The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking to develop a Web app that will continuously monitor social networks, including Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, as well as other various social network news feeds. The organization’s goal is to improve its real-time intelligence when it comes to current and emerging security threats. The FBI disclosed a 12-page Request for Information document (PDF) that reveals in detail what the organization is interested in. The FBI specifies Continue Reading

Have you ever thought what will happen if suddenly (we hope not) but you died. After all that is the only thing us humans cant control. In the back of our minds we always want to say something sweet to a friends or give advice etc. Worry not introducing if i die, which is the first and only Facebook application that enables you to create a video or a text message that will only be published after you die. What happens to your Facebook profile if you die? Your facebook profile can now become Continue Reading

The new Facebook Timeline development began in late 2010 as a Hackathon project, an engineer at Facebook revealed today. And astounding it might sound that it only took only one night for two full-time engineers, an intern, and a designer to built a demo. Whoa!!! Facebook unveiled its timeline profile in late September 2011, and rolled out in November 2011, while many liking the feature many hate it due to its complexity and intrusion of privacy. "In retrospect, that’s pretty crazy. Continue Reading

So you thought you had your Facebook profile privacy settings enabled and are secure eh? Think again as this Facebook Shower Curtain has a transparent square in the screen that lets you create a profile image while you basically are surfs up in your lavatory. See closely that the curtain matches your facebook wall with friends such as “Toilet seat” and “Hot Tap”. Posts from the Shower Head and your recent friendship with the “Bath tub” Good times in the bathroom right? What other Continue Reading

We recently covered what mind boggling questions do famous tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook ask during interviews. Now as the new year has arrived another challenge for these companies is to hire talent and if you are good at coding/programming, Interviewstreet is hosting an online coding challenge called CodeSprint beginning Friday, where 75 of the worlds best technology companies will be expecting you to showcase your self and get an interview call. After you sign Continue Reading

So you run business but don’t have a business card, but you wanted to create some wonderful cards. And if you have a Facebook profile with timeline enabled, then you are in good luck. If you’ve been living in a hole for the past few months you might be wondering what a Facebook Timeline is. Not found it yet? look at mine instead (I just hope I’ve got the privacy settings right!): Woah! Did you see it? Uh huh, one massive long history of you! How cool is that? Beautiful images, life events Continue Reading

Think that you are brilliant software coder but don’t get an opportunity to showcase your talent? Then get ready for the ride of your life with The Facebook Hacker Cup, which  is an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the title of world champion. Hacking is at Facebook. Whether we’re building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at aHackathon, creating a smarter search algorithm, or tearing Continue Reading

If you are still using IE7,you need to move on and get a life. But don’t take our word for it, Facebook is officially killing support of the ageing browser and you might not be able to see and use the new Facebook Timeline Profiles even. Introduced in September 2011, Timelines would not support IE7 because the new feature is optimized for native recent browsers like Chrome and Firefox.. Go on get a life and secure yourself while doing it. Upgrade now to enjoy the social web. Continue Reading

Everyday 800+ million users use Facebook to connect to friends , family and peers. That’s pretty incredible for a platform  and its beyond doubt that the most used feature of Facebook has to be its chat available on both mobile and browser based versions. But today Facebook has gone beyond the browser for all of its users who love to use desktop based clients to chat such as Windows Live Messenger or Skype etc. Facebook has officially launched its Windows Based Chat Messenger Application. Continue Reading

Each year, millions of people, like you me and the guy from the pizza place, post stuff on Facebook to share what's important in our lives, discuss world events, or just catch up with friends. With over 800 million people of the world, now that’s more than the US, UK and Germany combined, on Facebook, stuff posted goes viral instantly. Facebook came up with Memology 2011, developed by Data Scientists Jonathan Chang and Eytan Bakshy, which gives us the hottest and most amazing public posts by Continue Reading

Its Christmas and everyone is humming about Santa. But he is logged into Facebook and he knows everything about  you. What you like, what you dislike. The links you clicked and even the chat s you are having right now. Mashable came up with a funny comic today, based on the new Facebook Open graph platform  which developers can leverage to get information as such for making more social apps. Happy Holidays… Comic Credit : Mashable Continue Reading

This morning, after logging into my Facebook Account, I saw a little popup message from Facebook on top of my News Feed, that ever wonder how Facebook Makes money? I was a bit curious. Yes everyone one almost on the planet uses Facebook, it has changed our lives, but many a times many of us might have wondered how doe Facebook make money? So if you log in to your account you can now be educated how advertisements are done on Facebook and how the social network, how they keep Facebook FREE. Lets Continue Reading

Facebook has indeed become a critical part of our lives. From Status updates to chatting to exploring new people. Here is an interesting infographic of the lives we spent on Mark Zuckerbergs network.

In just seven years, Mark Zuckerberg has gone from his Harvard college dorm to running a business with 800 million users, and a possible value of $100 billion. His idea to 'make the world more open and connected' has sparked a revolution in communication, and now looks set to have a huge impact on business too. BBC Correspondent Emily Maitlis reports on life inside Facebook. The documentary was aired on BBC featuring a rare interview with Zuckerberg himself, the film tells the story of Facebook's Continue Reading

Today Facebook app for Android has been overhauled by Facebook. As more than half of its 800m + members log into Facebook mobile everyday, the key to success it to innovate new features into mobile apps and today Facebook has done that as now it is quicker and easier to view photos, get messages and navigate around the app. Photos get better Photos and albums are up to two times faster than the previous Android app. It's also easier to share photos, view comments and edit captions on the go.View Continue Reading