Last night I was so tensed about my project that is supposed to be held in next week but it didn’t seem that way. I was like dead!

My God!! No any marketing campaigns have been done and it made me feel as I will be the only one who would be attending this so called Grand event, because nobody knows about it.
(You might be wondering why the hell a university student is not focusing on studies instead of arranging events huh? My dear fellows, Business administration’s students are obliged to conduct such events for future prospects). (more…)

A new scam was revealed today which is spreading on internet. The scammers are using the old Trojan mailing methodology attracting users to click it on the name of Facebook. These methods were introduced in the early days of emailing and it seems that Trojan horse models aren’t going to be obsolete. If you accidently or unknowingly download the file containing Trojan attached to the mail, anybody can have unauthorized access to your PC controlling it remotely.

The renowned emailing services like Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL etc, provides scamming filter. If a spam mail succeeds to deceive the filters, still you have a chance to safe yourself from those. First don’t open emails or download/open .zip files you receive from an unknown person.

Facebook applications don’t contain attachments so, if you get any email notification from Facebook or Facebook Applications don’t open it. It probably must contain Trojan/Virus. Think, Why Facebook mail you a friend’s picture? What Facebook needs by sending you zip files? They probably wouldn’t!
These are simply steps to avoid potential risk of having a Trojan virus in your system. There are several others ways to stay protected.

The popular social networking site like Facebook is becoming the center of attraction to hackers with some scamming techniques that can extract users’ login and passwords.
Facebook is working hard to avoid these kinds of risk, especially on the Facebook Applications. This can’t be completed overcome but can be minimized to some extent because internet is a wide word to explore.

Politicians are now converting Facebook to a new platform to enhance their political career. With the popularity in youth of technology, many politicians are realizing the significance of Facebook. They are trying to find their votes on Facebook, as it seems effective to convince the youth. The last election young people are boosted on “Vote or Die” situation.

Marketing director for Facebook, Melanie Deitch said, “We wanted to provide a forum for politicians to have their ideas heard.”
The observers on political issues have noticed that Facebook is becoming a center of attention to people all over the world and it’ll prove to be effective to carry an election campaigns there. In addition to this Politicians are also taking Facebook Applications under their consideration, many applications are already present on Facebook promoting some candidates.

Professor of political science, University of Saskatchewan, David McGrane, in an interview to CBC News said “Facebook has picked up where blogs left off. This is sort of the first Facebook election,” he said. “Though blogs have been used in past federal elections, the feeling is — the feeling I’m getting — is that technology like this, information technology, is going to become more and more a part of elections.”

Larissa Shasko the candidate of Green party in the Saskatchewan riding of Palliser has a Facebook Fan Page and a Facebook Application. Within three days of campaign, she got 44 supporters on that politician page. She said that she uses Facebook to send messages to her supporters, but avoid being a spammer.

She also said, “I don’t believe in spamming. I think to use Facebook to spam people is irresponsible and it just hurts those of us that are trying to get our message across to a younger age demographic who believe Facebook is a great way to let us all speak.”

Ralph Goodale, Liberal candidate, had more than 600 supporters on his Facebook page. There are many like these on Facebook and all of them are seeking for more. Some Political candidates have their own Facebook Applications to promote their ideas and motives.

The latest update from Facebook is that it has introduced a new accessibility option to your Facebook applications. Previously, the new design didn’t provide a good accessibility to your applications and if you want to make changes to your applications you had to redirect to the Home Page but now you can have direct access to your applications from any page. It is an easier way for the users to find and bookmark their favorite applications. Facebook, with this new design, makes Applications prominent by displaying the most favorite applications in the bottom menu. All users’ bookmarked Applications are on the shortcut bar same as windows quick launch that contains links up to 6 Facebook Applications. Now, you can easily bookmark an Application while in use.
Josh Elman, Facebook Platform Program Manager, said:

“In the new applications menu, all of user’s bookmarks will appear and be easily accessible. In addition, up to six application icons will be shown to the right of the menu button. When a user is using your application, they will be able to easily identify and bookmark your application with just one click.
Feedback we received indicated that users were having trouble with the Applications link in the top menu. People weren’t easily finding their way to their favorite applications. By moving this menu and displaying a few icons at the new location, users will always be able to find the applications they use, as well as easily bookmark their favorite applications or the ones they use the most.”

