Facebook Goes Down Temporarily in INDIA and other parts of the World

Facebook goes down temporarily in India and other parts of the world, but later restored: www.facebook.com

WOW, its really shocking to know this, but you know things happen you cant be invincible always Facebook proved it.
Sites go down…!!!

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Based on the news and twitter posts: The world’s biggest social networking site Facebook went down temporarily in parts of Europe, with users in some countries outside the region also reporting problems.
Countries affected included:India, Ireland, UK, Pakistan and South Korea.

If there were any more countries affected please share??

Statement from Facebook:

“Today we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users in Europe,” Facebook said in a statement. “The issue has been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook. We apologize for any inconvenience.”

Many places we have read different reasons why it was down, but i think the news from CERN has it correct.
CERT.be: the federal cyber emergency team for Belgium, said:

Facebook was hit by a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack.

But facebook returned with a statement, that the site was unavailable in Europe because of technical difficulties, and had been restored, according to news reports.

They were not willing to respond to a request for a comment on the outage.

The outage in may countries were delayed by 30min – 2hrs, so it was not a big deal, they are back online now!!!

It seems from news that Facebook had another outage in February, a day after filing for its initial public offering.

Google vs Facebook – The Battle Begins

Google vs Facebook | G+ vs FB

[G+ Google]
[FB Facebook]

The social media war among tow of the biggest companies in the 21st century Google vs Facebook.
FB is famous known for its simplicity and data shoring across individuals in social media.
And Google being the king of simplicity has outdone with a brilliant step towards social media.
After some failure/downfalls with Buzz and Orkut, G+ really was a “FIVE STAR” approach and BANG to FB.

G+, in its near infant stage its bought people from all around the globe to start with “+” rather “Like” from FB.
Its really got a huge trend and change in the society, people moving from FB to G+ or using G+ more than FB… [What Say?]

Though FB has a bigger users data bank, but people tend to forget that it got to the 750 million users mark it took them almost 4-6 years

Stats:

1. 750 million active users
2. 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
3. Average user has 130 friends
4. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

But when you see G+ users data bank it took them a month to reach the Million mark at a faster pace than FB, so it clearly makes G+ the WINNER!!

[Info Ref: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics]

After the recent launch of G+ music services, FB had to compete with the giant and gets in its own Musical Service online… hmm!!!

Now the BIG question: WHAT NEXT???

The Movie Fights:

With the famous FB growing to new heights and with the movie “The Social Network” a new sequel would emerge from the current situations, few names:

1. “Social Media War – The Beginning”
2. “The God of Social Media”
3. “People Network”
4. “Crash of the Titan”

[LOL: Hope you know which company this movie will directly relate too.]

Something about The Company:

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 750 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Facebook users must register before using the site. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the website.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website’s membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over, but based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts, violating the site’s terms.

[Info Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook ]
[HomePage: http://www.facebook.com ]

Google Plus + Project Social Network

Among the most basic of human needs is the need to connect with others. With a smile, a laugh, a whisper or a cheer, we connect with others every single day.

Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools.

In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it.

We’d like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. We want to make Google better by including you, your relationships, and your interests. And so begins the Google+ project:

+Circles: share what matters, with the people who matter most
+Sparks: strike up a conversation, about pretty much anything
+Hangouts: stop by and say hello, face-to-face-to-face
+Mobile: share what’s around, right now, without any hassle
+You: putting you first, all across Google
+Hangout – vieo sharing and chat
+Instant Upload – upload pics on easily and comments too

[Info Ref: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html ]
[Demo: www.google.com/+/demo/ ]
[HomePage: http://plus.google.com ]

Facebook traffic plummets in the US

Facebook traffic plummets in the US.

With 687 million users at the end of May, Facebook’s traffic is far from hurting. But in the US, millions of users have decided to disconnect.

As its user ranks approach 700 million worldwide, Facebook traffic in the United States has dropped significantly, a sign that the social network behemoth may be on the way down, reports Inside Facebook.

According to statistics from Inside Facebook Gold analytics service — which gets its information from Facebook’s advertising tool — new Facebook users totaled 11.8 million people in May — an impressive number by any stretch of the imagination. But that compares to the 13.9 million who joined in April, and an average of about 20 million in the 12 months prior.

This drop is primarily due to a plunge in registered users in the US. The number of US Facebook users fell from 155.2 million to 149.4 million during the month of May alone. That’s nearly 6 million people who decided they no longer need to stay connected through the service, and is the first time Facebook has lost users in the last year.

Facebook finally taking over the global market in social media sector

Facebook has grown tremendously in the recent years.
Its out numbered all its predecessors & competitors and even put them out of their own game i.e. social blogging/networking/media.

Its heard that the current Facebook stats has already crossed over , all thanks to increased usage in countries like Brazil and India.

Growth is one of the powerful ingredients and spice that Facebook is achieving from its latest:

1. ads invention,
2. pages creation,
3. new look & feel in design,
4. impressive photos and video sharing, etc.

Facebook has yet not gone thru the downward trend from the time of it start-up. And i don’t think soon it will see that evil side (hope not),

Its creating new ways and opportunity’s to individuals or organizational objectives.
It offers a varied range of online flash games, that’s very popular among the users.

It may not be a surprise but it seems like California based social networking giant Facebook will soon start a new era of media and networking on the WWW – Internet.

Many Countries are now going Ga-Ga over social networking and the popularity among youths are growing even more.

Countries like India, Brazil, Phillipines, Argentina etc are responsible for much of the social website’s international adoption recently.

According to www.digitaltrends.com:

Along with the 700 million worldwide users, the Washington Post reports that the site is expected to host 100 billion photos once summer rolls around. According to their statistics, close to 6 billion photos are uploaded monthly with female users taking part in the majority of the picture uploading. The Post says “the number of profile photos posted on Facebook has tripled since 2006”.

700 million users really isn’t that many people when you think about the Earth’s current population of 6.8 billion. Facebook still has a ways to go before it takes over the world.

According to washingtonpost.com blog:

Facebook is poised to hit 700 million users, according to analysis from the Facebook statistics blog SocialBakers.

If Facebook were its own country, it would be the third-largest in the world.

So see the difference yourself and Join Facebook

Join Facebook

FarmVille – New Enjoyment In Online Flash Gaming

FarmVille

facebook has done it again, being the leader in social networking it’s out done itself by launching on its own king of online flash gaming in the www (world wide web).

First when I heard about it from my friends and family, i thought its just another online game giving out trial games and then ask for money for playing the full game. But when i checked out the game i really liked it. And now  i am addicted to it.

In FarmVille you can plow, plant and harvest crops to earn money to further expand and improve your farmstead. You can also harvest trees and collect from animals.

It’s just a crazy world , farming your own land and it’s more fun when you see your own people interacting with by sending gifts, harvesting your crops or fertilizing your crops etc.

farmville

I AM TOTALLY ADDICTED TO IT NOW!!!!

and i know you are too, so what are yoiu waiting for…….. START FARMING NOW

More Info on Farville…..

Summary:

FarmVille is a real-time farm simulation game developed by Zynga, available as an application on the social networking website Facebook. The game allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, trees, and livestock. Since its launch in June 2009, FarmVille has become the most popular game application on Facebook with 63.7 million active users on November 9th, 2009. FarmVille started as a duplicate of the popular Farm Town on Facebook.

More Info,,,,,,,,

Requirements:

Its requires the latest version of Adobe Falsh- flashplayer

Best browsers are: Firefox 3+ , IE7+ and Google Chrome 2+

All the best…. Don’t forget to help me in my farm!!!

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