Facebook is interested in buying WhatsApp

Facebook is interested in buying WhatsApp

This morning TechCrunch has dropped the bomb: Facebook is interested in buying WhatsApp, in what could be a prelude to an integration between the two services. Fulfilled, it would be an interesting move to see how the saturated market of instant messaging that cup app stores.

A thousand and one rumors are heard daily purchases on platforms and business online. Many of them, which could buy Facebook, which for example was done with Instagram . But if the source is TechCrunch, things change, and deserves at least pay attention. The technology giant has made Mark a powerful position in the market, and could use it to expand its area of ​​operation. And to expand, nothing is better than something that most people use. Exactly, WhatsApp.

How would it affect purchases made effective? First, getting placed in a privileged and no one could do shadow: its one billion users have easy access and provided the most popular instant messaging service from the smartphone. WhatsApp made ​​public over a year ago its user statistics for the last time, and even then spoke a billion messages a day between them.

All this happens in a context that requires WhatsApp emerge stronger. Falls suffers sporadic, they go from being mere recurrent fault error, non-encrypted data in its infancy, as the recent problems error when displaying the states of contacts, or violation of privacy when filtered, , can weigh much to retain users who discover alternatives. If we add the little progress that has been in his years available, just adding some detail to the interface, or by extending the limit of the groups, it is natural alternatives like Line will triumph.

That would be the challenge for Facebook: WhatsApp offer the user what strange. For example, fewer falls service, a desktop client or web, integrated VoIP calls ... Now need to crystallize and the negotiations to a successful conclusion. While doing so, Facebook would have another challenge: give confidence to any user who casts doubt upon the privacy of the service, one of the Achilles heels of the company suffering Zuckerberg. 

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Forever Alone Girl: She uploaded12 million photos to Facebook and only had three likes

Forever Alone Girl:  She uploaded12 million photos to Facebook and only had three likes

A woman rose 12 billion photos to Facebook and barely managed to get three likes. The effort failed Arielle Steven fruits despite enormous sacrifice he made.

In the album called 'Eurotrip 2012', American women hung pictures of food, beverages, streets, buildings, plants, animals, people, signs, hotels, museums, sports, transport, climate and various amusements of his journey Europe.

'It took a while to get up and organize my holiday photos, but I finally managed. Now they are all uploaded photos and a title each, "said Steven Arielle, according to the website Theonion . 

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Facebook launches job portal, details

Facebook launches job portal
 

On numerous occasions the possibility that Facebook launched its own service job was news many times... but until yesterday the job portal Facebook did not come true.

Yesterday, the social network introduced its new Social Jobs application , which can be considered as the largest ever launched against cracking LinkedIn. Surely many in the professional network have become concerned at the launch that has made Facebook.

For now, the application, which was developed through an agreement with the Department of Labor of the United States, list jobs online working pages "traditional" as Monster.com, Branchout and Jobvite, with which Facebook has established agreements.

As stated in the application itself, the intention is to connect great candidates with great jobs. Currently there are over 1.7 million jobs already available in the Facebook application.

Those seeking work can filter results by keyword, sector and location. For now, the application does not offer many of the features that LinkedIn provides, or for candidates, much less for human resources managers and headhunters, but perhaps only a matter of time. In LinkedIn, as we say, sure this launch Facebook has caused more than a headache ... 

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A man is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for writing "God does not exist" on Facebook

A man is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for writing "God does not exist" on Facebook

An Indonesian official has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for insulting Islam by writing "God does not exist" on Facebook, local media reported Wednesday.

Aan Alexander, 31, resident in the Indonesian island of Sumatra, was convicted of inciting hatred against religion and violate the law of electronic communication in a court of the province of West Sumatra

"We believe that acting intentionally, not delete the page after complaints the police arrived, when he, as administrator of the fan page, he could do," said Judge Budi Dharma Eka Prasetya.

Aan, who was a Muslim until in 2008 renounced his faith belief that if there is a God there would be no disasters or crimes, faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

He created a Facebook page in which he declared his atheism that attracted a thousand followers and which hung in the Muhammad cartoons having sex with a maid.

