The social networking service Facebook.com on Thursday has surpasses more than a billion users, a new milestone.
Co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement, saying the number is "humbling."
"This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month," he said in a statement.
"If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you. Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life."
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he is steering the social network giant to focus more on mobile, saying it would help ease concerns after a "disappointing" stock market debut.
Social networking service Facebook has an interest to the world's most popular mobile Web browser Opera Browser. If this happen this is the biggest Acquisition by Giant Social network.
According to report 25 05 2012 pocket-lint; says one of its "trusted sources" revealed that Facebook is trying to buy Opera Software, the company behind the Opera Web browser, a sign that the social-networking company might be looking to launch its own browser.
The move would put Facebook in competition with other tech companies in the browser game -- including Yahoo, which recently launched Axis, and Google, which has already released extensions to integrate its social-networking component, Google +, into its browser.
Pocket-lint speculates that a Facebook browser "would allow you keep up to date with your social life from in-built plug-ins and features on the menu bar."
Facebook knows it isn't monetizing its mobile users though advertising, so it has been using its IPO money to make several acquisitions in an attempt to address its weak mobile strategy.
The Next Web's sources say that Opera is in a hiring freeze and talking to potential buyers.
Opera says it has about 200 million users across all of its platforms.
Facebook has declined to comment.
Instagram was founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger with 14 employees as of April 2012 the headquarters is located in San Francisco, California, USA.
Instagram initial release October 6, 2010; 17 months ago Founded in 2010 – a free photo sharing application that allows users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it on a variety of social networking services, including Instagram's own.
A distinctive feature confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras.
Instagram was initially supported on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch; in April 2012, the company added support for Android camera phones running 2.2 (Froyo) or higher. It is distributed via the iTunes App Store and Google Play.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the acquisition in a post on his Facebook Timeline Monday.
I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.
For years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we'll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.
We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram's strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.
That's why we're committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people.
We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook.
These and many other features are important parts of the Instagram experience and we understand that. We will try to learn from Instagram's experience to build similar features into our other products. At the same time, we will try to help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook's strong engineering team and infrastructure.
This is an important milestone for Facebook because it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don't plan on doing many more of these, if any at all. But providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.
We're looking forward to working with the Instagram team and to all of the great new experiences we're going to be able to build together.
The Facebook app is similar to the original mobile version, with the addition of social components, brand new power-ups, and exclusive new levels. The added social aspect allows players to compete with their Facebook friends for gold, silver, and bronze crowns in any level. Players can also brag about their scores on the social network and give their Facebook friends "mystery gifts" of power-ups.
The Facebook version includes four new power-ups, including "sling scope" (for better targeting), "king sling" (for more power and velocity), "super seeds" (to supersize your bird, turning it into a "pig popping giant"), and "birdquake" (to shake the battlefield and bring down pigs' defenses). Besides being gifted with power-ups, players can earn them through game play or purchase them.
In addition, there are exclusive levels designed for the Facebook app.
Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 700 million times since its release for Apple’s iOS in December 2009, and with Facebook’s 800 million users, it’s bound to hit 1 billion soon.
The world’s largest social network is going public. Facebook filed the initial paperwork for its public stock offering on February 1, revealing some interesting statistics and future plans in the process.
According to the filing, Facebook now sports a record 845 million active users, up 39 percent from the year before. More than half of Facebook users (483 million) log on to the site daily and 50 percent of users (425 million) access Facebook using their mobile device.
Ancestry.com founder and Google+ tracker Paul Allen announced that, by his estimates, Google+ passed the 100 million user milestone on February 1. He added that the social network is on track to hit at least 400 million users by the end of 2012.
Google CEO Larry Page revealed that Google+ had grown to reach more than 90 million users on January 19 but declined to provide active user figures.
While Google is excited about its mobile future, Facebook is concerned that it will have to change its ad-free policy as mobile usage grows or miss out on a large portion of revenue.
For the time being, Facebook does not display ads to mobile users but reveals in the filing that “the number of ads that we deliver to users and our revenue may be negatively affected unless and until we include ads or sponsored stories on our mobile apps and mobile website.”
Facebook also notes that it will need to maintain a good relationship with developers who create apps for the Facebook platform lest they “choose to build on other platforms, including mobile platforms [such as iOS and Android] controlled by third parties.”
