Music Dashboard streaming service in Facebook

The social networking site Facebok is reportedly working on a music dashboard, according to GigaOm. The company is planning partnerships with several music services and will add a tab to user profiles showing songs users have listened to on music sites they subscribe to, such as Pandora and European streaming music service Spotify, GigaOm reports. Facebook will also showcase song and album recommendations from friends, according to the report.
The Music Dashboard is said to include a notification service which shows if your friends have listened to songs recommended by you, listing songs suggested by your friends, a top songs and top albums section. Malik also suggests that the “Happening Now” feature (which we reported earlier in the month) will show all of the latest musical happenings by your friends as they happen, keeping it away from the main News Feed.

Tornado – Lives On FriendFeed

A month after the deal, Facebook did something refreshing. They took much of the technology behind FriendFeed, bundled it up, and released it as Tornado, an open source real-time frame work for the web. Developers have been putting it to good use ever since — Quora and Hipmunk use it, for example. And today brings version 2.0.

Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google’s webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure. The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll or kqueue, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services. We built the web server specifically to handle FriendFeed’s real-time features — every active user of FriendFeed maintains an open connection to the FriendFeed servers. (For more information on scaling servers to support thousands of clients, see The

Facebook Shortcut List

Facebook shortcuts

The following Facebook shortcuts work in Chrome. If you are using Firefox, then you’ll need to add Shift (eg Shift + Alt + 1). In IE, you’ll need to hit Return after pressing the Alt key with a corresponding number. Note that not every shortcut appears to work in every browser – give them a try and see which ones work for you.
Alt and 1: Show your news feed. Alt and 2: Switch to your profile.
Alt and 3: View pop-up of any friend requests.
Alt and 4: View pop-up of any messages.
Alt and 5: View pop-up notifications.
Alt and 6: Show account settings.
Alt and 7: Switch to privacy settings.
Alt and 8: View Facebook’s own profile.
Alt and 9: Read latest Terms of Service agreement.
Alt and 0: Open the Facebook Help centre.

Facebook India -One year celebrations

Facebook has more than 600 million active users and more than 25 million in India. It has more than 100 employees here and has a number of positions currently open in Hyderabad, ranging from user operations to sales operations to finance and recruiting. Facebook is currently available seven local languages — Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam and Nepali.

Source : thehindu.com

The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh was present at Facebook India’s first year celebrations, where he declared the world’s most popular social network would be assured full support by the government for its growth in the region.

Facebook adverts as Comment Ads

Facebook is trying to generate as much revenue as it can from its now 750 million users around the world, and that has spawned a new type of advertisement on the social network.
The format is the latest attempt by Facebook to adapt advertising to social media communication. In January, Facebook introduced Sponsored Stories, which show user interaction with brands in the form of checkins and “Likes” in the right-hand ad column. If a user in your network, for instance, visited Starbucks, you might see that activity as an ad if Starbucks paid for the placement. While Facebook and advertising agencies think this is a winner, it’s unclear how Facebook users will react to such questions. There’s nothing to show sponsoresd comments won’t get ignored, and the companies putting these up run the risk of their brand getting some very negative feedback as replies.

99% People Can’t See This Video For More Than 25 Seconds -New Facebok Scam

Sacam on Facebook with the text “99% of people can’t watch this video more than 25 seconds!!! I dare you to watch more than 25 seconds from this video!”.
It then asks users to click the “Jaa” button twice to watch the video to confirm that you are 18 years of age. However, clicking on the button will open a share page on Facebook and then add a link to your wall. This link could be the 99% can’t watch this video link or the Marika Fruscio Live Television scam. Please don’t click on those links.

