Faceporn beat Facebook in Court

Facebook declared defeated in his attempt to sue social network with pornography content that have similar names, Faceporn. Since 2010, Facebook has been trying to buy the domain Faceporn. This is done to secure the search results of "Facebook". Last time, Facebook already purchased and patented various domains with keyword "Face" and "Book". Until now, Facebook has 10 domains with that two keywords, and 17 domains that are still in pending ratification.

Well, for Faceporn, Facebook took legal steps to acquire that adult social network domain. However, last week, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White stated, Facebook lost the lawsuit. Besides failed to get Faceporn domain ownership, Facebook is also obliged to pay some money to Faceporn to replace the cost to pay lawyers and legal costs. Facebook lawsuit was rejected because of lack of personal jurisdiction.

Facebook was sued US $ 15 billion

Facebook, social networking site that just release IPO last Friday (5/18/2012) yesterday, faced lawsuits worth 15 billion U.S. dollars  in federal court.

As reported by Bloomberg, in a joint indictment, a number of the account owner claims that Facebook social networking site has violated their privacy by tracking Internet usage by recording the activity of cookies, even after logout.

Class-action demands was filed to the Federal Court of San Jose, along with 21 other charges of privacy violations. The last case was filed on behalf of citizens of the United States that create Facebok account between May 2010 until September 2011.

Women More likely to be addicted to Facebook

A recent study found that women are more likely to become addicted to Facebook than men. The findings are published in Psychological Reports journal. In the research, the psychologist from University of Bergen in Norway involving 423 students to observe signs of addictive behavior in how they use Facebook. Researchers used a measurement tool called "Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale", to measure how addicted each participant to Facebok, ranging from one (very rarely) to five (very often).

In the scoring method, each participant is also asked to comment about their feelings related to the urge to use Facebook, failure to restrict to use Facebook and and their feelings when they can not access Facebook.

Inspired by Steve Jobs, Facebook Facilitate Organ Donor

Facebook social networking create new features that facilitate users who want to donate their organs. This move is an initiative of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, who was inspired by Steve Jobs. Later, Organ Donor features will be added in user profile pages on Facebook. User can click Life Event on profile page, then click Health and Wellness, then Organ Donors option will appear.

Users can write what organ, they want to donor, location of residency and other information, such as blood type. Information can also be distributed on Facebook timeline.

"We think that everyone really can help spread awareness about organ donation and participate in it. This could be a big part to help resolve the crisis out there," said Zuckerberg.

Microsoft Will Sell Bing to Facebook?

Facebook is aggressively buying patent, after Instagram and AOL patent , Facebook reportedly being persuade to buy Bing search engine from Microsoft. As quoted from Cnet, said there are some people in  Microsoft is trying to explore that possibility. However this is without the agreement of CEO Steve Ballmer.

This news was published at New York Times. The reason why this step must be done is to compete Google that so dominate recent years. So, it need a company that focus more on the internet. Facebook which has good relationship with Microsoft is considered as strong candidate to buy Bing.

But according to New York Times, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected the plan. Facebook still wants to concentrate on its core business.

Friendster Change into Social Discovery and Gaming Platform

Friendster is not over yet. It's what we will see if we visit Friendster website recently. Friendster just redesigned its website. Friendster no longer compete with Facebook like before. Now, Friendster focus more on discovery and game.

"We want to offer unique experience to users, as well as combining search, finding content and social function in it," said Friendster in its official statement Wednesday (25/04/2012).

In December 2009, Friendster has changed ownership. It was sold to company called MOL Global, digital payment company based in Malaysia. Ganesh Kumar Bangah, MOL Group Chief Executive Officer said that as industry pioneer in social networking, Friendster actually have paved the way for the emergence of other networking sites.

Facebook Buy AOL Patents for $550 Million from Microsoft

Facebook just bought 650 patents and AOL applications from Microsoft for $ 550 million. This purchase is done just a few weeks after buying Instagram for $ 1 billion.

Previously, Microsoft had purchased AOL patent for $ 1 billion in cash. Microsoft today announced it has only 275 patents from AOL, as 650 patents and other applications was purchased by Facebook on Monday (04/23/2012) local time.

However, Microsoft also said it has a license agreement for those 650 patent.

"The agreement today with Microsoft showed how important this acquisition to Facebook. This is another significant step taken to build a portfolio of intellectual property to protect Facebook for long time," said Ted Ullyot, Facebook lawyers.

Pinview : Make Facebook Interface is similar to Pinterest

Pinterest, social network that carries concept of virtual pin board sharing grow significantly. The number of users and frequency of visits is growing everyday. Pinterest social networking has become the third most visited social media website in United States, still under Facebook and Twitter but was able to overtake Google's social networking (Google+). This data was released by Experian, in a report entitled "2012 Digital Marketer: Benchmark and Trend Report".

One factor why people like Pinterest is because the interface of Pinterest easily enjoyed. Now, through an application called Pinview, Pinterest interface can also be enjoyed on Facebook.

Bangkok : City with the largest number of Facebook users in the world

United States (U.S.) maybe still country with the largerst number of  Facebook users in the world. But if we look which city has the largest number of Facebook users, None of city in United States can rank in top 10 list.

According to data held ZoomSphere, the city who have the largest number of Facebook users in the world is Bangkok (Thailand) with total users reached 9.29414 million users. The second position is achieved by Jakarta (Indonesia) with total Facebook users 7.9399 million.

Interestingly, New York as hometown of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Facebook founder could only ranks 16th on the list. City of Big Apple reportedly has total 3.13898 million Facebook users.