The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook “hopes to raise as much as $10 billion when it begins selling shares this spring.”
Do you think anonymous group can paralyzed Facebook this January 28? I don't think so.
Last November 05 anonymous set to shutdown Facebook but it did not happen.
Video uploaded to YouTube, claiming the network hackers. "An online war has begun between the anonymous, the people and government of the United States (U.S.). While the SOPA and PIPA can be delayed in Congress, but this does not guarantee that the rights of the Internet we will uphold it," remarked in the video.
Previously Anonymous also have attacked the U.S. Justice Department website, after the U.S. government shut down file sharing sites, Megaupload.
Reported by Mashable, Wednesday (01/25/2012), in a YouTube video on Monday, appealed to the American people to participate in activities such hack, by downloading the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), which is a tool that has been successfully used to target the Department of Justice . LOIC to crash a website by sending thousands of packets of information to their servers.
The plan, attack on Facebook will be conducted at 12:00 AM, on January 28th. Even so, there is no mention about the time zone of action of the attack.
It seems that hackers are finding it difficult to attact Facebook. As we all know, Facebook as one of the largest sites in the world, operating through thousands of servers located around the world.
"Although Facebook has at least 60 thousand servers, it is still possible to 'turn it off'. Anonymous require help from the people," says Anonymous.
Meanwhile, on the reasons why Anonymous targeting Facebook enough to attract attention, given that social networking is one of the opponents of SOPA and PIPA. CNet revealed, that the possibility of Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, too long voiced its opposition, thus making its social networking became one of the potential targets.
Rihanna is the First Female Artist to clock over 2 billion Music Video views on Vevo.
Report: Vevo Leaving YouTube for Facebook
Facebook is reportedly in talks to replace YouTube as the host of Vevo's music videos, CNet is reporting.
Citing sources with knowledge of the discussions, CNet said Facebook and Vevo have already met about a potential deal at least twice, with the most recent meeting happening in the last two weeks. Vevo still has one year left on its current contract with YouTube.
Facebook would stream Vevo's music videos, and the companies would share revenue from ad sales. CNet said the deal would be similar to the one Vevo currently has with YouTube.
Here a more detailed stance on SOPA and PIPA with Zuckerberg Writing:
The internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world. We can't let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the internet's development. Facebook opposes SOPA and PIPA, and we will continue to oppose any laws that will hurt the internet.
The world today needs political leaders who are pro-internet. We have been working with many of these folks for months on better alternatives to these current proposals. I encourage you to learn more about these issues and tell your congressmen that you want them to be pro-internet.
via facebook.com
After Facebook introduce a Messenger app on Android and iOS, Facebook has released an app for desktop.
Mashable reported; “Facebook has done it’s darndest to take over your digital life. The massively popular social network has your photos, videos, a news feed, apps and games and even instant messaging. Seeking further ubiquity, Facebook is bringing its Facebook Messenger IM feature to Windows 7 as a desktop download.”
Facebook Messenger for Windows lets users use Facebook without being on www.facebook.com. With the app, you can do the following things:
Chat and message with your friends on Facebook
See the latest updates from your friends in ticker
Get quick notifications about what’s going on
Mashable said; “The download currently doesn’t support video or voice calling though these features will have to be added if Facebook wants to stay competitive. Does Facebook Messenger have legs?”
Watch Video below:
To try out the first version of this app – you can download it here.
“The Sims” is a computer game which allows the player to create and control people and their homes. Devised by the same person who developed the Sim City game, which allows the player to create and develop entire cities, “The Sims” enables the player to build and furnish his dream home, and inhabit it with the characters of his choice. Entire communities can be designed. There are several add-ons to The Sims, taking the play in different directions.
The Sims Social "is a light, simple web game that lets you control your Sim's life day-to-day. It's up to you to fulfill your Sim's Lifetime Wishes, from world-renowned Surgeon, to Chess Master, to Five-star Chef and more."The Sims Social gain 7.5 Million, fastest-growing Facebook Application.