BeKnown – Monster Starting a Network on Facebook

Monster’s Facebook app BeKnown provides an easy way for job seekers to search for and apply for jobs without leaving Facebook. The app is fully integrated with Facebook, but enables users to keep their personal Facebook information private.
BeKnown, set to go live on Monday, will let Monster users import their data to Facebook and set up professional networks there as well. Matthew Mund, global vice president of product for Monster, reasons that since Facebook has around 700 million members, most people are on it already. “This is the path of least resistance,” Mund says. “You can manage your professional identity and your social identity in one place.” BeKnown will also be targeted at recruiters. Mund says Monster gets about 38 million unique visitors a month.
BeKnown Profile = Resume When you’ve completed your BeKnown profile, it will look just like an online version of your resume and you’ll be able to use it to apply for jobs. That’s why it’s important to brush up, if it needs it, the information you import from your Facebook profile. Monster users can import their resume from Monster into BeKnown. In addition to your online profile, there’s also a PDF version you can print.

People do use Facebook to let friends know about jobs or refer them to potential employers, she said. Monster’s main opportunity is capturing the young people on Facebook for recruiters, a demographic LinkedIn hasn’t focused on

BeKnown launched as a pilot project on Saturday in 35 countries and 19 languages. Monster plans to take several months to refine the application before making it available to the general public.

Giving out Ipads free- New Facebook scam

yet another scam active on Facebook claiming to provide free iPad2. The scam comes with the message “WOW! [name], the site is messing up right now and giving out Ipads free!!! @ http://apps.facebook.com/ipadauctionoff/?mnwkezbn I got mine yesterday hurry while it lasts”. This is in fact a scam and takes you to a fake site. Here’s how the scam looks :

Facebook scams take advantage of users curiosity and post messages with keywords like “free iPad”, “wardrobe malfunction”, “committed suicide“, “exposing breasts” and so on. Users fall for this trap and become victims of clickjacking and likejacking on Facebook which will ask users to complete a survey and lead them to a scam website.
This is done in order to drive traffic to scam websites or to earn money. For every survey completed, the scammer earns some money as commission. It is always advised that you avoid such scams messages that contains keywords/phrases that makes you curious.

Facebook bans KDE application,Delete Photos

The KDE Image Plugin Interface (KIPI) is an open source Facebook plugin that lets users upload and download photos with Facebook. It is used by applications such as digikam and gwenview, among others.
The KIPI (KDE Image Plugin Interface) Plugin is a common plugin structure used by many KDE applications to share image plugins among graphic libraries. Many KDE applications such as Gwenview, Digikam and KPhotoAlbum uses the KIPI plugins to upload photos to social networking sites like Facebook. Now, it seems like Facebook has banned KIPI. When users try to upload images using any application using the KIPI plugin they are getting an “Invalid API key” error message.

If you’re lucky enough to have eluded this incident because you’re not using any KDE app, don’t think that all your data is safely intact. You should be aware that this kind of error could potentially happen to any file that is stored in a shared space.
Just remember that it’s still best practice to keep local backups and never assume that once it’s on Facebook, it’s there forever.

George Hotz is Work For Facebook

George Hotz’s is a young American hacker born on October 2, 1989. He is known for unlocking the iPhone, as well as hacking the PlayStation 3 and subsequently being sued by Sony.

Facebook wouldn’t give any details on exactly what George Hotz’s job at Facebook entails, although we did hear recently that Facebook are working on a new iPad app so maybe he has something to do with that. Indeed, Hotz’s Facebook profile (over at facebook.com/geohot) reveals quite a bit. He is part of the Facebook network, in addition to RIT, Bergen County Academies, and Google. Furthermore, his most recent public post, which was made at 9:36AM on June 22, 2011, reads as follows: “George Hotz is Facebook is really an amazing place to work…first hackathon over.”

