PIPE - The simplest way to send files through FaceBook

Pipe Dream Technologies, berlin based company targets to modify the “Share on Facebook” feature method in a way that, members can share files with their friends in their network. They can simply drag and drop music, documents, video and pictures into a virtual green tube (You would have viewed these green tubes in your favorite “Super Mario Games”). So, Facebook friends are can receive these bits and pieces in real time with Pipe, even if they don't have the app or aren't online.

Facebook Profile Reviews Predicting Your Career Success

The recent study released by "Journal of Applied Social Psychology” in February 2012 shows that Facebook can be used as a tool in defining a person’s potential career and academic success.

The study called “Social Networking Websites, Personality Ratings and the Organizational Context: More Than Meets the Eye?” released by Donald Kluemper, of Northern Illinois University, and Kevin Mossholder of Auburn University attempts to validate the utility of these screening methods, which can be considered a violation of personal privacy.

Most Powerful Women - Forbes View

Forbes is an American publishing and media company. The magazine is well-known for its lists, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and its list of billionaires.

The list of Most Powerful Women in the world for 2011 was released on Wednesday, Aug. 24.

Latest Skype 5.5 Beta - Adds Facebook Integration - Chat with FB Friends on Skype now!

Skype is bringing several new Facebook features to its voice over IP service. 

In today's latest release, Skype for Windows 5.5 beta, users can "like" things, comment on friends' statuses, and message Facebook friends without ever logging into Facebook. There's even a dedicated Facebook contacts tab rolled into the VoIP software—ideal for heavily invested Facebookers.

Cityville Has Beaten Up Facebook’s Farmville By a Long Shot!!!

After Farmville was released, men and women were saying that it's difficult game as well as tough being surpassed by any other developer. Well, They had been proven wrong mainly because Farmville is now struggling to retain up with Cityville, an additional game that was released a few months back.

Based on statistics, Cityville pooled in 60 million users during the very first 24 days of its launch. A brief recap of this accomplishment was later on considered Cityville’s wide availability in 6 various languages. Facebook, on the other hand, realized this truth just recently and translated Farmville in Chinese language, to catch a wider population.

Perhaps Farmville have hit a few snags though it was rolling close to like a steam engine. Cityville, on the other hand, has not touted out any slow progress. They’re moving ahead at lightning pace just due to the fact the game during the production and development phase for over a year. Speaking of that, most from the online games are released just a few months following their development, which leaves plenty of empty room for improvements. 

Cityville may possibly have similar visuals as compared to Farmville, but the game is stated to be smooth and much more attractive.

Walt Disney reaches 100 Million Facebook Fans

Walt Disney have got more than 100 million facebook followers, It's a pretty huge and great perhaps the highest number with anyother company. The company has announced the achievement on last Sunday, which coincidentally was Walt Disney's Birthday.

There are around 200 facebook pages ranging from theme parks, movies to characters such as Mickey Mouse and Dory, Where Disneyland's page alone reached 6 million fans.

Walt Disney has launched these pages in August 2009. Now the pages attract about 5 million new fans each week. "One of the reasons why we have been very successful is because we have fresh content all the time," Friedland said.

Other companies appear to fall behind Disney: Facebook itself has 29.6 million fans and Coca Cola boasts 20.3 million fans, according to Techland.com on Time Magazine's website.

Facebook's venture into E-Mail Service

Facebook declared plans in this month to offer users a fully functioning e-mail service that will be available sometime in upcoming weeks. Users will be able to get "@facebook.com" e-mail address, which will be able to receive messages from other e-mail service providers too.

The e-mail service is being called a potential "Gmail killer." The move is the latest in an ongoing battle between Facebook and Google, which says it will offer more social networking features in response to Facebook's growing popularity.

The service will be able to pull in text messages and instant chats, according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, will play a significant role in electronic communication in the future.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Facebook's new venture into e-mail will increase healthy competition. Also, he continues that "More competition is always good because competition makes the market larger," told the Washington Post. 

According to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey, text messaging has become the primary form of communication for U.S. teens. "We don't think a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail," Zuckerberg said in a press statement.

Well, Most of the people are ready to welcome the new service, while the others say “I hate change”.

Next Generation Messaging - Facebook Email Service

Facebook announced Monday that it is building a full-fledged e-mail system into its 500-million-member social network. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the new e-mail offering will be introduced over the next couple of months to all FB users. 

As of now they began to offer a few thousands of e-mail addresses to U.S. members that consists of their user name followed by @facebook.com. It will take little time to make it available to all 500 million members.

