Dawn News on twitter posting junk!
Someone handling the @Dawn_News on twitter has made a big boo boo. Please see the following (click to enlarge) (more…)
Facebook rolls out new Photo-preview feature
Some of you might have not noticed it but Facebook has rolled out a new Photo-preview feature silently to its HOME tab. So feed news like the one below Will become The expanded view in the modal window even has LIKE buttons, two browse buttons and a place to comment on it. Sleak! What do you think about this new feature?
Facebookâs new layout! again!!!
Facebook's new layout! again!!!, originally uploaded by asim.zeeshan. Facebook has issued another update on profile-layouts and I am loving this one. It has put more focus on letting users have a summary of the actual users and trying to group people together by letting you specify people you have gone to school, college, graduation and work-place with. The best part is, that my privacy settings are not changed by opting in this new layout!
Foursquare is down, again!
Foursquare is down, again!, originally uploaded by asim.zeeshan.
Download personal details of 100m Facebook users
Update (April 23, 2011): I have updated the download urls to point to new servers A little while ago (approx 2 weeks) I read a story online which claimed a person has downloaded a compiled 100m Facebook users' personal data. I searched online and found this torrent on thepiratebay.org I downloaded this torrent and to my surprise, its almost NOTHING personal. Just names and Facebook IDs. Anyway, I also found a BBC Story on the same topic which is pathetic! They sounded this as if Facebook is HACKED, which is not the case. Anyway, anyone who does not want to download via other file-sharing services or torrents can download this from the following VPS locations Location 1 (US) Location 2 (UK) P.S. If, for some reasons, you cannot download this…
NAGIOS 3 with notifications on twitter
Experiments, How to, Linux, OpenSource, Resources, Social Networking, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Virtual Private Server
I have been experimenting with NAGIOS3 on Ubuntu (I will write a how-to-install on NAGIOS later) and it has served me very good in monitoring my 7 VPS from different providers in different part of the world. I have already recorded 3 hours of downtime from ThrustVPS which is a great deal for me. I now know which VPS has the best time and which ones have hiccups (e.g. my 2Host VPS gave me two unreachable notifications but the VPS was running and still reports the uptime as 4 days). Since I use twitter more, even when Im on the road, notifications via email is a bit slow for me. Luckily I found a great tutorial online to do that. (more…)
Using Facebook Graph API to keep an eye on friends activity
Life is really moving in the fast lane for me, and Im pretty sure for most of you readers too. I login to social-networking platforms after weeks and I cant recognize most of these faces (even though they are my friends). Its proven that Humans tend to recognize people by face more quickly then names and email addresses so whenever someone puts on a new face (uploads a new profile-picture), I have hard time getting to know them. Well, I thought today, I have been developing in facebook application for so long now - Why not put online a few hours to fetch Facebook Friends data via API and keeping track of who did what? (status updates) and who changed his/her profile picture? So last night I was up, as…
Facebook displaying same advertisement twice
Facebook showing the same advertisement twice in the left-hand section (as seen in the image below). Someone's getting ripped off.
Facebook’s new look
Facebook is rolling out its redesign to some of its users and they are somewhat like this, claims Om Malik on gigaom.com. Here are some of the screen shots of the new sleek look (more…)
Games.com Best of ’09: Five most addictive Facebook games
Games.com say Even though gaming on Facebook has been around for a while, 2009 was the year of the social gaming boom. Mafia Wars was the first game since Scrabulous to get a nod from mainstream media, and by the end of the year, you'd be hard pressed find anyone -- even your Mom -- who hasn't at least heard of FarmVille. Then there's the fact that these games are basically cash cows, corralling millions of dollars for Zynga, Playdom, Playfish and CrowdStar (and the prediction that social gaming will be a 5 billion dollar industry in a several years), we'd say this whole social gaming thing has officially taken hold, and we can't wait to see how these games change in 2010. Out of the 500+ games on Facebook,…