The Muslim religion is iconoclastic and prohibits any representation of God, Muhammad or any of the prophets.

Aan, who apologized last February in a letter and came to embrace the Islamic faith, accepted the decision of the judges but will appeal the fine of $ 10,500 included in the judgment.

Human Rights Commission of Indonesia condemned the arrest, which he called "repressive" and a "violation of freedom of expression."

Indonesia is a predominantly Muslim country and allowed six profess different religions, but atheism is not covered by the founding principles of the state. EFE

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A young woman killed her son for interrupting her playing FarmVille on Facebook

A young woman killed her son for interrupting her playing FarmVille on Facebook

In Jacksonville, Florida, Alexandra V. Tobias (aged 22) pleaded guilty for the death of her son three months of attack him for not allowing him to play quietly in Farmville.

According to the victimizer told authorities while trying to harvest, plow and plant on the popular game virtual farm, little Dylan Lee Edmondson did not stop to mourn, so he took it and shook it, and then settle down to smoke a cigarette, but then returned to attack the infant.

And if it ended well, would not be surprising that the claimed child care or lack of hunger because his mother would rather raise a virtual tomato at your own child. The thing is, Tobias believes that "the baby could have been beaten during the shaking of the head."

The child's death was classified as a second-degree murder, a charge that could mean life imprisonment for the young, although his lawyer estimated to be only between 25 and 50, by state guidelines. 

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94% of Facebook users agree to add any stranger if he is handsome.

94% of Facebook users agree to add any stranger if he is handsome.

Security firm BitDefender has demostradp through a curious experiment. The company created a fake profile of a blond woman, 21, who acted naively in the social network, and tried to make friends with 2,000 users chosen at random.

Well, at random, trying to choose a representative sample. Half of men and women, aged between 17 and 65, various social positions and jobs.

All patients were sent a friend request, and the results obtained, more than interesting. After a week, 1,872 people had already accepted the friend request and some did without a word before and 10% of users engaged in a conversation with her ​​in under half an hour had revealed sensitive information, whether staff or employment, to this perfect stranger. Faced with an attractive face, forget the precautions for safety.

Users are then also asked why they had accepted the friendship. 53% answered "because I had a beautiful face." For 17% was a "familiar face at that time not recall exactly where he had met", and 24% said the added "because he worked in the same industry as him." 

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Facebook ready to launch its own smartphone

Facebook ready to launch its own smartphone

Like many mobile companies onto the market, new and innovative equipment, Facebook is not far behind, it would be incorporating social network engineers to work specifically the hardware on your own smartphone.

Also, if carried out the work of engineers, smart phones would be coming to the market next year.

On the other hand, Facebook signed with HTC, which manufactures smart phones, would be creating a mobile device under the name of Buffy, which would have a Linux-based operating system. .

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Facebook added the ability to share that you are an organ donor

 Facebook added the ability to share that you are an organ donor

The president of Facebook has taken an interview on a television program nationwide to announce a new tool that could "save lives." The more than 900 million users have registered will be able, if they wish to share with other members of the social network if they are organ donors. Also, you can tell how long you and explain what your own personal history and detail the reasons that encouraged you to make that decision based on solidarity.

It is very easy to add to your profile on Facebook that you are an organ donor. Simply, you must enter your dates and click milestones is at the top. You then select the section of Health and within the menu that appears choose the right donor organs. Then you can add the state or country where you are registered as a donor, and date. If you want, you can even write a short story about why you became an organ donor. The aim is that this function is available globally to all members of the network, although there are still users who can not use it.

For those who still are not donors, the system offers the possibility to sign up via the Internet, at least in the U.S. and UK. All you have to do is enter the country in which you live, and then are instructions and a link to the official registrar for organ donors.

You can control you want to share with you are an organ donor. Simply select the level of privacy for that information to your profile. You can make it public for everyone, just for Facebook friends or customize for specific groups, such as relatives or close friends. Then you save the changes. Thereafter your organ donor status shall be shown on your biography and in the section about you.

