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Keep up with your Facebook Friends Status with RSS

Posted on17. Sep, 2008 by Marc.

One of the cool things about Facebook is you are able to see your friend status updates, when you log in. If you use RSS, you can also subscribe to their Status Updates, so they appear in your RSS reader on a daily basis.
To do this:

Log into your Facebook account
Go to http://www.new.facebook.com/friends/?status=
Click on the RSS [...]

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Cliff – Fake – Jennings

Posted on30. Aug, 2007 by Marc.

It would seem my previous post about Cliff Jennings should be taken with a pinch of salt. According to a fellow South African blogger Bruinman, it turns out Cliff is just a good act by actor Eduan Van Jaarsveldt . A fake but clever marketing ploy by M-Net & their ad agency Ogilvy, who created [...]

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Cliff Jennings – Clever Self Marketing

Posted on28. Aug, 2007 by Marc.

If you been watching the latest South African series of Idols, you would have by now noticed a character that keeps popping up. A guy by the name of Cliff Jennings has featured on every single show, and what a clever boy he is. If you ask anyone who has watched they more than likely [...]

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Facebook Lifehack – No More Facebook Applications

Posted on24. Aug, 2007 by Marc.

I know I have been posting a lot of Facebook shit lately, but I came across a handy new feature that makes me very happy. After last week’s rant about Facebook apps, I have found quick and easy way to ignore them.
Firstly it seems that Facebook has changed the way they display the apps to [...]

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Survivors banned from Facebook

Posted on23. Aug, 2007 by Marc.

Last night saw the first episode of the popular reality series Survivor South Africa start in South Africa. In what I think is a bit of a bizare twist, according to this article, M-Net & the producers of the Survivor South Africa show, banned all the contestants from acessing Facebook, or blogs until they [...]

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67 ways to waste more time

Posted on17. Aug, 2007 by Marc.

Over the last 2 months, I have been avoiding all the invites to the “cool” applications on Facebook. All 67 of them.

Facebook really should have an option, that allows you to block any invites to applications. It really is an unobtrusive spam, that I have no interest in.. The application developers now have [...]

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Facebook Source Code leaked

Posted on12. Aug, 2007 by Marc.

A recent story on TechCrunch reveals how a small number of Facebook users were exposed to Facebook’s code over the weekend. Someone who was exposed to this glitch has posted it on a Blogger blog (http://facebooksecrets.blogspot.com/), for the world to see. Interesting times. It would seem Facebook security, does not always match up to what [...]

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