101 Facebook Hacks You Never Knew About

Facebook users, take note: this is the ultimate list for multitasking, productivity and shortcuts. Read below to find out all the cool things you can do with Facebook that you never knew about — saving you time and letting you combine all of your address books, contacts and calendars, advertise, and of course, meet new people and reconnect with old friends.
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Use these hacks to combine your Facebook account with your other social media accounts or online organizers, like Google calendar, Twitter and others.

Facebook events to Google calendar: This Greasemonkey hack lets you quickly add a Facebook event to your Google calendar with one click.

AIM Plugin: When you’re signed on to AIM, this plugin also lets you know whenever you’ve been tagged, poked or messaged on Facebook.

Digsby: Digsby is another tool that combines your Facebook, Google Talk, AIM, MSN, and other accounts.

Flock: This web browser works with Windows, Mac and Linux, and it features a sidebar that "pulls in your friends from Facebook (and Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube) so you can keep them with you as you surf the Web."
OutSync: Microsoft Outlook users who have this Facebook app will find that their friends’ profile pictures also appear in their Outlook address book entries.

My Photo Index: Easily organize and manage photos on Facebook and Flickr with this joint hack.
Timegram: Send pre-set Skype and Chat messages with this scheduler.

Twitter2FB: Update your status only once with this tool, which displays the same status on Twitter as it does on Facebook.

FeedBurner Facebook: This popular app displays headlines from your FeedBurner blogs and feeds on Facebook.

ma.gnolia: Display your latest ma.gnolia bookmarks on Facebook for maximum social media.
Access Hacks

Facebook View Photo in Album: Use this script to view a photo in the original album, even if you’re not friends with the person who made the album.

Cleaner: Get rid of some of the Facebook advertising and "sponsored by" sections with this tool.
FB People Redirect: If you’re logged in, you can view real profiles from the Facebook people pages.

Undo New Facebook Redesign: If you hate some or all of the new Facebook changes, undo them with these scripts.

View All Photos: Search for pictures of a Facebook member who has tight privacy settings with this hack.

More Friends: This smart hack goes through your list of friends to find more friends you may have forgotten about or didn’t know were on Facebook.

box: With this box widget, you can share files from your computer through Facebook.

Jobster: This application gives Facebook users unique access to job information, networking opportunities and other career resources.

Private Wall: The Private Wall combines the best of both worlds of Facebook: online convenience and communication with more serious privacy settings.

(Lil) Green Patch: Invite your friends to save the rainforest with this patch, which shows a running count of the square feet preserved from this app.

iThink: iThink is a more focused networking portal for Facebook users, letting you vote on opinions, start discussions and more.

fbquick: Get notifications for friend requests, event invites, group invites, messages, shares, wall posts and more on your desktop.

Dashboard Widget: Mac users get a constantly updated Facebook widget in their dashboard that gives a preview of your inbox, friend requests and more.

friend photos: This app automatically designs a screen saver slideshow of your friends’ Facebook pictures.

Friend Explorer: This hack offers a new way to view your friends. You can organize the list by picture, first name, last name, birthday and other cell choices.

EventSync: Link up your Facebook events with your iCal with this hack.

Synchronizer: This is another Outlook - Facebook hack that lets you import and export birthday, contact and work information.

FizzBoost: This niftly little box sits on your desktop and alerts you every time you get a poke, friend request or anything else on Facebook.

Fosimo: This desktop client for Windows users lets you keep track of all of your account changes while syncing up Facebook friends and your Outlook contacts.

The Social Bar: Internet Explorer users can view Facebook features and notifications in a special toolbar with this app.

DeskBook: Access Facebok features like friend lists, friend searches, profile information and more with DeskBook.

Facebook Photos Plugin for Wordpress: Easily blog your Facebook pictures with this smart hack.
Facebook Toolbar for Firefox: This toolbar lets you do a Facebook search wherever you are online, get instant notifications whenever you get a friend request, poke or invitation, and you can easily post an interesting link or page to your profile from the page itself.

Sparkey: Sparkey is sort of like an online dating app for Facebook. Users can find out who’s interested in their profile and rate other members.

