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Facebook Displays Visually Its Impact and Spread

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

Facebook’s intern Paul Butler made an attempt to visualize data on Facebook connectivity. In the blog he wrote ‘When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that piqued my curiosity was the locality of friendship’. He added that I [...]

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Facebook Announces Top 10 Trends of 2010

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

YouTube did it, Twitter did it, and now it is time for Facebook to announce the trends that Facebook had for year 2010. For the 2nd time in Facebook history, it announced the 2010 Memology that analyzed the biggest trends of the year in its blog. It included status updates and analyzed what Faceboook users [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg Announce Interesting Changes to Facebook Profile Page

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

People truly love Facebook and users can’t just get away with the new features rolling out of late. One such example is Profile Page, and the founder now unveiled some interesting changes to member profile pages on Sunday. In an interview with CBS show, Mark had lot of things to convey. “60 Minutes, said he [...]

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IBM Gains £2.5m Increase in Productivity with Social Media

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

According to IBM it has gained £2.5m a year in productivity savings because of implementing social media strategy in 2007. The company made use of social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn to enable cross functional collaboration, and also encouraged employees to use them regularly. Additionally, the company spread the benefits of social media to [...]

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AMA Cautions Physicians/Medical Students Against Social Networking

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked physicians who write blogs or use networking sites like Facebook, Twitter to be responsible in their communications. Additionally, it has asked them to routinely monitor their online presence, use security settings to limit access to personal information and abide by patient privacy laws. Physicians have been asked to [...]

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Facebook Gets 1 in 4 Page Views in US

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

Facebook continues to extend and dominate the web. One of the best indicators of Facebook being dominant is the ‘like’ buttons. Additionally, research reveals that Facebook accounted for a quarter of the page views in the US in the last week. The content consumption on the social network has grown substantially where nearly 1 in 4 [...]

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10 Famous Social Media Blunders of 2010

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

Social media is gaining popularity, however, with each blunder, organizations are realizing that social media is not as easy as one might imagine. Also, that a lot of research is required before going into social media as an option or hiring top social media agencies . The following are famous blunders on social media. Wall [...]

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Facebook to Launch Friendship Pages

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

It is a known game for Facebook that the features it launches are loved by some users absolutely and hated by other to the core. However, Facebook is not worried about it and here comes another interesting feature called Friendship Pages that would display all the already visible conversation between two friends. While it would [...]

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Issues Concerning Facebook Privacy

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

In the recent months Facebook has faced some slack because of the privacy concerns that users had raised. The issues have been well documented over the last few weeks. A claim being that the application is sending out private and personal information to third party websites. The kind of information included friend’s lists, email IDs [...]

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10 Different Ways Social Media Can Help HR

by Nikita PorwalFacebook

Human Resource Manager of a company knows the complexity involved in recruiting employees and maintaining corporate brands. But not many are aware that the process can be made simpler yet effective with the use of Social Media. Although the world is embracing social media, some HR management is still wondering on how they should be [...]

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88% of Social Gamer Spend Time Playing Facebook Games

by Nikita Porwalapplication

Online games is not something newly appeared, they have been around since ages and with time passes more and more users are getting in games. A recent research from Lazard Capital Markets explains that presently online game players including traditional titles and recently launched on Facebook platform, plan to allocate more time playing online games [...]

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How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile

by Honey SinghFacebook

Facebook is very addictive social networks with lots of spammy applications and user’s. We usually avoid spam’s but things get worse when someone misuse the Facebook Photo tagging feature for you. Some applications like “Who Staked Your Profile” and others contaminate your and your friends wall after gaining the access. You can disable Facebook Photo [...]

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How can you withdraw a facebook friend request?

by Honey SinghFacebook
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Do you accidentally added someone from your facebook account? Have you send a facebook friend request to person and then realise that you are login from another account? The common solution to this query is “How to withdraw the facebook friend request?” Update Now facebook changed the way to unfriend and cancel a friends request. [...]

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