Facebook, besides being the one step solution to entertainment and social networking, also comes with a multitude of advertising opportunities for big businesses, entrepreneurs and even independent artists and freelancers. If you know the ways to do it, then Facebook with its more than 200 Million (approx.) unique visitors, can become one of the biggest sources to surge up your financial aspects within no time. So here are 11 tips that will help you use Facebook and profit from it.

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The most popular social networking site on a global scale, Facebook is trying to welcome developers by keeping some of the core floodgates open so that they get familiar with the system in a better way. If you remember well, most of the recent changes in Facebook has brought about agitation from the Facebook crowd. Be it the designs or the disclaimer statements, Facebook hasn't been too comfortable in announcing them. Now this may just be the chance to allure developers ->  thereby making more apps -> pulling more crowd in with more faciltiies. Quite a similarity to iPhone app market model, no? Full article (169 words) »

So is this the start of collaborative social networking? Adobe has joined hands with one of the most popular social networking sites, Facebook in order to build an application that will use Adobe's Flash platform and the new ActionScript 3 Client Library for Facebook the two companies developed together. So what it basically means you will see Facebook's API built on Adobe Flash with lot for you to develop and use. Though writing Facebook applications in Flash is not new. In fact, 12 of top 20 apps on Facebook use Flash. However, the new tools should make it easier for developers in the future. Considering Adobe's effectiveness and Facebook's popularity we can surely see something positive coming outta this. Full article (326 words) »

I will start with the story straight up.

Kimberley Swann, a 16-year-old girl from Clacton-On-Sea in Essex, began working as an office administrator for Ivell Marketing & Logistics at the beginning of February. She began posting short comments about her job on her Facebook profile, such as "first day at work. omg!! So dull!!", "all i do is shred holepunch n scan paper!!! omg!" and "'im so totally bord!!!"  What Swann didn't realize is that her employer, Stephen Ivell, found her comments when he presumably discovered and accessed her profile. On Feb. 27, Ivell called Swann into his office and fired her on the spot. Ivell handed her a letter which said, "Following your comments made on Facebook about your job and the company we feel it is better that, as you are not happy and do not enjoy your work, we end your employment with Ivell Marketing & Logistics with immediate effect."

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After it's failed attempts to acquire Twitter, Facebook has come up with new strategies. It has incurred a number of changes to the homepage/newsfeed. The top-drawer being the removal of distinction between profile and public pages.  Facebook has been a patron in more interactive web. With Twitter emerging into the scene the focus has shifted to real-time web. What pricks Facebook most is that real-time web is fast growing as the next step of Internet evolution. The new Facebook upgrades would be the first step towards competing Twitter in real-time web experience. Full article (233 words) »

Windows Live Photo has integrated with Facebook to help users upload photos in a better way. The plug-in also takes advantage of the new people tagging feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta to persist your people tags onto Facebook.

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Facebook is the most popular choice of social networking around the world. Amongst hundred of other such sites jostling neck to neck, Facebook has quietly emerged to the top and remained there for a long time now. Like Twitter and iPhone, Facebook apps have created a niche and own set of followers for them. Its been long since we have talked about Facebook. So we decided to take a tour of thousands of new apps and bring out the best for you so that you don't lag behind anyone in the new year.

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Social networking has a very important part to play in our lives now. Be it Facebook or Myspace or Orkut or Twitter - these sites are proving to be beneficial for both personal and professional purposes. We can not just ignore the fact that with each passing day, we are becoming addicted to these social networking services. So, is it bad? No way. But we must keep in mind that our sensitive personal and professional information are there inside our profile. In this world of prying eyes and ears, we need to take care of our profiles. So here are 8 very useful tips (better to call reminders) maintaining which can at least make you safe from your side.
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After all the serious Facebook articles, let's talk about some fun. Today I will discuss 10 popular fun apps from Facebook.

1. iLike

iLike lets you add music and videos to your profile, dedicate songs to your friends, and see who’s going to what concerts. Bonus: get free mp3s matching your tastes, and beat your friends at the Music Challenge.
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We are not done with Facebook yet. Our quest for having a better and more user- friendly Facebook helped us this time to find and eliminate bogus adds and distracting accessories with these following tools. So without further ado, let's talk about them.

1. BBC Ad Remover

This script specifically removes ads from the BBC news website. Along with ads, this script also removes social bookmarks, RSS feeds, print and email to a friend sections. The script is well documented too so if you need any one the above stuff just comment out the related code.

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