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Playing with Google Buzz

deerawan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:19:53 +0000

If you use Gmail, you must notice that there is a new product from Google called Google Buzz. It was created in order to compete with other social networking site like Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo Meme. In Google Buzz, you can share updates, photos and even videos. Google Buzz is available inside Gmail, at buzz.google.com, on Google Profile pages and on mobile devices.

Like Twitter and Yahoo Meme, you can follow and be followed by your friends. You can only follow your friends that already have Gmail account. For your info, Google integrates Buzz in Gmail in purpose to create a big social network between Gmail users and also to enhance Gmail features so user can easily read email and do social networking activities at once. Another interesting feature is you can import stuff from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.

Google Buzz Inside Gmail

Using Google Buzz is so easy. In Gmail, you can access Buzz by clicking Buzz under Inbox. Google really give attention to the simplicity and user friendly interface of Google Buzz. I’m sure that you will not be hard to use it. If you don’t have your profile picture set yet, you will be directed to Google Profile to upload your photo. Here is the awesome video about Google Buzz features

Download Free Icons From Icojoy

deerawan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:43:56 +0000

IcoJoy.com is an online shop where you can purchase and download high quality royalty-free stock icons which can be used in a wide range of projects such as platform based applications, cell phones, websites and web 2.0 applications. But Icojoy has given us some their free icons to use. Lot of free icons available such as twitter, web development, rss, windows vista and many more.

Icojoy Free Icon Sets

You can easily download and use theme and there is no limitations. These free icons available in their blog. Grab them! ^_^

Yahoo Meme, A New Microblogging Website

deerawan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:06:17 +0000

Yahoo! has announced a new microblogging website called Yahoo Meme. It can be considered as a Twitter clone but with more features such as image, video and audio sharing. Yahoo Meme is still closed for registration but you can leave your email there to get the account. However, I’m still in registration process and still not be approved. I’ll review another features if I successfully be registered.

Anyway, here is the screenshot of Yahoo Meme main page……

Yahoo Meme

Check Your Popularity with Grader

deerawan — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:08:27 +0000

Grader.com is really interesting website because you can check your Twitter, Facebook or blog popularity at here. They provide you by interesting information related your popularity. The steps are really simple for checking those all popularity. Let see what I tried at Grader.com

1. Facebook Popularity

You can directly log in to facebook at Grader so you don’t need to go to facebook first. After that, you can check your facebook popularity and grader will give you some information such as how many friends, how many groups you join, how many wall post, etc. Grade will calculate the overall score of your popularity. Mine is 70. Not bad

Facebook Grader

2. Twitter Popularity

The step is really simple, you just need to fill your twitter username there. Grade will give you related with your twitter popularity such as how many followers, how many following, etc. The overall score of my twitter is 55. Hehe, I joined twitter about month ago. :p

Twitter Grader

3. Blog Popularity

Yup, you can also check your blog popularity. Some informations will be informed such as rank, traffic rank, inbound links, alexa ranking, google pagerank, etc. What is my grade? It is 30. Not happy with it but I’m always trying to be happy.

Blog Grader

Blog Grader - 2

Create Application Shortcut with Google Chrome

deerawan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:23:34 +0000

This is such a cool feature from Chrome. If you are addicted to a website such as Facebook or Twitter, you can create a shortcut to allow you directly access your favorite website. This shortcut can be placed on Desktop, Start Menu or Quick Launch as like as common shortcut. In this post, I’m going to show the detail step how to create application shortcut with Google Chrome.

1. Open your favourite website with Google Chrome Browser
2. Go to this icon at right top of Chrome

3. Choose the most top option “Create application shortcuts…”

Google Chrome - Create Application Shortcut Option

4. You can choose where you want to put your shortcut. There are three locations: Desktop, Shortcut Menu and Quick Launch Bar.

Google Chrome - Choose Where the Shortcut Location

5. Voila……That’s it. If you choose “Desktop” you can see your shortcut there.

Google Chrome - Desktop Shortcut

Next time if you want to access your favourite website, you just click this shortcut and Google Chrome will open its shortcut window. The main difference between the browser and its shorcut window is this window doesn’t have tabs, menu, address bar, and bookmark. But if you click a link in new tab inside shortcut window, it will be opened in the browser.

Google Chrome - Shortcut Window

Publishing to Twitter from Facebook Pages Tutorial

deerawan — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:34:34 +0000

This is a new feature of Facebook to publish your status or photos to Twitter directly. This feature is only available for Facebook Page. A Facebook Page is a special kind of profile for businesses, bands and public figures. By using this feature when you manage a Facebook Page, you can decide yourself what type of updates you want to share to Twitter. They are status updates, links, photos, notes and events. If you have multiple Facebook Page, you also can link each of those pages to different Twitter accounts. If you don’t have any, you can create it here.

In this post I will try to give you a guideline how to use this new feature. Here are:

1. Log In to your Facebook account

2. Go to http://www.facebook.com/twitter and choose “Link a Page to Twitter” button

Facebook to Twitter page

3. Choose your Facebook Page to connect to Twitter and choose “Link to Twitter”

Facebook to Twitter - Choose a Page

4. You will be directed to Twitter. Log In to your Twitter account.

Facebook to Twitter - Log In Twitter

4. Choose what type of updates you want to share.

You can change this setting anytime. There is also option “unlink from Twitter” if you want to change Twitter account connected from one of your Facebook Page.

Facebook to Twitter - Choose Type of Updates

5. Try to post your status updates

Facebook to Twitter - Status Update

6. See it on twitter. Voila!

Facebook to Twitter - See it on Twitter

Conclusion

Facebook knows what customer says, so they created this feature. I hope in the next, there a lot websites that can be integrated from Facebook. Publishing to Twitter from Facebook Pages is really cool.