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New Fuser Facebook Application enables users to check MySpace messages from within Facebook Profile

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The developers of Fuser.com, a free and innovative online tool that enables Internet users to consolidate their e-mail and social networking accounts into a single online inbox, has launched its Fuser Facebook application. The application extends the convenience of Fuser.com to Facebook users by enabling them to check their MySpace messages, bulletins and comments from within their Facebook account. After downloading the Fuser Facebook application, Facebook users can view their MySpace communications without ever leaving Facebook.

Originally posted on January 23, 2008 @ 9:38 pm

Citysearch launches ‘Eat It’ application for Facebook

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Citysearch released “Eat It,” its new restaurant application on Facebook that allows users to review and share their restaurant recommendations with their online community free of charge. Leveraging Citysearch’s vast database of restaurants, Facebook users will be able to upload local restaurants into their Facebook profiles allowing them to review, rate, save and share restaurants they have visited, or plan to visit with their friends and networks.

To participate, users simply sign up at apps.facebook.com/eatit_iac.

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Originally posted on January 21, 2008 @ 4:38 pm

Trivya.com launches Facebook application

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trivya.pngTrivya.com, developer of the web’s biggest and fastest growing trivia game-platform, is launching a trivia game application for Facebook.

The Trivya application features exciting, fast-paced trivia games played against other members for play-money. Additionally the users will be able to participate in cash competition tournaments (wherever applicable by law), allowing them to win great prizes for sharpening their brains.

Trivya is a real time multiplayer service that enables people from all around the world to simultaneously compete against each other for fame, honor, glory and prizes. The featured games that can be accessed through the application include popular topics such TV trivia, movie trivia, sports trivia, and general knowledge. Players can pick a game according to their favorite subject and compete for the prize pool with other members who signed up for the game. Each game runs no more than 2 minutes, and the prize goes to the player who accumulates the highest number of correct answers. The game has player-friendly features such as the option to skip up to 4 questions, and to cut in half the number of answers in 2 multiple choice questions.

Originally posted on January 17, 2008 @ 2:47 pm

Facebook folds, reactivates Scoble’s account

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robert scobleFace it: Facebook is petrified of bloggers’ fury. Less than a day after the controversial news that Facebook banned Robert Scoble, he’s back once again perhaps more eager to run another automated script to test the mettle of this popular social networking site!

Ahhh, fame sucks (if you’re not famous that is). In his video, he denied (of course) using any Facebook data outside of Facebook.

Here’s the e-mail from Facebook he posted on his blog.

Hi Robert,

Facebook’s Terms of Use broadly prohibits the running of automated scripts on the site because they can be used to commit malicious attacks, send spam, and generally try to undermine the integrity of the site. When our systems detect these types of scripts, they immediately disable the account of the user responsible as a preventative measure. This is what happened in your case – your automated script was exhibiting the same behavior as other malicious scripts that we have blocked before so your account was disabled.

Our standard process for handling cases when an account is disabled for security violations is to allow a user to appeal and remedy the situation. This is the process we have followed here. Since you contacted us and have agreed not to run the script again, we have reactivated your account. You should now be able to log in with your normal email and password. In the future, please refrain from running these types of scripts again.

Thanks,

Jerry
User Operations
Facebook

photo via PRNewser

Originally posted on January 4, 2008 @ 10:24 am