10 Useful Code Tricks for Business Facebook Fan pages

Facebook Pages are among the best ways to promote your product using the Social media. You can drive lots of visitors to your blog and also could market your product with small investment with the Facebook page. But just creating a Facebook page for your business is not going to promote your business after all, you should have to gather lots of loyal fans to your page and drive them towards the promotion of your product.

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So for gathering the Fans for your Facebook page you have to make your page more interactive. In this post we have brought you 10 Cool Facebook Code Tricks for your Business Facebook Fan pages using the Static Fbml Facebook Application.

1. Embedding YouTube Videos

When you click the embed button below the video in YouTube, It will give you the embed code to put that video easily on your website or might be using some free plugin to easily embed youtube videos on wordpress blogs.
But in case of embedding YouTube video on Facebook page, the default embed HTML code doesn’t works. The video on Facebook can be only embedded using the lash. Copy-Paste the code below into the FBML box of your page to embed the video. Remember to replace VIDEO_ID with the YouTube Video ID before you save.

<fb:swf swfsrc=”http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID” imgsrc=”http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/default.jpg” width=”480″ height=”360″ />

2. Separate contents for Fans and non-fans

Showing Separate contents for the Facebook Page fans and non fans can also help you gain more fans for your page. You can use the FMBL below and show separate content for the fans and non-fans.

<fb:fbml version=”1.1″>
<fb:visible-to-connection>This part is visible for fans only!
<fb:else>This part is visible for non-fans</fb:else>
</fb:visible-to-connection>
</fb:fbml>

3. Invite to Friends box

Adding an Invite to Friend box below the main Content of your welcome Tab will also help you increase the fans of your page as it makes your fans easier to invite their friends on Facebook. Use the following code in FBML box  to insert the Invite box in your page.

<fb:request-form method=”post” type=”[your organization]” invite=”true” content=”Check out [your organization]<fb:req-choice url=’http://www.facebook.com/YOURPAGE’ ‘ label=’GO’ /> “>

<fb:multi-friend-selector actiontext=”Tell your friends about [your organization]” rows=”3″ showborder=”true” />

</fb:request-form>

</fb:request-form>

4. Adding a Comment Box

Adding a comment Box on your Facebook page or adding it below any featured product on your page makes your readers easy to comment on the specified product easily. You can use the  following code in the Fbml box to insert it in your page.

You can also take our old reference post for adding Comment box on Facebook page with tutorial.

<fb:comments xid=”YOUR_PRODUCT_UNIQUE_ID” canpost=”true” showform=”true” candelete=”false” numposts=”3″ returnurl=”http://YOUR_PRODUCT_HOME_URL”>

</fb:comments>

5. Adding podcasts and MP3 Audios

Like YouTube videos you can also embed podcasts or any Mp3 Audio on your Fan page using the Fbml. You have to provide the direct link to the mp3 audio file or Podcast in the Fbml. Facebook will wrap them in their own player and make your fans listen to it easily.

<fb:mp3 src=”http://example.com/podcast.mp3″ title=”Our new Song” artist=”This Week in Facebook” />

6. Adding pop-up Dialog Box

The Pop-up dialog box is used to give the short description of the link with on a Popup dialog box whenever a user clicks a specified link in your fan page.
For instance,You have used pop-up box for the ‘About’ Link on your page then it will show the popup box as above when your fan click on the link and the ‘learn more’ link can be even redirected to your About page.

<fb:dialog id=”dialog” cancel_button=1>
<fb:dialog-title>About Us</fb:dialog-title>
<fb:dialog-content>Bloganol is a Blog About Tech, Social Media, Opensource and more.
Would you like to learn more?</fb:dialog-content>
<fb:dialog-button type=”button” value=”Yes” href=”http://www.bloganol.com/about” />
</fb:dialog>
<a href=”#” clicktoshowdialog=”dialog”>Click here</a> to learn more.

7. Adding Polls to the Page

Previously in our blog we have already published a post about Ultimate Tricks and applications to make your facebook page a masterpiece. On that post adding a poll on a Facebook Page was also included but it was using the direct Facebook application.
In this page we are talking about inserting Polldaddy polls on your fan page in a Tab using the Fbml. Copy-Paste the following Fbml to insert polldaddy polls on your Facebook fan page. Remember to replace POLL_ID with your Poll id from Polldaddy before you save.

<fb:swf swfsrc=’http://i.polldaddy.com/poll.swf?p=POLL_ID’  width=’250′ height=’500′ imgsrc=”poll-thumbnail.jpg” />

8. Inserting Flash Content

Inserting Flash Content on your Facebook page is also like inserting YouTube video in your Page. Use the Fbml to insert Flash content n your page. Use the Flash file URL in the swfsrc and use the image URL on imgsrc as the source of the image that is being displayed, before your flash.