Hatching Egg: This "gift" hatches over a period of four days, so your friends get to guess what you sent them. There are over 200 animals to send, including penguins.

Testimonials: Testimonials can be used for business or school purposes, letting you organize references from friends, co-workers and teachers.

Meet New People: If you’re having trouble making new friends with your standard Facebook profile, use this app to find friends in your area and bolster your business contacts.

Sticky!: Design your own sticky notes to tack onto your friends’ walls with this app.

We’re Related: This family tree organizer lets you keep track of your relatives through Facebook.

U.S. Politics: Get involved in the presidential campaigns by networking with other activists, getting updated on political news and even participating in debate groups.

Who is your neighbor?: Learn about your neighbors with this hack, which shows you where your friends are on a map.

Translations: Use this hack to translate a page or lend your language skills to edit translations for other countries.

Facebook Exporter for iPhoto: Mac users can more easily switch their photos back and forth between Facebook and their iPhoto library by using this shortcut.

Lost Mobile: If you’ve ever lost your cell phone, you know how frustrating it can be to track down all your friends and contacts to trade numbers again. Use this very secure hack as a shortcut over Facebook.

Shots and Drinks: If you can’t make it to a friend’s birthday party or happy hour, send them a virtual drink with this app.

Reviews: Get feedback from your friends, colleagues, students or customers with this hack.
Cleaning up Facebook

BBC Ad Remover: This script specifically removes ads from the BBC news website.

Remove All Facebook Ads: Ignore Facebook ads by totally removing them from your pages with this hack.

UnFuck Facebook: Clean up Facebook with this hack, which removes third party apps and spam.
Facebook: This simple hack makes your Facebook pages a little wider and cleaner looking.

Re-Title: This neat hack makes titles of websites that you share or post shorter and less messy.

Bearable Facebook Wallpost: Increase the size of wall post text boxes with this app.

iLike: Add music, music videos and concert listings to your profile with iLike.

Facebook Video: Download, convert and embed videos from other sites with this script.

Facebook Monsters Enhancer: Monsters players can add their favorite actions and applications to Facebook with this script. Features include auto-attack, player organization, auto-feed monsters and more.

Texas Hold’Em Poker: Invite your friends to play Texas Hold’Em on Facebook.

Birthday Greeting Cards: Design or browse birthday greeting cards with this easy hack that helps you remember and celebrate your friends’ birthdays with minimal effort.

MindJolt Games: This simple hack hides over 300 different games to play on Facebook.

Nations: Set up your own nations in this simulation game via Facebook.

Scramble: Play this addicting word game on Facebook.

Pandora: Pandora for Facebook lets you share and search new music, create your own radio stations and organize your musical and artist favorites on Facebook.

Watch This Video: This tool lets you quickly share, search and comment on videos from around the web. Get friends to rank your videos so it will appear in the top ten list.

Scrapblog: Pull videos, audio clips and photos from around the web to create a scrapbook blog on Facebook.

Facebook Music Player: Upload your own music or tracks from your favorite artists to share and listen to music directly from Facebook.

urPics - myPics: Quickly pull all photos that you’re tagged in on Facebook and save them in a .zip file on your computer with this hack. It’ll save you all the time you would spend searching for and saving each one.

Mixlister: Give yourself a personal theme song with Mixlister.
Advertising Hacks

ShopCreator: This ecommerce software works with Facebook Marketplace.

viagogo: Buy and sell tickets to events through Facebook with this tool. Artists can also advertise their gigs by maintaining a list of events to share with friends.

Sponsored Groups: Attract friends, put up photos and videos, and advertise special events or sales by creating your own sponsored group on Facebook.

Facebook Ads: Design ads just for Facebook members and target very specific niche audiences with this system.

Marketplace: The Facebook Marketplace lets anyone sell and search for apartments, furniture, or anything else, kind of like Craigslist or another classifieds site.

Events: Create an event on Facebook, and then invite all of your friends or people in your network to advertise a sale, business opening or concert.

Badges: With this feature, you can send Facebook friends and followers to other websites, including your company site.

