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Interesting to Know Who Owns Facebook

January 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

When it comes to the bubble, it doesn't seems like there's any bubble to be seen when it comes to Facebook. The ages-old investment company Oldman Sachs from what we're reading at the New York Times, recently invested $500 million into the social network, seeing a valuation of $50 billion. But based on the chart from reface.me, there only about 4% of the company as a whole is owned between Goldman Sachs and its clients. The biggest chunk that owns Facebook is its … [Read more...]

Critical WordPress Upgrade and Back Up Your Social Media

December 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I know you're busy planning holidays festivities, but the last thing that you want to do right now is worry about your WordPress blog security. WordPress has released the latest version 3.0.4, which includes a fix for critical security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade now! The upgrade process is really easy, login to your wordpress and click on that "Automatic Upgrades" and then you done! But do remember to get your back up done first before your upgrade to the latest … [Read more...]

Tried Out FB New Profile Pages Yet

December 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Have you tried out Facebook new Profile Pages yet? If you haven't done so, you can click on Facebook’s announcement to activate yours and check out all the new features, including revamped personal info, more prominent pictures, top interests showcased as images, more descriptive relationships and more. If you don't want to tried out fb new profile page now, then just wait till the time comes - Facebook force everyone to change to this new profile. Seriously, they … [Read more...]

Have You Ever Heard of Homophily?

September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

If you haven't read this, you must do it now! As we start using social networks more and more as tools that help us discover new information, but we are also in danger of spending too much time with people who we already have a great deal in common with. Ever heard of homophily (i.e. love of the same)? If not, there's a good chance that you're in a social network where more of the same isn't exactly sparking your neural pathways or making you smarter. Homophily is … [Read more...]

Is Facebook Sucking Up Your Life?

August 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

No, I don't think so, I think the most correct way to put might be facebook could very well be sucking up the time you spend on the Internet. According to its 2010 "What Americans Do Online" report, Nielsenarticle found that Americans spend 22.7 percent of Internet time on social networks. That's up 43 percent from last year. Social networking continues to displace other Internet activities, topping the troika of most popular pursuits. "Despite the almost … [Read more...]

Too Bad: Facebook Blocked Twitter Account

June 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Well, this is interesting, after login to my Facebook account this morning, there is nothing new show up on my status from whatever I have been updated on my twitter. Then I checked out the twitter application and the below message pop up: Oppss .. Twitter and Facebook are not communicate again! I thought it might just some sort of connection problems, but it looks like not. From Techdirt's post we can see that this is not just some harmless mistake. … [Read more...]

Only 24% ARE NOT Thinking about Quitting Facebook

May 24, 2010 By 2 Comments

According to a IT security firm Sophos recent study, Facebook's privacy issues lead 60 percent of its members considering leaving the popular social network. Among the survey of 1,588 Facebook users, the findings suggest that almost two thirds of Facebook users are considering leaving, with 16% of those polled claiming to have already stopped using Facebook as a result of inadequate control over their data. "With this survey showing that only 24% of users aren't … [Read more...]

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