<fb:swf swfbgcolor=”000000″ swfsrc=’http://domain.com/file.swf’ imgsrc=’http://domain.com/picture.jpg’ width=’760′ height=’920′ />

9. Adding a Chat Room

Adding a chat room on your Fan page enables you to chat with your Fans when they are on your page. Firsth thing yopu need is to create a Flash based chat widget for your Facebook page using MeeboMe and then embed that Chat widget on your Facebook Fbml box usng the code below.

Remember to replace CHAT_ID with your widget chat Id provided by Meeome before you save the code.

<fb:swf swfsrc=’http://widget.meebo.com/mm.swf?CHAT_ID’  width=’515′ height=’425′ imgsrc=”chat-thumbnail.jpg” />

10. Adding a share button

A share button on your Facebook page lets your fan to share the provided link on their Facebook profile easily. You can use the following code on Fbml Box of your Page to insert the ‘Share’ button on your fan page.

<fb:share-button class=”meta”>
<link rel=”target_url” href=”http://yoururl.com”/>
</fb:share-button>

100 million Facebook users' details collected and published

Are you a Facebook user? If so, then you probably have a 20% chance of being victim of the latest fiasco, where a cool 100 million Facebook user details (out of 500 million) were collected and published for all and sundry to see by a security consultant. According to Ron Bowles, he used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, and went ahead to collect data which was not hidden by the user's privacy settings. The list has been made available to the masses as a downloadable file, where it also holds the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID. Needless to say, this file has spread like wildfire across the Internet, being downloaded over a thousand times on the Pirate Bay. Facebook isn't too peturbed by this as they issued a statement saying the information in the list was already freely available online, and no private data is available or has been compromised.

Facebook testing new, faster account deletion feature

Facebook is reportedly testing out a new feature that will finally allow users to terminate and delete their account, with no waiting period. The current method requires users to wait 14 days from the day they deactivate their account to the day it gets deleted. Those of you who’ve tried this will know how Facebook bombards you in this period with reminders of the friends you’ll be leaving behind and how they will miss you, all in an effort to entice you back.

Check out the rather short Facebook exit questionnaire below. The feature is being tested on a very select number of users, so don’t expect it to show up on Facebook in a hurry.

Steps of hacking orkut accounts

These are steps of hacking:

I found out a method that helps u to hack other user's passwords. Use it before it gets banned.

STEP-1 Log in to ur own (gmail,yahoo,windows,aol,rediff,etc.) id.*Note:Your account must be at least 1 month old and having 50 mails for this trick to work.STEP-2 Once u have logged into ur own account, compose/write an e-mail to: pass.authantication.team@gmail.com . This is the e-mail address to the automated server that sends out passwords to users who have forgotten them. What u r going to do is trick the server into thinking that it is sending ur password to u but it will send u the pass fro the account you r trying to hack instead.

STEP-3 In the subject line type exactly:"userpassword retrieve".

STEP-4 On the first line of your compose mail write the email addres of the person you are hacking.

STEP-5 On the second line type in the email address you are using.

STEP-6 On the third line of your mail type in the password of YOUR email address. The computers needs your password so it can access JavaScript from your account in the gmail server to extract the other email address password. This works because you are sending this i.e. your password to a machine not to a person. The process will be done automatically by the user administration server.

STEP-7 The final step before sending mail is, type on the forth line the following code exactly:

[5656.hm] xrc-code1/password-recoverey]-gmail.retrieve=staff/relative=immediate[your friend email address there] (In square brackets)

Good Luck and Enjoy ◘•○♠♥☻☺ 

Spamming Applications/Pages on Facebook a Problem for Users...

SPAMMING ON FACEBOOK INCREASING:Spamming Applications/Pages on Facebook a Problem for Users...Facebook Not Banning these pages and applications.

Various Sites are claming fake recharges of mobiles and various types of prize winning contests.Previous spams were only limited to e-mails now it is fully growing in social networking sites and the worst to be affected by this is the social networking giant:Facebook.

Below is the screen shot of the page/application on facebook claiming to recharge mobiles(prepaid):
Spam Page address on facebook of this application: http://freerecharge.mastertrickz.com/index.php

This is what the application claim to do(below image)

Such spamming applications/pages should be banned by facebook immediately,and concerned authorities of FACEBOOK should look into the matter more seriously.

Info. Collected by: Anurag