Monday, March 2, 2009

FaceBook connecting mobile software application ? ? ?

For facebook application type http://m.facebook.com/ on your mobile.

Facebook Applications: new threats?

If you use Facebook then maybe you installed the application "Photo of The Day," a small module allowing submissions each day a new photo of National Geographic. Well, if so, know that you are trapped!

Indeed, a team of researchers at the University of Foreth-ICS and the Infocomm Research Institute have developed a small ploy to demonstrate the potential dangerousness of applications running on the network. Researchers have voluntarily placed malicious code on the application in question in order to generate queries and saturate an HTTP server. With each click of a mouse, the application returned a petition of 600 kb on the server. The team announced that the code could largely be developed with JavaScript automating these queries at regular intervals.The mass adoption community networks by Internet offers us a unique opportunity to study the vulnerabilities exploited to transform these venues platforms antisocial activities and illegal attacks such as denial of service, proliferation of malware, spam or violation of privacy. "

You can read the full report of this study here

Facebook log in error ?

Hi,
To fix this problem, you need to reset your password and get anew password.

1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/reset.php
2. Enter your email
3. Click Reset Password
4. Log in to your email, click the confirmation code
5. Now you can enter new password

Download Top Ten Facebook Applications

Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. Some of the best, useful and interesting Facebook applications, which I found are as below :-

1] iLike - Add you favorite songs on this app and see who else likes it. Also, add up coming music concert you are planning to visit and you might have company! The best part of this application is the “Challenge”. Click on Play Challenge and it starts playing songs and asks you to identify the song, album, artist, etc… believe me its addictive.

2] Free Gift - It’s a silly little application which probably does not make sense to most of us, But as creator Zachary Allia, says “It’s the thought that counts.” You can send and receive gifts with this application.

3] MeetingWave - This is a useful application that allows users to meet new business contacts, clients or even prospective employers. All a user needs to do is post a Private Invite for a business meeting in the real world, set the time, date and venue for the meeting and wait till somebody from the Facebook world accepts his or her invite.

4] MyDocuments – This application sounds like Microsoft Windows but works like Google Docs. Users can upload any types of document on their Facebook accounts, then share it with their friends.

5] Send SMS Text Messaging – This application lets users specify Facebook contacts who can send messages directly to their cell phone from Facebook. Users’ mobile phone numbers are kept confidential to avoid spam and prevent unnecessary text messages.

6] Call Me on Skype - For those who still likes using Skype, here’s a nifty application that sits right on their Facebook profile. It lets users call friends for free, start group chats and call landlines and mobiles.

7] Virtual iPhone - If you’re wondering how this application came to be on our list of useful Facebook applications, it can save users hundred bucks if they’re considering an iPhone. It is the closest thing to owning and using an iPhone without having to spend the money. If you don’t like it, you can always stop using it and think of all the money you’ll save.

8] Super Wall – This is one of Facebook’s most popular application and it ought to be useful as well. This application lets users share photos, videos, graffiti and more with their Facebook friends. Why is this useful? Because it breaks the barrier of seriousness among some friends who may not be involved with Facebook. Some of these Super Walls may be quite annoying at times, but the application serves its own purpose and seems to be doing this with flying colors.

9] Graffiti - It is a simple application which lets you put your imagination at work and come up with colorful Graffiti. These Graffiti can be sent to your friends or they can just hang on your Graffiti wall and visitors can leave comments and also respond by drawing something for you.

10] My Personality - This app is based on psychological personality questionnaire used in actual scientific research. Once you select this app, you will have to answer about 15-20 questions after you personality profile is created, mostly you will agree with the profile however if you don’t then you can answer additional questions. You can answer up to 100 questions to make an accurate profile.

Guys, if you know any other good Facebook Applications, let everyone know !!

How to Share Photos on Facebook?

Share Your Photos
  1. Head to the "My Photos" page after logging in to Facebook. You will see all of your available albums.