Share Partners: This hack makes it easier to share content from other sites on Facebook. That way, you can broadcast press releases, news stories, product reviews and more.

Facebook Insight: Learn more about Facebook demographics, your target audience and the success of your Facebook advertising campaign with this tracking tool.

Gydget: Gydget is a widget that lets "bands, teams and other organizations…connect with fans."

FunWall: Send mass announcements and greetings to all of your friends at once with this hack.

Facebook Refresh 2 Alpha: This in-the-works script refreshes your Facebook page every 30 seconds.

Facebook Mini-Feed Collapser: Get around the annoying mini-feed display by collapsing it with this script.

inYOf4aceBook: This hack brings up larger images of thumbnails when you mouse over them.

Shoes!: Make shopping for shoes more fun and productive by browsing styles from your Facebook account.

Notes QuickEdit: This hack adds a styling and formatting bar to your messages so that you can quickly italicize, boldface, insert a link, insert an image or change font size.

Birthday Calendar: This customizable birthday notification hack lets you export and import dates from other platforms, select holidays from 200 countries and more.

Forbes and Facebook: Trade stocks and track companies through Facebook through this Forbes hack, making it easier to take care of business whenever you log on.

ether: Have friends and business associates call you by clicking on this button that can appear on your profile.

QuikProfile: If you just want to quickly scan someone’s profile, you can utilize this hack, which lets you get a quick preview while hovering over the profile link.

Discussion Boards: Educators and business professionals can use discussion boards for easy and remote collaboration, homework help, class projects and more.

Interactive Friend Thing: Find contacts and understand how to approach new clients or customers by using the Interactive Friend Thing, which shows you how friends of friends are connected.

Studicious: Studicious is a shortcut study aid that lets you share and edit class notes with other students.

Transfer and Add Friend Invites: If you’ve used different e-mail addresses over your Facebook lifetime, you may have lost some friend requests or notifications along the way. This hack will help you out.

Superlatives: This is Facebook’s version of your high school yearbook’s "Most likely to…" awards, but you’ll find edgier and sillier categories here.

Texas 1: View your Facebook account in a Texas theme with this hack.

Bathroom Wall: Post anything and everything from poems to secrets to confessions on the Bathroom Wall without revealing your identity.

Pieces of Flair: Make like Jennifer Aniston in Office Space and show off your pieces of flair via Facebook with these buttons.

Sketch Me: This neat little hack constructs a sketch version of your profile picture.

Make a Baby: Fill in your hair color and other traits to see what your baby would like if you had it with different friends.

UK Friends Plotter: Figure out where your UK friends live or work by viewing them on a map with this hack.

EZPoke: Start using this script to set up automatic pokes for different friends.

Facebook Autologin v2: Get on Facebook faster with this autologin hack.

Matchcookbook: If your school or office has Facebook blocked, you can get around the firewall or blocked page with this hack.

Source: College Degrees

Facebook Prom

Facebook held a prom for its employees in San Francisco last night at the Metreon. The shopping mall-cineplex's fourth floor was tastefully decorated with white flowers, and the gathered Facebookers were dressed up — and so youthful, you might think it was an actual prom, save for the booze being poured at the open bars. (Ubiquitous photographee Julia Allison, who was invited, did not attend, staying in New York for a book party instead.) Why throw a prom? Facebook is going all-out for prom season this year, with a tie-in to Sony's Prom Night and a prom-dress partnership with Sears. Why not reward employees working on prom marketing campaigns with a throwback prom of their own?

But besides the commercial rationale, there's a more disturbing reason for Facebook to throw a prom for its employees. With its cafeterias, gyms, and volleyball courts, Google likes to makes its employees feel like they never left college. Could Facebook be trying to make its workers feel like they never left high school? Infantilization is an effective employee-retention program. But it is not a particularly attractive one.

More pictures from Facebook's prom.

Source: Valleywag

FaceBook Source Code Secrets

I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company. The interesting highlights of the Facebook code are:

1. Facebook writes pretty clean code & maintains coding standards. The code is readable.

2. To Facebook coder: Calling a function to do the magic isn’t an example of clean code; in response to Facebook coders comment - “Holy shit, is this the cleanest fucking frontend file you’ve ever seen”

3. Facebook doesn’t do MVC. There isn’t any separation of concerns as far as I could see. It is also not a designer’s job. It is created by developers with tons of procedural PHP code.