FB founder and CEO Mark introduces a new Facebook E-mail Service.

"This is not an e-mail killer, It is a messaging system that includes e-mail. We don't expect anyone to totally switch from Yahoo or Gmail to Facebook." Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a press conference in San Francisco.

Facebook is clearly trying to match all the services Google provides around its core search capability. Beyond its messaging capabilities, you share links, photos, instant chat and videos as well. A partnership with Skype allows you to make voice calls from the platform; Google only recently added this capability to Gmail. E-mail is the piece that has been obviously missing, and now it is here.

According to eMarketer, Facebook would collect $1.3 billion in worldwide ad revenue in this 2010, Which is twice that what FB did in 2009.

Microsoft's Docs.com Within Facebook Groups - Cooperate with each other

Microsoft's Docs.com announced yesterday that it now supports sharing documents within Facebook Groups. Microsoft's Fuse labs brought Docs.com to Facebook back in April, but the service hasn't necessarily taken off, in part because sharing documents with a specific group was unwieldy, as you had to add people manually.

Now Docs.com ensures integration into Facebook Groups, something that wasn't previously possible for third-party apps. Users can share documents within a Group for others to view or edit. Updates to Docs.com will post a story to the Group's Wall as well as to the newsfeeds of its members. And you can leave comments about documents on the Group Wall or within the document itself.

We don't need to have Microsoft Office installed to use Docs.com, but the system only supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF file uploads.

By: Audrey Watters

Source: Read Write Web

Facebook New Feature

Facebook is gonna release new security feature that allows users can log out of their accounts remotely from another computer.

To do this, go to "account settings" on your Facebook page and click on "change" next to "account security." There, you'll see where else your Facebook account is logged in, including the type of device and the city it's in or near. To log out of any of them, click "end activity."

Facebook is gonna release this feature in next upcoming weeks.  Be Secure & Happy Surfing!!!

Facebook Do's and Don'ts

Tips for Using Facebook

Facebook is a fun and easy way to stay connected to friends and family but it can be a bit confusing at first. Here are some tips to help you make the most of your Facebook experience.

Facebook Dos

Do use your real name. The idea behind these sites is for friends to stay in touch and reconnect. If you use a fake name people you knew in elementary school, from summer vacations, from real-life social groups you have left and friends who moved away, will not be able to find you.

Do use a real picture of you in your profile. For the same reasons you should use your real name, a real picture of you is a must. People can’t tell if you’re you from your name alone. That being said, keep the picture you post modest, provocative pictures send the wrong message.

Do look at the pictures of people who send you friend requests. Even if you don’t recognize them from the photo currently on display you may recognize the person from a different picture.

Do create your photo albums with privacy settings so only your friends can see them. You can change the settings in the future if you want but it is always best to limit who can see the more intimate moments of your life.

Do tag the pictures you post so that friends know when you have put their picture online. It is just common courtesy to let people know when you have put their likeness on the internet.

Do be tolerant when you get friend requests from strangers, especially if your photo is not of you. You may not be the only person on the planet with your name. Just hit reject and don’t worry about it. People are not notified when you reject their friend request.

Do use the Facebook privacy settings to limit who can see your full profile. Set it so that only friends can see things like your pictures, your wall, and your personal and contact information.

Do create a private group for you and your close friends. Make the group administrated and by invite only and only allow friends to join if you know them in real life.

Do limit the type of email notifications that come to you from Facebook. If you don’t you could find your email bombarded by Facebook messages.

Do report any threats of violence or other inappropriate posts or images to Facebook and to the proper real world authorities like school officials, parents and police. 

Facebook Don’ts

Don’t leave the default Facebook privacy settings as set. Go in and customize your privacy. Of particular importance, limit what people can see when you poke or message them before you have added them as a friend. The default setting allows people who are not friends yet and whom you poke or message to see your entire profile.

Don’t be afraid to allow some people to only see a limited version of your profile. Limited profiles show things like your profile picture, your name, and your basic info but do not show things like your wall, your interests, your contact info and any images of you that are not used as in your profile..

Don’t ever announce on your wall, or on any public wall, where you plan to go or who you plan to go with. Cyber stalkers are a real threat and if you have one this tells them where to find you in real life.

Don’t be afraid to join public groups about interests you share. Just be careful what you post on the walls of these groups.

Don’t accept Facebook invites to events. If you plan to attend send your acceptance using a private message or tell the host when you see them in person.

Don’t use Facebook to bully, harass, spread rumors, challenge fights or otherwise incite violence. Facebook is a social utility, not an anti-social utility.

Happy & Enjoy Surfing!!!!