  2. Click "View" under the album you want to share.

  3. Hit the "Share" button. You will be prompted to add a comment and recipients. You can share your album with friends outside Facebook by entering their email addresses. Select "Post This on Your Profile" if you want to post the album on your profile.
  4. Click "Share" and wait for the confirmation that your album has been sent.

Firefox problem with Facebook

I have to open substantial problems of Facebook for some time

Only after a few aborts and new shop over the address bar the side is developed (Refresh does not bring anything). Then the side is developed however faster and completely, and left and lower surfaces of Facebook construct themselves very fast.

Facebook is the only side on which I observe, with the IE6 it has no problems.

Greeting

How to open sites even if it is blocked

Here is a very useful instructions that would help you access Orkut, Hi5, Tagged or MySpace using Proxy settings.

1. Open the Firefox 3 browser by double clicking on its icon.

2. Click on Tools menu at the top of the browser window.

3. In the tools menu, click the Options option.

4. Go to Advanced settings and click on the Network tab.

5. Click on the Connection's Settings option.

6. There should be four radio buttons options under the title "Configure Proxies to Access the Internet." Click on the Manual Proxy Configuration option.

7. Select the Use this proxy server for all protocols option.

8. Type kp1.no-ip.org under "Http Proxy:" in the first box and in the second box type the number 80.

9. Click OK to save it and return to the main browser window.


P.S.: The above steps should allow you to your desired sites like orkut, myspace, hi5, etc. But note that if you get some message saying "This document contains no data", just ignore it.

Google have introduced mobile version of orkut

orkut mobile allows you to quickly and easily access orkut from an Internet enabled phone or mobile device. To do so, simply visit http://m.orkut.com using your mobile device; you'll be able to see your profile and access many of the same features that are available on orkut when you sign-in to your orkut profile on the computer.

Now you can access orkut on your mobile.

In order to access orkut mobile, your phone or mobile device will need to meet the following minimum requirements:

  1. Your device should be properly configured to access the Internet according to your mobile service provider instructions.
  2. Your device's web browser must be XHTML compliant. To determine whether your browser is compatible, point it to www.google.com/xhtml and perform a search. If you're unsuccessful, your browser may not be XHTML compliant.
  3. Your device's browser must have cookies enabled and your mobile network must also allow cookies to be set. The setting for cookies is usually located in your device's browser settings.
  4. Your mobile service provider must allow secure SSL traffic (HTTP secure).

Please note: You'll need to contact your mobile service provider if you're unsure if your device is properly configured, and to determine if they allow cookies and SSL traffic to be used on their network.

Facts About Orkut

This is the mastermind behind Orkut community.

Some facts about Orkut:

1) Orkut Buyukkokten(the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when every person registers to
this website.

2) He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.

3) He gets $8 when your friend's friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody
adds you as a friend in the resulting chain.

4) He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.

5) He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.

6) He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.

7) He gets $2 when you become somebody's fan.

He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.

9) He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.

10) He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.

11) He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend's scrap-book & $0.5 every time
you view your friend's friend-list.

12) Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the
richest........

Orkut Introduced A Safety Filter To Remove Adult Content

India's number one social networking site "Orkut" has introduced a "safety filter" that automatically filters out adult content such as sexually suggestive phrases or images.

The filter has been introduced in India, and is turned on by default for all the users. Google plans to introduce it in other countries in the next few weeks.

The new filter monitors and filters the content that may violate Orkut's community standards. The new filter will likely vary from country to country or from one household to another. Users have the option to turn off the filter.

With the "Safety Filter" on, If a user come across the content such as photos or text that they may find unacceptable, they will receive a warning and the specific content will be replaced by special icons.

However, according to Orkut, no filter is fully accurate and so users may come across a page that they think should be blocked. Users can flag it as usual and let Orkut know.

Custom Themes for Orkut

Hey guys here is a way you can make custom theme for orkut.

Works only in mozilla firefox.

Download grease monkey plugin and install it.

Enable greasemonkey and restart firefox.

Click Here and in the text box enter your image location on the internet, in the below box give a name to ur theme and click create theme! now right click on the link and click save link as and save it in a suitable folder.

now run the file u just downloaded, click install and visit orkut!

