is plain censorship and said he will try to come up with a workaround so people can continue to share. “I’ll fix it later today so it will have a link to a redirect site or something,” he said. But, how is it possible for them? It’s still not clear and should be visible in future.

36 Productive Facebook Applications

Lots of productive things available in web but inside facebook you will get thousands of productive applications which brings the same features in different platform. When you need to use twitter, you shouldn’t leave the facebook — you can use twitter’s all features from facebook and as well as other applications doing the same things. Even when you’re taking backup you can do it from facebook.

Given below a random lists are available, let’s see…

1. FriendFeed: FriendFeed brings open and friendly ways to track your friends activities to somewhere else.
2. Professional Profile: To making business networks or inside facebook you can try professional profiles applications.
3. Zoho: Zoho which brings easily ways to create, edit documents, spreadsheets and so on without leaving facebook networks.
4. SplashCast: Inside Facebook, you can use SplashCast applications to share multimedia.
5. Books iRead: What books have you been read? why don’t share with other friends and find out what other people reading.
6. Divshare: Faster and free file sharing websites which is shareable and usable from facebook.
7. Box Files: Box.net which giving one giga byte free space and they have paid version too. You can get access from Facebook dot com.
8. Last.fm: Easy to share music by using Last.fm stations from your facebook.
9. Ma.gnolia: Share or bookmark web pages by using Ma.gnolia social bookmarketing websites.
10. Notecentric: Meet with your classmates by using Note-centric and share your notes too.
11. Webinaria Screen cast Recorder: You’ll be able to record and share video using this app.
12. Documents: Easy to share, create, make it collaborative and editable by document facebook apps.
13. Visual Bookshelf: Make a catalog of your favorite books by using visual bookshelf.
14. SlideShare: Get the taste or slideshare features inside facebook. If you have some fantastic slideshare why don’t you share with others?
15. Picnik: Edit your photos in facebook by using Picnik.This application will let you edit photos within Facebook.
16. Picasa: Google’s service and competitor of flickr which brings easy to upload, re-size and shareable features in facebook.com
17. MyRSS: You can start to share your RSS feed and read your favorite websites inside facebook.
18. Translations: Using this applications you can translate, review, and vote onto others.
19. DoResearch4me: To make any research you may try this applications which is easy to find information from facebook applications.
20. Dictionary - Word of the Day: By using this dictionary facebook applications, you can learn a new words every day and it’s easier and memorable too.
21. Zen Habits: Get the Zen Habits app on Facebook, and you can share posts from the blog on your profile.
22. Wikiseek Search: Without leaving facebook you can find or search on wikipedia and get results through facebook.
23. Goodreads: Goodreads influencing to organize readings, discuss literature and so on by using this Good reads facebook applications.
24. Google Reader: Why don’t you share with your friends and faimliy? What you’re reading everyday by using Google reader apps and now you will get access from facebook. Show your shared items on your facebook friends.
25. 30 Boxes: You’re fan of 30 Boxes then why don’t your updates the calender on facebook.com.
26. MyLists: Easy to create list by using MyList applications from facebook
27. BookTag: Tag system brings to make you life easier and you can tag loan books out and keep track easily.
28. kwiry: If you forget something in short time, you may try kwiry which will help you inside facebook.
29. To-Do List: To-Do-List brings faster experiences and keep up-to date by using to-do-list inside facebook and whatever it’s working great to increasing productivity.
30. Books: What books have you been read? Easy to track those books, current reading books, lists, books rating system and much more things.
31. GCal: GCal brings Google Calender applications where you can input your events dates and you can do everything from facebook.
32. Notely: Whats to organize your calender, assignments, notes and more — try Notely that makes your life faster and easier to input everything with the use of this facebook applications.
33. Upcoming.org: By using upcoming events you can stay up to date about the coming events — no ways to miss it.
34. Twitter: Twitter and facebook integration brings better experiences — without using facebook you can change your status and directly you can do the same things inside facebook.
35. Digg: Easy to share your web contents and tell the whole worlds by using Digg applications from facebook and also read most recent fiv popular shares list.
36. del.icio.us: Share and view your bookmarks on del.icio.us on Facebook as well by using this application.

