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Facebook has just recently launched Messenger, a mobile messaging application for Apple’s iPhone and Android devices. With this newest app, users can reach friends right on their phone and send messages to everyone at once.

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The usual dialing a number to call a person is about to change as the new web application that enables to register phone numbers and call by name is now available. The web app is known as SpellDial. It is an open web service platform developed by group of mostly students from Cebu City, Philippines headed by Jose Albert Chiu Padin.

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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook has become the word’s youngest billionaire at age 23 according to a Forbes estimate. Mark developed Facebook together with his college friends Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Mark Zuckerberg was chosen as Person of the Year by Time magazine in 2010.

Facebook currently has more than 600 millions users from around the world making it the biggest social networking sites to date.

References:

http://www.usatoday.com

http://www.forbes.com

Google has just rolled out new feature known as +1 (it reads as plus one). This new social feature allows users to share and recommend websites with their friends. This new social feature is rumored to be Google’s version of the Facebook Like button.

The Plus One looks like a small box with numerical symbol and displays next to each search result. To use this feature, a user must login and share their recommendations with contacts through their Gmail address book, Google Reader and Google Buzz contacts.

This new social feature is currently on an experimental stage and only accessible to 2% of Google’s English-language users in the United States.

The +1 (Plus One) feature is not only limited to Google search results, but will also be available on advertisements too. Google believes that advertisers will like its plus one service and advertisements will be getting the plus one button.

Google is also looking to broaden this new social service to news publishers so that they can add Plus One on the news articles.

The World Safer Internet Day is observed every second day of the second week of the second month of the year. This year, it falls on 8th day of February. This event aims to promote a more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones especially among children across the globe.

This year’s theme is “Our Virtual Lives: It’s More Than A game, Its Your Life”. The goal is to intensify awareness in children and teenagers on the risks of social networking sites and online gaming.

As many as 65 countries worldwide are expected to observe Safer Internet Day on February 8. The Safer Internet Day is organized by INSAFE, an organization of Awareness Centers and co-funded by the European Union.

Google launches Android Market website, an online software store developed by Google for Android devices. This move is definitely a great news for Android-based smartphone users.

The website allows users to select and download available apps and games and even install apps directly to their Android devices. It also allows users to read, send tweets and post reviews about a particular app. Most Apps are developed by third-party developers.

The Google Android market website is found at https://market.android.com and features clean and easy-to-navigate user interface. The site currently has more than 100 apps available for download.