Facebook Registers 700 million users Worldwide

The users of Facebook has achieved roughly 700 million worldwide till the month of May 2011, in that developing countries plays important role as per to the data of statistics site, Social Bakers.

“After reaching such a wonderful milestone, Facebook is still on the climb. Number of its total users is just near to 700 million users and counting numbers,” Social Bakers said. Five countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico and Argentina, each supply more than 1 million latest and innovative users to social networking site Facebook, in May.



India is placed at the sixth position by adding of 918,140 fresh users last month, taking the total users to 25.77 million in the country. Brazil tops as a best performer and attracts 1.95 million latest Facebook users in May, taking the total membership to 19.09 million.

Brazil is trailed by Indonesia with 1.59 million fresh users, the Philippines with 1.33 million, Mexico comes to 1.11 million and Argentina having 1.06 million. As per to the reports, Facebook users will very soon reach one billion and that to by 2012. Last July, when Facebook made 500 million users, its founder Zuckerberg stated that we will very soon touch 1 billion users mark.

During the first quarter of 2011, the social networking site stirred forward rolling from 585 million users to more than 665 million. There were almost 80 million latest users in three months.

Facebook Aims to Promote and Incorporate Music and Video

Facebook is planning to bring in an enhanced sharing feature that will formulate music, videos and other variety of media in to Facebook social networking website.

 Facebook authorities or head are at present tiring hard to confer with many different online music services incorporating Spotify, in order to furnish the social networking website with a widget that can be use for exhibiting a user’s most-played tracks, at the equivalent time building it simple for Facebook friends to access and hear them.



“We’re constantly searching for enhanced conduct to help people discover the most significant content on Facebook but have nothing to proclaim.” Facebook said in a statement.

This kind of brave move can be a massive achievement for the company provided it can integrate features, which can allow users to subscribe to third party music services using online currencies.

“Users having fun with music and share the music with friends on Facebook is amazing that most of people do the same thing with their friends,” Mark Zuckerberg said.

He also added, “I hope we can do wonders with other companies to make Facebook more social.”

Yahoo Announces Latest and Newest e-mail service

It has been seen in yahoo mail webpage that Yahoo has taken off the "beta" tag. Yahoo begins the beta online e-mail service for users in October, started rolling out the newest and most recent version of Yahoo Mail to its 284 million users globally today. The service is accessible in 43 markets and 26 languages around the world.

Yahoo has incorporated in many of latest and newest social-networking features, incorporating the capability to act in response to Facebook friends from right within an e-mail moderately than leaping to Facebook. Users can also outlook slideshows and video from links in a straight line inside their e-mail.

Yahoo has also arranged contacts in the service, approaching e-mail from those in your address book to the top of unread messages. Users can also text and instant message from within the e-mail program. And each and every one instant messages and text messages are archived by evasion.

 

And Yahoo has integrated a number of apps in its e-mail service from third parties that to the mega-file sending service YouSendIt, and the temptation application Evite.

"Yahoo's revelation for online communications conveys simultaneously all the tools that people use to connect e-mail, chat, SMS, and social updates, and formulates it simple for them to allocate content and take on in conversations with the people that issue most to them," Yahoo chief product officer Blake Irving said in a report.

Facebook will be using PhotoDNA Tool to Fight Against Child Porn

Facebook has got the licensed photo scanning technology that is developed by Microsoft to fight child porn on its platform. Facebook is one of the leading social networks in the world with more than 500 million users who have uploaded that to as many as 50 billion images till date. The company requires scanning the platform for cleaning out images of child porn and other unsuitable photos.

The company prepares to exercise the PhotoDNA image scanning tool, which is developed by Microsoft Research and Dartmouth College professor Dr. Hany Farid, to scan the platform and delete the most horrible and terrible images of child pornography from the platform.

The PhotoDNA platform is at the present possessed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), which runs a program that helps online service providers to undertake child pornography using the software.



The platform, which has been incorporated in Bing, Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail, has assisted Microsoft scan more than 2 billion images. The company establishes 1,000 positive matches in SkyDrives and 1,500 matches in Bing by means of the software.

“PhotoDNA recognized horrendous images on our services that we would have on no account establish or else. Recognizing graphic of child pornography in a sea of content is an intimidating assignment, nevertheless PhotoDNA is serving to locate the recognizable indicator in a haystack,” Bill Harmon of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, said in a declaration.

Mobile Users to Connect Facebook without Net Connection

Mobile users can't resist chatting with friends on facebook and love to hang about connected on social networking?  At the present users need not to agonize about costs of money on internet usage. Singapore based software applications developer, U2opia Mobile, has developed a novel application for mobile phones that will permit them to access Facebook on all categories and brands of handsets, devoid of paying for a data connection.



Unstructured Supplementary Data (USSD) is the technology worked out by telecom players to launch alerts to their users. The technology to assist users to launch and scrutiny updates on their friends’ Facebook walls. U2opia announced this application on Tuesday with telecom major Bharti Airtel.




Airtel has announced for its customers that from now onwards they can update their Facebook status via this USSD service free of cost, but Rs1 per day will be charged for accessing the full-feature application, which allows screening news feeds, commenting on or liking news feed stories, posting on friends’ walls, authenticating friend requests, seeing notifications and adding friends.

India has not still able to digest the Smartphone hype as such and that is the main reason that internet on mobiles is limited to key cities and many users are debarred from accessing their Facebook accounts through mobile phones.

Facebook, HP and OpenStack Join Open Invention Network (OIN)

Internet and Technology giants Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and OpenStack have made available for membership with other 74 companies for the Open Invention Network (OIN) this quarter.

The Open Innovation Network (OIN) is a group of organizations committed to protect Linux and its open-source offshoots from legal assaults.

OIN said that Facebook, HP and OpenStack as well as with Fujitsu,Rackspace, and Juniper had approved to turn out to be licensees.



OIN members guarantee not to instigate a legal attack on the origin of their patents based on Linux and also take delivery of access to Linux patents to be in the right place to partner companies exclusive of
legal consequences.

The Open Innovation Network was founded back in 2005 by IBM, NEC, Novell, Phillips, Red Hat and Sony. The conglomerate at the present owns 300 patents related to Linux and access to 2,000 other Linux patents fitting in to licensees.

In spite of many companies sustaining the OIN, the consortium’s CEO Keith Bergelt considers that Linux persists to be in danger.

“It's actually presently anybody who supports proprietary platforms and has a huge patent assortment that it likes to carry on to exercise to be competent to depress choice. There will always be those who will be appearing at Linux capacity intimidating their livelihood, their technique of existence,” he told.

Bing Coalition with Facebook is Developing into Productive for Both

All of us knows that  Microsoft is trying to get ahead of Google Search Engine for decade and has been not able to put hole in Google  users, but now they have come out with new way to challenge Google’s authority by shaking hand with Facebook.



From this end itself, Bing establishes a number of astonishing innovative features in its search offerings. Microsoft’s Bing has determined to exercise the enormous reputation levels of the social networking platform, Facebook to its advantage.



At present all users will have much improved and appropriate search results to their queries if they are logged on top of Facebook account on the same period.For example, any haphazard query search will guide you to abundant pages before you locate the mainly significant or the precise answer.

Nevertheless, if you’re logged onto your Facebook account at the equivalent time, the relevant searches will pop up on the first page, itself. A bundle of this search activity also relies on the number of ‘likes’ that search result or the link has got from your friend list.



In addition, Bing searches will make possible for online shoppers to have an enhanced shopping experience. By means of Bing they would at the present be able to post links about products and services of their own selection. This technique they could get a second estimation on the same from their family and friends on Facebook.