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Facebook Unveils Mobile Messaging App

lancecorner — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:28:39 +0000

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.

Facebook Messenger app

The Facebook Messenger is almost similar to Beluga messaging service, simple and very straightforward. Beluga has been acquired by Facebook just this March this year

Messenger combines the features of text messaging, instant messaging and emails. It enables users to communicate with friends through sending text messages directly to their mobile phones. Furthermore, the app is ideal for group messaging and features a location and photo-sharing capabilities.

This new mobile applications is now available in the iOS App Store and Android Marketplace.

This new app will definitely benefit Facebook’s mobile users.

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SpellDial: Making Dialing Simple and Easy!

lancecorner — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:52:35 +0000

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.

spelldial web app

SpellDial is applicable only for those who have setup a SpellDial account. The web app enables smartphone users to simply dial names instead of numbers making hard-to-remember numbers into easy-to-recall names. This new web app certainly makes connecting to people a whole lot easier.

Here’s an example:
Lance Corner’s username is lancecorner and it points to (63) 918-5591. Just type lancecorner and it will immediately connect you to Lance Corner. Anyone who dials lancecorner will be dialing (63) 918-5591.

Want to make to call a lot easier? Then try to use SpellDial now.

SpellDial service is available via the website http://www.spelldial.com.

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Trivia Post: World’s Youngest Billionaire

lancecorner — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:13:27 +0000

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

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Google Rolls Out Plus One

lancecorner — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:39:42 +0000

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.

Google Plus One

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.

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February 8 is World Safer Internet Day

lancecorner — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:51:39 +0000

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.

Internet

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.

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Google Launches Android Market Website

lancecorner — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:06:54 +0000

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.

Google Android Market homepage

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.

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Get Ready for the Philippine International Pyromusical Competition 2011

lancecorner — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:44:29 +0000

Watch out for the second Philippine International Pyromusical Competition this coming February at SM Mall of Asia, one the Philippines’ largest mall. A pyromusical is a fireworks display that is choreographed to the beat of music.

Fireworks display

This premiere pyrotechnic event is expected to draw fireworks enthusiasts and will be participated by the most respected fireworks manufacturers in the world. The participating countries will display their skills and artistry in the field of pyrotechnic.

Last year, Jubilee Fireworks of United Kingdom won the competition followed by Howard & Sons Pyrotechnics of Australia.

Below are the participating countries for this year’s competition.

February 12
South Korea
Spain

February 19
Portugal
United Kingdom

February 26
China
France

March 5
Japan
Canada

March 12
Philippines
Australia

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Facebook Acquires Fb.com

lancecorner — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:18:01 +0000

There has been a news circulating lately that popular social networking site Facebook has acquired fb.com. And a lot of speculations were coming out after this news was revealed whether Facebook would overhaul its current messaging service or would create a dedicated e-mail account to be used by its employees. Facebook currently employs more than one thousand employees. All Facebook.com, a facebook resource site is claiming that Facebook is internally using Fb.com.

Whois.com record page

The American Farm Bureau originally owns the domain and then sold to MarkMonitor, a domain management company and a leader in brand protection. It was thought that American Farm Bureau sold the domain in undisclosed amount in September this year.

Based on the Whois record, the name servers of fb.com are pointing to facebook.com and are currently act as both the technical and administrative contact.

In August 10, 2009, Facebook acquired friendfeed.com, one stop shop for all social networking updates and news items.

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Mozilla Firefox Turns 6

lancecorner — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:17:00 +0000

Mozilla Firefox, a popular open-source browser is now on its sixth year. The browser was launched last November 9, 2004.

Mozilla Firefox

For the past years, Mozilla Firefox recorded a steady growth which makes it as the second most preferred web browsers by many Internet users. Firefox enjoys 31.5% market share in September based on the StatCounter website.

Mozilla will be launching its latest version of Firefox by early next year. The new functionality includes support to HTML 5, additional adds-on and improved user interface.

The Firefox 4 Beta version is now available and features feedback add-on.

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Facebook to Drop Chat Support for Internet Explorer 6

lancecorner — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:31:46 +0000

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.

Facebook chat

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.

Reference: Wikipedia.org

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