[Tip] How to get Facebook Timeline NOW!

The Facebook Timeline is in news and many of us on the Net are talking about it. It’s a new Interface which the Facebook will soon make it Live to everyone.

If you want it to be published now, how to enable this Timeline?

1. Sign-in to your Facebook Account

2. Go to http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline 

3. Click on ‘Get Timeline ‘ button and you’ll be taken to Timeline interface -

Welcome to Your Timeline (7-Day Preview)

Only you can see your timeline during 7-day preview. This give you a chance to review what's here, highlight or hide whatever you want, and even add new social apps.

4. After changing whatever you want, you can Click ‘Publish Now’ or wait until your timeline goes Live on Dec. 24.

Facebook launches Translation tool for inline translation using Bing Translator

Just came across this.-

Today we launched a new translation tool that enables people to translate posts directly inline on Facebook Pages through Bing Translate. With this service, we are making it even easier for people to enjoy Page content on Facebook regardless of the languages that they know.

When someone clicks on the translate button on a public Page post, a Bing translation will appear in a popout window. People... then have the opportunity to submit their own translation by opting-in to using inline translations. After their generated translation has received enough positive votes, it will replace the Bing translation and will appear each time someone clicks on the translate button associated with the post.

Page admins can always control how their content is translated within the "Your Settings" tab in the Edit Page view.

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Yet to try it out though.

Check it out here.

Project Waterloo – Facebook game from Microsoft Research

Project Waterloo is the first game project from Microsoft Research played on Facebook.

“The game is played by two players; each has 100 troops at their disposal and needs to allocate those troops among five battle fields. Once both players have allocated their troops, the winner is determined by finding which of the two players has won more battles. A battle is won by having allocated more troops to it than the opponent.

The game is complex from a game-theoretic perspective, involves randomized strategies, and can be approached by reasoning about the opponent's reasoning. We have also found it to be fun, engaging, and slightly addictive. It is thus a great test case for studying actual strategic behavior of people on Facebook.”

The client side of the game is CSS and JavaScript and the server is running an ASP.NET MVC 3 application (hosted on Azure) with a SQL Azure database back end.

Check out this Facebook game app at http://apps.facebook.com/msrwaterloo

Bing and Facebook Ads– Sushi and Chromeo

Bing and Facebook: Sushi

Trust Your Friends: Restaurant Decision

Bing and Facebook: Sushi

 

Another Ad is -

Bing and Facebook: Chromeo

Trust Your Friends: Music Decision

Bing and Facebook: Chromeo

Skydiver Really ! New WP7 Ad

Check out this cool Windows Phone 7 Ad !

A skydiver snaps a pic on his Windows Phone 7 ( Samsung Focus ) and then uploads it to Facebook before deploying his parachute! Skydiver, Really !  It's time for a phone to save us from our phone.

Skydiver Really ! WP7 Ad !

Show your excitement for the new Windows Phone with blog badges, twibbon

Windows Phone 7 is already creating lot of buzz around and everyone is excited  as its getting appreciation from many. Even in places where its launch dates are not yet announced are excited. All wants to lay their hands on Windows Phone 7. You can show your Windows Phone excitement, love with blog badges available in 3 different sizes.

Just go to http://www.windowsphone7.com/blogbadge/  Choose a size, copy the provided code , and paste it where you would like the badge to appear in your web page or blog. Although it shows the availability date for US, I’m putting it on my blog ,as I don’t know when they will be available in India.

(Thanks to @brandonleblanc for getting corrected the code), now I can show my excitement and display the badge though in India , we will not be getting the Windows Phone so soon)

You can also be part of the buzz by adding a Twibbon to your Facebook and Twitter profile pictures. You can get the twibbon at http://twibbon.com/windowsphone

Windows Phone 7 Ad – Revolution is coming….

The Windows Phone 7 ad that was shown before the Secret Cinema: Lawrence of Arabia  screening

Windows Phone 7 Ad

 

Also check  Secret Cinema: Lawrence of Arabia  on Facebook.

(Source Windows Phone UK)

team crossword - Solve crossword puzzles together with Facebook friends

The FUSE Labs team have launched a new project called Team Crossword beta. Solve some crossword puzzles together with your Facebook friends online Or if you want to play solo, you can.

A new puzzle is available every day via the website, you can just get started into Team Crossword by signing into Facebook.

 

 

 

A TeamCrossword game in action - every player gets a color!

(Image courtesy- http://www.facebook.com/teamcrossword )

 

The interactive, team based crossword puzzle uses ASP.net MVC 2, jQuery, SQL Azure, Visual Studio 2010, and of course, it's hosted on Windows Azure. The actual crossword puzzle data is provided by uClick LLC.

Just for info – Outlook Social Connector, Spindex, Kodu, Emporia, Bing Twitter Maps and Docs also are from the FUSE Labs folks .

(Source: Steve Clayton, Channel10)

Facebook reaches 500 m subscribers ! Rahman & Deepika kickstart ‘Facebook Stories’ in India

 

Social network Facebook has reached an important milestone- it registered its 500 millionth subscriber. There are 12 million Facebook users here in India. Each month, people in India upload more than 53 million photos, while mobile usage has increased ninefold in the past year.  

 

Facebook today launched Facebook Stories, an initiative dedicated to showcasing the connections made and stories shared by the 500 million people who are actively using the service every day.  Facebook Stories was announced by Mark Zuckerberg in a video addressed to all Facebook users worldwide.

