Infographic: Facebook Vs SnapChat

Facebook tried to acquire SnapChat, a messaging app. Both Facebook & SnapChat has been into controversy and privacy concerns. Check out the Infographic on Facebook and SnapChat on their overall history.

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Reference: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2014/11/20/infographic-a-look-at-snapchat-vs-facebook/

Introducing Internet.org App by Facebook

Overall 85% of the 5 billion people without Internet can’t afford data plans. So Facebook launched today, its Android and Web app called “Internet.org” where in it provides free data access to a limited set of services including Facebook, Messenger, Wikipedia and Google Search. It provides local health, weather ans women's right resources.

With this app, people can browse a set of useful health, employment and local information services without data charges. By providing free basic services via the app, we hope to bring more people online and help them discover valuable services.

The Internet.org app will be available first to Airtel subscribers in Zambia and we’ll continue to improve the experience and roll it out to other parts of the world.

Through the Internet.org app, Airtel customers in Zambia will have basic access to:

• AccuWeather
• Airtel
• eZeLibrary
• Facebook
• Facts for Life
• Google Search
• Go Zambia Jobs
• Kokoliko
• MAMA (Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action)
• Messenger
• Wikipedia
• WRAPP (Women’s Rights App)
• Zambia uReport

Airtel customers in Zambia can access these services in the Internet.org Android app, at www.internet.org, or within the Facebook for Android app.

Best Facebook Games to Play in 2014

Facebook is biggest social networking giant, where people spend half of their day on Facebook by chatting, status posting, playing games and business promotions. Do you like to play Facebook Games? Then you are the right place to check in for the list of games. As per the survey 50% of Facebook users love to play on the site only. Networking is not the only purpose of the website that it serves, games are one big part of it. Check out the list of Facebook Games to play in 2014.

Best Facebook Games to Play in 2014

1) Candy Crush Saga:-

Explore the sweet and colorful world of Candy Crush Saga in this fun match-3 game! Switch and match your way through hundreds of levels in this delicious puzzle adventure. Easily sync the game between devices. Play the sweetest game ever today! Choose where you would like to play the game by selecting one of the icons above.

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2) Farmville 2:-

Farmville 2 is the best free online game You'll meet a variety of interesting characters and be able to play with friends as on a nostalgic journey to restore your childhood farm. Create, personalize and run your own farm where the crops they grow feed a variety of animals that provide resources for crafting. Beautiful trees, bountiful crops, and adorable animals grow wild!

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3) Diamond Dash:-

Super-fast, hyper-addictive game in which you need to match as many gems as you can in 60 seconds, use magic abilities and level up to get huge score bonuses. Win great prizes and medals in our weekly arcade competitions and crush your friends with your high scores.

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4) Texas Holdem Poker:-

In this game you can play a live hand of Texas Hold’em against millions of real online players. Here you can win more than 60 million hands are won daily.

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5) Bubble Safari:-

Pop bubbles, get on fire, defeat poachers and beat hazards on this awesome safari adventure.

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6) Cityville:-

CityVille is the largest game on Facebook by monthly active users, according to AppData. In CityVille, our players build the city of their dreams. Players can build homes, businesses, famous landmarks and public buildings to grow their city.

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7) Scrabble:-

One of the best board game, no one want to miss playing this on Facebook. You might love to play WordsWithFriends

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8) Farm Heroes Saga:-

Help our Farm Heroes stop Rancid the Raccoon from spoiling Happy World Farms. During the game play through more than 100 tasty levels of strawberry switching, carrot and more vegetables.

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9) Criminal Case:-

In the game you can join the Police of Grimsborough to solve a series of cases in this captivating hidden object, adventure game. Work crime scenes for clues, interview witnesses.

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10) Dragon city:-

Dragon City is an exciting game where you breed your own dragons in a fantastic world of magical islands. You can also combat against your friends in a game.

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Top 5 Facebook Pages for June 2014

Facebook fan pages and business pages are individual separate pages slightly different than person's profile page where in there are likes. People can like that page and it is added to their profile in their likes section and all the status and post posted in that particular page is seen in your news feed. 

There are pages who has got so many likes in millions and people are simply visiting those pages and getting their status like and comment on the thread and making it more popular. Lets see the growth chart of those pages. A list of few Facebook pages who are so much big brand with millions of likes from around the world.

Top 5 Facebook Pages

1) Shakira:-

Shakira is a singer and well known for her voice. She is most liked by people around the world. Check out her facebook fan page she has got - 96,207,157 likes, daily growth - +68,932, weekly growth - +533,449. Visit the link here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/shakira/5027904559 

2) Eminem:-

Eminem is a singer, a singer of rap and hip hop. He is famous for his songs and also has good fan following. Check out his facebook page he has got - 89,056,707 likes, daily growth - +61,084, weekly growth - +407,295. Visit the link here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/eminem/45309870078

3) Rihanna:-

Again a singer in the list. She is also a famous singer with 30 million albums. So all in all it shows how popular celebrity she is. Check out her facebook page she has got - 87,811,477 likes, daily growth - +10,798, daily growth - +61,040. Visit the link here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/rihanna/10092511675

4) Cristiano Ronaldo:-

He is Portuguese football player who plays a forward for his team. World's best player and well known among football game. Check out his facebook page he has got - 83,332,410 likes, daily growth - +152,641, weekly growth - +884,940. Visit the link here – http://www.facebook.com/pages/cristiano-ronaldo/81221197163

5) Coco Cola:-

Coca Cola is company who produces aerated drink and is sold all over the world. Popular for its red bottles. Check out its facebook page, it has got - 82,992,748 likes, daily growth - +69,660, weekly growth - +315,511. Visit the link here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/coca-cola/40796308305

Facebook Acquires Pryte – A Mobile Data Plan Firm

Facebook want to focus on acquiring and owning the big firms and adding the next billion users to its social network targeting on consumers in emerging markets and the mobile devices that many of them will use as their primary way of being online.

