Social Network Watch

Facebook speaks Spanish for first time

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:52:00 +0000

Facebook Inc. unveiled a Spanish-language version of its popular online social network Thursday, hoping to expand its audience and catch up to rival MySpace.com.

It marks the first time Facebook has been available in a language besides English since founder Mark Zuckerberg started the Web site at Harvard University four years ago.

Facebook plans to add French and German versions before April, according to Matt Cohler, the Palo Alto-based company's vice president of strategy and operations.

News Corp.'s MySpace, which is larger than Facebook, already is available in 13 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Italian.

Adding more languages is important to Facebook because about 60 percent of its 64 million active users are from outside the United States, including about 2.8 million in Latin America and Spain.

Beginning next week, anyone accessing Facebook from a Spanish-speaking country will automatically be routed to the Spanish version of its Web site.

About 1,500 Facebook users translated the site's vernacular and applications into Spanish using a tool the company provided. The same approach is being used to handle the French and German translations of the site. - AP

PerfSpot Review

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:41:00 +0000

PerfSpot was created to provide the perfect web portal for people of any age, gender, or background to share their interests and favorite things on the web. You can rate and review what other people find funny or shocking, show off links to your favorite crazy websites, even share cool local news! Share your favorite pics, message your friends, make a mini-documentary for the world to see…the sky's the limit! And the best part is, you could get paid for your submissions!

http://www.perfspot.com

MySpace and Skype, Officially Together

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:27:00 +0000

For all of you MySpacers out there eager to call your MySpace friends over Skype via MySpace IM, the feature is now available. Skype has finalized a deal with MySpace to extend the one-click call feature. The interesting part about this deal were that no ad revenue sharing will exist between MySpace and Skype, yet there was a financial deal between the two firms with details that haven’t been disclosed.

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9 Facebook Applications To Make You Money

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:20:00 +0000

Did you know you can sell things on your Facebook profile? Well, you can with the help of a couple handy applications. Whether it be your own music if you’re a musician, a shirt you designed, or old junk you have laying around, there’s probably an application out there that can help you earn some extra dough.

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MySpace to launch third-party applications next month

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:22:00 +0000

MySpace users will be able to add games, e-mail services and other features from outside developers without ever leaving the site under a new program the popular online community will fully launch next month.

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MySpace agrees to new safety measures

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:37:00 +0000

NEW YORK - Under mounting pressure from law enforcement and parents, MySpace agreed Monday to take steps to protect youngsters from online sexual predators and bullies, including searching for ways to better verify users' ages.

The hugely popular online hangout will create a task force of industry professionals to improve the safety of users, and other social-networking sites will be invited to participate. "We must keep telling children that they're not just typing into a computer. They're sharing themselves with the world," said North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper.

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Friendster : The Review

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:32:00 +0000

Connect with friends, old and new; share your thoughts and ideas and express your creativity on the free social networking website, Friendster.

Friendster provides plenty of networking features to customize your personal profile and to get you on your way to establishing a large network of friends. Discover other avenues of expression by posting blogs and joining forums. Choose from a variety of extra features like Internet radio, videos and groups.

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http://www.friendster.com

Myspace : The Review

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:18:00 +0000

One of the largest sites of it's kind on the net. In the search engine it is described as a virtual community site allowing members the chance to network and meet new people from all over the world. It also has a huge music base, allowing bands to share their Music with their fans and communicate with their promoters. From the bands pages you can also add their songs to your page, from their music player. So when some-one accesses your homepage, as they scroll down to view your details, the song will begin to play. This adds atmosphere to your page

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http://www.myspace.com

Facebook: the first social network site

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:49:00 +0000

The Facebook story begins with Mark Zuckerberg who originally made the site for students of Harvard to keep in touch and share info with each other in 2004 then as it increased in popularity Mark with help from Andrew McCollum and Eduardo Saverin they increased the colleges to most of Ivy League schools. After donations from Paypal founder Peter Thiel and venture capital from Accel Partners they decided to expand even further to colleges and high school all over the US as well as United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Then in September 2006 facebook opened it's registration to anyone with a valid email address and so the facebook we all know now was born.

Facebook is a networking tool that keeps you in touch with friends, family and also encourages you to make new friends. I have been a member for around 7 months I think and I am loathe to admit I have the grand total of 288 friends. 95% of them I know personally they're either friends, family or people I worked or went to school with but I do have a few random people I met on facebook and other sites such as gapyear.com and my online journal on their.

All you have to do once you have registered at facebook is get searching for those long lost friends! Put their name in the search box on the left hand side of your facebook screen and scroll through till you find the person you are looking for. Depending on their privacy setting you may or may not be able to view their whole profile but all you need to do once you see who you want as your friend is click add as friend where they will then get a message to say they have a new friend request. If they want to be your friend too they will accept and then away you go… Once you have your friends added check out all the cool things you can do…

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http://www.facebook.com

Introduction

noreply@blogger.com (Engr. Cesar Noel) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:43:00 +0000

Welcome to Social Network Watch. This blog is about Social Networking in general. All News, tips and other new social network service that I would encounter will be blogged here.