Ideas and Reviews

Sunday 21 October 2012

Facebook offers Rs. 50 talktime for new users signing up via mobile

The process for the registration is pretty simple. You have to visit m.facebook.com/tt and follow the instructions appearing on the screen. New users don't require an e-mail address to complete the signing up formalities. All you have to do is give your mobile phone number. According to Facebook, talktime will be credited to users' account within three days of time.

Facebook is already massive popular in India. In fact, India has the second largest Facebook population. However, the social network aims to expand its reach in the country, especially by wooing the mobile users. A top Facebook official recently revealed that number of the Indian users accessing Facebook via mobile phones has significantly increased over the years.

Facebook's new scheme is certainly going to help the social network increase its popularity in the country. However, there are concerns the scheme may prompt the addition of fake profiles on the social network. According to the company's quarterly report, about 83 million Facebook accounts are fakes and dupes.

Sunday 7 October 2012

How to Add Facebook Comment Box to Blogger Blogs

Bloggers that wish to be successful in their blogging career cannot separate their blog from Facebook since it is one of the top channels to increase blog traffic.

Facebook comment box is a useful tool for bloggers to increase & improve conversations and drive more traffic since the post commented on by your blog visitors will be shown on the visitor’s wall on Facebook.

Today, I want to share a simple process that will enable bloggers to add Facebook Comment box to their blogs without any ado.

How to Apply Facebook Comment Box on Blogger Blog

Step:1 ==> Create a Facebook App ID

1. You need a Facebook App Id. Go to Facebook Developers Page to create one.

2. Click on "+ Create New App" a window will pop out, so enter your blog Name and click on "Continue" as shown in the image below:

3. A new app id will be given to you like the one you're seeing below, so note down your APP ID.

Step:2 ==> Add Comment Box Code To Blog Templates

1. Go to your Dashboard >> Templates >> Edit HTML and Expand Widget Templates checkbox.

2.Use CTRL + F key on your computer keyboard to search for <html and replace it with the code below.

<html xmlns:fb='http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml'

3. Search for <body> tag in you template and add the code below after it.

<div id='fb-root'/>
<script>
    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
    FB.init({
      appId : 'YOUR_APP_ID',
      status : true, // check login status
        cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the   session
      xfbml : true // parse XFBML
    });
};
    (function() {
    var e = document.createElement('script');
      e.src = document.location.protocol +   '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
    e.async = true;
      document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
    }());
</script>

4. Replace YOUR_APP_ID with the App ID you note in Step 1 above.

5. Search for </head> tag and add the open graph meta tags below above the </head> tag

<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageTitle' property='og:title'/>

<meta expr:content='data:blog.url' property='og:url'/>

<meta content='Ideas And Reviews' property='og:site_name'/>

<meta content='YOUR_BLOG_LOGO_IMAGE_LINK' property='og:image'/>

<meta content='YOUR_APP_ID' property='fb:app_id'/>

<meta content='http://www.facebook.com/IdeasandReviews' property='fb:admins'/>

<meta content='article' property='og:type'/>

Now Make the Following Changes on the Code above:
Replace Ideas Ans Reviews with your blog name.
Replace YOUR_BLOG_LOGO_IMAGE_LINK with your blog logo image url.
Replace YOUR_APP_ID with your app id.
Replace http://www.facebook.com/IdeasandReviews with your Facebook page url.

6. Search for the any of these tag:

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>

<data:post.body/>

Add the code below after any of the tags above and save your template.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div style='padding:0px 0px 0px 0px; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;'><script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1'/>
<div> <fb:comments colorscheme='light' expr:href='data:post.url' expr:title='data:post.title' expr:xid='data:post.id' width='520'/></div>
<div style='color:#fff; background-color:#3B5998;border: solid 1px #ddd; font-size:10px; padding:3px;'>Facebook Blogger Plugin by <b><a alt='blogger templates' href='http://www.ajaxpanex.blogspot.com/' style='text-decoration:underline; color:#fff;' target='_blank' title='blogger templates'>ajaxpanex.blogspot.com</a></b> | <b><a alt='Facebook-Comment-Box-widgets' href='http://ajaxpanex.blogspot.in/2012/10/add-pinterest-pin-it-button-with.html' style='text-decoration:underline; color:#fff;' target='_blank' title='Blogger Widgets'>Get Widget</a></b></div></div>
</b:if>

If you want to use the dark scheme then simply replace light with dark
To change the Comments box size, change this value width='520'

You can keep Facebook Comment box and Blogger default comment box. But in case you want to make Facebook comment box your default comment box, go to Settings > Posts and Comments and set the Show Comments option to Hide and Save the Settings.

Finish!

10 Awesome Cursors for Bloggers

You can make your Blog stand out among others by changing your blog mouse cursor so that whenever anybody reaches your blog, their computer default mouse will change to the one you have configured with your blog.

Here are 10 awesome cursors that can be used on blogger blogs. You only have to follow a few steps to get it working on your blog. Follow the instructions below.

Steps to Install a New Cursor to your Blog

1. Login to your blog “Dashboard” ==> “Templates” ==> tick “Edit HTML”.
2. Now search for the closing head tag i.e. </head>.
3. Finally, copy and paste the code of the mouse that you love best before/above </head> tag.

Cursor.1