If you have any productive applications, let us know by comments.

Twitter Connect Brings Social Connect Like As Facebook, Google

Thursday, Twitter API Wiki which published a “Sign in with twitter” features — which is actually opening a great ways of integration with third parties websites. In before we have seen Google has “Friend Connect“, Facebook has “Facebook Connect” which is still working in different websites. Without signing to others networks, you can use to sign-in actions to other websites by using Facebook Connect and even without giving any confidential information to third party. Just twitter doing that same things and anyone can integrate that features to their websites.

Millions of user already using Facebook Connect and now Twitter Connect and if you enable this features — the same thing will happen for you. You don’t need to signup nor signin with different identity. You can use your twitter account’s identity and enjoy the full features and website’s surfing opportunity.

Twitter touts its integration of OAuth, the open standard for secure authentication, but most end users don’t care about that. What they would care about though is having the ability to sign in to a service with their Twitter names and interact with the micro-messaging platform to say, easily tweet out whatever it is you are doing. If you’re reading an article, you could tweet out the article with one click without leaving the page. If you’re playing a game, you could tweet that out from within the game - Mg Siegler says.

Facebook Connect mainly leveraging with different platforms by making this connections and though they are not affiliated with third parties. Hamer Lahav who have informed that Sign in with Twitter — “it is open done right” and Twitpic already integrated this features to their websites and he explains ” Twitter applications such as TwitPic use Twitter’s API as a delegated authentication provider. The way this works is that they ask users for their Twitter username and password, and then use these credentials to make an authenticated API call. If the call is successful, they know the user is really who they claim to be and let them use the service . Marshall Kirkpatrick who named calling card and as well myspace on the battle, Google’s friend connect too and right now twitter also landing on the social connecting battle and we know twitter archived double unique visitors which was around 93 millions in march, so it’s moving so faster for better connections.

Facebook Will Share Details About Facebook Verified Apps

Around five months ago facebook has launched an applications verifications program which will increase the user’s trust on the applications. In before, facebook informing about any facebook applications which only shows that “this application was not developed by facebook”. Nowadays, they are showing verification badge — this verification information will be visible in the parts of “about this applications”. Several developers already have informed that, facebook responding slowly and taking more time which wasn’t in past and lost of people complained about this matter by forum.

A developer David Stillwell posted on facebook developer forums, and facebook said,”We want to thank you for your patience as we get closer to launching The Verification Program. Regarding timeline, we expect to announce the first set of verified applications within the next couple of weeks. This announcement will be coupled with the benefits, which include badging and special highlighting in the Application Directory, and bucket boosts for requests and notification allocations.We apologize for the delay. We will be back in touch with more details before we launch the program.”

As well the facebook platform team responded about the long time verification programs that, “We apologize for the delays, but we are working to really make this a release that Verification members and Platform users will appreciate and find useful. We appreciate your concerns and questions, and hopefully once everything is launched, you’ll feel it’s been worth it. Platform went through some changes through the course of getting this program out, so a lot of questions arose that weren’t easy to answer and that we’ve wanted to take the time to get right.”

This is no fully official information though Facebook Platform Program Manager Sandra Liu Huang said “when the program launched that the benefits would include higher viral channel allocation limits for notifications, requests, and emails (though Huang says “the application reputation system is still in effect”) and a “seal of approval” indicating that the application is verified.”. Maybe shortly they will inform us officially and we will let you by updating our site.

Qik Apps: Share Mobile Video To Facebook

Qik an live-streaming video sharing websites and which integrated with facebook connect and right now you can upload your video to facebook by using Qik. But, inside facebook you may not able to see the streaming. Only Qik members can automatically upload their video to facebook and setup their status messages to link to the video on Qik - when they are on live-streaming and the updates will be visible in their news feeds.