Facebook Credit -virtual currency in India

What is Faceboko Credit :
Facebook Credits are a virtual currency you can use to buy virtual goods in many games and apps on the Facebook platform. You can purchase Facebook Credits using your credit card, PayPal, or a mobile phone. To buy Facebook Credits or check your balance, go to the Payments tab in your Account Settings.
Facebook is set to move its 31-million Indian subscriber community to a new payment system called Facebook Credits next month. Facebook Credits is a virtual currency that facilitates transactions across games and apps on Facebook. Many leading developers like Zynga, Playfish, Digital Chocolate, PopCap, and Arkadium have already adopted Facebook Credits for in-game virtual goods. Social games such as FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and Zynga Poker are already a big part of Facebook’s 700-million user base, of which almost 200 million play games on the social networking site each month.
Facebook Credits will also offer incentives such as early access to product features, premium targeting for ads to developers as well as premium promotion on Facebook.
Source : business-standard.com

Awesome launch next week -Mark Zuckerberg

Chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters, including Reuters, to expect something from the company’s Seattle office, a 40-man outpost for the social networking giant. Zuckerberg met with reporters at the office.

There has been speculation in technology blogs in recent weeks about various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple Inc’s iPad and a specialized app for photo-sharing on the iPhone. More importantly, the launch or announcement may be an opportunity to quiz Facebook executives about Google+ and the way Google approached social networking
There has been speculation in technology blogs in recent weeks about various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple Inc’s iPad and a specialized app for photo-sharing on the iPhone.

Facebook-Payment system for Indian users

Social networking site Facebook w  introduce a payment system ‘Facebook Credits‘ for Indian users who could spend the virtual currency across various games or applications they use on the popular website.


Deb Liu, Facebook’s Platform Marketing Manager had stated on the company’s official blog in January, “Starting July 1, we will require all social game developers on the Facebook canvas platform to process payments through Facebook Credits. Facebook Credits is currently used in more than 350 applications from 150 developers, representing more than 70% of virtual goods transactions volume on Facebook”. This payment system will enable easy and fast transactions across games on Facebook and is likely to benefit over 2.5 crore Facebook subscribers in India.
Many developers such as Zynga, Playfish, CrowdStar, Digital Chocolate, PopCap and Arkadium have already adopted Facebook Credits for in-game virtual goods.

Facebook Users can video calls via Skype

Earlier this week while visiting Seattle, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipped off Seattle press that the company would be launching an “awesome” new product next week that has been built by Facebook’s Seattle team. The press invitations to that event went out today, saying nothing more than “Please join us for an event at Facebook” on July 6.

Though Facebook was ultimately not in the mix to buy Skype, the relationship is still going strong and will reportedly result in Skype’s video chat service finally coming to Facebook next week. TechCrunch reports that Facebook’s will include word that desktop Facebook users will be able to conduct video calls via Skype.
Facebook and Skype have already been working together, including integration of various Facebook features into the Skype service. But this is something else entirely. The partnership could substantially increase Skype usage. Facebook has more than 750 million active users. Currently Skype has just 170 million. And it will certainly help Facebook become even stickier for users as they start to have voice and video chat as an option to communicate.

Facebook Friends Import on Google +

Google launched its challenge to Facebook inaugurating its new social networking site called Google +. The interface is built on 3 column, such as Facebook, and even here you can share photos, videos, posts, links, and discuss their interests with the role of videoconferencing. Among the features that make Google a step ahead of Facebook, there is the possibility of video conferencing and voice chat.
1. Log in your Yahoo Mail account or Create new one.
2. Now Go to the “Contact” Option and then “Import Contacts”. And Authorize Facebook access to your Yahoo! address book.
3. Wait for a min to Import Facebook Contacts on Yahoo acccout.
4. Now Your Facebook contacts are on your Yahoo mail Account.
5. Now Login to Google+ Account and go to your “Circles” Page.
6. Click “Find and Invite” there, and then click “Yahoo! Import” and “Authorize your Yahoo Account” there, that you used to Import Facebook Contacts.
7. Now All the contact are on your Google Plus “Find and Invite Page”. Now Drag everyone into the appropriate “Circle”.

