Facebook’s ‘Phone’ Is Another Triumph of Mediocrity

"Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says the company's aim is to be the home screen of any Android mobile."

The long rumored Facebook phone turned out not to be a phone at all.It is a software called Facebook Home that makes it easier for people to spend more time on Facebook. 

A phone from HTC that comes pre-loaded with Facebook Home will  be available April 12, with AT&T as the carrier.

HTC First is the first "Facebook Home " optimized phone in the world.It will be available in four colors (black, white, red and pale blue) and it costs $99.99.

The idea behind the "Facebook Home " software is to bring Facebook content right to the home screen, rather than requiring users to check apps.

The main aim of introducing "Facebook Home " is to increase the number of people using Facebook from phones and tablet computers. Of its 1.06 billion monthly users, 680 million log in to Facebook using a mobile gadget.

The deeper mobile integration will likely help Facebook to attract more mobile advertisers.

Source Telegraph,Mashable,Wired

Facebook-(Infographics) Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

Cool infographics:Weird facts about Facebook

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5 Best Facebook Educational App

Facebook is the most popular social networking site. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc.He is an young 28 years billionaire, Internet entrepreneur  and a computer programmer.He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking site Facebook.

Facebook contains millions of web links,billions of photos,Videos,blog posts,Games,Apps,news and more contributed by more than 250 millions of users.People are using facebook for entertainment,education,to get information,to be in connect with friends and families,for marketing and more.

The founders of facebook with their(unitedly one) mind had contributed the world a social networking site called Facebook.With this now we can know about the knowledge and ideas of billions of minds in a single place.

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5 Best Facebook Educational App

1. WeRead - It is all about books.Wonderful app to share what we love to read and to know what others are reading.
2. Notely - Helpful to organize assignments, classes, notes and many more
3. Study Groups - To create study groups and collaborate with each other
4. Used Text Groups - This is a group where students can sell and buy used text books.
5. CiteMe : To learn how to properly include citations.

Please share more ideas and let us know how to use facebook for education.

Facebook will end on January 15th 2013

ALO ALTO, CA – Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in January. Managing the site has become too stressful.
“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

The news is spread by Weeklyworldnews.com, a site known for distributing fanciful stories disguised as news articles. Other stories published by Weekly World News are alien stories and other otherworldly and tabloid stories.
The news of social networking giant Facebook shutting down is not new. People, for example, have spread news about Facebook closing down on March 15, 2011 and then July 2012 but the close down never happened because the claims are not true.

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Morgan Stanley is fined $5m for Facebook IPO disclosure

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), the principal underwriter of the $109 billion initial public offering of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) was fined $5 million by Massachusetts regulators for improper supervision of analysts before the May 17 IPO.

According to the regulator, there was a conflict of interest when a senior banker coached a Facebook official on what to say to analysts.

It also claimed that the two firms failed to tell all investors that revenues may be lower than forecast.

Many investors criticised Facebook as its shares fell following the listing.

The sale, which was over-subscribed and took place in May 2012, was one of the most hotly anticipated stock floatations in recent history and valued the eight-year-old firm at $104bn.

Facebook sold close to 421 million shares, at $38 a share, raising $16bn.

However, the hype surrounding the listing waned shortly after trading started on the New York stock exchange as shares fell below their listing price on concerns about the pace of future profit growth.

Facebook's shares have dipped almost 30% since its listing in May.

Morgan Stanley did not confirm or deny the allegations by the regulator.

However, it said in statement that it was pleased to have reached a settlement and to have put the matter behind it.

The problem affecting Facebook was that an increasing number of people were visiting its website via mobile devices, such as phones or tablet computers.

Facebook warned that because it did not display advertising on the mobile versions of its website, then there may be a decline in revenue from ad sales, its biggest source of income.

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Source:IBtimes,BBC

Facebook acquired photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion

Twitter 'tried to buy out Instagram just months BEFORE Facebook'   

Twitter tried to buy photosharing app Instagram before Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg snapped it up for $1billion, it has been claimed.