The newly introduced Facebook  features and a big change in its design that affected about 9.5 millions users are News Feed and Mini Feed. These features were introduced to change its previous encyclopedic look. The old profiles looks have just informational list about people where as the new features have news and latest content about users, their friends and their activities. These features were launched on Monday.

The News Feed Feature

This feature is shown on the user’s HOME page and update the users with the photos posted by their friends, people recently joined concerned groups, status of relationship changed by a user, etc. The major facility that this News Feed provides is that the user now doesn’t have to go to every connected profile everyday to see the changes on that profile.

The Mini Feed Feature

Other feature is Mini Feed, is somewhat similar to News Feed but it displays information only for a user. Mini Feed is only available on the user’s profile page. The other users visiting the profile can see the profile summary of the user in the Mini Feed section.

These features are subject to standard Facebook privacy settings. In these features, the data is only available for those people who are allowed to view by the user. The news in these sections depends upon the things, what can you see? Who you are? And what are the settings?

Now there is an easier way for the Facebook users to stay updated with what the people in their social circle are up to. Facebook users don’t have leave their home page as everything is available them in those sections. The next upgrade to these features will be that the newly added Facebook Applications by the users will be displayed.

Facebookster never stops…it’s always in an attempt to bring you more exciting and more thrilling applications than ever. This time it brings ‘FreeiPhoneGiveaway’. The name is enough for you to understand that whatever it is you will get a free iPhone. Isn’t that one of the most wonderful things you’ve ever heard? For sure yes…

FreeiPhoneGiveAway is basically a mini game that has a wonderful and friendly interface and is easy to play. Besides iPhone what do you earn? You can earn virtual prizes and money in this application. Its fun! All you have to do is to scratch the ticket that’s appearing on the screen and if you get lucky you will get money.

The rules of this game are simple. You have $10 to start with and there are tickets of $2, $3, $4 and $5. The $10 you have can be spent on buying these tickets and these are reset every day. That means you lose $10 today the next day it will come back to $10. Moreover, $10 is not the limit you can click on the link which says earn more tickets and you will be directed to a page with a number of site links. All you need to do is to click on them and you earn more tickets to play. Sounds interesting right? Well then hop on and try the game out! You love iPhones don’t you?

Millions of people are investing in Facebook application development as it is today the most used social networking utility. But do you exactly know in which applications to invest or what types of applications are liked by the users? What types of applications are used most? Well…according to our study users are now fed up of scrolling down hundreds of applications and reaching to your wall, ranking your friends, finding out whether you are sexy or not or whether you resemble to a dog or a cat! What they are far more interested in are better applications that have a cause linked to them or an interest. Scroll down to know what are the 5 top Facebook applications used by Facebook users.

1. Video sharing:
   it should come with no surprise to learn that users on Facebook enjoy sharing videos. Straight away you can record a video from your webcam or your cell phone and upload it to Facebook. The videos should be under 300 MB. The best and the most interesting part is that Facebook lets you tag your friends and folks in the videos just like in you do with photos.
2. Applications related to causes:
   users love to visit and donate on social causes even on Facebook. Facebook is being acknowledged as one the major networks that can gain access to millions of users and their donation. Facebook uses it leverage to attract people to donate or even just visit applications related to causes such as Save the Whales, AIDS awareness, Support the Campaign for Breast Cancer and many more.
3. Courses:
   Way back in time, Facebook stopped its official courses application disappointing thousands of students on Facebook. However to fulfill the void came in a number of third party applications. One of the most famous of such applications is Courses 2.0 by Cramster. It lets you share your class and work schedule with your Facebook friends.
4. Countdown Calendar:
   Countdown Calendar by Paperade is one of the highly used application with more than 900,000 users. Also there are various other countdown calendars on Facebook. You can search for them and join them. Also you can create your own countdown.
5. Where I’ve Been:
   Where I’ve been is another very interesting and catchy application. With this application you can tell the complete Facebook community about your travel experiences and also where you aspire to go.