People who have friends on Facebook from different countries encounter a problem – in what language should they write their status messages? If they use their native language, their friends from other countries will not understand anything. On the other hand, if they only write in English, for example, then it might be difficult for some of their friends to understand it.
Here is the solution for multilingual Facebook friends:
Create a friends list of all the people who doesn’t speak your native language, and filter out the message that they can’t understand.
Let’s see how to do this.
[For the sake of this post I will use Hebrew as a native language, and English for friends from other countries].
Create a list of people who doesn’t speak your language
To create a list of friends do the followings:
- Click ‘Friends‘ on the left sidebar.
- Click the ‘Create a List‘ button (it is right on the right hand side of the ‘Friends’ title at the top of the page – see image below).
Create a list of friends on Facebook
- You should now see a pop-up window titled ‘Create New List‘. Give the list a name (for example: ‘doesn’t speak Hebrew’) and add all of your friends who doesn’t speak your native language to that list.
- Click ‘Create List‘ once you are finished.
*Note that from now on, whenever you friend someone who doesn’t speak your native language you have to add him to the list*
I’v opened a Fan Page for ProductiveWise on Facebook. You’re invited to join it.
This is a guest post by Ann Smarty, a social media and search blogger and online entrepreneur.
Real-time search is the latest achievement of web 2.0. Never before was it so easy to speak to the whole world and to be instantly heard. This post overviews the 4 most popular search engines capable of generating fresh results.
It is hard to compare them to choose the best one: there are no winners in this game. They all have some benefits and should be used in particular cases:
| Real-time search engine |
Data source |
How old are the results? |
Most important benefit |
| Twitter |
Twitter discussions |
Instant |
The huge service popularity and thus a large index of data |
| Facebook |
Facebook discussions |
Instant |
The huge service popularity and thus a large index of data |
| Google |
Google web index |
One hour old |
Plenty of search opportunities |
| Friendfeed |
Most social networks + all user-added feeds |
Instant |
Multiple data sources combined |
…Read the rest of How to Search the Web Real-Time »
Google reader is probably the best RSS reader available today. Here are some tips and practices for power users (hopefully, you) to help you better manage your RSS reading time and leverage it, tweak Google Reader to use first and second level categorization, and optimize you RSS subscription list.
Use folders to prioritize your reading
At a certain point you’ve probably realize that it is just not possible to read all of the new items you get. One possible solution is to use folders to categorize your feeds. Once you categorized all your feeds, you can read prioritize your reading by urgency level.
For example, I use a folder called ‘Immediate‘ where I put feeds that I want to read the moment they publish something new because it is important for me to know about them as soon as possible. These could be work related or new trends, usually things that if no read within day or two (sometimes less), they became irrelevant.
Other folders I use are ‘friends‘, ‘Podcasts‘, ‘Premier Blogs‘, and some more. I also use a ‘must read‘ folder for things that I want to read sometime, but it doesn’t really matter when (such as family blogs or new WordPress plugins).
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Facebook has just announced it has acuired Frindfeed. Frindfedd says in thir blog that:
FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We’re still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team. As usual, we will communicate openly about our plans as they develop — keep an eye on the FriendFeed News group for updates.
Facebook’s offical press realse:
PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 10, 2009 — Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.
“Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends,” said Bret Taylor, a FriendFeed co-founder and, previously, the group product manager who launched Google Maps. “We can’t wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations we’ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook’s 250 million users around the world.”
“As we spent time with Mark and his leadership team, we were impressed by the open, creative culture they’ve built and their desire to have us contribute to it,” said Paul Buchheit, another FriendFeed co-founders. Buchheit, the Google engineer behind Gmail and the originator of Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto, added, “It was immediately obvious to us how passionate Facebook’s engineers are about creating simple, ground-breaking ways for people to share, and we are extremely excited to join such a like-minded group.”
Taylor and Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps. At FriendFeed, they’ve brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.
“Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use.”
FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not released.
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Two weeks a go I gave a lecture in a social media seminar. Now I’ve translated the presentation I used into English and made it easier to understand without seeing the actual lecture.
The presentation describes 20 social media practices that will help you in your daily life. It includes tools to monitor your web presence, ways to track interesting topics and conversations, methods to find people and to get answers, and more.
It revolves around the following seven categories:
- People Database
- Keeping in touch and more
- Conversation
- Search
- Collaborating
- Monitoring and News
- Self monitoring
I’ll be glad to get your feedback and thoughts about it.
Social networks and social media tools let you find and communicate with people all over the world, even if you’ve never met or known them before. But sometimes, all you really need is the opinion, advice or support of the people closest to us. Status Search answers that need by letting you search your friends’ social status updates.
Recently launched in beta, Status Search is a little private search engine. It connects to your Facebook and Twitter accounts (no need to give away any passwords) and then lets you search the status updates of the people you follow, and also the photos, links and videos of your Facebook friends.
Can’t I just use Google?
If you think about it, many of your quests for information would be better answered, and sometimes can only be answered, by people you know or those who are in your close surroundings. Also, you have much better information about the reliability of these people and it is easier to approach them.
Let’s think of some realistic examples. It’s Saturday morning and you want to go with someone to the sea. Just type in ’sea’ and you’ll find all the people who’ve written something about it – some are probably about to go there…
…Read the rest of Status Search – Search within Your Friends’ Status Updates »
When people are searching for you on Facebook, the first thing they do is run a search on your name. But what if they only know you by your maiden name or your name is just hard to spell? And what about the nickname you use on Skype, Google talk and AIM, Are they associated with your account?
Facebook has a solution for these situations. In this post, we’ll learn how to add an alternate name and IM screen names to your Facebook account, thus making you easier to find.
Alternate name on Facebook
As Facebook explain, the alternate name in your account “is only used to help people find you in search and will not show up in your profile“. Use it “for a former name or a name in another language.”
Here is how to add an alternate name to your Facebook account:
- When logged in, choose “Account Settings” under “Settings” (you’ll see it in the top right corner of the screen).
- Next to “Name,” click “change.“
- Enter a full name in the “Full Alternate Name” filed, and click the “Change Former Name” button below.
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