Facebook can help you find friends who are nearby

In the popular social network "Facebook" launched a new service called Find Friends Nearby, allowing to search for friends who are nearby.

It should be noted that officially, this function, access to which can be obtained through the web-interface, and with applications for mobile devices to "Android" and iOS, has not been announced.

As told Ryan Patterson, who is the developer of this function, the new service provides the ability to build links between the users the most simple and more efficient way. It should be noted that the service "Find friends nearby," is always running in real time. Tracking friends who run this application, is using geolocation.

A new Trojan in Facebook disables anti-virus software users

Experts in network security from Trend Micro, found in the social networking site Facebook a dangerous new Trojan horse, which, when applied to users' computers, disables antivirus software. The program was called WORM_STECKCT.EVL

Found that the Trojan spreads via the built-in Facebook instant messaging. The user receives purportedly from one of his friends a message with the link by clicking on which you can download to your computer malware. She immediately locks installed anti-virus and begins to collect personal information.

It is noted that the Trojan is able to steal user names and passwords from various sites, as well as sending spam messages in a variety of services, including Facebook and Twitter. Given the nature of malware, users should be particularly vigilant and not to pass on suspicious links.

Facebook acknowledged his weakness on the mobile front

A week before entering the IPO Facebook amended its registration application of S-1 to conduct a public offering, which indicated the growth of mobile users as a threat to long-term financial performance.


Facebook told investors that the number of users of its customers for smarftonov and tablets is growing faster than the number of ads that they serve as social networks have failed to develop a strategy for mobile advertising, writes The Telegraph.

"We believe that it is the increasing use of mobile versions of Facebook has become one of the reasons for the trend towards progressive growth of daily active users, compared with an increase in the number of advertisements. If users will increasingly use mobile clients instead of a desktop version of the site, and if we fail to successfully implement our strategy to monetize mobile users, or incur excessive costs for its implementation, our financial performance and ability to grow revenue decline, "- says the amendments to the application an IPO.
Revenues Facebook for the first three months of 2012 rose by 45% compared with last year, but profits fell by 12% to $ 205 million According to Forbes kolumnitsa Eric Jackson (Eric Jackson), Facebook will not be able to monetize the mobile direction. It was this failure would entail the destruction of social networks over the next 5-8 years.

Facebook came out on a road show on May 7. She set a price range of the value of shares during initial public offering of $ 28-35 per share. May 18 shares of the social network will be posted on the NASDAQ under the ticker FB. In the documents filed by Facebook in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, stated that the social network intends to sell its shares to 337.4 million, about half of which are now owned by the founders, employees and investors. For example, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) intends to sell 30.2 million shares, which may increase his fortune by $ 1 billion in spite of a large sale, it would still be interest in a $ 17.6 billion IPO after Zuckerberg also lose control of the company - will control approximately 57.3% of the voting shares.

Facebook learned to edit photos

Facebook launched two filters for instant photo processing, said, "SIT."
Note that the new product was launched in the mobile social network application for a simple phone, called the Facebook for every phone.
How to declare themselves the representatives of social networks, developers Instagram have no relation to the new option, and it was developed in an internal company contests.
New product allows users to process the photos taken on camera phone while two filters - sepia or grayscale, and instantly publish a picture on your page.
Mobile app Facebook For Every Phone is available for a fairly wide range of simple phones supporting Java - just over 3,600 units.

As you know, buying Instagram Facebook worth $ 1 billion to be transferred in cash and shares of social networks, which will be released soon for an IPO.

The American shot the family because the removal of friends on Facebook

The American shot a gun for a married couple that they are removed from the social network of friends in his 30-year-old daughter.

Sixty Marvin Potter decided to deal with offenders of their daughter, who was going through very difficult situation in an ordinary social networks - the couple removed the woman from the list of friends on Facebook, RIA Novosti reported.

Potter has repeatedly tried to "talk heart to heart" with Billy Payne, Jr. and his mistress Billie Jean Hayworth, but it seemed to him that the threats did not lead to any result. Then the man decided to take up arms.

In late January, a man shot the couple, leaving alive only by their eight-month baby.

