Archive : Facebook

Microsoft, in association with Amazon, has launched an impressive video ad campaign to promote the newly launched Microsoft Office 2010 suite. The video imports your facebook profile details including your pictures and you friends details and generates a dynamic video featuring you in the ad. To create the ad all you need to do is visit makeitgreat2010.com and check the box for agreeing to the terms [...]

Social networking sites are now the first choice for spammers looking for victims. And the latest Facebook scam takes advantage of the desire for a ‘Dislike’ button. Sometime back email used to be the prime candidate for malware and viruses, and there is still a hell of a lot of bad stuff coming to most people’s email addresses. However, improvements in online mail services means less actually [...]

Popular VoIP porvider Vonage has released a new iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android application that is not a regular VoIP application, instead it allows you to find and call your facebook friends free of charge. The app asks the user to login with your Facebook account and it will display all of your Facebook friends. Your friends with the app will show up with the Vonage logo next to them letting you [...]

Update: Facebook to pay $10 million for the deal. Facebook, the largest social network is in final stages of negotiations to buy Hot Potato, the social activity service. Terms of the deal are likely still be negotiated, but it’s believed that this would largely be a talent acquisition for Facebook. Yes, another one. If the deal is completed, it would be the seventh known company that Facebook has [...]

Facebook has been recently in news for not offering a straight forward option to delete your account. Instead, it offers a “deactivate your account” feature which requires you to stay away from your Facebook account for around 15 days before it is deleted and thats not all, In fact, if you try to deactivate your account, Facebook literally tries to emotionally blackmail you by showing your [...]

The new trailer for the David Fincher drama “The Social Network“, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello and Armie Hammer, which chronicles the war between the founders of Facebook, is now released by Yahoo movies. While a movie based on a website doesn’t sound that promising but the story behind the founding of Facebook is riddled with lot of [...]

As Facebook is already preparing to announce the 500 million members milestone, below is the division of how to the Republic of Facebook’s economy is divided between different applications, its members and revenues. On an average Facebook has around 550,000 applications and Zynga the top developer of the most famous applications Texas HoldEm Poker and Farmville has already made around $250 million [...]

Being one of the top growing pages in Facebook community, Starbucks has crossed 10 million fans mark, becoming a number one page to have maximum fans on Facebook. The coffee giant is known for its quick adaptation to latest technology as it is constantly on the lookout to explore better channels to reach its consumers. They were also the some of the first known brands on twitter and foursquare. Not [...]

There has always been lot of rumors and discussions about facebook to start charging its users monthly fees to access the website, There are even Fan Page on Facebook which discusses this topic. Facebook has recently made it very clear that they are never going to charge the user. They have recently changed the text for Facebook Sign Up page to “It’s Free (and always will be)” Below [...]

Its close to one year when Facebook was rehabbing it’s Gift Shop, and introduced the idea of Facebook Credits. Rather than paying for virtual gifts — like birthday cakes, troll dolls and campaign buttons — to put on their friends’ Facebook pages, users could purchase credits that could be used for that purpose. And then Facebook has announced that they are going to shut down their [...]