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Posted By: Tina Wood | Jul 3rd @ 7:43 AM
Zine is your own online magaZINE of articles and videos that you personalize to include the topics you care about. Zine makes it easy to dig deeper into stories that interest you, and to share stories with your Facebook friends. Keep up to date with Zine!

• Zine, powered by MSN, covers a variety of fun topics such as Entertainment, Relationships, Sports, as well as US News and more.

• You can also create specific topics that you want the latest news stories for. Add a topic for your favorite celebrity, your favorite sports team, events, or anything that interest you. Examples are Mariah Carey, Seattle Mariners, Olympics, and US Stock Market.

• If you want to explore a story further, click the search button next to the headline. You’ll get articles, web sites, videos, and images related to your story.

• Easily share any story with your friends or post it to your profile using the Share+ button.
Posted By: Sarah Perez | May 30th @ 6:14 PM
Windows Mobile users will be happy to know that they finally have their own mobile Facebook app - something Blackberry owners have enjoyed for some time. The new app is called Snap2Face and it focuses on uploading photos to Facebook on the go as well as letting you view your friend's albums. That will be useful for WiMo users who want an easy want to upload pictures taken with their phone's camera, but it's disappointing that you can't use the app to see status info, pokes, or anything else. Hopefully, the developers will add these features in the future (fingers crossed!). However, it does have one other cool feature - you can use the app to import your friends' profile photos to your Outlook contacts. (via mobigasmic)
Posted By: Sarah Perez | May 19th @ 9:36 AM

A Live Search powered Facebook app called Search Share lets you search for all kinds of information that you can then share with your Facebook friends. Results for Search Share can include videos, images, web pages, news, and more. But Search Share isn't just a way to see traditional search engine results within Facebook, you can also preview the content and select the results you want via drag-and-drop in order to share them with your friends.

The items you want to share are dropped into a box at the top of the app and you can then choose to email those items to a friend or post them to your feed. What's really wild is that when you hover your mouse over a thumbnail of a video, it automatically starts playing. I wasn't expecting that - I figured you would have to go off site to watch videos, but it's all right there in Facebook.

On the main Search Share page, some interesting topics are already listed for you like Today's Hot Topics. For example, today's #1 topic is "polar bear status" (how sad!). There are also boxes showing Top Celebrities, Words of the Day, Your Friends' Latest Searches, and Your Saved Search History.

Search Share is somewhat similar to Zine, in that it facilitates you being able to share various items with friends, but unlike Zine, it's more of a tool that can be used as needed instead of an online digital magazine. 

Posted By: Tina Wood | May 13th @ 7:53 AM
Did you know you can use Windows Live Messenger and Facebook to connect with your friends, including showing your online status and allow people to contact you from your Facebook profile?

I sat down with Chris Parker and Farid Hosseini and they gave us a lesson on how to use Windows Live Messenger with Facebook. Yep, it's that easy. Download it here!  
Posted By: Sarah Perez | Apr 28th @ 10:44 AM

I just saw this over on the Windows Experience blog: a new baseball-themed gadget for the Vista Sidebar. The Fantasy Baseball Gadget lets you check your Fantasy Baseball news, player stats, and create your own roster, and the categories update every 10 minutes. Brandon points out that the gadget requires Adobe Flash, so Vista x64 users will need to run their sidebar under 32-bit to get it going. The gadget is available for download here.

For non-Vista users, the same gadget is available on Windows Live and Facebook, too.

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