MySpace Surrenders And Now Sync To Facebook
MySpace used to be the king of the social network but now Facebook has overtaken the reign. Nowadays it will be a mistake if you have nothing to do with Facebook. So MySpace has waved the white flag and start syncing to Facebook. This allows MySpace users, musicians and celebrities around the world to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile or Page, while also offering them the ability to share content such as music, videos, game apps, links and photos with their friends on Facebook.
Anti-Facebook Diaspora Arrives September 15
Open source Facebook competitor Diaspora will launch on September 15. Created by a team of New York University programming students, Diaspora raised $200,000 to conceive an open source version of Facebook which you can install on your own server or just use the one offered from Diaspora.
Facebook Dump Microsoft IE 6 To Improve Chat
Facebook implementation of their chat feature accommodates Microsoft most hated Internet Explorer 6. Due to that it has been reported that the chat feature frequently drops out in the middle of a chat session. The easy solution to this is to just remove any support for IE 6.
So Facebook Chat will no longer work on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 after Sept. 15 of this year
From Facebook blog:
The biggest improvements come from changes that aren’t supported on older web browsers. After evaluating the alternatives, we’ve decided to make rapid improvements and provide the best Chat experience possible, which means we will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 browsers.
Facebook Places Adds Location-based Services
Facebook has announced a new feature which is very similar to Yelp and Foursquare called Facebook Places for smartphones. Facebook Places will allow you to see which friends are nearby, let people share where they are and discover new places and nearby places from friend’s profile.
Facebook with the new Places is available for your iPhone and iPad on the iTunes Store.
Social Network AKA Facebook Movie Inspires Twitter, YouTube Copycats
The Facebook movie, Social Network directed by David Fincher will be out this October. The Social Network trailer has inspires copycats creating similar trailers for Twitter and YouTube. Check it out below.
Twitter trailer:
Facebook trailer:
Twitter Pushing Their Own Tweet Button
Twitter has copied the feature from TweetMeme and now have added their very own tweet button.
From Twitter Blog:
The button lets you share links directly from the page you’re on. When you click on the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear — pre-populated with a shortened link that points to the item that you’re sharing. After you post to Twitter, you may see suggestions for accounts to follow. These accounts are suggested by the web site you visited and may include, for example, the news outlet and reporter of the article you shared.
Twitter Celebrates 20 Billion Tweets
At 7:44 PM Eastern Time today, Twitter has reached 20 billion tweets. The 29th billion tweet is posted by a Japanese graphic designer called GGGGGGo Lets Go.
The person said:
“It looks like I posted the 20 billionth tweet. I’m getting replies from people all over the world. It’s scary. What are the chances? Maybe I’m going to die. Is it more amazing than winning the lottery? I thought it was a joke.”
British Queen Is Now On Flickr
Queen Elizabeth II now has a presence on Flickr. The British Monarchy has posted over 600 photos divided into 30 sets. Comment feature on these photos are disabled.
Her Majesty also has a YouTube channel and Twitter account. Check it out.
Facebook Claims Half A Billion Users
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social networking site has reached its 500 millionth user milestone.
Social networking giant Facebook will have more user accounts than there are Microsoft Windows 7 licenses. Facebook will celebrate by introducing a new feature called “Facebook Stories”.
From Facebook Blog:
Our mission at Facebook is to help make the world more open and connected. Stories like these are examples of that mission and are both humbling and inspiring. I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago.
I want to thank you for being part of making Facebook what it is today and for spreading it around the world.
Facebook Reaches 500 Million Users
Social networking giant Facebook will have more user accounts than there are Microsoft Windows 7 licenses. Facebook will reach over 500 million users this week and it will be celebrated with a new feature called “Facebook Stories”.
You can still submit your story to Facebook Stories here.