The interview was broadcast on the morning show Good Morning America issued by the ABC News in America. There, Mark Zuckerberg explained how he got the idea. Two people have inspired him. The first is his girlfriend, who is studying medicine at university. Often at dinner, his girlfriend, who wants to be a pediatrician, talks about sick children whom he knew. The other is the late Steve Jobs, a "friend" who managed to live several more years due to a liver transplant.

Zuckerberg admits that the development of the tool is very simple, but adds in the interview that connect people to save lives is "awesome." It also hopes that this new feature of Facebook to help reduce waiting lists for organ transplants. Only in the U.S., more than 114,000 people in need of an organ, and millions worldwide. On average 18 people die every day for not finding a suitable donor. Simply telling the Facebook friends you are an organ donor, you can encourage others to join.

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Mother received criticism after humiliating her daughter Facebook, meet Denise Abbot.

Mother received criticism after humiliating her daughter Facebook, meet Denise Abbot.

One mother identified as Denise Abbott has received a wave of criticism after punishing her daughter Ava and mock her through the social network Facebook .

'I do not know how to keep my mouth shut. I'm no longer allowed to use Facebook or my phone. Please ask my mother why, "wrote the 13 year old girl, who appears in the image with a cross drawn over her mouth.

Meanwhile, the press of Ohio (USA) asked the mother and is said thus punished for his daughter Ava was disrespectful. 'I decided to do something I know will cause a total impact on her, so that next time you start to do what she did, think I do not want to see my face all Facebook with a red cross again, "said Denise Abbott.

In this regard, the public agreed that such punishment is not the best way to teach a lesson to the children. 'Facebook is a social network for people to interact. Not a place you can humiliate your child, "wrote one user.

Now we can access Facebook Chat from the Bing Bar for Internet Explorer

Now we can access Facebook Chat from the Bing Bar for Internet Explorer

Interesting the new update of the Bing Bar for Internet Explorer and is now going to be able to access our Facebook Chat without entering Facebook, another interesting thing is that it brings entertainment applications, such as watching videos (Bing ) your email (Hotmail, Yahoo! or Gmail) to the weather. The previous version had access to your Facebook profile, you could update your status and see pictures of your friends, but it is new that allows you to access the chat is very interesting.

Apart from the Facebook chat also brings other changes such as access to a machine translator pages, watching videos (Bing), weather and watch movie trailers (with scores and comments)

Actually, I'm not a big fan of Internet Explorer and less than Bing, but I was testing and not bad, you can surf decently .

Download: Bing Toolbar 7.1

Facebook increased the size of your profile picture, did you notice?

Facebook increased the size of your profile picture, did you notice?

The social network makes a subtle change in the accounts of users a week after the modifications made ​​Google +

The thumbnails of the photos in profile in Facebook , those that appear on the left side of your page, just after the main photo, in the new design, has been resized. The social network increased the size of the avatar from the classic 130 × 125 pixels to 166 × 160.

The subtle change, of which few have noticed, was warned by the blog "The Next Web" , recalling that this modification occurs after the social network last week Google + introduced several innovations in design.

The new size of the profile picture takes up more space in the main photo of the new design, so some users may have to modify your images. It will still show the big picture of the profile when you click on it.

The profile photo before and after the change by Facebook.

Why Facebook bought Instagram a company that does not generate profits?

Why Facebook bought Instagram a company that does not generate profits?

WHAT IS INSTRAGRAM?
It is a photo application created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, former employees of Google and Microsoft, respectively. Instagram provides visual effects-through-filters to images captured with the camera smartphones.  The retouched photos can be shared instantly via social networks like Twitter and Facebook , as well as Flickr and blogging service Tumblr. It was initially designed for computers that run the IOS operating system (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), but two weeks ago opened the platform "Android"

ABOUT THE USE?
A report of "Los Angeles Times" reported that over half of web site visitors Instagram are under 35 years. Moreover, in the past month, most application users were aged between 18 and 34, while Facebook audiences of 25 to 34 and people over 55. "Instagram is not only a hit with teenagers.  It has become a habit among them as they are prolific users of the service, ".

