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By Emil Protalinski- Summary: Some hackers are looking to kill Facebook today, but the hacktivist group Anonymous has not changed its stance: it still does not support their cause.   Although I debunked this story some three months ago, many are still asking if Facebook is being attacked today, if it will be taken down, and if their account credentials are safe. November 5 (Guy Fawkes Day) is arguably a more likely date for the social network to be hacked than your average Saturday, but as I’ve already said, if something does happen today, the hacktivist group Anonymous will not be to blame. This all started on July 16, 2011, when someone created accounts for an “Operation Facebook” on YouTube (FacebookOp) and Twitter (OP_Facebook). The goal was simple: “to bring attention to the fact that Facebook stored the data of user accounts.” The former account is dead and the latter hasn’t tweeted anything for almost a month. A previous tweet still points to a YouTube video detailing Facebook as the target for November 5, 2011. Back in August, I quickly … Continue reading →

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Promote Your Facebook Page on Your WordPress Site with a Lightbox Popup

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

By Sarah Gooding: If you want to get noticed in the digital world, you need multiple ways to get the attention of the internet’s huge pool of users. Your website can only do so much on its own and that’s why Facebook Fan Pages can be so helpful for expanding your notoriety to a broader audience and driving traffic back to your site. Setting up a Facebook Fan Page is easy and now with the Facebook Page Promoter Lightbox, it can be even easier to convert your WordPress site’s visitors into “Likes” on your Facebook Page. The plugin displays a Facebook Page-Like lightbox on your WordPress site that gives visitors the option to “Like” your Fanpage, while also displaying the number of fans you currently have, and a handful of avatars. Features include: Display the Facebook lightbox onload with or witouth a delay Limit the lightbox to once every $x days for individual visitors Promote your own Facebook fan page No API key necessary All you need is a Facebook page In order to make this work, you will need to … Continue reading →

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WordPress.com Comments Gain Support for Facebook & Twitter Logins

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

By Christina Warren, fabulous! Visitors to WordPress.com blogs can now leave comments with their Twitter or Facebook accounts. It’s a small new feature on the surface, but it opens up a lot more commenting opportunities for WordPress.com blogs. Third-party commenting systems such as Disqus and Echo have allowed users to authenticate with their Twitter or Facebook accounts for quite some time, but this is a big move for the hosted blogging platform. In the blog entry announcing the new feature, WordPress.com’s Scott Berkun points out a nice feature of the new login system: Users can stay logged in to multiple services at the same time. This is especially handy for users that might want to comment using Twitter or Facebook on some sites but want to use their WordPress.com account for others. Comments from Twitter or Facebook accounts aren’t pumped back into those social services, though. Instead, the logins simply act as a way to authenticate users. In the future, WordPress.com might work toward also giving users the option to publish or share comments back on Facebook or Twitter. For … Continue reading →

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Auto post WordPress to Facebook fan page

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

By Michael Aulia: I have already talked about how to auto post WordPress to Facebook using the WordBook plug-in. The plug-in allows you to automatically post your latest WordPress blog post to your Facebook account. But what if you have a Facebook fan page and you want to keep your personal account separately? By using a Facebook application called NetworkedBlogs, you can automatically post your latest WordPress blog post to a Facebook fan page. How to do an auto post from WordPress to Facebook fan page Add the NetworkedBlogs application on your Facebook account (you can do this by searching for “NetworkedBlogs” and then add the application through there). Follow the steps to add the application successfully to your account. After you add it in, go to the Application (through your Facebook profile’s sidebar) and find the “Register a Blog” button on the top of the NetworkedBlogs application. Fill your Blog Name, URL, and other details in. Follow the steps to successfully validate the blog and to confirm that you are the author of the blog. If everything is successful, you … Continue reading →

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