About the Sims Social Facebook Game
The Sims Social Facebook Game Information: Developer(s) Playfish Publisher(s) EA Games Platform(s) Facebook Release date(s) August 9, 2011 (Open Beta) Genre(s) Dating sim, Life simulation, Social simulation
The Sims Social will run in 5 languages; Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Português, Русский, 中文
Usual features including, sim creation, building homes and relationships
A mobile App will companion the game for gaming on the move
Unpredictability and Creativity is the stand out draw to the game
The world will be populated by player controlled sims from your friends list
Social interactions will be consensual between players
WooHooing will be a part in the game, however pregnancy isn't yet planned
Free to play but premium items will be available
The Sims Facebook Cheats:
The Sims Social Hack Engine Free -
Requirements:
Cheat Engine v6.1
Mozilla Firefox
Sims Social Facebook account
Instructions:
a. Open Cheat Engine v6.1 and your Sims Social account;
b. Click on the computer icon on the Cheat Engine and find Firefox.exe. On the Cheat Engine, go to the icon which looks like a computer with a magnifying glass (upper left portion) and open it. Select "plugin.container.exe" and enable Speed Hack;
c. Click and select your desired "speed". A "speed" of 10 may cause errors on your Sims Social screen;
d. Go back to your Facebook Sims Social account window and start your game. Now you have lots of energy. *Credits to polak123
The Sims Social Turn Social Points to Simoleons Trick
To convert Social Points to Simoleans, you simply need to go to the Decorating Shop and buy a "Stolen Kiss" for 2750 Social Points. Sell it and you will have gained 2750 Simoleons instead. This can also be used to raise the value of your homestead: Buy the "Stolen Kiss" and you will notice that it increases the value of your homestead by 7750 Simoleons, with only the 2750 Social Points having been spent. *Credits to CH and kyle393
The Sims Social Get 5 Simoleons and 2 Social Points Mean Relationship Trick
a. Look for a neighbor that you have a mean relationship with. If you don't have one, make one;
b. Visit your neighbour that you are currently in a mean relationship;
c. Click on their sofa (Must be a 2-seater sofa) and select nap over and over again;
d. Enjoy the free Simoleons and Social Points;
e. Keep repeating until you have lots of cash *Credits to lous for this trick. Best combined with Auto Clicker
The Sims Social Tips: Free Items!
Free gifts for The Sims Social game have just been taken away . Go directly to your shop, find free item and place it wherever you want. Good luck!
Anyway, just click on the links below and get the free Sims Social items:
This video will guide you to how you can easily find all game bonuses posted on your news feed, Sims Social bonuses included. Have a look at a video below:
Sims Social Cheating Guide 101:
WARNING: If a site offers you a Sims Social bot or hack download with a survey, it's not good. The website owner makes you fill out surveys because they got a big backs of earning. After you fill out the survey, the file you will download is half-baked, meaning it's fake or trash.
According to tjsdaily-blog no The Sims Social Bot developed yet.
Another Tips, if you comment/remark on a website like the one mentioned above, your comment will say something like "Your comment is awaiting moderation." That means that your comment will deleted.
• If someone points you to a link where they tell you you can download a Sims Social cheating program for a hefty price, it's fake. Do not believe this kinds of circle links earning. You'll just waste your money. But if it's for real, I assure you it's going to be leaked all over the web, guaranteed'
IMPORTANT: Do not trust links provided for in the comments section box especially by people who are Anonymous.
Additional Sims Social Hacks:
Keep your Sim Inspired - At all times by maximizing the needs of the Sim (hunger, sleep, hygiene, social and so on). Inspired Sims get extra cash which can be used to greatly improve your lifestyle Focus on increasing skills - play the guitar, write on the computer (or typewriter), do all those things that help you get better and gain more Simoleones. Keep interacting with friends - except for the fact that you will keep your Sim happy, you will get extra energy and a lot of valuable items from interacting with friends Don’t perform the same interaction action two times in a row with other Sims - they don’t like it and the effect will be negative! Focus on completing the missions (quests) to the left - They give you great rewards and help you progress within the game’s story. They are also used to unlock items from the store and give you special rewards. Keep an eye on the Facebook wall - neighbors will certainly share a lot of collectibles that are as valuable as pure gold in The Sims Social Don’t forget to actually use the items - you can only hold a limited number of each item in your inventory, so don’t let them waste and actually use your items!
There are specific actions that get greyed out when performed at your home (like Daydream). Instead of paying real money to complete it, simply visit friends and Daydream at their place! *Credits to CALIN CIABA on Unigamesity
The Official American Idol Forums site domain http://myidol.americanidol.com/ To Shut Down?