According to reports, Jack Dorsey, Twitter's co-founder and an early Instagram investor, tried to purchase the cult mobile phone app just months prior to the deal with Facebook last week.

Just 18 months after the app's launch, Instagram's development team have been made multimillionaires by the Facebook deal, with CEO Kevin Systrom netting a cool $400 million.

Before founding his company, Mr Systrom, 28, had been an intern at Twitter and he had sent Mr Dorsey an early version of Instagram to help whip up interest in the app.

Mr Dorsey invested venture capital in the nascent Instagram in February 2011, and he used it to post photos via his Twitter account on a near-daily basis, the New York Times reported.Read more

Instagram, with roughly a dozen employees based in San Francisco, closed a $50 million funding round last week from investors including Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners, according to a source familiar with the matter. The funding valued the company, founded in early 2010, at $500 million, it said.

The Instagram application, which allows users to add filters and effects to pictures taken on their iPhone and Android devices and to share those photos with their friends, has gained about 30 million users since it launched in January 2011.Read More

Facebook and Google censor the content in India after court warnings

 Internet giants Google and Facebook have removed some content after court warnings


Google went to meet the requirements of the Indian court and blocked the harmful materials in India. A company representative said in court hearings in February on removing six references to illegal content on the Indian version of its search engine.Bloomberg said that the local social network-Orkut, owned by Google was subjected to censorship . At the same time outside the country, these materials were available.

Google did not specify exactly which data has been locked.The lawsuit, in which Google and Facebook have reported the removal of content, was filed on behalf of Indian activist Ayaz Mufti Arshad Kuasmi (Mufti Aijaz Arshad Quasmi) with respect to the materials that may be offensive to Muslims, indicates Bloomberg.Facebook  in conjunction with Microsoft and Yahoo!, as specified in the lawsuit, said in a court of his innocence to the users of the published materials.

The District Court in New Delhi, considering a lawsuit, ordered the company to provide, within 15 days of the description of the actions they have taken to block offensive material.Another lawsuit against Google and Facebook is pending in the Supreme Court of India. January 12 the court warned companies that if they do not include the mechanism of pre-moderation of published materials, access to their resources can be blocked in the country. In response, the Internet giant announced that they have the technical ability to track all users publish.

The next meeting of this case, according to Bloomberg, will be held in mid-February. If the company refuse to comply with the requirements of the charges, the court said in January, the country may be introduced Internet censorship like the one that exists in China.

Unlike China, which blocked Facebook, Twitter and other resources in the Indian segment of the network until there is relative freedom, according to Reuters.Recently, however, indicate the agency, the country's authorities began to worry the impact of social networks.

Related Links
- Have removed objectionable content, Say Facebook, Google - The Times of India, 7/2/2012
- Google India Removes Content on Court Order - The Bloomberg, 07/02/2012

Related Sites
- Google India
- Facebook

Facebook introduced the application of real-life

Social network Facebook has presented dozens of "social applications", telling about the actions of users in real life. Report updates to appear on the official page of the company.

"Social Applications" published in the user profile reports of its activity on the web, whether it's watching a movie or listening to music. New applications submitted by January 19, extend the range of actions, which you can tell your "boyfriend" to include events from real life.

Thus, the application allows the user to publish Foodily write about cooking dinner and share a recipe, but Snooth - tell tasted the wine. Also presented an application for travelers, philanthropists, athletes, fans of reading, shopping and so on.

The actions that a user completes a "social applications", displayed on their profile and news block his virtual friends. In September 2011 Facebook has demonstrated "biographical" of the pages in which all actions are deposited in the timeline. The new interface is called "The Chronicle" (Timeline) and became available for all in December 2011.

The first "social applications" presented at the conference f8 in September 2011 when the first of them was known.

SOURCE:LENTA.RU