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I recently saw a post on Jason Langridge's blog about the Windows Mobile Fan group on Facebook, which got me thinking, I wonder how many Microsoft Facebook groups are there? Quite a few, as it turns out. I couldn't find anyone else who had put together a list of all the groups, so I figured I…

Nitrodesk Photographer's Edition is a WPF application that lets you connect to and manage your photos and photo albums across several different photo sharing services. With Nitrodesk, you can pick any online album and manage it in real-time - updating the album or photo properties, viewing and…

Two new Microsoft Office powered Facebook apps have just appeared: Framed Again and Office Poke! The Office Poke app is an alternative to SuperPoke, letting you send funny work-related pokes to your friends, like "Throw a Stapler," "Send Underpants through Inter-office Mail," and…

There are 17,375 applications on Facebook today, including two new ones I'm going to write about - Framed Again! Gadget and Office Poke! Gadget. The first one allowes you to make an exchange of photos more fun. All you have to do is go to the special Framed Again! gallery, choose…

Jussi Palo, a .Net developer, has created an add-in for Windows Vista Media Center that updates your facebook user status according to what you're watching/listening on Media Center. Using the add-in, your facebook status will be updated with a line that says: "....is watching (name of…

A new mobile application called CellSpin lets you create video, audio, photos, and text on your cell phone and upload that content to your favorite social networking web sites and communities. From the phone, you just pick one of the four media types you want to create and then, with one click, you…

A new product called Chirpscreen is a screensaver that displays information from your social networks. Having just launched into beta, the screensaver currently shows content from Facebook and flickr, but plans to offer much more in the future. The Facebook content includes status updates from your…

I've written a few posts about apps that get your Facebook contacts into Outlook - like FBLook, which provides access to Facebook via a toolbar add-in, and Facebook app, Fonebook, which syncs your contacts; but what about exporting contacts from Outlook to Facebook? If you are like most…

A service called MoDazzle brings social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Salesforce.com to your mobile phone. In an attempt to make searching these networks faster for mobile users with bandwidth issues, MoDazzle offers a way to interact with these networks using unique email addresses and…

From those same great people that brought us Outlook and Twitter integration, comes another excellent tool - FBLook, which seamlessly integrates Facebook into Outlook. Using FBLook, which appears in your Outlook as a new toolbar, you can update your Facebook status, see your friends' statuses, and…