Facebook Places is new Facebook feature that allows you to see where your friends are and share your location in the real world. You can now see if your friends are currently checked in nearby and connect with them easily. You can check into nearby Places to tell your friends where you are, tag your friends in the Places you visit, and view comments your friends have made about the Places you visit....
Can’t wait to share this video – “Facebook is a Stupid Idiot” Farmville fans! Ha..ha..
Image by Carlo Nicora via Flickr The founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has made it official !! As of today morning, the largest social networking site is now 500 million members strong and growing!! “As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world....
The other night, when I started roaming in and around outskirts of the City of Pearls, I updated my status on Facebook - ‘At Shabad, Charminar…2.15 am…having dinner in ‘Chowki’ style! Jagne ki raat’ via text message. When we reached home in the early morning at around 4.30 am - one of my friends who came along with us started worrying about my status message – his brother might see my FB message and acquaint his parents the real story!...
What is this – “#” sign doing in a lot of Twitter tweets? Why do most of the webmaster and bloggers use this hash symbol in their tweets? In simple little words – it’s just categorizing or grouping your tweets like you categorize/group your blog posts in categories. Here is how Twitter defines it - “Because Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data, the Twitter community came up with their own way: hashtags....
Facebook version 3.1.3 app for iPhone and iPod touch is out and it brings the long awaited feature of playing facebook videos, along with ability to view and write on the event walls, photo uploads of up to 720px wide, and tons of bug fixes. New features in this version: - You can now watch Facebook videos. - You can now view and write on walls of events. - Uploaded photos are now 720px wide....
On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Facebook’s vice president of product Chris Cox announced that starting tomorrow, Facebook will be rolling out “drastically simplified” and improved privacy controls. He didn’t give any details, but did suggest that they should alleviate some of the recent privacy problems Facebook has faced. Ever since the recent wave of privacy backlash began following Facebook’s f8 conference, Facebook has been saying they were listening to feedback and would respond....
Facebook has announced the launch of a new free-to-use mobile service. If you navigate on over to http://0.facebook.com on your mobile device you will find a lite version of the current mobile site. This site is free to use if you are lucky enough to be on one of the following combinations of country and operator: If your on the above list. Browsing to the new facebook page will be totally free of charge - no data charges from your network operator....
Facebook revenues reached $500 million in 2009, up from $300 million in 2008, according to Fortune editor David Kirkpatrick, who cites “well-informed sources” in his upcoming book, The Facebook Effect. Facebook expects revenues to reach $800 million in 2010. Where did 2009’s $500 million come from? Self-service ads, which appear on the right side of the screen on Facebook, accounted for about $250 million to $300 million. They look like this:...
Facebook isn’t just popular with its 500 million or so users. According to the copy of The Facebook Effect, Fortune editor David Kirkpatrick’s brilliantly-reported new book about the company’s founding, Facebook has also always been very popular with the M&A suits. Below is the list of all the companies that swung and missed– 1. In June 2004, an unnamed financier offered $10 million 2. Friendster also tried to buy Facebook...