Andy’s Web Blog

Random occurance, facebook is down!

Is it a DNS issue with them or did they forget to pay the domain name.. lol

May be we will find out soon..

My yahoo answers question

MySpace is dead long live Facebook. As every man and his iPhone carrying dog knows face book is the social networking tool. It is good, I have to give the creators that. They are certainly creating a good example of web 2.0 and how to use Ajax (that is a programming language - not the household cleaner lol.) the Facebook team are always improving the service they provide, a recent-ish service is a Facebook ap for blackberry’s!

The small Facebook app is handy; it has an offline application feel to it (although you need to be online to use it.) Which allows you to message contacts, poke people and write on walls. It also displays status updates and you can change your own update.

If you’re a fan of third party apps like fun wall it will either send you to the Facebook mobile site or you will have to wait until you can log in to a pc.

It is very handy for writing quick notes to people and random poking while you’re travelling! Lol

One other thing, in order for it to work with your phone you have to link your mobile number to Facebook and of course install an application.

If you have a Blackberry then go to the Blackberry site on your phone and give it a try.

Other formats may be available, so best check with your manufacturer/operator.

Thank you

Andy

Social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, want you to live and breath their sites. But a lot of the content is not good, about as good as daytime tv. But now you can easily add quality content you find for your friends to enjoy through Addthis!

Addthis is simple, brilliant and also can increase hits on your own website. It is a good seo tool as well as making it easy for your visitors to bookmark your page in their browser, post it to Facebook or MySpace and add it to social bookmarking networks such as digg.

All you do is sign up, get your free code, and there you go.

I recommend the small javascript button which expands to display a wealth of options. This can be inserted in to your sites template and it is copied to all of your pages!

Is it easy to use for the visitor to the web page?

Give it a go now, it is on this page

Andy Smailes
Andy’s Web - Web Design and IT Consultancy