Social-Media

This is not an “Email Killer” – Mark Zuckerberg emphasized at the Massive Messaging Facebook event, which is happening now. Today, Facebook announced the next evolution of messaging system. Facebook is going to launch this revolutionary messaging and email addresses gradually in next few months. Once you receive an invitation, you’ll be able to get started and also invite your friends to join you. So, do you think this is a “Gmail Killer”?...

Is Facebook launching a web-based Email Client? According to TechCrunch, Facebook may introduce it on its Monday’s special event. This full featured webmail product is a secret project from Facebook known as Titan. This is unofficially and over-enthusiastically known as Gmail Killer. It could just a UI refresh for Facebook’s existing messaging service with POP access tacked on. Hang on for more updates and do not miss your desired personal @facebook....

This is not the “Unlike” button you are waiting for status updates! Rather, Facebook added an “Unlike Page” button for Pages feed.It has made dramatically easier to Unlike Pages and Open Graph objects. Clicking on the small “X” button next to any update from a Facebook Page will list the regular options, “Hide this post,” “Hide all by [page],” “Hide all by [app]” and “Mark as spam,” but also a new “Unlike Page” option....

We already know how Google changed the search experience using Google Instant where you type keywords on your search and you get the results displayed while you type. Close on the heels of Google Instant, many third party developers came with YouTube Instant, Twitter Instant etc.. Now, lets see Facebook Instant - Fbinstant is a real-time search engine that allows you to browse public and media content of Facebook instantly without breaking the privacy settings of Facebook users....

According to TIME’s list, Farmville and Foursquare are among the world’s 50 worst inventions. The list of “the world’s bright ideas that just didn’t work out” included both the location-based social game Foursquare and Zynga’s Farmville. Farmville is the most addictive of Facebook games is hardly even a game — it’s more a series of mindless chores on a digital farm, requiring the endless clicking of a mouse to plant and harvest crops....

Facebook is now allowing you to document all of your interactions on the network with particular friends on designated pages called ‘Friendship Pages,’ the pages contain all public Wall posts and comments between you and a designated friend, photos in which you are both are tagged, events you’ve RSVP’d to together and more. You’ll be able to see other’s friendship page if you are friends with one of the people and have permission to view both people’s profiles....

Image via Wikipedia The owner of the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, plans to open an office in India, first office outside the US, says Wikimedia Foundation co-founder, Jimmy Wales. He told the Indian website, CIOL, that no location had been chosen yet, but the office would open within several months. Europe and Africa had been considered as possible locations. But Europe was already highly developed and there were concerns about the technical capabilities in Africa, he said....

Say cheerio to Orkut finally! You can now update your Orkut status directly from Facebook. Keep in touch and connect your friends on Orkut by updating them with your Facebook activity. You might have got a message today in your Facebook – if you haven’t – don’t worry, you can go here to link both the accounts. You can share status updates, links, photos, notes, events, and groups with your friends on Orkut directly from Facebook....

Microsoft has announced that Bing will partner with Facebook to deliver personalized search results based on your social network. Bing will enable a great search experience for people queries, by bringing in information from your Facebook friends and people who share networks with you, and will show you what your friends have liked as you navigate through search results in Bing. A new feature called Liked Results, which uses Facebook “like” information to help you discover new information and get more personalized results in Bing....

Last night, I’ve covered live updates of Facebook event in cosmoGeek’s Facebook fan page and as well as on my Twitter account. To summarize, Facebook yesterday revealed 3 new features - a new version of Groups, an option to download your information locally, new dashboard for apps you use. 1. New Facebook Groups Until now, Facebook has made it easy to share with all of your friends or with everyone, but there hasn’t been a simple way to create and maintain a space for sharing with the small communities of people in your life, like your roommates, classmates, co-workers and family...