American Idol is closing their official MyIdol community forums on October 31, 2011. They will make a complete move to social network based set-up — AmericanIdol Facebook Page got a 6.9 million fans near to 7 million.
From American Idol:
The current MyIdol community — which includes live forums, blogs, profile pages, and commenting — will be deactivated Monday, October 31, 2011. But don’t worry, development for the updated community is already underway!
This update is a response to the changing ways in which fans like you prefer to interact with the show and with AmericanIdol.com. We’re excited about these new features and look forward to rolling them out soon. In the meantime, please “Like” us on Facebook and follow @AmericanIdol on Twitter for the latest news, show info, and photos straight from the set. By following us, you’ll be the first to know when the new community is up and running.
If you have photos, blogs, or any other content within MyIdol that you don’t want to lose, be sure to save it to your personal computer before 10/31 as that content will no longer be accessible.
Thanks for making MyIdol the number one official online community for American Idol! Please continue to visit AmericanIdol.com often for all the latest photos, videos, news, and more!via
According to social networking service, Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
The Most Popular Facebook Page ever is Facebook Product/Service which got 53 million likes near to 54 million likes.
Texas Hold'em Poker Games / Toys nabs second in place with a number of 51 million, a 2 million leads on Facebook –– Proves that many people on Facebook love to play games.
Texas HoldEm Poker App also is in the number 19th place.
American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor Eminem take in third place with a total numbers of 47 million likes and 304, 726 taking about.
Here’s the list of the 25 most popular fan pages on Facebook and let us know your comments.
After Facebook garnered more than 1 trillion pageviews per month, now it’s Google+ to mark 50 million users in 88 days – Google+ record fastest growing social media network ever. On September 20th, company announced its first API and made it openly available for all internet users to sign-up.
In a new Google+ post from Paul Allen, who has been tracking the user growth rate of the service with his own mathematical formula, he claims that Google+ likely broke the 50 million user mark on Sunday. He states, " ... since being opened to the general public (over age 18) last week, Google+ has been growing by at least 4 (percent) per day, meaning that around 2 million new users have been signing up each day."
Time to reach 50 million users
Google+
Facebook
Twitter
Myspace
LinkedIn
88 Days
1325 Days
1096 Days
1046 Days
2354 Days
I really love Gplus. The only reason I don't spend too much time on it is because most of my friends are still on Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg unviels the most comprehensive rollout to Facebook profiles yet. It's called Timeline of Facebook Timeline.
The unveiling of Facebook Timeline top Trends on Search Engine like, Bing, Yahoo and Google.
Timeline divides Facebook pages into two columns, where photos, comments, videos, and updates display one's own unique life story, all the way down to one's birth. To fill out the experience, users can click on any point in the timeline and add comments, events, or photos from the past. In other words, Timeline allows users to scroll through each other's entire lives on Facebook.
The new Timeline profile aims to change this. The new layout of the profile is very much different from the current profile layout. Timeline is more visual and tries to achieve its purpose by means of photos and apps. It utilizes a chronological timeline to highlight the most important content shared by the user on Facebook.
Timeline is meant to be highly customizable. The user gets more control over what he wants to share as the most important activities. If the user feels that important parts of the story aren’t included in his timeline, he can easily add them by going back to that time or by going to the private activity log where everything shared since joining Facebook are found.
Facebook is driven by a single, unique goal. Its priority isn’t to gain more users (it already has 750 million of those), nor does it feel compelled to find stupid ways to increase pageviews. Its primary goal right now isn’t to increase revenue, either that will come later.
Here’s a look at the changes to the News Feed that the social network already rolled out that have lots of users talking:
10: To customise your News Feed even more, you can use the Lists option. It is on the left hand menu. Add people to different Lists that already exist such as Close Friends or Family or create your own ones by selecting “More”. Then by clicking the List name, you’ll generate updates in your News Feed only from the people in that list.
9: If you’ve hidden posts, friends or other updates from your News Feed, you can call them back again by editing it. Click the pencil icon next to the words ‘News Feed’ in your left hand menu and then select Edit.
8: Top News and Most Recent are now combined as two separate elements in one News Feed. You simply scroll down to see the recent ones rather than clicking a button to make these appear in their own feed.
7: If you don’t want details of how you are using Apps to show up in the Ticker, go to Application Settings and click Only Me under the Customise menu.
