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Are you sick of seeing some stories or not verified news in your Facebook timeline or newsfeed? Worry no more as Facebook, number one Social Media site,  announced FB Newswire, a resource that will make it easier for journalists and newsrooms to find, share and embed newsworthy content from Facebook in the media they produce. Powered by Storyful, FBNewswire is a new resource for journalists and newsrooms that aggregates newsworthy social content shared publicly on Facebook.


"Powered by Storyful, the leader in social content discovery and verification for newsrooms, FB Newswire aggregates newsworthy content shared publicly on Facebook by individuals and organizations across the world for journalists to use in their reporting. This will include original photos, videos and status updates posted by people on the front lines of major events like protests, elections and sporting events. FB Newswire is accessible on Facebook at Facebook.com/FBNewswire and on Twitter at @FBNewswire, and will be updated in real-time with content related to top news stories." said Andy Mitchell, Director, News and Global Media Partnerships


Millions of people share videos and pictures every day. Storyful is the fastest and safest way to separate news from noise per Storyful.

Last Tuesday, Facebook , the number one social media site, rolled out it's new highlight - a new video about your life. This is still part of Facebook's 10th year founding anniversary.  The video has 62-second clip which includes the year you joined Facebook, your most-liked posts, status, photos and some random selection of your photos with a "look back" instrumental music.

Mark Monta, Cebu Bloggers Society Inc. Founder's Facebook Look Back Video

Enjoy your moments with your friends with this Facebook Look Back video, here's how!

1. Login to your Facebook Account
2. Go to http://www.facebook/lookback
3.  If you wish to share in your wall, click "SHARE YOUR MOVIE"

Already watch my Facebook look back video, how about yours?

Facebook  was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and other four classmates at Harvard University on February 4, 2004.

Christmas is fast approaching and so with the New Year. Yesterday, Number one Social Media Site, Facebook launched once again it's new feature, "Facebook Year In Review" which allows it's users to see a personalized timeline of their top 20 or 20 biggest moments on Facebook this year 2013. This review includes top posts (Statuses, photos, friends' tagged posts) and life events in which gathered a number of LIKES and COMMENTS from friends or friends of friends.

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Hector Hernandez, a High school student pawned his parent's jewelry worth $100,000 in just $1,500 to pay Blackmailers who allegedly hacked his computer at home and took a video of him in an 'embarrassing' situation. The said Hackers who reportedly situated in the Philippines, threatened this 17-year old student of Detroit, Michigan to leak the said video to his family, friends and his school if he won't send the said amount.

Hector Hernandez in Fox News Interview

Who wants to know who mentioned you first in twitter? But you don't where and how to get the information? Worry no more as TOPSY announced that it has indexed every public tweet of twitter users all over the globe. And using this online tool, you can stalk or should we say check who first mentioned Justin Bieber, Beyonce, Rihanna, Anne curtis or whoever is your favorite stars.


For free use, you can go to topsy.com or set up a free 14-day trial of Topsy Pro for the most advanced tools for discovery, metrics, insights and analytics. To pull up your own early tweets, search for “from:yourusername,” select “All Time” from the time range options on the left, then sort the results by oldest.

Check this first mentioned tweet of my handle @tanom

Now check out these favorite celebrities!

Angel Locsin First Mentioned Public Tweet

Angelica Panganiban First Mentioned Public Tweet

Anne Curtis First Mentioned Public Tweet

Barack Obama First Mentioned Public Tweet

Justin Bieber First Mentioned Public Tweet

Katy Perry First Mentioned Public Tweet

KC Concepcion First Mentioned Public Tweet

Vice Ganda First Mentioned Public Tweet

Do you want to try? Go to topsy.com

Khalil Shreateh, a Palestinian IT Graduate and a white hacker reported to Facebook on the discovered vulnerability that the Social Media site is having - allowed an attacker to post anything on anyone's wall eventhough the attacker is not in your friends' list. But Facebook's security team didn't do something about the issue thus, Khalil posted a demo to Facebook's Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg's Wall (see below image)

This White hacker Khalil explained everything in his blog post which he submitted a full definition and description of the bug but when he submitted it, he got an email , "I am sorry this is not a bug." He even made a follow-up proof to the Facebook Security Feedback Page in which researchers can win rewards of at least $500 for finding significant vulnerabilities.

