Want to know what the most popular Facebook pages are on any given day? Now you can! If you haven’t read it on Techcrunch, over the past month we have been tracking over 620,000 Facebook fan pages daily to determine how many fans they have and what type of growth they are experiencing. This is to improve our ability to track what’s popular on Facebook. While we’d like to provide more data about each of these fan pages, tracking the total number of fans is all we are providing for the time being (and for the foreseeable future).
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A couple months ago I launched the Facebook application statistics tracker which lets you view the monthly active users of pretty much any application on Facebook. Over the past few weeks, the numbers have begun to display errors and there were a few problems. I went ahead and fixed the problems but also upgraded the application statistics tool all together.
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Some users have been sending me e-mails about errors in the application tracker. I just wanted to let you know that I’m well aware of the issues and have been working on a resolution. Additionally, I’ve been building substantial upgrades which has led me to wait a few days before rolling out a solution. I have also built a few new products that we’ll be rolling out in the coming weeks.
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Are you trying to keep track of all the latest sites to integrate with Facebook Connect? I know I am. That’s why last night I programmed the Facebook connect directory. While Facebook already displays websites in the Facebook application directory, there isn’t a way to view just sites that have implemented Connect, especially mainstream sites and applications.
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For the past few months I’ve had multiple people ask me about the best places to get statistics about Facebook applications on the web. There are now a number of services that offer ways to track applications, some more accurate than others, and each with their own set of features. For the past couple months I have been programming in what little free time I have to build the first iteration of our Facebook Application Statistics service.

This is simply a starting point for tracking everything that is taking place in the Facebook economy and I have some pretty cool features rolling out in the coming weeks. One feature that I wanted to ensure was immediately available is the ability to embed charts that you find on this site and place them elsewhere around the web.
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Last week I announced the launch of our Facebook Tutorial series. This week we are expanding our efforts to turn AllFacebook into a central knowledge center for everything related to Facebook. As such today I’m announcing the launch of our Facebook Help section. It’s pretty simple and straight-forward. It also may be completely idiotic! The goal is to answer anybody and everybody’s question related to Facebook.

I know that there are millions of people looking for answers to Facebook but you would figure that most of these questions are repeated frequently. While Facebook has their own help section, there are still a lot of questions that go unanswered. For all those questions, we are releasing the AllFacebook knowledge base. Honestly I am already expecting this to quickly turn into an overwhelming experience but that’s why we have interns at the ready!

I’ve also created a nice question parsing tool to filter out many of the questions being asked. I’m sure thousands will fit through the cracks but thankfully there is a back-end system to manage all this! If you have a question about Facebook go ask them! While I have the feeling that we will be bombarded with questions, it really doesn’t matter. From the easiest to the hardest, come ask them!

The goal is to answer absolutely every question. I think there are a lot of people that want their questions answered so let’s get started!

Have you been confused by the new Facebook design? Are there still things that you can’t figure out how to do on Facebook and never were able to? In keeping with the theme of this site, we are working to produce the most comprehensive series of tutorials on the web on how to use Facebook. Over the next year we will be releasing full video tutorials on how to use Facebook.

AllFacebook is not simply a blog. We are working to create the single most comprehensive resource for everything related to Facebook. This is simply the next step in keeping with that vision. The first video in our series is “How to Create a Facebook Profile“. We will be posting more videos and instructional guides over the coming weeks and months.

To stay up to date with all of our tutorials, check out the Facebook tutorials page. We will be updating that page regularly so check back for the latest tutorials on Facebook. We figured that with all the confusion surrounding the new Facebook design, this would be the perfect time to release our tutorial series. Hopefully you find this information to be useful!

For those that are Facebook experts, please keep in mind that we are starting with the most basic information and working our way up from there. Once we are complete with the Facebook tutorial series, there should be something that everybody can learn from. We will be working to improve sounds and video quality over the coming weeks. We will also make the videos available in multiple formats so that it is accessible for everybody.

Please let us know if you have any feedback or questions!

A few months ago we announced the launch of the AllFacebook job board. We decided to use the Jobthread software to host the job board. The unfortunate side effect of using the system was that jobs immediately fell off after 30 days when we actually wanted to keep them posted. The end result is that our job board sometimes ends up empty event though there have been a number of jobs posted.

So how can we ensure that companies get what they pay for? Well, I’ve thought about it long and hard and the best way to ensure companies get their money’s worth is to make it so they don’t spend money! As of today jobs on the AllFacebook job board are now free. How do you get a job posted for free? Simple, use the discount code AFFREE and you won’t have to pay.

So don’t wait, go ahead and post a job. Don’t forget to use the discount code AFFREE! If you post a job we must approve it so please allow us up to 24 hours for it to show up in the directory.

On May 28th last year I embarked on what would turn out to be an exciting journey. I launched AllFacebook because I saw the significance of the Facebook platform. It turned out to be a great idea and the site experienced the most growth of any project I have ever worked on. Within a couple of months over 100,000 people had visited the site and many of them continue to come back to this day.

I am extremely grateful to all of you for sticking through as I face the challenge of running what is ultimately a one-man team with a little bit of support now and again. I’m also thankful for each of the contributors that have provided a fresh perspective. I will continue to write on this blog in addition to Social Times. While the majority of my attention has shifted to my other blog, I still continue to provide as much news as possible related to Facebook on this site.

Whether it is development issues or breaking news about changes within Facebook’s organization, this site will continue to cover the stories pertaining to the rapid growing social network. Thanks for reading and I look forward to continuing to serve you!

Yesterday over at The Social Times I wrote a post on how gangs are recruiting youth through social networks. It seems our friends across the pond (the Atlantic) are having a similar problem but with extremist Muslim groups instead. Today the Edinburgh Journal is running a story about creating jihads through Facebook.

The story, by Miles Johnson, claims that the banned Al Muhajiroun extremist group has been operating a private Facebook group that is being used to spread hate. The group has several British students as members and even included employees at the financial services company Citigroup.

The group has posted links to extremist propaganda written by jailed authors. I am not certain what the laws are in England, but in the US much of these writings would be classified as hate speech. Hate speech is not protected by freedom of speech because it incites direct action and propagates violence.

It will be interesting to see how British authorities handle this situation. Will the government see being part of a Facebook group as an actual affiliation? If the government decides to pursue this case, it could set some interesting precedent for Facebook.

Think about it like this: If the British government decides to say that joining a Facebook group is the same as joining an extremist group in the real world, it may cause a great deal of people to take a moment of pause when deciding what Facebook groups they join.

What if you joined a Facebook group that was labeled illegal by the government, should you face criminal charges? Should the government consider digital affiliation the same as physical? I don’t know. We see a great deal of change in the laws regarding digital rights and digital representation. I guess this is just one more example of laws having to play catch up.

Do you think the government should actively pursue banning certain Facebook groups?