Facebook-skype video calling

Just a few weeks ago, Skype announced the ability to IM your Facebook friends or to ‘Like’ and comment on a Facebook status directly from Skype. Today, we are excited to announce that Skype’s partnership with Facebook goes even further, as we are now making it possible to video chat with your friends right from within Facebook. This is an exciting step for us as it represents Skype’s first big step on the Web, and because we know this has the potential to unlock even more conversations and make the experience on the Web even more social.

Zuckerberg said that the last five years have been about connecting people through social networking and that he and Facebook believe the next five years will be about building apps on top of the social infrastructure that Facebook and others have built. To get started connecting face to face using Facebook video calling, powered by Skype, it’s quick and easy. Just ensure your Facebook Chat status is set to “online” and you are ready to go! You can initiate a Facebook video call right from the Chat box or you can click on your friend’s Profile and if they are online, a “Call” button will appear at the top right of their Profile page. If your friend does not answer, you can leave them a video message. Your recorded video message will be waiting in your friend’s Inbox the next time they check their Messages.

How To Setup Make Video Call in Facebook

To make video calls on Facebook users will require a webcam-equipped computer and then select a friend they want to video chat with. In the chat window that pops up, clicking on a small blue video icon brings up the video chat feature (or when a friend tries to make a video call to the user) and the first time the user will be prompted to download and run a 482KB .exe file. Once the setup downloads and downloads and installs the necessary files, the user is ready for a face-to-face chat.
Click here : http://www.facebook.com/videocalling
Download Plugins here
Then Click on any Friend and select him to Video Call First time ask for set up . one Video Call Plugins Install in pc

Once you’ve got it installed, you can request a chat with any available friend by starting a chat and clicking on the video camera icon.
If your friend is unavailable, you can record a video message to let them know you tried to reach them.
Once you’ve tried out Video Calling, let us know how your call quality and overall experience was in the comments below!

How back up data from Facebook, Google,Picasa in Hard Disk

If You need your Uploaded Photos and music Files and Contact on and photos Picassa on your local hard Disk ,So u need one  Open Source Software to get Back up on your hard disk is MyCube Vault

MyCube Vault is an open-source project with the objective of allowing users to regain control of their social media content and social connections. MyCube has developed a base product with support for Facebook, Google Contacts and Picassa.

People underestimate the importance of this neglect to do it mainly because it is tedious and, in some cases even longer. For this reason they were born many softwares that can backup files stored on your PC, then photos, text documents, music etc.. in a completely automatic.

All information about the various services will be stored directly on your computer (by default here: C:UsersAppDataRoamingmyCube Vaultdate but, if you will, the position can be changed) according to specific intervals time defined by the user using the appropriate panel setting myCube Vault.

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Skype 5.5 Beta for Windows With Facebook IM

Skype experience just got friendlier

With new Skype 5.5 Beta for Windows you get all the Skype features you love, and now instant messaging with your Facebook friends, too. So you can chat away with more people than ever. And all for free.
Also made our call controls easier to use, with a new, smarter toolbar and simpler buttons.

New features in this version:

• See Facebook friends in your Skype contact list
• Instant message with your Facebook friends
• Easier, smarter call controls

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Indian Government wants access to Monitor Facebook,Twitter

The government on Wednesday made it clear that social networking sites must comply with the security agencies’ requirement for a real-time monitoring of their user data to ensure that national security is not compromised.

India’s communications ministry has been asked by the home ministry to monitor social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook amid fears that the services are being used by terrorists to plan attacks.
The request suggests that the Indian government is trying to broaden the scope of its online surveillance for national security. Telecommunications service providers in India provide facilities for lawful interception and monitoring of communications on their network, including communications from social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, in accordance with their license agreements, Milind Deora, the minister of state for communications and IT, told Parliament, according to the country’s Press Information Bureau.
The government had earlier asked Canadian firm Research in Motion, which provides BlackBerry services, to hand over an interception solution for its BlackBerry Internet Services (BIS), BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and BlackBerry Enterprise Servers (BES) over security concerns that terrorists may use these services, since the data is highly encrypted and security agencies can’t monitor such services.