At the back end of 2010, a new Facebook registration app appeared
on the market. It takes social networking to the next level by by socially engaging with users on-site. By way of a diminutive yet powerful line of code, websites get to offer an optional Facebook login form directly from their website. It's customizable - the choice of what to include in the registration form is down to the individual website's idea of what info's required, and what's not.
How Facebook Registration Works
It's pretty simple to install and use the Facebook registration tool. Using similar code to the HTML code below, you insert it into your site, then customize it according to what information is relevant to your website:
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/apps/like.php?href=YOUR_URL"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
style="border:none; width:400px; height:100px"></iframe>
</body>
</html>It works by way of using a Facebook members info – providing that they're already logged on. It scrapes the information that the user has included in their profile, and there's no security risk as the registration works through an iframe. In essence it works on similar lines to Facebook Connect, though that's fast becoming a thing of the past.
These days social networking is de rigueur and all the biggest online web presences make the best use of it. The internet is changing and you'll rarely stumble across a website that doesn't connect (one way or another) with Facebook. Whether that's by way of the 'like' button, or using the relatively new registration facility, online user expectations are similar to those in the bricks and mortar world … people like familiarity and Facebook is certainly familiar.
Facebook Registration Form
The Facebook registration form is easy to work with, something that you can tailor to meet the needs of your own website and as easy as pie to locate. Generating the code is a simple task, a few clicks of the mouse, and you'll have the right code for your site. Once you've got it installed, customize it as per requirements and that's just about it. Bearing in mind that Facebook (by and large) is a trusted internet brand, you may well find that users are more prone to sign up for your services or products.
Creating an easy access is another way of engaging users (both existing and potential) on your site. That and the fact that they can also use the social networking side of things, such as 'liking' or sharing a page or post from your web site. In short it's worth the effort to install the Facebook form, and most definitely more likely to hit the mark with subscribers old and new.
Filed under Internet News by on Sep 11th, 2011. Comment. 
There’s a ton of Facebook signs, many of which appear on walls all over the social networking sites userbase on a regular basis. The more common ones are hearts and smiley faces, these are easy to copy and paste, or they’re fairly easy to remember if you prefer to use the numeric method of typing them into your status.
Facebook Chat Signs
Basically there are plenty of Facebook chat signs to choose from and, if you’re the creative type, you can almost input a small work of art whilst chatting to someone. Of course you'll probably seriously annoy whoever you're chatting to (at the same time) but you can always tell them you're learning some new ... stuff.
As I said above, the more commonly seen ones (by far) are the little heart symbols. You can either copy and paste them (if you don’t know what that is … errr lol!) or create them yourself by inputting the following number combos:
- First of all, you always need to be holding down the ALT key, and make sure you have NUM LOCK on
- ALT + 3 = ♥
- ALT + 4 = ♦
- ALT + 5 = ♣
- ALT + 6 = ♠
- ALT + 7 = ◘
- ALT + 8 = ○
- ALT + 13 = ♪
- ALT + 14 = ♫
- ALT + 15 = ☼
- ALT + 16 = ►
- ALT + 17 = ◄
- ALT + 18 = ↕
The above are but a few – experiment, remembering to hold down the ALT key, and type in different number combinations.
Facebook Signs Status
The above symbols work in chat or status updates but, if you want Facebook signs in status updates, then it’s back to good old copy and pasting. And that bits real easy - just follow the little 'how to copy and paste' mini tutorial below:
- hold down the left mouse button
- then sweep your cursor across whatever you’re wanting to copy
- then ‘right click’ your mouse
- click on ‘copy’
- then simply right click (once again!) and click on ‘paste’
Easy. Now you know how, you can try out the different ones. There are a few different ones below, as well as other facebook signs and symbols that you’ll find scattered around the internet. They’re a lot of fun to play around with … providing you’re not real old and crusty! The odd use of one or two is cool when you’re over 30 but you start using a whole bunch of them and you’re gonna start looking a little uncool!
Smileys: ☹ ☺ ヅ ツ
Floral: ❁✿❀
Hearts: ❥❣♡ ღ
Weather: ❅ ☼ ☃❅
Musical Notes: ♩ ♬ ♪
Filed under Social Networking Sites by on Jul 8th, 2011. 17 Comments.
It certainly is nice to see some celebs actually interacting with their followers, and Oprah Winfrey's twitter page certainly gives that impression. This is the page, and with only 6.5 million followers, she is still lagging behind Lady Gaga on facebook (32 MILLION likes) but seriously kicking Queen Latifa's facebook ass because she only has 260,000 facebook likes.
But - Oprah is still twittering, despite the fact her show is done and dusted.
Oprah's Twitter page
Filed under Celebs on Twitter by on Jul 6th, 2011. 2 Comments.