6: Album Layout Last but not least, Facebook has made album design a bit more aesthetic. Albums that appear in your newsfeed stack three photos for a more creative viewing experience.
5:Ticker / Chat If you expand your chat sidebar (whether or not you're online), the ticker attaches to the top. That way, any page you navigate away from the home feed will still display real-time updates. Adjust chat/ticker proportions by hovering over the gray bar between chat and the ticker.
4:Hide Posts In the drop-down tab on the upper right of every post, you still have the option to hide posts (whether to delete the individual story or to hide that person's updates altogether). In the new version, you also have the option to mark a post as a top story, thus increasing the likelihood that that type of post or friend will appear in your Top Stories feed.
3:Recent Stories However, the new post notification bar doesn't refresh as often, but instead automatically expands new stories much like the older version.
2: New Posts Above your top stories you'll find the option to expand more recent posts, much like Twitter's "47 new tweets" real-time notification bar.
1:Top Stories Facebook's new design highlights posts that you'll likely find important, and prioritizes them at the top of your feed when you log in. The top stories are designated by a blue tag in the upper left corner of the post. From what we can see, however, top stories don't regenerate much throughout the day -- especially if you keep Facebook open in your browser like your Twitter ticker.
Most of the stuff that I share on my personal Facebook profile – like officemate photos, viral video, news, qoutes, comments, etc. would be extremely impatient to the external world and, fortunately, they don’t get to see any of that.
Facebook introduced the so called “Add Subscribe Button on Facebook profile“. Add subscribe button on Facebook helps to customize News Feed on Facebook. You don’t want to get every update from a particular friend on Facebook or you want only important activity of friend then Subscribe button helps you alot.
Let Non-Friends Follow you on Facebook
To add this in more simple terms, Subscribe is to Facebook profiles what Like is to Facebook pages. The only difference is that you get each and update when your “like” a Facebook page whereas you only get public updates when your “subscribe” to a Facebook profile.
How Add the Subscribe option to your Facebook Profile
To add or enable latest Subscribe button, go here. Before you do that, read carefully the instruction or good idea to double-check that only stuff that you really want to share with non-friends is public.
To confirm, go your Facebook profile page, hit the “View As” button and then click the “public” link to see what updates in your profile are public. You can have unlimited number of subscribers to your profile but you can subscribe to a maximum of 5,000 profiles.
Difference between profile subscribers and page fans:
How to add static fbml app to facebook page? Facebook Static FBML app can allow you pull FBML elements into a profile box, boxes tab box, or an entire tab, At its most basic, you can use it to create custom HTML boxes in those same places that you can completely design and brand to your liking.
Some suggestions on where beefing up your fan page with Static FBML can really help:
Promotional text/graphics that click through your Facebook application or website
HTML version of your latest newsletter in its own tab (with signup box!)
A shortcut to important links on your website
Any other place where you want a custom look and feel within your fan page
Qouted from labnol.org “OpenDNS, one of the most popular DNS services on the Internet, is frequently used by parents and organizations to block websites that they think are inappropriate for children or may hamper productivity at the workplace.”
A website/site is a depository of information destined for public or private use, usually residing in a remote server. When a computer terminal calls the website (using the HTTP or HTTPS protocol) the server responds by sending the information requested back to the user.
The list includes social networking sites (Facebook.com, MySpace.com, Twitter.com) and adult websites (Redtube.com, Pornhub.com and Playboy.com) as usual but the presence of two major advertising networks on that list suggests people do have their share of privacy concerns.
Here’s the full list of constantly blacklisted sites from OpenDNS. Percentages indicate the proportion of OpenDNS networks using blacklisting that reference a given site.
Facebook Photos got new look! a new version of its popular Photos app, complete with speed improvements and larger images.
“Now, the photos you share on Facebook are bigger (720 pixels to 960 pixels) and load twice as fast, giving you quicker access to more detailed images,” Facebook’s Justin Shaffer said in a blog post. “Photos you’ve already uploaded to your profile will also be displayed at this higher resolution.”
In addition to the increased photo size, Facebook is rolling out a revamped photo viewer. The new viewer takes up more screen real estate (since photos are now larger) and reduces clutter so users can focus on the photo and nothing else.
“The Facebook light box is now set against a simple white background that puts more of the focus on the photo, and less on the surrounding frame,” Shaffer noted.
