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pinterest: Fast growing Social network tool to improve your Blog, Website traffic

 "Expressing passion for a hobby is just as easy as browsing for your next purchase. But what’s even more addictive about the site — a collection of collections — is that it’s just as much about the users as it is what they’ve posted."


Pinterest is a virtual pinboard type social networking site. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.

People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and share their favorite recipes.

 

What is a pin?

A pin is an image added to Pinterest. A pin can be added from a website using the Pin It button, or you can upload images from your computer. Each pin added using the Pin It button links back to the site it came from.

 

 To make Pinterest the most useful to yourself and others, follow best practices when pinning:

Pin from the original source.
Pin from permalinks.
Give credit and include a thoughtful pin description.  

What is the difference between Liking and repinning?

Liking a pin adds the image to your profile’s Likes section; the image does not get added to one of your boards.

Repinning an image allows you to categorize the image onto one of your boards. You can edit the description of a repin. The source-link of an image is saved automatically, no matter how many times it’s repinned.

 

What is a Pinboard?

A board is a set of pins. A board can be created on any topic, such as Cool Posters, Recipes For Dinner, or Wishlist. You can add as many pins to a board as you want.

 

 

What is following?

“Following All” means you'll have all of a user’s pins on all their boards shown to you in real-time on Pinterest. If the user makes new boards, you will automatically follow them.

You can follow individual boards if you're only interested in seeing a user's pins to specific boards.

You can unfollow boards and users at any time: they will not be notified.

 

 
 

To install the “Pin It” button in Firefox:

1. Display your Bookmarks Bar by clicking View > Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar
2. Drag the “Pin It” button to your Bookmarks Toolbar
3. When you are browsing the web, push the “Pin It” button to pin an image

Once installed in your browser, the “Pin It” button lets you grab an image from any website and add it to one of your pinboards. When you pin from a website, we automatically grab the source link so we can credit the original creator.

 

 

Click to get firefox button

 

Add the follow button to your website

Download from AppStore

 

Pinterest: Virtual pinboard to organize and share the beautiful things you find on the web

 

 

Pinterest is a virtual pinboard type social networking site. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.

People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and share their favorite recipes.

 

What is a pin?

A pin is an image added to Pinterest. A pin can be added from a website using the Pin It button, or you can upload images from your computer. Each pin added using the Pin It button links back to the site it came from.

 

 To make Pinterest the most useful to yourself and others, follow best practices when pinning:

1. Pin from the original source.
2. Pin from permalinks.
3. Give credit and include a thoughtful pin description. 

 

What is the difference between Liking and repinning?

Liking a pin adds the image to your profile’s Likes section; the image does not get added to one of your boards.

Repinning an image allows you to categorize the image onto one of your boards. You can edit the description of a repin. The source-link of an image is saved automatically, no matter how many times it’s repinned.

 

What is a Pinboard?

A board is a set of pins. A board can be created on any topic, such as Cool Posters, Recipes For Dinner, or Wishlist. You can add as many pins to a board as you want.

 

 

What is following?

“Following All” means you'll have all of a user’s pins on all their boards shown to you in real-time on Pinterest. If the user makes new boards, you will automatically follow them.

You can follow individual boards if you're only interested in seeing a user's pins to specific boards.

You can unfollow boards and users at any time: they will not be notified.

 

 
 

To install the “Pin It” button in Firefox:

1. Display your Bookmarks Bar by clicking View > Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar
2. Drag the “Pin It” button to your Bookmarks Toolbar
3. When you are browsing the web, push the “Pin It” button to pin an image

Once installed in your browser, the “Pin It” button lets you grab an image from any website and add it to one of your pinboards. When you pin from a website, we automatically grab the source link so we can credit the original creator.

 

Click to get firefox button

 

Add the follow button to your website

Download from AppStore

 

Add the Facebook Stream to your Google+ Profile

Google+Facebook allows you to see your Facebook stream inside Google+ 

Simply Connect to Facebook, and get all the updates on your Google+ Facebook tab.

CHROME USERS:  
If you prefer, you can install Google+Facebook extension directly from the Google Web Store 

Note: 

The Google+Facebook extension is currently supporting Chrome and Firefox only. Due to https:// security level issues with Internet Explorer, Google+Facebook does not support IE. We are working on a fix for that.

Get Google+Facebook »

Installs in seconds. Easy touninstall.

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my status - Social network app for Windows Phone 7

Use this app to quickly share your status across your preferred social networks, all at a time and with just a few taps.

No need for additional authentication, the app will use the built in credentials for either your Facebook, Twitter, Live or LinkedIn accounts in your phone.

'My Status' allows you to either type a text or pick a predefined status template. Templates are customizable allowing variables or placeholders to easily fill them upon posting, saving you time and typing effort. In other words you just fill the variables and the rest will be automatic.

Placeholders can be of different types, such as text, numeric, picklist or automatic such as current time, date and GPS location.

Any template can be pinned to the start screen for even quicker status posting, tapping the tile will act as a deep link for the corresponding template.

Unleash your creativity and surprise your friends with funny and original status posts.