Enjoy!

How to enable Right Click Menu to Save Orkut Photos

Hi friends,

Remember those good old days when we could just right-click and download photos from Orkut albums. Well Orkut has disabled right clicking on photos other than those images in your own albums. There are numerous Orkut profiles with fake picture copied from genuine users. So, this is indeed a very good move by Orkut to control privacy of its users.

But don't worry friends i have found a solution for this now by following few simple steps you can save pictures of another users:-
  1. First Open the photo/image that you want to download.

  2. Click on it and hold down the left mouse key and drag it to the tool bar, and release the mouse key.

  3. Now it should open in a new tab with only the image.

  4. Right Click on the image, and select Save As, browse to the path where you want to save the image and click on save.

Top Countries by Internet Audience in December 2008

Country Total Unique
Visitors (000)
Share of Total
Worldwide
Internet Audience (%)
Worldwide 1,007,730 100.0%
China 179,710 17.8%
United States 163,300 16.2%
Japan 59,993 6.0%
Germany 36,992 3.7%
United Kingdom 36,664 3.6%
France 34,010 3.4%
India 32,099 3.2%
Russia 28,998 2.9%
Brazil 27,688 2.7%
South Korea 27,254 2.7%
Canada 21,809 2.2%
Italy 20,780 2.1%
Spain 17,893 1.8%
Mexico 12,486 1.2%
Netherlands 11,812 1.2%

20% of teens have sent naked or semi-naked photos of themselves

About a third of young adults 20-26 and 20% of teens say they’ve sent or posted naked or semi-naked photos or videos of themselves, National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. A third of teen boys and 40% of young men say they’ve seen nude or semi-nude images sent to someone else; about a quarter of teen girls and young adult women have. 39% of teens and 59% of those ages 20-26 say they’ve sent suggestive text messages.73% said they knew sending sexually suggestive content “can have serious negative consequences,” yet 22% said it’s “no big deal.”

Orkut Ranks as the Most Visited Social Networking Site in India, Followed by Facebook

Orkut Tops List of Social Networking Sites in India

Orkut reigned as the most visited social networking site in December 2008 with more than 12.8 million visitors, an increase of 81 percent from the previous year. Orkut’s audience was three times the size of its nearest competitor in the category. Facebook.com captured the #2 position with 4 million visitors, up 150 percent versus year ago, followed by local social networking site Bharatstudent.com with 3.3 million visitors (up 88 percent) and hi5.com with 2 million visitors (up 182 percent).


Top Social Networking Sites in India by Unique Visitors

December 2008 vs. December 2007

Total India – Age 15+, Home/Work Locations*

Source: comScore World Metrix


Total Unique Visitors (000)

Dec-07

Dec-08

% Change

Total Internet : Total Audience

26,240

32,099

22

Social Networking

12,795

19,369

51

Orkut

7,123

12,869

81

Facebook.com

1,619

4,044

150

Bharatstudent.com

1,736

3,269

88

hi5.com

714

2,012

182

ibibo.Com

1,970

990

-50

MySpace Sites

352

741

110

LinkedIn.com

293

513

75

PerfSpot.com

2,106

433

-79

BIGADDA.com

515

385

-25

Fropper.com

256

248

-3

Top global sites in December 2008

Property Audience, 000 % Reach
Total Worldwide Internet Audience 1,007,730 100.0%
Google Sites 775,980 77.0%
Microsoft Sites 646,915 64.2%
Yahoo! Sites 562,571 55.8%
AOL LLC 273,020 27.1%
Wikimedia Foundation Sites 272,998 27.1%
eBay 240,947 23.9%
Facebook.COM 221,791 22.0%
Amazon Sites 187,354 18.6%
CBS Corporation 178,844 17.7%
Fox Interactive Media 172,841 17.2%
Ask Network 164,513 16.3%
Apple Inc. 161,500 16.0%
Tencent Inc. 158,617 15.7%
Baidu.com Inc. 152,447 15.1%
Adobe Sites 123,623 12.3%

