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Facebook

zero.facebook.com – Facebook’s Text-Only Mobile Site

Facebook is developing a new text-only application called “Facebook Zero”. The new product was discussed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. With Facebook Zero, Facebook will be available on the mobile web to everyone, anywhere. Zero is a light-weight version of m.facebook.com that omits data intensive applications like Photos. […]

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Internet

Facebook Opening Office in Hyderabad

Facebook to soon open an office in India to support users, advertisers and developers in India and around the world. By having multiple support centers in a variety of time zones, we can provide better round-the-clock, multi-lingual support. More than 8 million of Facebook’s total 400 million users are in India. […]

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Internet

Job Vacancy: Official Twitterer of the US President Barack Obama

WSJ reports that, barackobama.com has published an online job description for the post of Social Networks Manager, who will be responsible for maintaining the President’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The person currently holding the job of ‘Barack Obama’s twitterer’ is stepping down soon. Obama now has more than three million followers on Twitter and nearly 7.5 million Facebook fans. […]

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Internet

Facebook Chat Available from Any Jabber IM Client

Facebook announced that Facebook Chat is now available on Jabber (XMPP) clients – which means you can chat with your Facebook friends from any of your favorite desktop instant messaging client including iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda and more. Jabber (XMPP) is an open messaging protocol supported by most instant messaging software and Facebook is now using the Jabber technology to make Facebook Chat available everywhere. […]

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Internet

Social Networking Sites Provide Evidence for US Divorce Cases

In a poll conducted among American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), who handle divorces and legal separations in the USA, 81 percent of 1,600 members said that they have seen a rise in the last five years in the number of cases using evidence from the Internet. Facebook was the main source of divorce and custody evidence, according to 66 percent of AAML members, followed by MySpace at 15 percent, Twitter at 5 percent. […]

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Google

goo.gl & fb.me URL shortener From Google and Facebook

Facebook and Google has come up with their own URL shortener services namely fb.me and goo.gl respectively. fb.me is now rolled out on a limited basis – to be used within facebook for sharing links within facebook and facebook mobile interface. You cannot use Google URL shortener to shorten links directly, because it is currently not provided as a stand-alone service. Currently it is only available from the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner. Google may eventually make it available for a wider audience in the future. […]

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Web Apps

Facebook Acquired FriendFeed

Facebook announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. Taylor and Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps. At FriendFeed, they’ve brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams. […]

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General

INQ Chat 3G & INQ Mini 3G Social Mobiles – Twitter, Facebook, Skype & IM

INQ Mobile announced two new 3G Social Mobiles – INQ Chat 3G and INQ Mini 3G. Both the phones have Twitter, Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging functionalities built-in. These INQ mobiles also offers free push Gmail and media sync with PC and Macs.

INQ has developed an authentic Twitter application for both its new Social Mobiles. After the initial log in, Twitter will be ‘always on’. You can send tweets and retweet via the internet rather than using SMS. […]

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Facebook India Status Updates via SMS 9232232665 (92-FACEBOOK)

Facebook for Mobile can be activated by the users on their mobile devices by visiting www.facebook.com/mobile. By sending a message to 92-FACEBOOK (9232232665), the users can update their status. The service uses 10-digit regular mobile phone number, so they will only be charged normal SMS rates by their providers. The Facebook does not charge the user for using tehse services. […]