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Facebook Reaches 500 Million Users, ‘Thanks’, Says Mark Zuckerberg

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It was made official on the company’s blog this morning by the CEO himself who also posted a picture thanking the 500 million citizens of the Facebook country. The blog post by Mark Zuckerberg says “I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years […]

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Facebook Founders Speak About The Facebook Movie

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After the first 2 trailers of ‘The Social Network’ which showed no scenes from the movie but only a photo of Jesse Eisenberg and background dialogues, Yahoo Movies released a full length trailer unveiling footage for the first time on Thursday. The trailer has been generating a lot of interest online and Sony Pictures is […]

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Facebook iPhone App Keeps Crashing, Thousands Of Complaints Pouring In

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All iPhone users (all models) have been reporting furiously online about the iPhone app for Facebook crashing repeatedly with no solution is sight still. While some users also reported it getting back to normal but the majority still have the app refusing to load and re-installing doesn’t help. The biggest number of complaints was reported […]

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Can Zuckerberg Lose 84% of Facebook Shares?

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The situation proves the tagline of the up coming movie (The Social Network) on Facebook’s CEO’s life correct. You really can not get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. The latest addition to Mark Zuckerberg’s woes and foes is a law suit filed on June 30th by a New Yorker called Paul […]

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Facebook Fever Killing Orkut In India

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India and Brazil are the biggest Orkut using countries in a Facebook and Twitter crazy world but things are changing very fast in India in favour of Facebook. Data from ComScore reveals that Facebook attracted 18 million unique visitors from India in the month of May, compared to Orkut’s 19.7 million. In the past year […]

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What’s Still Wrong With Facebook’s Privacy Controls

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Facebook has been on a major damage control spree for the past few weeks regarding its privacy controls and has introduced simpler and easier to understand options and lots of new features too. The company though has addressed quite a few issues based on users complaints from around the world but has chosen to ignore […]

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Facebook’s New Face Detection Technology Makes Tagging Easier

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Sharing photos with friends and family on Facebook is one of the top most user activities and about 100 million photos are uploaded to the network every day. As if uploading 220 photos of your wedding, vacation or graduation is not tedious enough, tagging several people in each of the photographs is a drag. Facebook […]

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Facebook Introduces A Simpler Application Permission System

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Facebook’s privacy settings woes seem far from over as the company continues to roll out simpler versions of several of its functions. The latest is a much simpler application permission system where third party apps specify exactly what data they need to access and gives users the option to opt out later if they wish. […]

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Watch The First Trailer Of ‘The Facebook Movie’

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After releasing a poster last week, Columbia Pictures has released the first trailer of ‘The Social Network’, its upcoming movie capturing the creation of Facebook. As reported earlier, the movie is partially based on the book ‘The Accidental Billionaires’ and chronicles the birth of world’s biggest social network in a Harvard dorm room by a […]

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First Poster For ‘The Facebook Movie’ Unveiled

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Columbia Pictures, one of Hollywood’s leading film companies, has released the first poster for ‘The Social Network’ or ‘The Facebook Movie’ as most people are calling it. The movie, set to be in theatres this October, tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the little social networking site he created in his Harvard dorm room […]

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Facebook Earned $ 800 Million in Revenue Last Year, Reuters

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Reuters has revealed Facebook’s revenue figures for the year 2009 and though they are not surprising or implausible at all, they’re still mind blowing. According to Reuters newswire, world’s number 1 social networking giant raked in a record $ 800 million last year, about 100 million more than the expected figure and turned a part […]

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Share Your Flickr Photos on Facebook

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Now there’s no need to upload your photos separately on Facebook after you’ve saved them on Flickr. Flickr has just announced the new feature which allows users to connect their Flickr and Facebook accounts .Opting for this feature will automatically send an update to a users’ Facebook account every time a photo or video is […]

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Is Social Networking the New Google?

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The web analytics firm Hitwise’s latest survey is enough to send web search giants like Google in to some serious damage control mode. Studies and survey results show that the trend of users preferring social networking sites over search engines is continuously on the rise and after the US, where Facebook’s overall traffic beat that […]

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The Latest Web hook-up! Yahoo and Facebook

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This coming together of the two Titans is a script written in tech heaven. Yahoo Inc announced today that its integrating the site and its services with Facebook and also that there’s more to come. Yahoo and Facebook users “can link their accounts and view and share updates with friends across both networks,” Yahoo said […]

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Facebook’s New Domain, US Politics

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Facebook will now be keeping an eye on American politics as it was announced at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City that the Social Networking giant has launched a page called US Politics. Check it out at Facebook.com/USpolitics. This is not to be confused with President Obama’s personal page as this is a […]

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Be Careful Before You ‘Like’ This on Facebook

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Warning: If you receive news feed carrying any of the following links ‘Liked’ by any of your Facebook friends, don’t click on the link to check it out. It’s a clickjacking worm attack spreading through the ‘Like’ option and has affected hundreds of thousands of users. These messages include: “LOL This girl gets OWNED after […]

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Facebook Officials Apologized, Pakistan Lifts Ban

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Pakistan officially lifted the Lahore High Court ordered ban on Facebook early Monday after Facebook officials apologized and assured of stricter control over hurtful and offensive content in future. The offensive pages will remain blocked. The ban ordered on the 19th of May was to be carried out till the 31st so Facebook was not […]

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PM Gilani Orders Re-Opening of the Banned Networks in Pakistan

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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani ordered Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to un block all banned social networking sites early Wednesday, Youtube was the first one to return. The news came after almost a week of ban on Facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia and several other web pages that reproduced the content that originated the ban. The […]

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That Was Fast! Facebook Announces New Privacy Features!

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News has just started breaking in the online universe that Facebook is introducing new and improved privacy features following weeks of furore over its recently updated privacy settings. Mark Zuckerberg had promised Monday in a ‘Washington Post’ column that users’ complaints will be addressed very soon and now it seems it’s time to deliver on […]

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BBC iPlayer Hooking Up With Facebook and Twitter

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Now the BBC iPlayer, an on demand video service, will allow its users to link their Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live Messenger to their BBC ID which they get by registering on BBC.co.uk. The new iPlayer Beta will be officially going live at the end of June. Users will be able to share whatever their […]

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