February 3, 2012

Social Media

No Need To Censor The Web – We Are Not In Medieval Age [Google Vs Govt. Of India]

Google VS Government Of India

Google is absolutely right when it says that it is not possible for the company to monitor everything on its website. Whatever arguments Google’s eminent battery of lawyers may put forth in the respective courts when the case against Google  and other companies shall come up for hearing, one thing is clear that these companies [...]

Chit Chat for Facebook Web Messenger: Besting Facebook Chat at Its Own Game

Chit Chat For Facebook Web Messenger

Judging by the comments on Facebook, it seems very few people are pleased with how the social network has integrated instant messaging. Most people complain that the interface is clunky and intrusive and even a little bit unreliable. Despite its drawbacks, Facebook Chat has some redeeming qualities and one of the most important is that [...]

Facebook Planning To Come Out With US$10 Billion IPO In 2012

Facebook IPO Speculation

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the world’s largest social network – Facebook – headed by Mark Zuckerberg with more than 800 million users, is preparing to issue its first public stock offering in the second quarter of 2012. The Facebook IPO could be a $10 billion offering based on a $100 billion valuation of [...]

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Learnt A Lot From Steve Jobs

Zuckerberg For Apple

The 27 year old CEO/creator of Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard University as a dropout with a novel idea. He received a rock-star welcome during his first official visit (to recruit for Facebook) since he left for California’s Silicon Valley in 2004. He made his recruitment pitch to 250 students at Harvard after a [...]

Facebook Prevents A Whopping 6,00,000 Daily Hacking Attempts!

Facebook Hack Attempts

Social networking website Facebook has said it prevents at least 600,000 attempts every day by hackers trying to break into user accounts, using stolen usernames and passwords. Facebook has an estimated 800 million users and receives over a billion login attempts every day. The hackers try to steal user information, spread frauds or send bogus offers [...]

Beware Of Free iPad Scam On Facebook – Insensitive Rots Trying To Make Money On Steve Jobs Death

Steve Job Free iPad Scam

Greed has captured the imagination of scammers who are bent upon making money on the demise of Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer. They are offering free iPads to Facebook users and urging them to click on a link to register for free Apple product and then completing online surveys or enter gambling sites. The [...]

Airtel’s USSD Based Fonetwish: Access Facebook From Mobile For Free (No Internet Required)

Airtel USSD Facebook message

Airtel recently launched a unique USSD based service which allows Airtel customers to update their Facebook status messages, view/comment/’Like’ news feed, post on friends walls, find/add new friends, confirm friend requests, view notifications and more, directly from the mobile phone without the need of Internet connectivity! This means you will not be paying monthly/weekly/daily charges [...]

mRockstar: An Upcoming Music Centered Indian Social Networking Website

mRockstar

Social networking has been on the rise with Facebook, Orkut, Myspace raking in the majority of share leaving little for the competitors. However barring the cut throat competition, a new social networking viz.  mRockstar, short for “I’m Rockstar”, is due to launch in the month of August, 2011. Based on a “new” concept of mixing [...]

Facebook Messenger: Call Your Facebook Friends For Free

All your Facebook friends are now just a call/chat away! Facebook Messenger is a fantastic mobile app idea, developed by Crisp App, which allows you to stay online in Facebook chat and to place and receive free VoIP calls anywhere anytime.  All iPhone/iPodtouch/iPad users rejoice with Facebook Messenger. Facebook Messenger has a Voice Chat app [...]

SMSTweet: Send/Publish Tweets On Twitter Via SMS

SMStweets

Twitter has been growing at an immense pace since its launch. Many mobile application like Gravity, Snaptu, etc have made the use of twitter while travelling possible. However, there are times when you are not able to access Internet and/or GPRS/3G aren’t that cheap and In such a case owing a high end smart phone [...]

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