Archive for July, 2010
The number of Facebook users who come from different parts of the world today has to break the 500 million people. Even if the amount exceeds the specified user numbers and the number of licenses of Windows 7 posted on Twitter Tweet every day. Wow! This news has actually been circulating for the last month, mentioned that Facebook would soon reach new milestones. Sure enough, during the past week, it really happened. Facebook is expected to formally announce it this week.
To celebrate its success, the social networking site founded Mark Zuckerberg is going to launch a special feature called ‘Facebook Stories’. These features are a collection of short stories tells of the experiences of people whose lives changed because of Facebook. Collection of real stories were varied, ranging from finding old friends, brothers separated for years, getting a job, to find true love. Read the rest of this entry »
Credits will be launched Facebook Facebook, a kind of virtual currency that can be used for online transactions such as PayPal. This service is still in testing stage and will be launched for users and application developers, the upcoming September 2010. Quoted from the site News Statement, Facebook Credits will not only be used to buy virtual goods, but also allows users to buy various consumer goods are real.
This virtual money is mentioned would be a great opportunity for producers to offer products for purchase through Facebook and other sites connected with Facebook through Facebook Connect. The credit account can later be refilled with any credit card. From every sale and purchase transactions, all merchants who sell goods via Facebook will be charged a commission of 30%. Wow!
Often use multiple Google accounts? Obviously you will be happy to log in to all accounts at once. But to be able to do so, users must use several different browsers. That was back, most likely soon users will be able to sign in to many Google accounts in one browser. This capability is not yet officially released, but still in the testing stage. Google is currently testing the suspected center of a feature that lets users log into multiple Google accounts simultaneously in the same browser.
For example, someone who has at least four different Gmail account, can be opened simultaneously. In addition, this feature can be useful to use one browser by several users at once (eg in families). Google has not yet say when this feature was released. Internet giants are reportedly being tried on several products, including Gmail, Reader, Sites, Calendar, Code and Docs.
This social networking site called Togetherville. Like Facebook, this site is intended for children who want to wrestle in social networking. The parents of children aged 7-10 years should be tried. As quoted from the site, Togetherville is an online community of children, where they are too young to register for Facebook, but it already takes social networking to interact. In using this site should also children accompanied by their parents.
The basic idea of making this site are new. Togetherville takes the role of parents in educating children in developing healthy social jejarinf. With full-color display, this site is intended for children aged between seven and 10 years. Teenagers under the age of 13 years could still enter this site.
Groups of older also can enter this site without registering, armed with their Facebook id. By this time, the parents can control their children’s activities in running friendship with fellow sepermainan. When an account was successfully created, the child can comment and give the status of ‘like’ like Facebook. Togetherville claimed Read the rest of this entry »
Co-founder of Foursquare, Dennis Crowley revealed that his company was seeking partners to collaborate in the search, including the three main players in this arena, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. If a partnership has been established, users Foursquare later can easily find the most popular restaurants or bars where they were in real time. Thus the information quoted from the Telegraph.
“Our data can produce a variety of interesting topics and can enrich the search,” said Crowley called one of the advantages for companies that cooperate with Foursquare.
“While we can use the data to show the places being discussed a lot of people at the time,” he continued.
Crowley then pointed out that he thinks Twitter mikroblogging site has helped the world and all the search engines find out what being busy is discussed via the internet. While Foursquare, allows users to find places where the middle of talking about and know where the picture before the visit. But neither Google, Microsoft or Yahoo has not been willing to comment on this cooperation plans. Representatives of all three to date detailing and yet reluctant to give information officially.