 WHY THE ATTENTION OF FACEBOOK?
The application also regarded as the first mobile social network, came to the AppStore on October 6, 2010 and only two months after he got his first million registered users. Half a year later and had five million members. By July 2011, users had published 100 million photos on the mobile platform and in August that number reached 150 million. This impressive growth was what caught the interest of Facebook (it is said that Google and Twitter were also interested in buying it). Mark Zuckerberg Instagram bought when it was over 30 million users and only 13 employees hired.

Instagram USERS DO SUPPORT THE PURCHASE?
Crimson Hexagon , a company specializing in the study of content of social networks , said that only 12% of the 201,000 mentions of Twitter acquisition were positive immediately after the announcement. While 10% expressed their displeasure on Facebook and another 10% promised Instagram deleted.  The objection to the purchase would be that users appreciate that there is much publicity in the application, unlike Facebook, and the fact that their personnel data is not sold to other companies.

THE REAL REASONS FOR THE ACQUISITION BY ANALYSTS
The interest does not lie in the Facebook application itself, but to get three very important things : a potential rival with a user base growing rapidly, a weapon against other threats even greater in the field of social networks and, most importantly, a better angle into the world of mobile platforms. The magazine "Fortune" said this week that the real reason is that Facebook feared the potential of Instagram. "Facebook decided to absorb the competitor before they grow too much," said one analyst.

WHO ARE THE BENEFICIARY WITH THE PURCHASE
The people directly involved with Instagram, ie the founder and CEO Kevin Systrom and co-founder Mike Krieger. Industry sources say technology Systrom owns 40% of the company, which means that the agreement with Facebook earned $ 400 million . Krieger, however, owns 10% and is now $ 100 million richer than earlier in the week. "All for less than two years of work," said rightly the BBC. Another 100 million will go to the other 11 staff members, some of whom joined Instagram few weeks ago (lucky).The rest is for investors.

REALLY WORTH A BILLION DOLLARS?
A few weeks ago, three venture capital firms invested $ 50 million in Instagram, valuing the company at $ 500 million. Facebook bought for U.S. $ 1,000 million and some believe that the amount was paid grossly excessive. Journalist Joe Bridewood CNN wrote that Instagram "can not assert" what they paid for it. "The service don't have a proven business model.  Only one photo application well designed and fun photo sharing network among smartphone users, "he said. In their view, at a time when we speak of a "new bubble" that could explode soon, the valuation of Instagram shows that "things have gotten out of control."

PROMISES OF FACEBOOK
Facebook will maintain the service , at least for the moment as it is, with your name and all its functions (including sharing content on other social networks).  Mark Zuckerberg said the first time they buy a company with many users and have no immediate plans to return to make a similar purchase.

DATA AND CURIOSITIES

    *  A billion dollars is equivalent to 2,100 cars Rolls-Royce Phantom model.

    * With this amount you can buy 200 million bed nets to combat malaria.

    * You can also buy The New York Times (and would overrun U.S. $ 50 million).

    * Microsoft paid about the same for 800 patents AOL.

    * Instragm already have 35 million users, suggesting that Facebook valued home user of the platform at $ 28.

    * Facebook expects to reach $ 100,000 million with its listing on the stock (May), ie you would have spent only 1% of the company to purchase the application.

    * Celebrities such as celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, rapper Snoop Dogg and Justin Bieber are fans of the application. President Barack Obama also has Instagram account .

    *  Users have made more than 1,000 million photos on the platform.

How to Hide the new Facebook "Ticker"

How to Hide the new Facebook "Ticker"

Within the last changes Facebook made to its interface, one of the most controversial has been the new ticker with real time updates . This is a strip to the right of the screen that shows all what our friends while we are connected, without any filter. While many people it may seem useful, others see it as distracting, visually annoying and disrespectful to privacy.

Worst of all is that Facebook imposes on us the use of this element does not give us the option to hide it, even temporarily. Luckily extensions have come to different browsers with which we can eliminate forever the "Ticker" screen.

