MySpace Surrenders And Now Sync To Facebook

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the August 30th, 2010
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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.

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Anti-Facebook Diaspora Arrives September 15

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the August 28th, 2010
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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.

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Facebook Dump Microsoft IE 6 To Improve Chat

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the August 26th, 2010
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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.

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Facebook Places Adds Location-based Services

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the August 19th, 2010
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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.

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Social Network AKA Facebook Movie Inspires Twitter, YouTube Copycats

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the August 14th, 2010
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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:

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Facebook Claims Half A Billion Users

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the July 21st, 2010
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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.

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Facebook Reaches 500 Million Users

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the July 18th, 2010
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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.

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Microsoft Outlook Gets Social With Facebook

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the July 13th, 2010
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Microsoft is allowing Outlook and Windows Live users to access Facebook from their email inboxes with the new Outlook Social Connector.

The new integration gets information live from Facebook. Users can see profile photos and news feeds of contacts in their Outlook inbox as they are published on Facebook.

Source: Connect your Inbox to Facebook and Windows Live with the Outlook Social Connector

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Google Me Face Off With Facebook

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the June 27th, 2010
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Digg Founder Kevin Rose has tweeted that Google will release Google Me social networking website which is like Facebook. The name seems to sound a tad silly, just like “F Me”.

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Video Watching Added To iPhone Facebook

Posted in Social Network by AURUM3 NewTech on the June 20th, 2010
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Facebook has updated the iPhone app to version 3.1.3 and now you can watch Facebook video.

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