Twitter, as everyone and their tweeting dog knows, limits your status updates to 140 characters. But Facebook? In September, Facebook increased the character limit on status updates to 5,000 characters. Today, Facebook announced that you can now write posts with more than 60,000 characters. In a blog post, Facebook’s Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik announced that the limit of Facebook status updates has now been upped to “more than 60,000 characters.” Lavrusik explained what that meant, exactly: You can now post a status update measuring 63,206 characters.
TechCrunch reported that Facebook has released a desktop messenger client for Windows 7 that brings you access to the site's chat, ticker feed and notifications without everyone in the office spotting the blue-bar-of-lost-productivity across the top of your browser. There is no public download link, and the client is only compatible with Windows 7, though it was developed entirely by Facebook and does not constitute a new partnership with Microsoft.
SlingPlayer has added one more platform to its pile, check out the video below for quick demo of streaming video through Facebook. While the old Sling streaming will works as it used to be, this one adds extra flavor in from of social features to the mix, which will let viewers share the shows and what they enjoy watching easily while not-so-coincidentally making sure their friends know they're watching TV via Slingbox. There's no word on when this will actually hit the streets. SlingPlayer for Facebook
Now you can now easily link your personal Facebook account to your Twitter account, and publish your “public” status updates directly to Twitter. #1 Go to http://www.facebook.com/twitter #2 Choose your personal Facebook account and then click “Link to Twitter” #3 Choose which items you’d like to send to Twitter, of course they’ll have to be marked as “Public” for them to be shared.
You love watching videos on Facebook and equally love browsing news feed, so if you want to scan through your Facebook news feed without stopping for each YouTube video someone posts, the Facebook Video Player extension will play videos in the upper right-hand corner of your window, allowing you to keep browsing as it plays. Facebook Video Player moves that video to the other side of your browser and "floats" it over the rest of Facebook, so you can keep scrolling while the video stays in place. The extension allows to play video on facebook in a fixed block so
Read MoreFacebook will soon allow you to get help from your friends when you get locked out of your Facebook account - “Trusted Friends”. It will also be introducing something called “App Passwords” to bring increased security to Facebook-enabled applications. According to a post on Facebook’s official Security page, you’ll be able to designate three to five friends as “Trusted Friends” who will be sent special codes in the event that you’re locked out of your Facebook account and unable to access your email. Typically, when you can’t remember your Facebook password, you can have a password reset sent to you via
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