Happy Birthday, Facebook!

Exactly eight years ago an event occurred, MDM is largely influenced the further development of the media, communications, organization of mass protests and human relations.
February 4, 2004, was launched social networking site Facebook, which is by far the largest, and the number of registered users it is more than 850 million

Originally set up Facebook for communication students at Harvard University, and the mounted resource is Mark Zuckerberg in his dorm. Zuckerberg offered a convenient and easy way to exchange information with each other, and it set him apart from other social network that existed at that time.

Until September 2005 the site used only by students, and in June 2006, Facebook opened up to professional communities. Free registration for all comers was opened in September 2006.

Iran has arrested the organizers of the beauty contest on Facebook

Iran has blocked access to social network Facebook, but many people manage with the help of special software to circumvent the ban.
A few days ago the police, who are responsible for security on the Internet, managed to arrest a group of four administrators of social networks. They announced a Facebook virtual beauty contest.

Among those arrested were two men and two women. Up to the moment of arrest by police officers in the group managed to enter 25 of both sexes. The organizers invited participants to send their photos.

Now all members of the beauty contest would be at risk of persecution. According to the head of the police, the group has spread "corruption and shamelessness."

The worm Ramnit steals 45 000 passwords to Facebook

Facebook users living in the UK and France, it's time to change their passwords because hackers have stolen them through a worm Ramnit, said «TG Daily».

This worm runs from April 2010 and has been repeatedly modified, allowing him to infect many computers. In July 2011 report, Symantec said that over time it has infected 17.3% of all software users.

The new iteration of the worm hoax forced the user to follow links that were allegedly sent to friends of the victim. Of course, my friends never placed these links and did not even know they existed. When you click on the link the user helping to spread the virus. The virus, most likely, could also steal passwords from Gmail, corporate SSL VPM, Outlook Web Access and accounts on Twitter. We highly recommend right now to change your passwords to the above mentioned services.

If you clicked on any links on Facebook, then you would do well to also change the password on your account, it will not allow intruders to use your account in the future. And never click on suspicious links.

Facebook blamed a third of divorces in Britain

A third of Britons as one reason for divorce in 2011 indicated actions wife on Facebook. This is evidenced by results of a study site Divorce-Online.co.uk, specializing in help during a divorce.

In the course of the study were treated with five thousand applications for divorce. Divorce-Online has learned the basic reasons for which Facebook destroys British marriages. Most often, divorcing complained that their spouses were writing inappropriate messages to persons of the opposite sex (ie, flirted online). In addition, the British often had to learn about the misconduct of his half of online friends.

A similar study was carried out already two years ago, but then Facebook was mentioned only in every fifth petition for divorce.

Remarkably, another popular social networking site, Twitter, almost no fault divorce inhabitants of Great Britain. Because of it, in 2011, broke up only 0.4 percent of couples.

Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. The number of active users is about 800 million people.

For Windows, created a Facebook-messenger

Social network Facebook has released Messenger for Windows. You can communicate to your friends without being logged on the site. The program allows you to exchange instant messages with friends from social networks without having to go to the website Facebook. With it you can also view the "ticker" (a tape with the actions of friends), and notification. Download application at this link, and its description in English is available in the Help section on Facebook. Messenger works only on computers with Windows 7 (as a running under Windows XP, the program displays an error message). Testing the messenger behind closed doors was conducted from November. For all users access to a program launched social network on Thursday, December 29. Will Facebook release version for other operating systems is still unknown. Previously developed a social network application Facebook Messenger for iOS, BlackBerry and Android.

Police freed the hostages an American by post to Facebook

A resident of the U.S. city of Salt Lake City, who along with his son polutoragodovalym five days remained a hostage in her apartment, managed to escape by leaving a message with an appeal for help in the social network Facebook, reports Associated Press.

According to preliminary reports, the woman and her child taken hostage by a 33-year-old Troy Kritchfild, the man took a woman's cell phone.

"Hostage managed to hide in a closet with a laptop, with which it came into Facebook and wrote that she would die along with his son, if it does not come to help," - said a police sergeant, John Arnold.