Today Facebook acquired Pryte, a small company based out of Helsinki , Finland that lets app makers and carriers sell mobile data in low priced packages based on the usage of an app.

Facebook already working on internet access more affordable for the masses. The work which Facebook started years back is going on good progress. 

As per the Reuters Story the deal still not disclosed first broke the news, had not officially launched, although it has a fully functioning website, and according to the note the Pryte team had posted on the site confirming the deal, it had already been “enabling partnerships between app and content providers, and mobile operators.”

We don’t know how much of Pryte’s service will be rolled into Facebook’s existing offerings — the Reuters story makes it sound a bit like an acqui-hire — but in any case this is also a sign of how Facebook is looking for more technology and people that can help it forge better relationships with carriers. 

7 Cool Things About Facebook That You Can Do

Are you Facebook addict? Yes or No whatever is the ans I would say you must check out this cool things about Facebook that you can do which you didn't know. If you are using your Facebook account on daily basis then you must knowing the basic things of adding, deleting, confirming, like, commenting and updating. But what else you know? Here we share you with these things that you can use it.

7 Cool Things About Facebook:-

1) Post and share animated Gif:-

Now you can share you animated Gif link to facebook on status updates. The Gif will show up as embedded content but you will have to press Play to view it. 

2) Embed your post on a website or a blog:-

Few weeks ago Facebook announced the ability to embed post from big brands. Share your post in Facebook → Hover your mouse over it and click the “arrow” to select “Embed Post” → Copy the embed code and paste it in your website.

3) Track your Friend request:-

Check to know who has not accepted your friend request or who has unfriended you. To do this you can install a special script for those with the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox. Those with Chrome simply click on the Install button on the scripts page. The script installs the Unfriend Finder service, which adds the Unfriends option to Facebook's top menu. This way you'll be able to see who unfriended you, the status of the friend requests you made, and even whether one of your friends has deleted their account. 

4) Chat without being on Facebook:-

Now remain signed in to your Facebook chat without being on in your Facebook account open. There are multiple messaging programs like Pidgin and Aduim (Mac users) these applications lets you merge a number of messaging services and you simply need to enter your username and password and rest will be done by the program itself.

5) Update Status on Facebook without using Facebook:-

hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages. 

6) Hide your online status to few people to avoid doing chat with you:-

Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online. 

7) Update your Facebook status from Firefox:-

FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook. 

Facebook Buys “Moves” - A Fitness App for Apple iPhone

The social networking giant “Facebook” buys a fitness tracking app called “Moves” who wants to understand their daily fitness activity.

Moves website says that the app would continue to operate independently and no plans of Facebook to change.

Users can manually enter data and Moves says it supports more than 60 predefined activity types. The app also acts as a pedometer and can plot a user's daily movements on a map for later analysis.

Nothing is still revealed the transaction cost of buying this app, it is said to be modest in terms of cost compared Facebook's recent purchase of WhatsApp and Oculus.

Fitness is must in today's generation and tracking it on daily basis can help you gain and achieve the target you wish too. Apple is expecting its release of i-Watch soon which will support iOS application.

NSA Posed as Facebook to Social Network Sites to Infect Computers

US intelligence reportedly threaten computers to infect and extract files from hard drive. You think its a facebook when you logging to your account someone posed as facebook and it secretly did his job by NSA eavesdropping schemes.

The NSA sent malicious data packets to trick computers and made them think it was Facebook according to top secret government documents.

NSA(National Security Agency) intentionally send those data to infect millions of network around the world.

Inside Story: Why Facebook Paid $16B for WhatsApp?

Facebook's biggest acquistion, its 16 times larger than that social network paid. Facebook spent $16 billion to acquire WhatsApp, $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in Facebook stock and $3 billion more for next four years of stock.

For those who are not aware of WhatsApp software, let me tell you its text messaging replacement app that allows you to send messages to any of your stored contacts or even if you don't have their number. Pictures, Videos, Audio everything can be send.

With 450 million users of WhatsApp, it has become popular in some of the regions with India, as small budget smart-phones can also use this software and so it is widely popular.

Why Facebook Paid $16B for buying WhatsApp?

Zuckerberg said: "buying WhatsApp helps Facebook's Internet.org project"

Mark Zuckerberg said that WhatsApp is on track to have more than a billion users and he also got more specific that buying WhatsApp – its mission to provide internet access to the two-thirds of the world which is not yet connected.

And more to it that he says – Facebook didnt acquire WhatsApp to replace Facebook Messenger. Both would have their independent way of using it. Messenger acting more like email and WhatsApp more like Real Time.

But Facebook paid $16 billion for it because it achieved what Facebook couldn't on its own and with that mindset and looking to the active use in parts of the world where still mobile market needs to be exposed.

So finally now everyone has a mobile smartphone with the software owned by a facebook.

Have You Tried Facebook-Flavored Ice-Cream ?

Have you heard about facebook flavor in an icecream? Surprised ? Yes there is a flavor of facebook where in two enterprise ice cream makers at Valentino Ice Cream Shop in Tisno, on Croatia’s Murter island, came 
up with such an idea.