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The second famous search engine Yahoo has finally teamed up with Social Networking site Facebook for its long awaited revamp.The revamp is being done under Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer who joined Yahoo after quitting Google.Yahoo will provide users to login with their Facebook account and let users access to content shared by their Facebook friends.People will be able to see the news and videos shared by their Facebook friends.   It is note worthy that Yahoo is facing huge decline in its revenue over the past few years.It is facing some serious competition from the likes of Google.The revamp will provide the search engine a more socialistic look probably this is what Yahoo needs right now.The revamp will be followed by launch of Yahoo's mobile applications. Yahoo is also planning to redesign its popular yahoomail.Yahoomail is likely to receive some social touch also.Yahoo's total revenue in 2012 was just $5 billion while in 2008 it was some $7.6 billion.Google and Facebook ...

Kids can't use facebook.The minimum requirement to join Facebook is 13 years.But now kids have an option- Grom Social .A social networking site created by a just 12 years old boy.And it is kids only.The site has been created by Zach Marks. Zach Marks joined Facebook at the age of 11 and has around 680 friends on Facebook but a family friend noticed his profile and reported to his dad.He has to make a fake profile but that again came to his  parents notice.He had no choice but to quit Facebook.Zach agrees that he finds a lot of inappropriate content on Facebook.   Grom is an Australian term that means a young individual eager to learning.To join the site children must sign  on  with their parents and if adults wants to join they must have kids.You are not allowed  to curse others or post inappropriate pictures.The site has 14,500 members till now. Zach Marks didn't create the social networking site all by himself.His Dad's friend helped him.He borrowed ...

The popular addicted multi-platform angry-birds game is now available on Facebook   ahead of the official launch in Jakarta at 12AM EST. This game was first launched for iOS in December 2009 and till now it has been downloaded over 700 million times which clearly shows its worldwide fan following. "With the great success of the Angry Birds game on smartphone platforms, Rovio intends to reach more fans and be on every screen and every platform," Rovio Asia senior vice president Henri Holm said in a statement. "Therefore, the company developed Angry Birds on Facebook to reach more than 800 million Facebook users worldwide." Angry birds is Rovio’s 51th game. The previous successful games include the mobile version of Burnout and NFS. Because of the great success of Angry Birds, Rovio now is worth more than $1 billion and the company will soon become public. In the game, players fling colorful and grumpy wingless birds from a slingshot into smarmy egg-stealing pi...

It’s bad news. A Trojan is active on Facebook. It infects the computers by tricking the users. It tricks the users to download malware by asking them to open a fake CNN report about World War III. The story, using CNN logos, offer video footage of a breaking news story, but says users need to upgrade their Flash video software to watch. The fake news page says that US attacks Iran and Saudi Arabia, and begins of World War III. When users 'upgrade', their PC gets infected with a Trojan. Videos are often used as 'bait', because computer users are used to upgrading video software such as Flash, so installing software does not set off alarm bells. Security experts Sophos reported at least 60,000 people have already fallen victim, The Daily Mail reports. "Naked Security has seen a worrying number of Facebook users posting the same status messages today, claiming that the United States has attacked Iran and Saudi A...

Are your Facebook friends decreasing? You don’t know who unfriended you because your long list of friends. I used to think there is no way to find who unfriended you on FB other than to keep an eye on your friend list. But today while surfing I found this site-userscripts.org. It is having a script called unfriend finder. This script is really very useful.It will notify you when someone unfriends you or someone from your friend list deactivate his/her account. That’s not all, It will notify you when someone decline your friend list. Unfriend Finder makes identifying unfriends easy by displaying a red counter in the menubar with the amount of unfriends you have. It also uses Facebook notification to alert you on these events. All you have to do is just to install the script. The script will work with Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. So if you are also a Facebook addict like me then you must have this script installed on your b...

Facebook has released some new applications to let users share everything from photos of what they cooked for dinner, to details on what they are wearing, to what concert they scored tickets to.This move from facebook comes right after Google+ reached 90m users world wide. The world's largest online social network unveiled more than 60 new apps Wednesday that let users share the tiniest details of their lives on their Facebook profiles, now known as their Timeline. Facebook users can already share the music they are listening to through apps such as Spotify, or the articles they are reading through Yahoo News and other services. Wednesday's announcement expands the number of available apps to cover a range of topics including food, fashion, travel and reading. Facebook is calling it "frictionless sharing." It means once you sign up for the apps, they will automatically share your activity through Facebook. That said, users ...

If you are a blogger then you know the importance of social media sites. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Digg(and a lot more) are the primary source of traffic for any blog.It is necessary for a blogger to remain active on these sites. In this post I just want to discuss which site is better for bloggers-Facebook or Twitter.So lets try to find out. Now the first thing is how many twitter followers do you have? 1000, 2000, 3000 or may be more. And to how many of them you communicate? 100,150,200 or may be less. Now on Facebook most of the people are having around 400-500 friends and communicate to most of them. This is where the whole story lies. People are generally of the view-

There is a new scam that steals user data by threatening them to delete their account.FB user get emails that they must provide their account information otherwise their account will be delected forever.The message in these emails tells user that they have violating facebook policy regulations by annoying or insulting other facebook users.These emails ask the user for their personal and financial information that also includes facebook password. Well these emails are bogus and are not sent by facebook.Facebook never asks for user account details or financial details.The email is read as below-

Everybody knows about facebook.Facebook has more than 340 million active users worldwide.A huge number of these people are facebook addicts. People spent about 80% of their online time on facebook.There are a lot of social networking sites like myspace, twitter,orkut and the latest google+. But why people are addicted to Facebook.Lets find out why facebook is so popular? Sharing- Status sharing is obviously the most attractive feature of facebook.Its easy to share with your friends.You get to know what your friends are doing,your friends know what you are doing with a single click of mouse. Tagging- You can upload unlimited pictures and tag your friends in these pics.Everyone likes to get tagged isn’t it? Social games- There are a lot of games like mafia wars,farm ville to name a few.You can invite your friends to play with you.Gaming is much more fun when your friends are with you.