The software technology is taking strides in developing new apparatus and tools to improve the facilities being provided and also to solve the problems that continually prop up time and again.

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Facebook and McAfee have joined hands to provide their valued customers online security. Social networking site users will be benefiting the most by this new cleanup service. McAfee Internet has closed a very positive and beneficial deal with Facebook. According to details made available, Facebook’s users, now totaling around 400 million will have the option to download a six month trial purchase of McAfee’s Internet Security Suite. This system protects computers from bugs and viruses that are encountered and are picked up when users surf casually through almost unlimited social networks.

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Facebook Redesign

Yes it is true that facebook has been rolling out their new design to some selected users.

Now let’s see what’s new

By default, on the top of the page, there is a menu of links of your popular publisher applications. These are all facebook built applications. For the very first time since its launch, applications are now inside the home page.

Bookmark section highlights your bookmarked applications. In case you have not book marked all 8 applications, the empty space will be filled with your recently and frequently used applications.

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Intel Advises Facebook

There are new networking blogs connecting the world and with social media groups like Facebook, your world seems to be revolving round it for professional promotions, relationship or keeping up with family.

There are so many endless possibilities coming up with networking through social media that it is quite impossible to do anything without them. There are even very young children now coming up to work with social media. But it has also come up to bring about some of the tricky sides of relationship.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has increased company’s work force by hiring people like crazy. The recent increase in the number of employees has been about 50%. This significant number of employee increase has been through their strength of engineers as well as developers. There is still this venture flush finding working through Facebook which makes their revenue rise up beyond pale.

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During the last two months, Facebook has redesigned almost each and every part of their site, and things are still being changed as the social networking site has come up with a new design of its third-party application directory along with the new interface. In this new app directory different Facebook-verified applications have been flagged in a lot clearer way and it is lot easier now to avoid those full of bugs apps that Facebook users have rejected so far. Similarly, there is more efficient interface to browse apps and now there are only seven categories instead of the previous 22 categories. A new ticker to know about the apps which your friends are using, and external apps listings with Facebook Connect integration are two other new and neat features. It’s, indeed, a better demonstration of verified applications with a smaller number of categories.

Facebook has just introduced a new annual apps verification program and these verified apps have undergone through this program. These applications have been checked whether they are according to the set standard for their content as well as API usage. Those applications which get verification are ticked with green and an outsized badage goes on their description pages. This move also allows the verified applications to get a lot more exposure in the app directory, as they are provided in the featured section that is available at the top of other given applications in every category.

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According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, there is no desperate need to raise capital for the company, but they are planning for long term to take the company into public.

He insisted that this investment will provide just serve as a shock absorbing tool for the innovation in the coming times and in the stories about the talks with big companies have nothing new in them.

“If some investment is being made on some good terms, it will definitely be considered, and it will be used only for the reason that it will provide us some more buffers in the coming days,” Zuckerberg says in an interview with the Reuters.

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There was much fuss about their arrival, but it wasn’t certain when. However, now the developers need not to wait anymore, as Facebook has confirmed that its Verified Apps are almost done and they will soon be available to the masses.  The Verified Apps initiative was first announced last year and now developers have been notified that the approved applications will soon be marked with green aside from their names right from tomorrow.

This Verified Apps program designed to highlight the prominence of Facebook Platform that had to face some problems previously because of good and bad application difference. To participate in the program, developers have to pay $375/year fee and they were assigned a badge in return which they can use to motivate users’ trust. Similarly, in application directory they got priority placement.

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During the past two weeks Facebook has got and refused a $200m term sheet for a new venture that’s going to value it for almost $8b. There are also rumors that Facebook has also got another term sheet in which the company has been valued around $6b.

According to some sources, the term sheet, which was based on board of directors’ seat requirement and it wasn’t based on some valuation.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder says that they have three common seats for stock board and one out these three is still empty while the rest of two are occupied by him and the other by Marc Andreessen.

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Malicious codes are a threat to the whole computer world. They may be in the form of worms, viruses or Trojan horses. They infect the systems and the users lose their important data.

Such a latest discovery has been made by Panda Labs where they have found a 56th variant of a family of worms, which swindles Facebook users. It is called Boface.BJ worm.

How does it work? It is important to know how it cons the users of global social networking hub Facebook so that one can stay away from such fraudulent programs.

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Join Facebook

Well, if you aren’t aware of facebook then please don’t think that this article is useless for you.

Read it and you will understand how important facebook is for those who know how to surf Internet (I guess almost all of you do else you weren’t reading this article).

Facebook’s popularity has grown exponentially and this is the reason why questions like why people join facebook are being daily asked by those who aren’t present on facebook.

It is quite simple and here we will try to list the top 10 reasons for why you should join facebook.

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Facebook is one of those social networking websites which overthrew almost every other social networking counterpart and has today become one of the most famous social networking websites on this planet. I don’t have any single friend who isn’t present on facebook.

Its traffic is growing exponentially and people are innovating new and unique ways to spend more and more time on facebook. The virtual world of facebook has almost everything for its users.

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Some considerable resources are already working to make tracking of the swine flu easier and Facebook too quite well-aware of its duties and the site has just released some interesting data regarding talks that taking place around the globe for this epidemic.

You can see a photo album on their official page that has just been posted by the social networking site and it contains images that provide details about the people talking about the disease.

The given images are quite helpful to find out about the number of people talking about the disease in various states. In Texas, nearly 0.82% users seem to talk about the disease, while this percentage is nearly 0.29% in Mississippi.

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Facebook has decided to lay bare its website core to third party developers. This move from social networking site was quite surprising for many as a large number of API of the social networking sites will get bare.

Wall Street Journal says that the move will allow web developers to develop new services if they are allowed to access user’s feeds like notes, videos and comments that are used on the site.

Currently, applications can be created for the site, but now developers will use stringent programming service of the site and it will be converted into standard of an open technology.

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This social utility has quickly taken over the Social Networking space and provides a secure environment for people to interact with family, friends and others in the most efficient manner possible. The common belief now is that it will soon leave MySpace behind.

Facebook currently has around 200 million active users, with 100 million users logging on each day, and boasts of annual revenue to $150 million.  These figures and an unbelievable 25 million user groups say a lot about the huge potential for marketing Facebook holds.

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