 

In the case of Chrome and Firefox the procedure is very simple, just have to download the respective extension ( Firefox , Chrome ), install, and ready. However, Internet Explorer 9 the procedure to banish the infamous Ticker is a bit more complex: we install IE7 Pro extension, restart Internet Explorer, and then install this user script . The collateral problem is that because IE7 Pro add-on is a relatively large load Internet Explorer can slow down a bit, but to mitigate that can go to the options of IE7 Pro and turn off all functions except "Sequences and accessories ".

In case you want to have the ticker back momentarily, we can always use the browser in incognito mode (in which extensions are automatically disabled), or manually disable extensions.

Firefox | Mozilla add-ons
Chrome | Chrome Web Store
Internet Explorer | IE7 Pro, iescripts.org

Simpleretro | retro effects to you photos on Facebook and Twitter

Simpleretro | retro effects to you photos on Facebook and Twitter

SimpleRetro is an application that will allow us to modify our pictures to leave with a touch of professionalism and then upload them to our social profiles on Facebook, Twitter or even emailed to friends and family.

To use the application only have to connect with any of the accounts we have in the two social networks, having done this, stating the album, select the photo and we will direct some tools for retouching.



Once we finish editing them, we just need to insert a brief description and re-upload our profiles for our friends to see the picture and have a say.

Link: SimpleRetro

Beware!! Adult sites Hackers attack Facebook

Beware!! Adult sites Hackers attack Facebook

According to the company, in recent days, many Facebook users have found the surprise of images, videos and links related to pornography, violence and self-mutilation.

'The protection of people using Facebook against spam and malicious content is a priority for us, and we are working to improve our systems to isolate and remove material that violates our terms', said a company spokesman.

Meanwhile, the actress and director Courtney Zito told the Christian Post newspaper: "I have 5,000 friends. My mind is full of pornography. I can not even see my news channel with someone around because of this problem. '

Facebook: there are 4 degrees of separation between people.

Facebook: there are 4 degrees of separation between people.

A few hours ago were published which are by far the largest research project on social networks ever made. It happens that Facebook examined 721 million active user accounts, which form a network of 69 billion connected by ties of friendship (not more to add that this represents just over 10% of the world population). And what was it that Facebook found? Let's start with hard data, of course calculated by a supercomputer consisting of 2,250 teams:

    10% of people have less than 10 friends
    20% less than 25
    50% just over 100
    The average user has 190 friends

Using algorithms developed in the Laboratory's Web Algorithms Università degli Studi di Milano, it was possible to estimate the number of network hops between each pair of people on Facebook. The scientists found that the average number of persons related to one person and another is exactly 4.74, slightly less than in 2008 when they were 5.28. In more precise:

    Just over 30% of all pairs of people have 4 degrees of separation or less
    92% have 5 degrees or less
    99.6% is 6 degrees or less

Where

    84% of the connections between people occurs in the same country
    People tend to have a number of people close to almost the same age. For example, for people 60 years most of his friends is 60 years old

The history of research on degrees of separation between network nodes in 1929, the date when the Hungarian Frigyes Karinthy diagnosis that the world was going through a lot of shrinkage due to the increased connectivity between people. These issues came to Stanley Milgram who in the early 60's became famous with one of his experiments in which I conclude that we live in a "small world", that is, despite the immense and intricate social networks are often find short paths between people. Milgram found that are on average six intermediate connections, six degrees of separation between us.

As we said once the new century science is the science of networks . And I'm not talking about social networks, but rather the more general concept of the so-called complex networks, studying the things and their relationships, their complexity, chaos and unexpected behaviors that emerge from there.

In conclusion: the world is smaller than previously thought, at least from the window of Facebook.

WishGenies helps you find gifts for your friends on Facebook [Video]

WishGenies helps you find gifts for your friends on Facebook [Video]

Finding the perfect gift for each person is not easy, and although familiar with their tastes, can be complicated, that's why tools like WishGenies can be of great help.

Thanks to it we want to know what exactly our friends  of Facebook, and also find suggestions based on your tastes. To work, each user must register to find 2 or 3 things wanted, and indicate at least 5 stores where they like to buy.

From there, when we want to know what does each one, just have to write your name, and wait for WishGenies do the rest.

 

Link | WishGenies  

Facebook Messenger, como funciona y como lo instalo?

