Pay $ 2 ,to be highlight on Facebook

Facebook started to charge for specific posts. This is a test carried out the social networking giant in New Zealand. Postings such as what is charged? Simply put, this system allows users to make their posts stand out and attract the attention of Facebook. such as advertisements, and users will be charged for display. Mia Garlick Facebook spokesman confirmed, this idea is still a new test and tested in New Zealand. The fees charged range from $ 2. Devoted to the promotion posts will be displayed with a yellow background. The method of payment made ​​through credit card or PayPal service.

As more and more users sign up on Facebook, the popular social networking has to be sought in various ways when it will make a post stood out. New algorithm Facebook, promote the fishing update the comment or 'like'. Step for me monetize all the social networking potential that was deliberately made ​​up to attract potential investors ahead of its first stock offering (initial public offering / IPO) on 18 May. Facebook realized only 12% of my friends on Facebook who pay attention to regular status updates. Thus arose the idea was to create a special room paid for anyone who wants any of his post for a headline, of course with a fee. This feature alone is still in trial and is still free. But later, by paying USD 2 each time the post, then post that will appear highlighted at the top of the news feed, and remained visible for a long time in all the main pages of his friends

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Waiting for the celebration of 500 million users of Facebook

The world's largest social networks, Facebook preparing to celebrate the number of its members to break the half billion or five hundred million people.

According to tech site TechCrunch, as part of the celebrations, Facebook asks its employees to upload the photos they were celebrating the achievement of that and give thanks to all Facebook users.

According to TechCrunch, Facebook employees is rising all the photos on a site account collaboration and file sharing services Drop.io. Some of them are shown by TechCrunch.

AllFacebook.com also got a glimpse of the source, that Facebook is preparing a massive party to welcome an increasing number of users who are so big.

Since some time ago, several parties are predicting that Facebook has surpassed 500 million figure. In fact, the film The Social Network director David Fincher plots that tell the early establishment of Facebook also choose the tag "You Do not Get to 500 Million A Few Friends Without Making Enemies."

This movie trailer was recently quoted in YahooMovie site. It's just that Facebook is usually done in conjunction with the celebration of events and other important announcements Facebook.

Increasing the number of Facebook users reaching 500 million people, also spelled out very quickly. Previously, Facebook has just announced the number of users as much as 400 million, five months ago. And Facebook also just take five months to reach users increased from 300 million to 400 million people.

In the meantime, Indonesia is the third largest country that uses these social networks under the United States and England. It is estimated that Indonesia would soon occupy the second rank after the United States.

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Facebook is the most favorite places to infected files.

According to reports AppRiver, more than ten percent of spam messages that circulated during the last six months, containing malware. In the same period, nearly 45 percent of junk emails that come from Europe.

AppRiver, vendor email and web security home Florida, United States states, the malware via email back to bloom after the last few years to dim. "During the 30 days terakhor, quarantine AppRiver has more than 45 million messages containing the virus," the report AppRiver, as quoted from Softpedia, July 3, 2010.

In total, AppRiver mention, since early 2010, counted 11.2 percent of email spam containing malware and trojans. The most prevalent trojan is the versions of Kryptik or Bredolab. Malware hiding in the PDF file is also included in the list.

From the source side, AppRiver noted that Europe produces 44.7 percent from 26 billion messages to their quarantine in the last six months. "This is not surprising, because according to statistics, half of the 10 largest spam producing countries are the countries of Europe," referred to in its report AppRiver.

Europe itself, followed by Asia with 26.3 percent and South America with 12.4 percent. North America and Australia-Oceania only supply spam as much as 13.9 and 2.3 per cent.

The security researchers also noted that Facebook is the most favorite places to hook the victim perpetrator to open infected files. "During the last six months, we saw a number of trends in which attackers take advantage of Facebook as a sham," said AppRiver.

"Sometimes it is difficult to report any incidents because there are huge numbers and have a high level of similarity that are difficult to distinguish," said AppRiver

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New Display and Features on Digg

Aggregate site Digg, planning a major overhaul of its site on the display and adds some new features at the end of 2010. Today Digg is doing tests done to a number of content providers and publishers a number of users to obtain feedback and criticism.

One feature that digg is tested to make such a ranking for each news that is raised. Later Digg users can post comments and also can provide assessment of the posting of the article.

Selected articles to the front page of Digg often attract the attention of readers so that web traffic becomes too noisy other than that the reader can actively discuss each article is posted. Users can select articles through the website or by using the tool Digg located in many sites.

Telegraph, Thursday (01/07/2010), launch, new design Digg is claimed to be more fresh, simple, and more easily than existing designs.

The main change that is brought Digg is a feature that allows a user to create personalized news feeds via My feature News and Top News. Both can be filtered by date and topic. Additionally users can also split between the pictures and video. Not only that, users can also import your personal contact info from Twitter Facebook and Google.

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Facebook's privacy

Facebook's privacy settings have become hotly debated in recent weeks. With the announcement made Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's Chief Executive Officer will be hoping a wave of criticism and protests would subside.

"This time we do a lot of changes at one time,"
"We want to simplify control, and input from users is very valuable to us,"

Facebook is now implementing a simple control for users to all their information and data. With a few clicks, users can modify all the settings and change is also retroactive. The change also applies to products or services that will be released later today.