Top mobile sites and top PC sites

Mobile users accessing Facebook spend an average of 24 minutes per day on the site, similar to the 27.5 minutes spent by PC users. Mobile users on Facebook averaged 3.3 visits per day versus 2.3 visits per day by PC users. Mobile is used consistently throughout the whole day, but the early morning (7-10am) is the key day part for mobile, accounting for 22% of total mobile minutes browsed, compared with only 11% of total minutes browsed by PC Internet users in the same day part. Mobile can therefore act as an extension to media such as the Internet and TV, while it reinforces other early morning media, such as radio and newspapers. Mobile is confirmed as a strong youth medium with 48% of users between 18-34 years old, compared to 40% for the fixed Internet and 29% for the TV audience. Mobile is also more skewed towards men, who represent 63% of total users compared with 53% for the fixed Internet.

Top mobile sites Top PC sites
Mobile Operator Sites Google Sites
Google Sites Microsoft Sites
Facebook.com Yahoo! Sites
Yahoo! Sites Facebook.com
BBC Sites EBay
Apple Inc. Sites BBC Sites
Microsoft Sites AOL (inc. Bebo)
Sony Online (inc. Sony Ericsson) Amazon Sites
Nokia Ask Network
AOL (inc. Bebo) Wikimedia Foundation

Top Online Gaming Sites in December 2008

SITES
Dec-2007 Dec-2008 % Change
Total Audience 183,619 190,650 4
Online Gaming 67,457 85,977 27
Yahoo! Games 16,184 19,468 20
EA Online 12,673 15,369 21
Disney Games 11,933 13,458 13
WildTangent Network 7,650 13,306 74
Addictinggames.com 9,706 11,343 17
AOL Games 8,380 10,750 28
MSN Games 9,685 10,263 6
Miniclip.com 7,264 8,636 19
Nick.com Games 6,020 7,092 18
Spil Games 1,821 6,715 269

Top job search sites in December 2008


Dec-2007 Dec-2008 % Change
Total Internet : Total Audience 183,619 190,650 4
Job Search 12,445 18,826 51
CareerBuilder.com Job Search 5,132 9,121 78
Yahoo! HotJobs Job Search 2,282 5,605 146
Indeed.com Job Search 2,712 5,106 88
Monster.com Job Search 4,131 3,776 -9
Simply Hired, Inc. 1,188 3,104 161
JOB.COM Job Search 731 1,237 69
MSN Careers by CareerBuilder.com 593 1,004 69
AOL Find a Job by CareerBuilder.com 504 856 70
Jobs.net Job Search 350 368 5
Jobster.com Job Search 186 365 97

Top Social Networking Sites in India in December 2008

SITE Dec-07 Dec-08 % Change
Total Audience 26,240 32,099 22
Social Networking 12,795 19,369 51
Orkut 7,123 12,869 81
Facebook.com 1,619 4,044 150
Bharatstudent.com 1,736 3,269 88
hi5.com 714 2,012 182
ibibo.Com 1,970 990 -50
MySpace Sites 352 741 110
LinkedIn.com 293 513 75
PerfSpot.com 2,106 433 -79
BIGADDA.com 515 385 -25
Fropper.com 256 248 -3

Top Internet sites in December 2008

Web traffic
Property Total Unique
Visitors (000)
% Reach of Total
Worldwide
Internet
Audience
Total Worldwide Internet Audience 1,007,730 100.0%
Google Sites 775,980 77.0%
Microsoft Sites 646,915 64.2%
Yahoo! Sites 562,571 55.8%
AOL LLC 273,020 27.1%
Wikimedia Foundation Sites 272,998 27.1%
eBay 240,947 23.9%
Facebook.COM 221,791 22.0%
Amazon Sites 187,354 18.6%
CBS Corporation 178,844 17.7%
Fox Interactive Media 172,841 17.2%
Ask Network 164,513 16.3%
Apple Inc. 161,500 16.0%
Tencent Inc. 158,617 15.7%
Baidu.com Inc. 152,447 15.1%
Adobe Sites 123,623 12.3%