Facebook Messenger, como funciona y como lo instalo?.

El porgrama que dicen reemplazara a WhatsApp. El chat de Facebook resulta realmente útil para comunicarnos rápidamente con l@s amig@s, especialmente en grupo, ya que así es muy fácil hacer planes. Por ello, una App indispensable en nuestro smartphone debe de ser Facebook Messegner.

Esta herramienta de mensajería instantánea es gratuita y está disponible para iPhone, Android y Blackberry, por lo que la mayoría de usuarios podrán utilizarla sin problemas.

Una de las cosas que más me han gustado, además de las conversaciones grupales, es la posibilidad de añadir nuestra posición geográfica en cualquier momento, para que los amigos sepan dónde nos encontramos.

Una App que no puede faltar en tu arsenal móvil.

Enlace | Facebook Messegner
Visto en | Applesfera

Facebook and eBay together are creating business tools

Facebook and eBay together are creating business tools.

Facebook , the largest social network in the world and eBay, one of the pages most relevant e-commerce landscape, work together. The two companies join forces to develop applications that can benefit from social skills within the world of electronic commerce. An executive that is part of the two companies announced the agreement that will prominently Open Graph, Facebook's new tool that can integrate other web pages on the social network world.

Basically, this is a reprint of the famous button "like" to add new options to customize the display of related web pages (removing the nice part, it also means that you can assault the user with much more targeted advertising). For example, if we said that we like a game on the official website of the same and then go to the store page consoles could receive personalized ad game.

 

The popular auction site eBay intends to use the machine tool in some of their Facebook e-commerce platforms such as Magento. Magento is a company that eBay bought this year and will complement the project x Commerce, open trading platform that is designed to attract more developers and merchants. The Facebook tool let you add comments and investigate the tastes of other social network users in online stores.

Anyway, Facebook is taking another step in his conquest of the Internet, having been successful counterattack Google's initial push Plus. The remodeling of the most popular social network was late (for years did not move enough in the absence of competition) but it came good. Despite this agreement, Facebook was expected to dig deeper into the possibilities of union with eBay, possibly through its PayPal payment platform.

 

Como sincronizar calendario de Facebook con Google Calendar

Como sincronizar calendario de Facebook con Google Calendar.

Fanatico de Facebook pero tienes una cuenta en Google, no hay problema aca te haremos la vida mas facil.

na de las más grandes fortalezas de Facebook, es su exelente manejo de eventos y mensajes. Dado a que prácticamente todo el mundo está en Facebook, resulta sumamente conveniente para mensajearnos con personas de las que quizás ni tengamos su número y, sobre todo, para coordinar futuros eventos.

Pero si utilizan un smartphone, o incluso si están trabajando en la PC, lo más probable es que no tenga a Facebook siempre abierto, pero aplicaciones como Thunderbird o iCal, o incluso Google Calendar, sí.

Hoy, pues, veremos cómo exportar los eventos de Facebook, hacia Google Calendar u otros, en 4 sencillos pasos.

Paso 1: Entrar a Facebook, dirigirnos a “Eventos”

Paso 2: Dirigirnos hacia el final de los eventos, click en “Exportar”

Paso 3: Copiamos el URL. Basta darle click derecho y luego “Copiar dirección de enlace”

Paso 4: Finalmente, vamos a Google Calendar, click en la flecha al costado de “Otros Calendarios” y luego en “Añadir Calendario por URL”.

Pegamos el URL copiado en el Paso 3 y listo!

Algunas indicaciones extra:

Esto lo pueden repetir con otras aplicaciones, como Thunderbird, o como iCal. Basta con pegar el URL en el campo respectivo.

Esto mostrará todos los eventos (no sólo los que hemos confirmado). Además, Facebook eliminará inmediatamente de este calendario todos los eventos pasados, dejando sólo los nuevos.

Si desean quitar los eventos a los que no asistirán de este calendario en GCal, tendrán que ser más activos en Eventos de Facebook. Es decir, si quieren desaparecerlo de Google Calendar, tendrán que clickear en “No asistir” y luego eliminar el evento.