Facebook unveiled a box of new tools

Mark Zuckerberg this Wednesday unveiled a box of new tools that he says would extend the Facebook's social networking phenomenon to every corner of the Internet. The announcement came at a conference for Facebook developers called F8, in which Zuckerberg revealed that the world’s largest social networking site has 400 million registered users. These include 100 million who use Facebook Connect, the company's online identity technology that allows users to use their profile on thousands of other websites. 


A month ago, Facebook surpassed Google to become the most-visited US website, and the new tools announced by Zuckerberg should help it extend that dominance, called Open Graph, a new technology that helps in transformative thing on web. This technology will allow partner sites to leverage the user's social connections to make the site more relevant to the individual and their social network. 

For example, a Facebook users who visit CNN can see the stories their Facebook friends liked. If they listen to the music streaming service Pandora, the songs they like can automatically be fed to their networks. This feature includes a "like button" that partner sites can embed and which will allow Facebook users to rate the content. He predicted that in the first 24 hours of the technology going live the new buttons would be used over 1 billion times.

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Salman beats SRK on Twitter

Salman Khan joined Twitter with his account, BeingSalmanKhan, on tuesday, the very same day his rival, Shah Rukh Khan, iamsrk completed 100 days on the microblogging site. In six hours, Salman accumulated as many followers as Shah Rukh did in the first day on Twitter. A day after his first tweet, Salman had 18,833 followers, compared to SRK's nearly 10,000.

In his first tweet, Salman posted, "Arbaaz ne kaha ke tweet kar, toh banta hai boss." His next came an hour later, "Challo nw , whoever was being me, party over, baju hattoplz." Late on Tuesday night, the actor tweeted, "Thanx guys! Feels good. Promise to tweet, ek baar jo maine commitment kar di." Salman Khan currently have 41,108+ fans counting. SRK, meanwhile, is going strong with 277,468+ followers .

 

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Amazing Facts and Statistics about Facebook

Facebook is the most socially engaged social networking site, when compared to all others. Recently they were been ranked the #1 most popular website besides Google in America. This is a collected article from the net, all credits goes to the respective creators.

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“Like” to replace “Become A Fan” on web and facebook

Facebook is scaling back on the word "Fan" and usage of "Like" on brand pages. According to a confidential e-mail sent to ad agencies today, facebook will replace "Become A Fan" button to read "Like" within the next few weeks. This new “Like” button will also be part of Facebook’s broader Open Graph API that will extend much of the Facebook Pages functionality anywhere on the web. "'Like" offers a simple, consistent way for people to connect with the things they are interested in. This will make more connections across the site, including with your branded Facebook Pages.

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Now update Facebook Status via Yahoo Mail

Few months back, Yahoo! integrated Facebook Connect, which enables the user to import Facebook contacts’ email addresses through contact importer. This integration between the two companies was a special partnership.

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Facebook beats Google for visitors [Fact]

Social-networking site Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week. Facebook’s homepage finished the week ending March 13 as the most visited site in the country, according to industry tracker Hitwise.

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Fake Facebook email claims to receive a new password

Facebook earlier today tweeted "Delete emails asking u to open an attachment to get a new Facebook password. They're fake and not from us" against the spoofed email going around.

According to McAfee, if a user tends to open such a mail with has attach to it, since that appears to be very convincing, and the “From:” field can even be spoofed to include “Facebook” or “The Facebook Team.” The user actually installs a password stealer that can “potentially access any username and password combination utilized on that computer.”

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Faking News - Facebook will be paid from July!

There is a rumour that Facebook will soon begin charging for their site. Facebook has provided value to his life and millions of others, the company will not charge users to access the site.

However millions of users continue to be deceived. There are Facebook groups like “Facebook will be paid from July!” but it’s a flat out lie used as a way to drive thousands of users to the group. While Facebook has shut down group spreading this false information.

Facebook continues to deny the on-going rumour; they also stated that their service is ad supported. To all the users who think Facebook will start charging for their service, it’s not going to happen. All the groups stating that Facebook will charge are nothing more than flat out lies.

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Color your Orkut this Holi

It's Holi coming up tomorrow and Orkut team is celebrating it in full force. The colorful festival of Holi is celebrated on Phalgun Purnima which comes in February end or early March. Holi festival has an ancient origin and celebrates the triumph of 'good' over 'bad'. The colorful festival bridges the social gap and renew sweet relationships. On this day, people hug and wish each other 'Happy Holi'.

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Facebook is the Third Largest Country

Facebook is a social networking website where users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, and school or college. It began at Harvard University in Boston, quickly spread to others schools in the US, and then took off to throughout the rest of the world. And I mean quickly: The success of Facebook is virtually unparalleled in the history of business, at least in terms of the number of users it has. And so if Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world with a population of more 400 million people.

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Barista and Cafe Coffee Day outlets now go Paperless

Early on 22nd Feb. Idea started a new contest on their official facebook page promoting their latest ad campaign 'Use Mobile, Save Paper'. There each participant has to tag himself/herself to the picture of the same date and post a comment to the question asked. The winners of Idea band watches are eligible to win BlackBerry® smartphone,

Now Idea takes the 'Use Mobile, Save Paper' campaign to the next level by converting select popular hangout joints like Barista and Cafe Coffee Day outlets paperless. You can now place an order and request the bill using your mobile. Check out in our locality how it works visit one of the outlets listed below:

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Orkut celebrates Estonia Independence Day

It's Independence Day in Estonia today and Orkut team is celebrating it in full force. According to Official Orkut Blog it says that, They wanted to show their appreciation for Estonian members and so they have created a special doodle to mark the occasion. Its the moments of Morning parades, the presidential reception, festive parties, and of course national flags abound throughout the country. Happy Independence Day Estonia!

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Retweet and Win Tw2buzz Beta Invite

Tw2buzz is an online service which helps you out to find your Twitter  friends who are using Google buzz and you can connect with them on Google buzz. This online service could help people like me who wants to take away their Google Buzz profile to next level. This  online service is not open for all and instead you need to get an invitation code to use this service from existing user like me. So today i would like to Give away 20 Tw2buzz invites for Most Viral Media readers.

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Facebook Down

Today it's not just you alone who is cursing on Facebook. People from all over the world  are complaining about site load time, 404 errors, issues with image uploading, CSS load-time issue and mobile performance errors in various internet forums. Facebook tweets that. "Its because of an isolated server issue and are working to fix this ASAP". (via twitter)

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