       

 Features

• Quick post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Live within a few taps
• Pin to start for quick access
• Customizable templates with variables/placeholders
• Multiple types of variables: time, number, text, picklist, percent, etc.
• Status posts log

  

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Join with APJ Abdul Kalam in Facebook

A P J Abdul Kalam, former President of India, is now on Facebook.

When the former President made up his mind to get on the social networking site, little did he realise that there were already more than 10 other Kalam profiles already existing. Hence, for authenticity, his official address on FB will be: www.facebook.com/OfficialKalam. Like his famous missile launch campaigns, Kalam quietly ran the trial run of his new-found-love a month ago and late on Saturday night (February 4), decided to make the site live. Giving him company in the hour of networking was his Man Friday and IIM-Ahmedabad grad Srijan Pal Singh. 

“I travel across Indian cities and villages meeting thousands of people, a majority of whom are youth, who are great innovators and social entrepreneurs. Through my social networking page, I want to enlighten the nation about such wonderful initiatives, ideas and people who are silently shaping the future of this country. I look forward to a constructive discussion on such initiatives which would be vital for achieving the vision for an economically-developed India by 2020,” Kalam said. 

He said that his FB page will be a tool to promote a spirit of ‘What Can I Give’ among the citizens, especially the youth. 

“I would be sharing all the examples and ideas from the nation, of those people who have been giving to the society, nation or environment to create smiles, happiness and peace. I am calling this ‘The What Can I Give Diary’ which will be regularly uploaded on the page,” says Kalam. 

Hinting that his FB mission will be one for a cause, Kalam said that he is keen to bring forth the problems and opportunities of rural India to a larger audience. “I have come across cases where farmers have suffered in bad seasons due to poor technology and in good seasons due to bad management. Can we bring forth these problems and evolve solutions with a national participation through social networking? Or can we use the social networking platform to discuss, improve and replicate some of the successful initiatives in villages for empowerment of the farmer and underprivileged communities?”he asks.

When asked how often would he get on to FB, Kalam said: “Every day.” When probed about the ‘other Kalams’ on FB, he said: “Such pages will always exist. We will try and merge them into one common page over a period of time.” 

facebook.com/OfficialKalam

Twitter promoting lies - Saudi's Grand Mufti

Grand Mufti

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti (religious chief) has launched a virulent attack on the social networking site Twitter, saying it has become a platform for promoting lies, newspapers in the Gulf Kingdom reported on Sunday.

Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Shaikh, in a Friday prayers sermon, was referring to what he described as countless Fatwas (Islamic edicts) by Muslim scholars from Saudi Arabia and other countries.

He said those scholars are promoting false allegations, issuing erroneous fatwas and attacking venerated religious and social personalities.

“This website has become a platform for trading accusations and for promoting lies used by some just for the sake of fame…this is a very dangerous practice which must be avoided by real Muslims,” he said.

“There are well know means for constructive criticism but Twitter and other websites which publish lies and distortions are dubious means which should be avoided by good Muslims… we should not listen to this website or make it our main source of information and knowledge…”

Sheikh Abdul Aziz urged Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police-- the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice-- to crackdown on users of Twitter website, adding that there are several other “good and useful” websites which can be seen by Muslims.

Twitter has been at the centre on controversy after it announced last week that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

Twitter's decision to begin censoring content represents a significant departure from its policy just one year ago, when anti-government protesters in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries coordinated mass demonstrations through on the social network and, in the process, thrust Twitter's disruptive potential into the global spotlight.

As the revolutions brewed last January, Twitter signaled that it would take a hands-off approach to censoring content in a blog post entitled "The Tweets Must Flow."

"As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression," Twitter wrote in a blog post.

"We do not remove Tweets on the basis of their content," the blog post read. "Our position on freedom of expression carries with it a mandate to protect our users' right to speak freely and preserve their ability to contest having their private information revealed."

It said even with the possibility of such restrictions, Twitter would not be able to coexist with some countries. "Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there," it said.

Twitter gave as examples of restrictions it might cooperate with "certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content."
Twitter's move comes at a time when Internet companies such as Google and Facebook have wrestled with foreign governments over freedom of speech and privacy issues as they expand rapidly overseas.
Source:emirates247.com 

Facebook user increases to 132% in 2011 and 2nd largest in the world

India would be a key target market for Facebook.  The popular social networking site reveals that its user base from India has more than doubled in the past one year.

“We have achieved varying levels of penetration within the population of Internet users in different countries. The growth of 132 per cent in India has been higher than many other countries, including home market in US. 

The penetration rate in India was estimated to be 20-30 per cent,” Facebook stated.

In November 2010, Indonesia surpassed the UK to become the second largest nation on Facebook users, after the U.S. Now, India has dethroned Indonesia  from the second position.

According to Forbes, India has a total of 43,497,980 Facebook users compared to 43,060,360 in Indonesia, as of February 1 2012. The growth has been phenomenal over the last one year. On January 1, 2011, India had a total of 16,915,900 Facebook users and the total exceeded by 144%, by the end of 2011.