When you open your privacy settings page, the privacy settings you currently use will appear. Privacy settings will not be automatically changed to the recommended setting.

Users simply click on one button (Everyone, Friends of Friends, or Friends-only) in the left column to block or open all the information for that user groups. Users can also choose what information will be open for certain user groups.

If you choose the recommended settings, status, photographs, post, bio, favorite quotes, family, and the status of your relationship can be seen by everyone. The personal contact information is set to be able to be viewed only by friends only.

With more control over this simple, Facebook sure users will have no trouble. Still, of course, not all users will be satisfied by the new privacy options such Facebook


Founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said today nearly 500 million users of Facebook will more easily control their personal data, such as: age, sex, friends, and even pictures.

"Many of us try to do in recent weeks," said Zuckerberg at a news conference.

Going forward, Facebook users need only one easy step to manage their privacy. "Feedback from users is very rapid. We know that the simplification of this control should be done," he said.

Privacy settings in Facebook before forcing the user must adjust so many settings and options are valued difficult.

This decision was taken after officials Facebook conduct internal meetings at their headquarters in Palo Alto.

Facebook faced harsh criticism after many users suffered a series of leaks their private data. Those cases were made public users do not know how to share their information on Facebook. Many of them threatened to stop using Facebook as of May 31 this

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Facebook is still number one

Though under heavy criticism lately associated system user privacy, Facebook was even more formidable in the virtual domain.

According to data released by Google's web traffic, Friday, May 28, 2010, the world's largest social networking is now visited by 540 million people per month, or more than 35 percent of the population of Internet users.

According to Google Ad Planner global data provided by Double Click, about 570 billion pages on Facebook.com visited by people.

The number was eight times higher than Yahoo.com, now in second position. According to Google, Yahoo.com just received 490 million visitors per month.

As quoted from the website of The Street, data from Double Click (company data provider for Internet advertisers who recently diakusisis by Facebook) announced the 1000 most visited sites on the Internet.

However, perhaps to maintain objectivity, the Google-owned company, does not include the Google ranking as well as two other Google products: YouTube and Gmail, into the list.

After Facebook and Yahoo, Live.com from Microsoft came in third place with 370 million unique visitors and 39 billion page views. Then, followed by Wikipedia, MSN.com, Microsoft.com, Blogspot.com, Baidu.com, GG.com, and Mozilla.com.

Forum web site number one from Indonesia, Kaskus, also entered into Google's list of top 1000. Ranked 755, Kaskus harvest 5.1 million unique visitors and 170 million page views.

From the figures obtained, showing that Facebook is the king of social networking sites. While closest rivals, Twitter, April and pocketed 96 million unique visitors and 5.4 billion page views.

These data support the statement that claims that Facebook Facebook has not been abandoned by its members although a number of politicians, consumer groups, and advocates want a more rigorous system of protection for personal information is included in the Facebook account.

Until Friday, only 23 515 people who register on the site 'We're Quitting Facebook' as one form of campaign "throw" social networking service with protests scheduled to be conducted on 31 May.

That number represents less than 0.006 percent of the 400 million-plus members of Facebook. The site launched in 2004 it was checking the privacy controls to face the barrage of criticism and denunciation as destructive beliefs that have made Facebook become the world's largest social network.

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What's your Facebook page worth?

There have been many sites that offer services appraisers website. However, the service could not be specifically able to assess the value of a particular page on Facebook

But recently a social media company Vitrue has released a tool called a social page evaluators specifically designed to assess a person or a Facebook page of the brand.

When you are curious about how much the estimated value of your Facebook page, please check the website of Vitrue. Enter your Facebook page url address in the box "Enter the url to a brand's facebook page" and press enter.

After that Vitrue will display the current estimates, the potential for the future, and some statistics had Facebook pages that include the number of fans, how many posts per day, number of interactions, and others.

However, users are able to vary the value of Earned Media Value or (Such ads cost calculation formula Cost Per Mille Impression / CPM), which will affect the value of valuation.

By Fan-tasize features, users can also vary the variable number of fans, engagement, and post per day, so the user can identify and target variables to jacked in order to achieve the desired valuation.
In addition, we can also compare a Facebook Page with three other pages. Vitrue Best Practice also provides a box that could provide useful input to add value to the valuation of facebook pages in the future.

This site also provides updates on changes in the valuation of your Facebook page by email periodically.

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Project Titan from Facebook

Facebook in the near future will change the system message be webmail service.
Hopefully these web applications can beat Gmail ,that was already popular.
Like Gmail,access to POP/IMAP will accompany the application,call Project Titan,so that users can access the facebook email from various software and handheld device.
For email adress is expected to use 'usermane@facebook.com.'
However there has been no official word,when these service could be used

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Facebook acquired Friendfeed

For Twitter rival, in providing a better service to the users, Facebook now acquires Friendfeed <span id="fullpost"> This is recognized by the four founders of Friendfeed is Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, and Sanjev Singh, who now sits as a senior officer in the engineering and product teams from Facebook.   This merger will be approved to provide added value, 250 million users of Facebook, which will get real time information and search system based on the current time, such as Twitter, and Flickr photo sharing service, and sharing review,Yelp.
Not announced how much the value of this acquisition, but the 12 employees Friendfeed working in Facebook.We wait, whether Facebook would be better, because at this time Friendfeed not intregrated yet with Facebook

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