Khalil Shreateh, photo from his facebook page

But due to the desperate move of Khalil, his official account was disabled by Facebook. Reason? Demonstrating or publishing the vulnerability constitutes a violation of Facebook's terms of service. And worst, he won't be paid under Facebook's bug campaign.

Yes, Facebook's product manager Tom Stocky confirmed on Monday on his post that World's Number One Social Media Site, Facebook, will acquire Mobile Technologies, a company which is behind speech recognition and machine translation technologies.

Photo Credit: Mashable.com

"It has always been our mission to make the world more open and connected. Although more than a billion people around the world already use Facebook every month, we are always looking for ways to help connect the rest of the world as well. Voice technology has become an increasingly important way for people to navigate mobile devices and the web, and this technology will help us evolve our products to match that evolution. We believe this acquisition is an investment in our long-term product roadmap as we continue towards our company's mission.", Tom added.

So we believe, this voice technology will soon be rolled-out and incorporated to Facebook Apps in Mobile phones soon.

Facebook, our number one Social Media site has rolled out its new update – emoticons on status updates. Chosen profiles in the US have already tested and experienced this latest push by Facebook.  This latest feature offers a list of emoticons to choose from. You just click on the Smiley Icon/Image with "News: Share how you're feeling or what you're doing."

Now, check these screenshots from Brooke Bilofsky







Now, here's what it looks like when you posted the status.

How do you like this new push? Comments are welcome below…..

Instagram, a free photo sharing application that allows netizens to take photo, apply a digital filter and share it on a variety of social networking services or sites including Instagram's website, has recently launched its Android deployment last April 3 with its version 1.0.1. According to Google Play, Instagram for Android was a big hit with more than 1 million downloads before 24 hours on time the application went live.


Recently, an updated version 1.0.3. of Instagram was released.

What's new in this version:

• Open up support to Tablets and WiFi handsets
• Allow app installation on SD card
• Fix audio mute bug during capture
• Several small bug fixes and improvements


Now, if you are into Instagram Application, download the latest version here.

As expected, Google announced on Monday the PAGES feature in their own version of Facebook, the Google Plus (+). In this move, it gives opportunity to brands, organizations and other business outfits to join and interact with their customers who are currently using the social network site.

If you are now in your Google Plus Profile, in your homepage, there is a Create a Google + Page icon located in the bottom right of the page.

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Simply follow its instructions and make sure to choose the right category that represents the page.

There are some pages already built for launch, some of which are All American Rejects Band, popular Android Game Angry Birds and Japanes Car Toyota. Here in Cebu, the Entertainment and Cebu News/Updates Site FaceCebu.net is also been built.

Looking forward, Google will be implementing a feature called "Direct Connect.". This feature takes you directly to a certain Google Plus page if you are doing a research.Direct Connect is also being rolled out incrementally, thus, it doesn't yet work for all pages.

Days after the launching of Google Plus to selected invitees, I was able to make my own account and started adding my Facebook's friends to my Circle of Friends.


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So if you need help in inviting your friends through email, check below instruction.


1. In Google Plus, Click on the Circles button located at the top of the page:




2. Once in Circles, Click on "Find and Invite", as shown below:



3. Click the "Add a new person" button:



4. Enter the email address of the person you want to add in the Circle.



5. Now click the Add "@domain.com" by email



6. Type in the owner's name of the email address, choose where to add him/her into Circle (Friends, family, Acquaintances and Following) and click Save

Then let your friend wait for the generated email by Google Plus team.


As of now, invitation took days to be received by your friend but I believe Gplus team has something to do about it.

Enjoy Google Plus and let us start encircling our friends!

Ever since Facebook, the number one Social Networking site and the most visited website, was introduced, it was already assumed that it will take over the traditional communication online eg: email messaging and conventional chatting. Lately, Facebook introduced improvements and other developments such as their Chatting system. And now, through the blog of Philip Su, an engineer on the video calling team, a new era of Video Calling was launched with the power of Skype.