One to read this post reported it to police, who came to check the status of women.

"Facebook was the only means of communication at her home. It so happened that she was able to use it" - said Arnold.

Arrived with the police detained the test outfit Kritchfilda. He is now in the city jail.

Recall that last year it was reported that a resident of the United Kingdom Sarah Lintern was diagnosed with a serious illness because she posted a photo on the popular networking site Facebook.

Facebook announced the change of the most popular games in social networks

As a result of 2011's most popular online game on Facebook has become Gardens of Time, developed by Playdom. As reported by BBC B, it is ahead of the recent leaders of the Cityville and Farmville, created by the developer Zynga. However, to obtain the title of the most popular Facebook game game Gardens of Time helped not only users, but a change in method of calculation. Representatives of the world's most popular social networks have become not only consider the number of active players, but the number of the recommendations of the game. "The list (the most popular online games of the year - Ed.) Was made on the basis of the top games on Facebook with more than 100 thousand active users per month, priority was given to the games with the highest level of satisfaction with the players. The result is a list of games that have received most Custom recommendations in 2011, "- according to a blog social network. Note that the second place in the list of most popular games won this year, The Sims Social (developer - Electronic Arts), third - Cityville (Zynga). Then come Doubledown Casino (Doubledown Interactive), Indiana Jones Adventure World (Zynga) and Words With Friends (Zynga). Results in the top ten were four games from the developer Zynga, which recently conducted IPO. In the top 10 has not got the game Farmville. Note that according to estimates of Appdata, which has traditionally been concerned only with the number of active users, the most popular on Facebook are created by Zynga game Cityville, Castleville, Farmville, and Texas Holdem. In this case Gardens of Time, according to Appdata, occupies only 14th place (8.5 million players per month vs. 48.8 players in Cityville). Some experts and bloggers have found a strange new method of determining the most popular games, selected members of Facebook. However, it immediately found an explanation. According to mpetsialistov, a social network is trying to promote their own analytical tools based on the amount of user guidance and sharing agreement. 

Zipcar on Facebook

Facebook announced the launch of new app for Zipcar. Now you can reserve your wheels on the greatest social network. The company warns you that the app is being tested in public right now. Users can also check the car availability, view upcoming registrations, charge existing and other.
For those who don’t know, Zipcar is a social network for providing a car any country any place. It is really helpful ‘cause sometimes you utterly need a car. The service has very convenient way of registration and key service.
One of the advantages is that even if you don’t have an account you still can make a reservation or join Zipcar. But the service is only available in US and UK.

Google is about to open new start-up office in London to create "technology community centre" in London's East End.

Google is going to open it’s start-up in London to bring to life government’s plan to create a Tech City in the capital. It is to be multimillion-pound “technology community centre” which is seven-floor building. The cluster of the Internet companies will be located there, in the heart of London's so-called "Silicon Roundabout". 
Prime minister announced that he is going to create a rival to Silicon Valley in November last year. He supported  the start-up by £400m in government funding. It has been also supported by such companies as Facebook, Cisco and BT.
The space will mainly be used for start-ups as training workshop in the capital, Google’s spokesman said.
New physical hub TechHub is going to open it’s office in new building. But Twitter decided not to open an office.
To sum up the Google’s start-up shows that GB is open for high tech business.

Facebook: “We wanted to design a place that feels like your home”

Facebook is keep changing.
At the f8 conference in San Francisco CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to present the first major change - the profile. The old profile shows last 15 minutes of your life, the new one called Timeline shows “all the rest”. It seems to be complete rethought from the ground up as Mark Zuckerberg noted, “Timeline is a story of your life”.
Mark made a great presentation of nothing-like-that-before called Timeline. Now it is much more visual. It has now three main parts:

• all your stories
• all your apps
• a new way to express who you are

And now it shows all your story from the moment you’ve born.

The hardest part was to display all this on one page. The problem has been solved by showing all the recent content in a new grid-view. But if you go back it shows only the most important content. The farther back you go, the less you see.
It works on mobile too but more condensed.
Here we can see the standard question: what works better - innovations or traditions?