Windows mobile smartphone can easily handle and upload Qik videos to facebook and it’s the first mobile applications which allowing automatic uploads to facebook through the social networking applications integration. As we know, Live streaming which is like location based mobile networking and day by day it’s going to be more popular platform.

Facebook Suffers it's First App Problem

CNet is reporting that Facebook has banned the "Top Friends" by Slide because it violated the app agreement. The installed application would apparently bypass information a user set to private. CNet found the error and reported it to Facebook. The Social Media giant then suspended the app from running on the site.

There have been a couple other applications that have had security issues, like Super Wall and SuperPoke. Both issues were resolved quickly. I am guessing the Slide apps could not be.

MySpace also has Slide applications on their site. CNet contacted them and they are looking into the matter.

It really is a "Too many Chefs in the Kitchen" scenario here. All it takes is either one mistake of code, or someone like Facebook to make updates that could change the way an application works with the site. Not sure what the case was with Slide. Maybe it's a bigger fix than just plugging a hole, maybe the company was using your information in the wrong way.

I have a Facebook profile (add me as a friend), and I did have this application. My profile is open to all so I didn't notice the problem. I have some other applications on there, too (Feel free to send me a hug or a plant) and new apps appearing daily from friends. I have even went to the extreme as to not accept new applications. It not only clutters up the page but you also don't know what could become a security hole.

Bottom line - a site like this invites error because so many can contribute. Limit the applications and watch those apps you decide to install. Importantly, just because an app looks safe now doesn't mean in 3 months wont have a gaping security hole to it. One small "fix" to the app or to Facebook or MySpace can change all that.

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Google goes out of its way to make Facebook roadblock obvious

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Facing pressure from Facebook, MySpace regroups

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Facebook releases its open source platform

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Facebook's privacy policies investigated in Canada

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A Facebook spokesperson this afternoon confirmed rumors circulating all day long that the social networking site will turn its year-old developers' platform into an open source project.

Following on the heels of an announcement last week that Facebook is opening a new developers' sandbox, rumors of the impending open source initiative were first published late last night by blogger Michael Arrington in TechCrunch.

In response to an inquiry from BetaNews, a Facebook spokesperson sent a written response by e-mail late this afternoon.

"We're working on an open source initiative that is meant to help
application developers better understand Facebook Platform and more
easily build applications, whether it's by running their own test
servers, building tools, or optimizing their applications," according to the Facebook spokesperson.

"As Facebook Platform continues to mature, open-sourcing the infrastructure behind it is a natural step so developers can build richer social applications and share what they've learned with the ecosystem. Additional details will
be released soon."

Ri Pierce-Grove, an analyst at DataMonitor, told BetaNews this afternoon that Facebook's newly revealed plans for an open source initiative "represent Facebook's realization that its strength is in its development community as much as in its code."

The Facebook spokesperson didn't comment, though, on another question posed by BetaNews, about the relationship between Facebook's open source initiative and the sandbox announced last week as a way to familiarize developers with a new user profile design for the Facebook Platform -- now in progress for months, and delayed once already last month.

Meanwhile, also last week, Google unveiled a new OpenSocial API sandbox for guiding developers through the process of building and distributing interactive gadgets.

"The major social networks are competing for the attention of the developer community, as the moves by Facebook and Google clearly show," Pierce-Grove told BetaNews today.

Although Facebook has kept publicly silent about the open source initiative until today, the social network has been much more forthcoming about its plans for a new user profile for the Facebook Platform.

In a blog on the Facebook site, Facebook's Pete Bratach has been telling developers that the new profiles are now scheduled to launch in June.

In video provided to journalists today from a small "outdoor press event" last week, Facebook's Mark Slee said that the new user profiles are aimed at providing new "integration points" for third-party application developers, while also giving better profile control and ease of use to social networks. Developers will be able to create "custom tabs" for the tab-based UI, for example, he said.

But the Facebook developers made no specific mention -- in the video provided from last week's event -- of open sourcing.

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