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Social Networking site Facebook announced that it will pull out it chat support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 6 on September 15, 2010. The company instead urged users to upgrade to a newer version of web browser.

Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 27, 2001 and is considered as one of the major revisions of Internet Explorer. IE 6 also faces security issues and lack of support to modern web standards. In the same development, Microsoft announced that it will unveil beta version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) on Sept. 15, 2010.

On Facebook official blog, the company states that they are fixing some bugs and will make some improvement on its chat technology to make it faster and more stable.

Facebook chat is one of the most popular features of Facebook.

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Facebook, the world’s leading social networking site today has recently announced that the website now reached 500 million users from around the world.

In the same development, Facebook is aiming to reach 1 billion members, matching the reach of search engine giant Google. Facebook Co-founder and CEO Mark Elliot Zuckerber is expecting that Facebook could grow to about 1 billion active users despite the stiff competition on the Internet. Mark Zuckerberg becomes the world’s youngest billionaire at age 23 according to a Forbes estimate.

Facebook was originally intended for Harvard students. Later on, it was opened to other universities and to the world.

Google recently unveiled HTML5 rocks, a website dedicated to HTML5 technologies and its development. The online resource can be found at html5rocks.com. The site is very useful especially for web developers.

HTML 5 has multimedia capabilities and now being used by popular companies like Apple and Microsoft.
In the same development, Google also adds HTML5 Support for its Google Reader.
The website is divided into 4 main navigations namely the presentation, playground, tutorials and resources.

Victoria City, the capital city of British Columbia has officially declared June 30 as Social Media Day to recognize the revolution of media becoming a social discussion.

One way to celebrate Social Media Day is by attending or organizing a meetup near you on June 30. There are already more than 500 meetups scheduled around the world and most of these are in the United States and Canada.

Social media are primarily web-based and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information. Popular examples of social media sites include blogs, wikis, photography and art sharing, video and audio sharing, social news and bookmarking sites.

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Linux Foundation is now offering online jobs board for its visitors who are seeking for Linux careers and employers looking for potential applicants. This new website feature can bring together employers, recruiters and job seekers.

Linux professionals are considered as one of the fastest growing job category in the Information Technology world. The Linux online Jobs Board is available on Linux.com itself. The most popular Linux job is Linux System Administrator according the jobs site.

There are two options for the job posting. First is through the linux.com website where posting starts at $99 for 15 days and the second one is posting on both Linux.com and with Job Thread Network which costs 49 cents for each matching view.

Mozilla Firefox, one of the most preferred web browsers on desktop computers is now aggressively going mobile to tap the large numbers of handheld users.

Mozilla unveils the availability of Firefox for Maemo 1.0, the first official release of Firefox Mobile for Nokia smartphone running on Linux operating system. Nokia N900 is a powerful smartphone with an ARM Cortex-A8 processor.

It features excellent browsing performance, support for add-ons, and a finger-friendly user like the AwesomeBar.

This Firefox variant is based on the Fennec project, which was originally launched in 2007 with the aim of bringing the full Firefox browsing experience to modern handheld devices. This is a major step of Mozilla to become a preferred mobile web browser.

Other notable features include:

Location-Aware Browsing gives you info and maps relevant to your locale

Tabbed browsing with thumbnail images

One-touch bookmarking

Users can set their own Preferences by changing default language. This version supports more than 35 languages.

It comes with add-ons features that let users customize web browsing experience

Mozilla Firefox for N900 does not support browser plug-ins.