1 Million Facebookers for Anti Corruption in Indonesia

Join Gerakan 1.000.000 Facebookers Dukung Chandra Hamzah & Bibit Samad Riyanto here not only for Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad but beyond that: for the future of anti-corruption movement in Indonesia to success.

The member as per now (2 November 2009): 292,104.

If you’re a non-Indonesian who might not know this hot news currently flooded the Indonesia media headline everyday this is from Vivanews.com on 30 October 2009:

VIVAnews – Two inactive leaders of Indonesian anti-graft commission (KPK), Bibit Samad Riyanto and Chandra M Hamzah, have lost their freedom after the two attended the summons from the Indonesian Police on Thursday, October 29. The police later decided to arrest both Riyanto and Hamzah on the day.

Apparently, the public is having a different opinion.

Aside from the 15 national figures pledging themselves to revoke Riyanto and Hamzah’s confinement, Facebook users are also giving their support for both leaders.

Through the forming of “1.000.000 Facebookers Support Chandra Hamzah & Bibit Samad Riyanto” group, the support is being gathered.

“Whether or not they are guilty, we, who are outside the system, might be agitated by the cases dealt by Chandra and Bibit.”

“It’s possible that this case resembles an iceberg. Probably there are a lot of other people like Chandra and Hamzah experiencing the same thing,” the group creator, Usman Yasin, says in the group page’s introduction column.

In less than a day, the group has gained 1566 supporters. There is also a similar group under the name of “Free Bibit-Chandra”.
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Facebook Badges

If you are Facebook users–who are not?–you may put various banners (badges / logo / widget, chicklet) into your blog by visiting this link (after login into your account, of course).

Badges available inludes:

Notes:
Two imporant badge you can’t miss: (1) Profile badge and (2) Share badge. Share badge is very useful to boost your blog popularity. If you’re blogging using blogger / blogspot, see the sample placement here. Facebook Share is like voting for your blog. Everytime someone clicks the Share button, the number will increase. If you click the Facebook Share button on the blog’s frontpage, it means you vote for the blog. If you click the Faebook Share button when you are reading an article of a particular blog, you vote for the article not the blog; so the number will be added for the particular post / article.

Facebook buys social media aggregator FriendFeed

Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed will probably add a decidedly Google-like flavor to the social networking site and make it a stronger player in the face of Google’s rumored interest in acquiring social networking companies like Twitter.

Twitter Struggles against DDoS Attack

More than two days after experiencing a complete outage as a result of a distribute denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, Twitter and other social networking sites such as Facebook are still battling a surge in traffic related to the attack.

Twitter Facebook

If you like both Twitter and Facebook, you can write your latest short message / status  in one of them and shown in all two. The following is a simple way to make your Twitter status  integrated into Facebook’s using Twitter facebook application.

Follow this simple tutorial:

1. Login to your Facebook account.

2. Copy this link (right click -> copy link location for Firefox or right click -> copy shortcuts for IE) and paste it into the Facebook you just signed-in / logged- in.

3.  Click “Allow”

4. Twitter.com login will pop up. Login with your Twitter account (Twitter’s username & password)

5. Click “Allow Twitter to Update your Facebook Status”

6. Click “Allow Status Updates”. Done.

Now your Twitter latest update status will also appear in Facebook’s status.

Note: Don’t forget to click application setting in this link -> Twitter, to make it appear in Box and Wall’s Facebook Tab.

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Facebook Import Notes

You can import part of your blog’s content to add your blog’s visibility and traffic into Facebook using Facebook import notes facility. Here’s how:

1. Choose ‘Notes’ in the ‘Applications’ menu (in the bottom left bar).
2. Click on ‘Import a blog’ which located under “Notes Settings.”
3. Type in the URL of your blog example www.fatihsyuhud.com and Check the “agreement”.
4. Click on “Confirm Import” at the bottom of the preview. DONE.

Notes: This import notes facility can only import one blog into facebook. If you want to import more than one blog into Facebook, use RSS apps instead (look at here for simple tutorial).

See the live demo at my Facebook profile

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Facebook Usernames

Update 6/14: Now Facebook username is available for everyone.

Here is how to get the pretty facebook usernames url address like http://facebook.com/fatihsyuhud:

1. Login to your facebook account

2. Just go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ and pick your own username profile as you like.

Remember, once you decide to use one name, you cannot change it.

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Facebook opens up a chance for its users to use a shorter URL profiles something like http://facebook.com/fatihsyuhud. However, it has some requirements. Read Facebook FAQ below to make your own facebook usernames and who are eligible to do it.

Usernames Eligibility

Who is eligible to participate?
Eligibility is limited to anyone who joined Facebook before usernames were publicly announced at 3 p.m. (EDT) on June 9, 2009. These users will have the chance to claim usernames at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 13, 2009.

This limitation is temporary. All users who joined Facebook after the cut-off will be eligible to claim usernames on Sunday, June 28, 2009.

Why are you limiting eligibility?
This decision was made to prevent people from creating new accounts just to take advantage of reserving a username. Eligibility is limited to anyone who joined Facebook before username availability was publicly announced at 3 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Eligible users will have the chance to claim usernames at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 13, 2009.

This limitation is temporary. All users who joined Facebook after the cut-off date will be eligible to claim usernames on Sunday, June 28, 2009.

I’m new to the site. When can I claim a username?
If you joined Facebook after 3 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, you will need to wait until Sunday, June 28, 2009 to become eligible to claim a username.

If you joined Facebook before username availability was publicly announced at 3 p.m. (EDT) on June 9, then you will have the opportunity to claim a username at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 13, 2009.

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