After the flurry of changes launched by Facebook in recent weeks, the social networking site released a series of individual guides for celebrities, journalists, musicians, athletes, politicians and non profits, that will help these audiences get the most out of their Facebook pages.

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Photoshop and Facebook page creation are becoming more intertwined: Hike has released a free Photoshop template for Facebook pages, joining fellow German company 247Grad’s Facebook Page GUI, which was introduced earlier this month.

Hike’s template is vector-based, with individual elements set in the exact pixel locations that they occupy on Facebook pages.

Only the icons are not incorporated in the form of vectors.

The layers in the Photoshop documents are named in a manner that speeds the incorporation process.

The template can be viewed in four different ways:

• Wall displays the Facebook page white board with text items.
• Wireframe wall has the details replaced by placeholders.
• Custom tab is a base with items represented by text.
• Custom tab wireframe,  much like the other wireframe option, replaces text components with placeholders.

The use of Photoshop to create Facebook pages seems like it would make things simpler for designers and photographers to create professional presences on the social network.

Readers, have any of you attempted to build a Facebook page via Photoshop?

A new Facebook page offers businesses a how-to guide to marketing and advertising on the social network.
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Facebook has apparently disabled RSS links on pages, about a year and a half after incorporating them. Although they have never been completely consistent on this issue, it is telling that this feature has been silently disabled.

Blogger Jessie Stay points out that users can no longer subscribe to someone’s Facebook Page via RSS. After nixing the feature for Profiles (meaning that one can no longer follow a friend’s profile updates via RSS), it seems that subscribing via RSS on the social network is now completely impossible. You can now only follow someone’s Page by subscribing via SMS.

Facebook quietly began to publish content via RSS early in 2010. At the time, we praised the move because it really made it useful to keep up with those pages we followed.

And yet, Facebook has always been inconsistent around the benefits of allowing users to subscribe via RSS to the site, going as far as shutting down applications that converted content from the social network into digestible streams suited for RSS.

Now it seems that RSS on Facebook is no more. While we wait on an official statement from the company, I’m going to side with Jessie Stay on the possible significance of this move.

It appears that our ability to defend and maintain open standards on the web continues to dwindle. Pulling an open protocol such as RSS off Facebook means that, as Stay explains, “only developers like myself can code anything to extract that data — the average user has no way of pulling that data out of Twitter or Facebook.”

What do you think about RSS no longer being available on Facebook pages?

Who could hate Gandhi? Apparently, 2,904 people do, based on the fan count of a Facebook page that has upset police in the Republic of India. That number  seems like a lot of enemies for someone wildly regarded as a heroic role model for peace and perseverance.
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Nursing is one of the most challenging and at times exhausting professions, but at the end of the day it is also one of the most rewarding. The field is one that is filled with so much information to learn that at times it is almost like a full time job in itself to keep up and take everything in. We have gathered ten pages on Facebook that will surely help simplify the process of staying current in this medical profession. Be sure to check out the pages below, and add any additional favorites in the replies!
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Be good to your Facebook fans, who can click “unlike” almost as easily as they liked you in the first place. It’s harder work to keep them happy than you might think at first — that’s why large brands and big celebrities often have more than one administrator moderating wall posts.
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Police have found a missing girl who’d been the focus of community pages on Facebook.
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At some point in the past 48 hours Facebook has made public profile comments and likes public information. Earlier this week I was browsing through public profiles (aka. Facebook pages) and noticed that comments and likes were not public information. Then this morning I was browsing through Facebook pages (while not logged in to the site) to check out how much more popular Vin Diesel had become. Honestly, I was searching for was the number of comments and likes on any given feed story. Suddenly the information had become public and now I’m able to view all of the comments and likes for any given feed item.
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Over the past week Ellen DeGeneres has seen a surge in her Facebook fan page base. How has the team promoted the Facebook page? She has actually promoted the page on air and they are giving way free products such as a free HD Tivo. The promotion in combination with a link on the Ellen DeGeneres website has been extremely effective.
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