Despite gaining huge popularity in India, there are several obstacles ahead of Facebook, as the social networking giant gears up to expand its presence in India. Facebook’s growth in India may be held back, owing to the censorship laws and court cases. 

The Delhi High Court has ordered Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other Internet companies to remove material considered offensive. Legal sources point out that the case has a good chance of being taken to the Supreme Court, and if the court order is upheld, Facebook, Google and others would be forced to closely monitor content on their site.

Saudi man tries to sell his son in FaceBook

A Saudi man has tried his son for sale to continue providing for his wife and daughter after his illegal debt-collection business was shut down by a court.

Saud bin Nasser Al Shahry has posted his offer on Facebook asking for around USD 20 million. He claims trafficking his son is the only way to avoid 'living in poverty.'

According to the Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, users 'will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law.'

Al Shahry says he had asked authorities to help him financially, but was denied the request because he was older than 35, mailonline reported.

According to the Saudi Arabian human rights group, National Society for Human Rights, about half of Saudi children face domestic violence or some kind of abuse.

Do not try to remove Facebook Timeline: You could be a victim for scammers

If you're not a fan of Facebook's new Timeline, you're not alone. In a CIO.com poll of more than 600 people, 87 percent responded that they dislike the new profile design. Unfortunately for them -- and contrary to Facebook Pages and Groups popping up -- there's no hitting the rewind button to revert to the old profile. 

 When new Facebook features are added, scammers use the chaos, confusion and disdain to take advantage of unsuspecting users. The most recent instance involved the Facebook Ticker. There are ways to remove the Ticker by using browser extensions; however, there is no such fix for the Facebook Timeline.

Inside Facebook reported the following just recently:

“Despite Facebook’s efforts to educate users about the new profile, some people have misconceptions that make them susceptible to scams like these. We have found 16 Timeline-related scam pages, which have collectively gained more than 71,000 likes. The largest, with nearly 19,000 likes, has been around for at least two weeks. These pages are among the top search results when searching Facebook for “timeline.”

There are several Facebook Pages, rogue applications and rogue browser extensions claiming to show you how to remove the Timeline from your profile. Just doing a quick search via the Facebook Search bar revealed the following:

Timeline is being rolled out to all users. If you don’t have it now, then you soon will. If you have already made the switch and don’t like it, well, the bad news is that you are stuck with it. There is no way to revert back to your old profile.

Facebook addiction grows divorce cases

 

A lot of married people - about 80% in the process of a divorce - are using a social network such as Facebook to cheat, says a survey of divorce attorneys.

Although the divorce attorneys agreed Facebook is cited in 20 percent of all divorces, about 80 percent are using some kind of social media to make assignations or communicate with lovers, the New York Daily News reported. At least one Florida lawyer says those numbers are low and actually closer to about 90%.

"There are times when my paralegal and I sit in this office and laugh because people are stupid. They put things out there on the Internet that can last forever," St. Petersburg, Fla. attorney Carin Constantine told.

Constantine has no problem finding incriminating photos for her clients by using Google Images to search the names of divorcees , which can show up even in deactivated Facebook accounts. 

 "The problem is, if you've got 400 friends, I assure you one of those friends [doesn't] have all the privacy settings correct," she said.

We all know that Facebook can get you fired or in trouble with the law, but now it can easily cost you in a divorce settlement. Use your privacy settings wisely and don't post photos that you don't want everyone, including your husband or wife, to see.

Facebook Notifications for Female and Male

India Funny Facebook page

Source: Internet

Setback for Facebook : Randi Zuckerberg leaves Facebook, starts her own Social media

Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Mark Zuckerberg, leaves Facebook in order to start her own company.  After serving six years as director of marketing, the businesswoman says that she wants to get involved in a project of her own, that will still involve Facebook.

Randi Zuckerberg was named director of marketing for Facebook in 2005. Since then, she has been deeply involved in making the most popular social network what it is now. She has helped breaking the barriers that existed between the classic mass media and the internet media. She has helped develop Facebook as a mean of the mass media by itself. Now, six years after the first steps of this incredible journey, Facebook releases an official statement on Zuckerberg’s departure.  “Randi has decided to leave Facebook to start her own company. We are all grateful for her important service”, the statement said to CNNMoney on Wednesday.

Mark Zuckerberg and Randi Zuckerberg

Randi , who is only 29 years old, says that her goal “is to launch my own innovative programming and work with media companies to develop their programming in new, and more social ways.” After spending years pouring her “heart and soul into innovating and pushing the media industry forward by introducing new concepts around live, social, participatory viewing that the media industry has since adopted”, Zuckerberg’s sister is going to start her own company, named “RtoZ Media”. But she is not going to leave the social network giant. Her new project will involve Facebook as well. “Facebook will clearly be a central element in all my projects”, the businesswoman said. She added that her plan is to demonstrate that “ANYONE” is able to do “groundbreaking media work in the platform.”

Prior to being Facebook’s marketing director, Randi Zuckerberg worked as a panelist on Forbes on Fox, a business analysis program, broadcasted on the Fox News channel.