Facebook has gone down world wide. The service is down and above message is shown on the website whether you login from web, from mobile or some other device. The social media site went down at 8:11 am GMT on Thursday 19th July. It’s been several minutes and we still cannot get the site to […]
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Let’s Eat Twitter
No doubt social media is popular all around the globe. Now people are naming their non-tech tangible products getting inspired from the virtual world and online media. Recent addition to that is Twitter. Though I did not like the taste of it, it did look tempting and I ended up buying a few of them.
Facebook completely translated to Urdu
. Look what I got in my notifications on Facebook today. Facebook says it has been completely translated into Urdu and now just some fine tuning is needed. Makes me proud as an Urdu speaker. Users who have opted to help Facebook in translations get such messages and you can either translate untranslated phrases and […]
BlackBerry Facebook page reaches one million fans
BlackBerry’s Facebook page has crossed one million users mark today. Are you a fan yet? Research in motion is the second most popular operating system in the world. According to a report by gartner, number of handsets sold running Symbian OS was highest in the world with RIM’s BlackBerry OS on the second postion. Following […]
Facebook Unblocked in Pakistan – Flickr still not accessible
According to the local court’s original order, social networking site Facebook has been unblocked by PTA, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. The site was blocked due to the blasphemous page titled “Everybody Draw Muhammad day” that has offended Muslim population all across the globe. In addition to Facebook, Flickr the photo sharing site, Youtube the popular video […]
Youtube, Wikipedia, Flickr blocked in Pakistan after Facebook
Facebook was blocked yesterday after the Court’s order against the blasphemous Facebook Page and now it looks like the start of a social websites blackout in Pakistan. Youtube, the popular video sharing site, Wikipedia, a crowd sourced encyclopedia and Flickr, the popular photo sharing sate has also been blocked in Pakistan. It has been reported […]
Facebook Pages go even more Weird – Fans become Likers
I already wrote a post on Facebook Privacy when it comes to Facebook pages and becoming fans. So if you became a fan of a page, the page can access quite some information of yours just as your friends can do. Isn’t that bizarre? Actually Facebook wants to try to make public, more and more […]
My Facebook profile has Google PR 3
/basit.ali This is quite interesting to notice that my Facebook profile found at http://www.facebook.com/basit.ali has PR 3 out of 10 in Google’s books. I’ve always been curious about Google’s behavior and this one is one of the interesting things that I’ve found so far. This means that for Google, my Facebook profile is as important […]
Facebook Pages can access all your posts
Are you a Fan of something on Facebook?Facebook privacy policy has been creating some stir out on the web already. Like every Facebook user, I have been trying to be careful when posting things on the Facebook. Moreover, I have created friend groups. As I have pre-defined access levels assigned for each of these groups, […]
Those who die, live forever on social networks
Recently, a very dear friend of mine passed away and left us for ever. A very young and a very nice guy. Like most of us, he was an active user of online social networks as well and had an account on Facebook as well. As soon as he died, everyone on his friends’ list […]