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Well, I have posted a lot about Facebook timeline and security checks. For some cooling period, here are some facts which might let your jaw fall. 
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With Google’s search box flooded with Disabling Timeline, people not getting a way to get rid of the Timeline, introduced by Facebook earlier this year.
All set to remove it? Read this exclusive post on Fourdy Wlog.
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Over the years you might have seen the changes in Facebook profile looks.
But have you seen them all?
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This is not Miami, Las Vegas, L.A, Dubai…this is Facebook! It is the ‘third biggest country’ in the world. So, are you safe there? Identity security is a great threat now. With fake accounts on a rise, you should be sure of what you are sharing and with whom.
In TEN simple steps you can just set your account safe. Just as an old adage goes – ‘Prevention is better than cure’…
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Facebook f8 (pronounced as eff eight)- It is the name given to the annual conference of Facebook developers and others patrons in the social networking world.
This conference is held in California, San Francisco, annually. It brings together the right people at the right place where the developers bring forward the various objectives and suggestions which can be incorporated in the following year.
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Wasn’t the old Facebook chat (the pop-up style) better than the new fixed sidebar style chat. Off-course it was! I am sure many of the users simply logged on to FB for keeping up with their social life via the chat system. And with the introduction of the latest chat scores of users started finding Facebook chat inappropriate.
We have got a solution to your redress. Now you can revert back to the Old Facebook Chat: (Follow the link below relevant to your browser)
Mozilla Firefox |
Google Chrome |
Opera |
Once the above addon has been installed successfully on your browser, the change in the chat box shall reflect after launching the browser again. To switch between old-style and the new-style facebook chat, use the Options menu in the friend list.
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Google’s most awaited answer to Facebook in the social networking zone has arrived in the form of the Google+ Project. And the alert call is Google+ was launched on the same day (29th June, 2011) when MySpace, (the leading social networking site of the pre-Facebook era), was sold for just $35 million to an ad network which shows how rapidly social networking giants can rise and fall.
However according to Google, Google+ project is their attempt to make online sharing even better. They aren’t trying to replace what’s currently available; they just want to introduce a new way to connect online with the people related to you.
The biggest thrust Google has for pulling people towards using Google+ is integration. It will build Google+ social networking features and tools into almost all of its existing online services so at some point of time it would seem silly to jump out to some other site (Facebook) to do your social networking.
BUT before we jump on to any conclusion we have to accept the fact that none of Google’s product has been able to generate the fire in social media be it Google Buzz or Wave which were largely ignored or Orkut which almost faded out with the coming of Facebook. Also the fact that Google+’s key feature — the idea to organize your friends into ‘circles‘ and share certain content only with certain circles — isn’t really unique or new: Facebook already offers ‘lists‘ that lets you select which content is seen by which friends.
So people what do you think? Would Google+ kill Facebook?
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Today, while I was trying to access by facebook account (as usual) it threw an error: Serice Unavailable (find the screenshot below)
Later, just before it finally recovered:
This was the longest downtime that I have ever experienced with facebook, it was down in India for over 30 minutes.
There are quite a few things that come to my mind in this distressed situation:
What do you people have to say about it? Let’s see if facebook can “face” it
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The swift growth of Facebook and loosing grounds of Orkut recently made me think what is there in the Facebook that Google is lacking to offer in Orkut? And why Orkut failed? And after a lot of search on the internet and personal judgments, I concluded: there are so many reasons out there that really made Google to see decline in this space. I think the reason why people use Facebook (at least, the reason I do) is that it’s fun. I do have access to both an Orkut and Facebook account and find myself using Facebook the majority of the time. I actually prefer Facebook when comparing Orkut versus Facebook from a usability perspective.
Facebook has become very popular in North America over the last few years whereas Orkut is extremely popular in India. Facebook has an origin at the Harvard University and was launched in February, 2004 (just a month after Orkut was launched). Orkut is run by Google and was named after Orkut Buyukkoten (Its creator).