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Improved Facebook Chat



1. Chat box was designed to include sidebar that lists the people you message most. This sidebar adjusts with the size of your browser window and will automatically appears when the window is wide enough.
2. Group Chat or Muti-Person Chat. Simple, just select ADD FRIENDS to chat.
3. Chat history. Just like any other Chatting program. Facebook team was able to save its History in messages.

Facebook Video Call



Video Calling in Facebook was built in the Chat system. That means, if you wanted to call your friend, just click the video call button at the top of your chat window. In the next few weeks, this feature is available over 70 different languages but you can also get it NOW.

Soon, hope to have a Group Video Calling in this feature.

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TweetDeck will now join the spectrum of Twitter products and will continue to support some of the users who were using it for Tweets.The mainstream Twitter user-base is well catered for by twitter.com and the official mobile clients.Per Lain, there is no employee reduction or any like because change is inevitable. The team will remain the same and now with the support of the mother company, Twitter, TweetDeck will grow and take on even big challenges in the future.

"I'd like to finish with a big thank-you to all our investors for their support and guidance over the past few years, especially Betaworks, TAG, SV Angel and PROfounders. And of course a huge congratulations to the whole TweetDeck team - I'm extremely proud of you and this is a huge win for us all." ended Mr. Lain.

Today, our beloved social networking site is celebrating its 6 years in free service of connection to friends, email, picture/video sharing and for bloggers, its micro-blogging status. Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook.com, became the youngest billionaire just simply because of the site. Interestingly, the number one social networking site surpassing Friendster and other sites shows no slowdown in terms of traffic and website visits and user's registration.



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For everyone's knowledge, facebook is booming with a 400 million members which made them the only website garnering or gaining such number of users online. If Google gained its verb "google, to google, googling" then i bet Facebook will soon receive its own function as it follows google as 2nd most visited site in the net.

To Mark and developer, Congratulations and Happy 6 years to Facebookers out there!

A green friendster.com was launched early this morning. Lots of feedback and shocking moments scattered all over the net, from twitter, plurk to facebook, all of them is shouting for this new move of Friendster. So why rebranding Friendster?


Friendster, Inc. is targeting Asian Youth particularly at Southeast Asia in which our country, Philippines is located. As reported by Friendster site, they are the leading website throughout the said continent with over 75 million registered users and over 90 percent of daily traffic coming from the specified region.

"We understand our users and our major markets in Asia better than anyone. This is just the beginning of a series of new products and services catering to the needs of our users, and in a way unmatched by any other social network." said Richard Kimber, chief executive officer at Friendster.

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As everyone noticed, Friendster.com is now adapting the greener effect and color combination in their homepage. New logo is also noticed and most of all, the template or format in your profile looks like partly the same with Facebook especially the location of your message, application and other notifications links which can be seen under your profile picture. In addition, i noticed, the shoutout part (which is the same with status in facebook) is being developed and have given an emphasis; located just in the upper center part of your profile.


Lots of changes were made, and new services or product were introduced:

* The Friendster Wallet is a new micro-payments platform that allows users to purchase products and services on Friendster such as virtual gifts, and to send and receive money to one another. The Friendster Wallet enables users to store account balances and supports a variety of payment methods including pre-paid cards, mobile payments, online payments and credit card payments. Moving forward, Friendster will enable users to make purchases surrounding online games and other offerings. The Friendster Wallet is powered via a partnership with MOL AccessPortal Berhad (MOL)*, a leading payments provider leveraging a network of over 500,000 physical and virtual payment channels worldwide.

* The Friendster Gift Shop enables the Friendster community to send virtual gifts to one another, quickly and conveniently. Friendster Gifts are used to send personal gestures of kindness, celebrate significant accomplishments, and recognize friends and family on special days, like birthdays, or just for fun. A variety of gift themes are supported and more will be added over time. Currently, users can choose from virtual birthday gifts, collectible gifts, greeting gifts, premium gifts, romance gifts, seasonal gifts, thank you gifts and more.

* Friendster Games is an online games destination, which will offer Friendster users a wide variety of fun, entertaining games and applications to play online with their friends. Building on the games already available on the site (through the 'Fun' menu on the Navbar), users will be able to easily search and bookmark the games they like to play. Game developers will be able to incorporate The Friendster Wallet into their games, allowing them to participate in the Friendster micro-payments ecosystem.