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Is Facebook Building A Smartphone?

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The biggest and hottest rumour doing rounds on the net and social media today is about the world’s biggest social media network secretly working on a smartphone. The story was broken by Tech Crunch who claim an inside source within Facebook “who has knowledge of the project.” The report claims that Facebook is building the […]

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Facebook Video Scam Alert, Several Doing Rounds Today

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There’s another spate of Facebook Scams going viral on the social network today and this time they’re spreading through apparently shocking video links. The links appear in users’ status updates with attention grabbing descriptions and if you click on the link, you’ll be asked to take a number of surveys which is nothing but a […]

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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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Try Cliqset 2.0, The Biggest Social Media Connecting Service

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Cliqset (a social network) has introduced what’s being called the biggest social network integrating service, Cliqset 2.0. As social media becomes bigger and more involved in our online lives than ever, having multiple social media accounts is the most common practice among users. Keeping track of each, updating, replying and performing other tasks can be […]

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‘Google Me’ The New Facebook Competitor?

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Talking about social media must be a sore, if not taboo, topic over at the Google headquarters. The world leaders in a number of online services have still to create a decent presence in the field which is fast becoming internet users’ biggest playground. Social media has changed the way we communicate, promote, earn and […]

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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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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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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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Foursquare Blocked in China After Millions Check in to Tiananmen Square

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After a Facebook ban in Pakistan and Bangladesh, China has blocked access to another social networking tool ‘Foursquare’ after a huge number of users were checking in to Tiananmen Square on the site. It’s the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre when more than 3000 protestors including students protesting against Communism were shot and […]

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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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