4. Facebook also doesn’t do much object oriented coding either, at least it wasn’t apparent from these source files. It is plain and simple procedural code.

5. Facebook uses templates which is nice.

It does some interesting stuff with advertising, specifically estimates the length of page and attributes to determine advertisements to show. There are few interesting ideas here.

Did you expect more? There isn’t much more really, take a look yourself. I wonder if MySpace’s code is as clean.

Source: Taragana

10 things you didnt know about Facebook

1. You can syndicate your blog. Through Facebook Notes, you can import one RSS-syndicated site, and items fed via RSS will appear on Facebook, to all your friends via the News Feed. This can also be done for each Facebook Page you create, in the same manner as your regular Facebook account. For information, see my blog post on the subject.

2. You can post images and set your status via your cell phone. Just add the "Mobile" app, and soon you will be able to add photos you take with your cell phone's camera, by simply sending it to mobile@facebook.com and registering your phone with Facebook. You can also receive and send statuses directly to Facebook via SMS. SMS features are supported by almost all carriers but T-Mobile, and even with T-Mobile you can still send photos and check Facebook through your cell phone's web browser.

3. You can post "Polls," or "Surveys" to different demographics. Click on the "Business" link in the footer of your Facebook account, then click on "Facebook Polls," and you'll soon have access to create your own polls, of which you can target towards certain age groups, interests, and other demographics, and track the results. You can even set a budget of how much you want to spend for the entire Poll. Polls are $.25 a response. You can also create a Poll by clicking on this link.

4. You can track available demographics directly in Facebook. Similar to Polls, you can use Facebook Insights to find out how many people are within a certain demographic on Facebook. To get there, click on "Business" in the footer, then "Facebook Insights." Click the "Get Started" button, and then act as though you are creating a Page or trying to advertise another link. Under the audience tab, you can click around on the various form options, and it will tell you how many people are within that demographic.

5. You can track your friends' statuses via RSS. On your main page after you login to Facebook, click on "see all" next to "Status Updates." On the right-hand side you'll notice a "Subscribe" link - click on that to add your friends' status updates to your RSS Reader and keep in touch with everything they are doing, very similar to Twitter!

6. You can post Flash and HTML directly in your brand's Facebook Page. Facebook Pages (that's with a capital "P") are a way you can create a "Profile" for your business. Facebook gives a few more options for Facebook Pages however, one of those being you can add Flash and HTML direct to a Page, similar to the way you would do for a MySpace Page. This Flash or HTML can replace the main image on your Page, giving you one more venue to broadcast your brand to your Fans. You can learn more details about this in my post here.

7. The largest demographic on Facebook is the 25 and older group. Believe it or not, per Facebook's own statistics, the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is those ages twenty-five and older. Facebook is quickly becoming not just place for friends to meet friends, but for business users, baby-boomers, and even the elderly like Guy!

8. Through a Facebook Page, you can track the traffic of a brand's Profile. Once you create a Facebook Page, be sure to visit your Page Manager on the left after logging into Facebook. There, you can track valuable statistics about your Page: number of visits, Male-to-Female ratio, Page Views, and more. If you aren't getting what you want out of your Facebook Profile you may want to consider creating a Facebook Page.

9. You can tag anyone in a posted note, video, or photo. Often the first instinct on videos, photos, and especially notes in Facebook is to tag only the people in the subject uploaded. There is nothing I am aware of in Facebook's Terms of Service stating it is illegal to tag people that aren't in the photo, video, or note. I personally like to use this for my blog posts, tagging those of my friends I would like to get attention from. See how to do this here.

10. Give others an easy-to-remember link to your Facebook Profile. Through SocialToo.com! - by registering at SocialToo.com and following the instructions to link it to Facebook, you can have yourusername.socialtoo.com automatically redirect to your Facebook Profile. This can be an excellent way to tell your friends how to find you on Facebook.

Source: Guy Kawasaki