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Facebook photos and pictures

Kinda free today, so I start googling for Facebook wallpaper. Not much that I found, so I turn to Flickr and starts looking for Facebook related photos and pictures. Flickr returns more than 100K search results, but most of them is craps. This is the best compilation from me.

If I missed giving a credit to copyrighted photos, just let me know ok

mark zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder - Credit to 14243404@N06

facebook HQ

In Facebook HQ. Notice the Facebook logo in the midst of kind like a DJ tools? - Credit to Cavemonkey

Blue glass - credit to firstfriday

facebook keyboard

Facebook keyboard?? Credit to Bota

do you facebook

Do you Facebook? - credit to libizblog

facebook VS myspace

Facebook VS Myspace, who is the best? - Credit to Mikemajewski

facebook tail logo

Facebook tail logo - credit to Eston

Huh? Try to steal Facebook? Credit to LaughingSquid

view from the side

Luckily, it still there - Credit to LaughingSquid

In the office - credit to varocker07

facebook wallpaper

Facebook wallpaper - credit to w3iss

facebook developer wallpaper

Facebook wallpaper developer - Credit to Abe_Estrada

facebook for dummies

Facebook for dummies - credit to Daveynin

Business card - credit to Avalonstar

writing to someone’s wall - credit to Hatem

f8_facebook

F8 facebook - credit to kohtz

err.. what's this

Esfonlibres sur Facebook??? credit to kaljato

f**k facebook

opss damn straight.. - credit to snub

zaki 4 June 2008 socialize & media , , , , , 2 Comments

Blame popular user when twitter is down

If you follow twitter closely, you might have noticed the service disruption couple of times. Based on the recent Q&A post on twitter dev blog, it was mentioned that the reason of this downtime is below.

charles asks if there’s anything users can do to lighten our load. The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when “popular” users - that is, users with large numbers of followers and people they’re following - perform a number of actions in rapid succession. This usually results in a number of big queries that pile up in our database(s). Not running scripts to follow thousands of users at a time would be a help, but that’s behavior we have to limit on our side.

Twitter is built on Ruby on Rails framework, and it seems that they have problem scaling twitter to cater for huge queries and mass users. But the down shouldn’t be that long.

On my past job, I was quite familiar with above mentioned problem, when the database starts utilizing huge number of resources (memory and CPU) but processes nothing (database locking and blocking). But most of the time the issue is resolved in a short period of time.

Perhaps this is what twitter lacking of right now.

Michael is confused as to why we don’t have “an army of geniuses working day and night”. We’d love to, but it’s easier said than done. We interview constantly and have a talented recruiter bringing us exceptional candidates daily. We’re careful about who we hire, though, because we’re trying to build a great team in a sustainable way. We’re currently exploring supplementing our team with consultants, and we’ve accepted strategic help from outside organizations who actually do have armies of geniuses. If you’d like to lend your genius to our particular problems, have a look at our jobs page.

Techcruch has more detail about Twitter’s downtime.

zaki 31 May 2008 socialize & media , , , 4 Comments

Twitter bug that is quite irritating

When it first time happen, oh ah, maybe there is connection problem with my internet. It prompt me similar error on the other day. Oh my, what happen??

So it keep happen every time I tried to add someone to my twitter from link like this, I think this is a bug. @jack , maybe you can advice

twitter

twitter

zaki 29 May 2008 socialize & media , 5 Comments

police in facebook?

Apparently it is not only regular folks like us use Facebook. Do you know, that even police department has established their own group and developed Facebook application there.

I first came across about it when I stumbled upon news on how Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has created their own Facebook application for the purpose of combating crime. It’ll publish police news and at the same time to report appeal for information (through form) for any lead to unresolved crime.

Another police related Facebook application that I came across is, Toronto Police News release, which publishes police news around Toronto, Canada.



I have both Facebook applications installed in my Facebook to sneak in what is inside. Not bad, considering the high load task that policemen has, they have leveraged the latest craze on social media to spread their news and at the same time gathering back info from millions of Facebook’s users.

Other than that application, there are 7 police departments page available in Facebook, with the most fans to be Vancouver Police Department. However, it serves mostly for recruitment purpose and publishing police news.

There are a lot of groups and individuals in Facebook with the police on it’s name or profile, so it’s kinda hard to find the legitimate one.

This is the interesting part. How effective is crime prevention/investigation using Facebook? No one is sure about that, but I found one Facebook group called WANTED BY POLICE that has the group closed after the case is resolved. And there are articles on how Facebook solved crime (directly or indirectly) in Georgetown and London .

After all, this shows that social media website is not the only place to get socialized, get around with friends and have fun and etc. Depending on the creativity, there are a lot beneficial things that can be obtained there. My advice, use it wisely!

On unrelated development, GMP has its own channel on Youtube too. Their police department seems to be very active on social media. I’m wondering if our PDRM has the same intention too. And hopefully, it is not politically motivated.

Source
BBC, ITWorld

zaki 25 May 2008 socialize & media , , , 4 Comments

Display Facebook updates in your wordpress dashboard

I’m currently on Facebook mood, so you might see Facebook related posts for the next couple of days in a row.

Luckily I now can open Facebook in my office. Otherwise this Facebook Dashboard Widget plugin would come in handy to view what your Facebook’s friends are doing

Basically it display the RSS feed of your friend’s notification, status update and posted items and display it on your Wordpress’s dashboard.

You can copy and paste the feed links to your RSS reader as well to view the similar items, but this plugin is intended so you can view everything in one places (especially if you spend most of your time in your blog)

Installation

1. Download the plugin
2. Unzip facebook-dashboard-widget.zip
3. Upload the entire facebook-dashboard-widget folder to your plugins directory
4. Go to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area and click to ‘Activate’ the Facebook Dashboard Widget.
5. Setup your plugin accordingly by following steps provided on the setup menu

Open you dashboard, and you should be able to view it such as on the screen shot below

Your facebook in dashboard


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Control panel


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zaki 6 May 2008 socialize & media , , , 11 Comments
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