Everything You Need to Know About the New Facebook Messages

Mark Zuckerberg has announced at Facebook's press event today a new messaging system which sums up real-time chat, email, SMS, other chat clients. So get ready for your @facebook.com address.

Facebook Messages system is not a regular mail, there are no subject lines, no CC or BCC. You can send a message just by hitting the Enter key. It's going to feel like chat. A lot of times, it's going to be chat (ops!). It allows messages with more seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple, minimal and short way, CEO & Founder Mark Zuckerburg said.

How to get it? You don't need to create a new account, Facebook mail will use your current public vanity URL. In case you have a username as mine http://facebook.com/username, you will be able to register with the same username as username@facebook.com. The revamped Facebook Messages will be rolled out to the social network’s 500+ million users over the next few months.

In case you don't like waiting, you can request an invite by navigating your browser to this link and simply hit Request and you will receive an invite soon. You can also try following @FBeMail on Twitter to score some invites.

And yes, as Zuckerberg quoted, This is a messaging experience that includes email as one part of it.

Another great thing I forgot to mention in my post that it almost comes to all the mobile platforms including the iPhone users. We expect an update soon for Facebook for iPhone app with the all new unified messaging system. But will you really give up your Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo? Let us know!

We'll also post a quick walkthrough after getting the invitation. Stay tuned.

Skype and Facebook Integration, It's Really Awesome !

Facebook and Skype integration will be really awesome. AllThingsD has learned citing sources familiar with the situation, that the two giant companies are working on a deal that would integrate Facebook Connect with Skype accounts. By this big move you will be able to SMS, call and video call with your Facebook friends from Skype.

You can see in the below screen-shot the new features in action, you can enjoy the new features in the upcoming Skype 5.0 which expected to goes out within two weeks.

It makes sense to see this integration, as it will be a big move to the both companies. For Facebook, it will enrich its service by enabling new ways to communicate with your Facebook friends, as its chat service are limited compared to Google Talk. For Skype, this integration will allow it to complete access to the largest social network with over 500 million users. [via Mashable]

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Facebook Testing New “Subscribe To” User Feature

According to AllFacebook, Facebook is currently testing a new “Subcribe to” all the actions of a specific user feature. In fact, it may be a Twitter-like “Follow” feature which Facebook will introduce soon. You will receive notifications anytime the user takes an action on Facebook. In other words, “By subscribing you don’t miss any updates from people you subscribe to.”

If this feature extends to Pages, this would be powerful. As AllFacebook mentioned, Facebook fan page could get fans count and subscribers count with this new feature. The screenshots below illustrates how this feature works

If you have noticed this feature, hope you let us know by commenting in the comment section below.

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Facebook Improves Chat, Means no More IE6 Support

Facebook Introduces new Chat with no more interruptions that improves Chat's stability, speed and reliability Facebook engineer Rodrigo Schmidt says that Chat will not be supported on older browsers, particularly on IE6. Whatever, IE6 will be completely disabled by the launch of IE9 beta on September 15th.

Facebook says that Facebook's Chat is now one of the most widely used communication features on the network which was launched two years ago! 

How to: Disable/Control Facebook Places

Facebook has just announced the "Place" feature yesterday, which allows you to see where are your friends and share your position with them, but this amazing feature for some of us may be annoying feature for others, so I will show you how to control or disable "Places" feature in Facebook with video and screen-shots.
Step 1:Sign in your Facebook account:
Step 2:Once you log in your account, press of Account > Privacy Settings.

 Step 3:Click on "Customize Settings"

Step 4:In the "Things I Share" section you will find "Places I check in to" , click on the button in front of it, then choose "Customize".

Step 5:You will see a pop up menu, press on the drop menu in front of "These people" , choose "Only Me" if you want to disable "Places" feature, then click "Save Setting", but if you want to hide from specified friends, you can list them in to "Hide this from", then click "Save Setting".

Step 6:In the "Things others share" , you will find something called "Friends can check me in to Places", click on the button in front of it, then choose "Disabled".

Here you can see the video showing how to disable Place in Facebook.

[Video via lifehacker]

Facebook Changed Notifications preview?

Today, one of our member has sent us that Facebook has just changed the way you preview notifications, I also noticed that. Yesterday the notifications was appeared as old, when someone comment on a video, the video icon appears beside the notifications then the name of the person who commented and etc.. Today, it's cooler and more excited

Notifications,Yestarday:

Notifications, Today:

If you watched the two screenshots above, you may notice the new Notifications, the person who comment on the video, it's profile image appear! more funny!

Facebook is working on Making Photos Better

Facebook has just published a post on it's blog announcing that they working to improve Facebook and making it better. They are working on Making Photos better as responds for people who asking to improve photos and images especially while tagging!
Check this part about tagging photos:

People love tagging their friends and family in photos, but we've heard that it can be a tedious process. You now can add tags with just a couple of clicks directly from your home page and other sections of the site, using the same face detection technology that cameras have used for years. We're running a limited test of this technology so you may not see it yet. If you do, you'll see the following box while browsing Facebook

Read More about this topic on Facebook Blog --> Check Here.

Facebook Adds Q&A Feature to Compete Yahoo and Wiki Answer?

Facebook Adds Q&A Feature [Beta] to enter the competition with Yahoo and Wiki Answers, But for me I don't think that Facebook can do better than Yahoo Answers and Wiki Answers. Facebook wants itself in all fields!!

On the App's page facebook Announces,

We think it will be as exciting as Facebook Photos and Facebook Events, but we need your help to make it great… You’ll be the first person outside of Facebook to use this product

You can Easily try the Beta Version of the App by Sumbting and Answering three questions of your own at this page. [via Mashable]
And we will announce you with any more details from Facebook, Keep Updated!!