 

To inaugurate Facebook Stories in India, award-winning producer A. R. Rahman shared his personal story about how Facebook has enabled him to connect with his fans. 

“Facebook has really made it so easy for artists to connect with their fans – making them part of our daily lives,”

“To me, that’s one of the best ways I can show my fans how grateful I am for their support.”  

wrote Rahman.

 

Blockbuster actress Deepika Padukone also shared the impact Facebook has made on her life. 

“In the networking world Facebook literally provides a FACE to one’s identity in the world wide web,” she wrote.  “It gives me semblance of being grounded by allowing me to be constantly in touch with my friends and family and people whom I love and cherish!”   

 

To share your own story, go to, http://stories.facebook.com/ login with your Facebook credentials. BTW Facebook Stories is making use of Bing.

Facebook opens operations office in India

 

Facebook today announced two key appointments to launch its operations office in Hyderabad, India, marking the company’s progress towards establishing a local team amid rapid growth in India and around the world.

Company names Kirthiga Reddy as Director of Online Operations and Manoj Varghese as Director of User Operations.

 

“As Director of Online Operations, Kirthiga Reddy will head Facebook’s operations in India, supporting the company’s growing number of users, advertisers and developers worldwide who are capitalizing on Facebook’s global service to foster relationships with people and reach out to new customers locally and internationally.  Kirthiga and the India team will also be instrumental in developing effective relationships with government officials at the city, state, and national levels.   

Working closely with Kirthiga, Manoj Varghese, Director of User Operations, will specialize in building a world-class user support team to serve the needs of the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who actively use Facebook every day, including more than 8 million active users in India.  Both Kirthiga and Manoj will be based in Facebook’s newly opened office in Hyderabad.”

Kirthiga joins Facebook from Phoenix Technologies, where she served as Vice President and General Manager, heading Phoenix India’s team in Bangalore.

 

Manoj joins Facebook from Google, where he served as Director of People Operations, responsible for HR and staffing in the Japan and Asia Pacific regions.

 

 

So a very warm welcome to Facebook  for coming to India !!

Share your Photosynths on Facebook

The Photosynth team has announced a new and often requested feature : sharing your synths on facebook. So the Photosynth has joined the social Web. Now every synth viewing page has a "share to Facebook" button.

 

 

For more details please check - Strut your synths on Facebook

New Silverlight 4 Client for facebook

Last week, Silverlight 4 was released. Along with its release, the beautiful Silverlight Client for Facebook has also been updated for Silverlight 4 . If you are using the older version, you’ll have to uninstall it first then install this.

 

This application brings together the many compelling platform capabilities of Silverlight 4 into a rich out-of-browser application in the familiar context of Facebook.  Enjoy the photos, feeds, events, friends’ walls, and inbox mail from your Facebook account in a visually stunning and user-friendly environment.

Note: This is a Silverlight 4 developer preview application.  When Silverlight 4 is finally released you may be required to uninstall and re-install the plugin.

Silverlight Features demonstrated:

• Out-of-browser support
• Hosting HTML content interactively
• Local Device access (webcam)
• Rich-Text control
• Embedding alternative media content
• Desktop notifications
• COM integration (with Microsoft Outlook®) on the Windows platform
• Right-click
• Drag-n-drop
• Window control
• Animations

The above stated info taken from the ‘About’ button which also provides option to send feedback

So from the above given links, install Silverlight 4 first, then if you are using older ver. of the facebook Client, uninstall it and then install this updated ver. of Silverlight 4 Client for facebook.

Union Budget Live with Silverlight- Real-time chat with TV anchors

This year’s Union Budget will be different. We all have been watching the budget speech on TV or reading about it,but this year’s Budget will be streamed Live using Microsoft Silverlight* , so that you can watch it on your PC. Users will get live coverage of both ET Now and Times Now as well as on-demand videos, live news feeds, special updates and will also be able to interact with Facebook friends--all from a single show window. And with Facebook Connect and Live Stream Box, they will be able to take part in real-time conversations with their favorite TV anchors. (Cartoon courtesy: Economic Times)

 

The event will be hosted at http://budgetlive.economictimes.com  You can also get minute-by-minute update and live news feeds if you are interested in specific parts of the budget. Powered by Microsoft’s Silverlight, users will get to watch a high quality video stream on the web- like TV, only significantly better.

(* Download Silverlight from http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx)

 

OutSync-Sync Facebook Photos with Outlook on Windows Mobile

"OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time. OutSync is for Windows Mobile users. OutSync is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. It requires Outlook 2003 or 2007. Updated contacts are automatically synced with Windows Mobile devices by Exchange server or ActiveSync. Thus new and fun photos appear during calls and other places where contacts are used."

Its written by Mel Sampat of Windows Mobile team.

Also check out this cool video "Sync your Facebook contacts with Outlook (and Windows Mobile)" on 10 to find out other feature and demo of OutSync.Setup
Requirements:
Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007
.NET Framework v3.0 (required for Windows XP or earlier)

Step by Step
Download and install OutSync.msi.
Launch OutSync from the Start Menu. Initial startup may take 1-2 minutes, please be patient.
Login to Facebook from within OutSync and wait until contacts are matched.
[Optional] Uncheck contacts you don't want to sync.
Press the Sync button to update selected Outlook contacts from Facebook.

Tips and Tricks
Hover your mouse over a contact to view their Facebook status.
Double-click a name in the "Matched Contacts" list to open their Outlook contact card.
Download it from here or from the given link at the top.