Here are 10 cities in the world who have the most number of Facebook users based on ZoomSphere data :

Instagram Originally Priced USD 2 Billion?

The acquisition of Instagram drained Facebook pockets for $ 1 billion. But it turns out, the transaction value has been offered by Mark Zuckerberg is not the original price. Instagram CEO, Kevin Systrom actually want $ 2 bilion for his application. However, after private negotiations, Zuckerberg Systrom persuaded lower price for Instagram. Kevin finally agree with the price.

At that time, on Thursday, April 5 local time, Zuck called Systrom after he himself spoke with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg about that big acquisition.

Reported, Zuckerberg did the acquisition without the help of lawyer, because he feared it would make Systrom reject the bid, as reported by SFGate on Wednesday (04/18/2012).

Facebook's "Download Your Information" criticized

Facebook was again criticized because of privacy-related. Intended to give their users more freedom to download their personal data, this social networking giant is once again criticized. Last week, Facebook opened wider access for their users to be able to download personal data. Tools named "Download Your Information" allows users to download more data they are stored up.

A European organization not agree with it. Organization founder, Max Schrems said that this tool supplying the data that are divided into 22 categories, but this update is actually fooling the user.

"Facebook does not provide access to raw data," Schrems said as quoted by BBC, Tuesday (04/17/2012).

Face.com: Application Scanner, and Face Detection Facebook User Age

If you like to use fake identity or put fake picture to your Facebook profile, you have to be careful. For now there is Facebook application that can scan and detect the age of Facebook users just from a photograph.

Sometimes we are interested to someone photo. She was beautiful, handsome, beautiful, but already old or still young. With a pose that is set in such way, the owner of the profile can manipulate age and face. And not a few criminal cases that triggered because of fake photographs.

The application name is Face.com. With this application we can detect not only age, but also the mood. When the application is tested, the application produce some mixed results. When predicted age, Face.com analyze some indicators. Such as wrinkles and skin texture.

Facebook is trying to patent three words; Book, Face, and Wall

Facebook is trying to patent the three words : Book, Face, and Wall as their property. Social network website that have a billion users are secretly pinned the three words as a small clause in the consent agreement page. Thus Facebook seeks to protect those three words to be used by another party in the future.

"You can not use our copyrights or trademarks , including Facebook, logo, poke, book, face, and wall," as written on the agreement.

Previously Facebook also has patented at least 70 other trademarks, which are F, F8, Friendfeed, and Facebook Ads.

Print Good Quality Facebook Photo is now available

Printing photos from Facebook are sometimes a bit difficult because of its low resolution. Seeing the weakness comes a service called CanvasPop. CanvasPop claimed that it was the only service in the world that offers feature that can print photo no matter how small with perfect results. Corresponding name of the service, the printing process uses canvas as a medium.

Facebook is currently the largest photo repository in the world with 150 billion images. Reportedly, each day there are more than 100 million photos dipload in this famous networking site. Wow.

Facebook Ready to Counterattack Yahoo

Feud between Yahoo and Facebook related allegations of patent infringement seems to be more heated. Moreover, the largest social networking site that was ready to counterattack. Previously, Yahoo dragged Facebook to court on 10 charges of patent rights that are violated. However, Mark Zuckrberg claimed have enough evidence to confront the allegations.

According to the GigaOM technology site sources quoted on Wednesday (3/14/2012), Facebook has all the rights of the patent that claims by Yahoo. Yahoo was previously asked for payment for patent licenses. Of a lot of companies that agreed to pay, just Facebook that refuse. This is what makes Yahoo furious, and bring an action against that biggest social network website in the world.

Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, created online news portal site

Chris Hughes, one of co-founder of Facebook is building an online news portal. This 28-year-old man was rumored to have bought shares of a United States magazine company for the development of his new online news sites. The site will not for commercial aims, but as the news media with quality information for the needs of the community.

The New Republic, is the news media headlines. Keep in mind that earlier in 2009, Chris Hughes is the one behind the winning campaign team of the Republicans that make Barack Obama win the president election.

Similar to Twitter, Facebook release Interest List

The new features is created by Facebook to enrich user experience in social networking. Interest List become Facebook way to group popular topics, so the users can find them easily.

This feature functions like List on Twitter, which is enable users to search for friends or page in accordance with their interests. Interest Lists of topics including technology, arts, entertainment, music and sports.

 
This feature is also similar to Circle in Google + that allows users to follow the person or any particular page in particular. Reported by Digital Trends, Friday (03/09/2012), Facebook users can create their own lists and other Facebook users can follow to subscribe.

Facebook's new features focus on Merchants

We must have been quite familiar with the features of Facebook Pages. This feature is often used by people who want to promote their products directly on Facebook. This method make the interaction between sellers and buyers easier. That's what Facebook Pages role as a tools to increase our sales and grow our business.

Therefore, Facebook try to maximize their Facebook Pages through new features. The new features were announced by Facebook COO (Chief Operating Officer), Sheryl Sandberg in the FMC (Facebook Marketing Conference) event.

The Reason why Facebook need to buy Nokia & Yahoo

Facebook was rumored would be increasingly aggressive in implementing its business strategy after the IPO. Facebook not only acquired small company, but the giant company like Nokia and Yahoo also believed will be their next acquisition target.

Here are some reasons why the site made by Mark Zuckerberg need to buy Nokia and Yahoo:

Reasons to buy Nokia

1. Preparation to challenge Apple and Google who have committed to combine the hardware and software solutions in mobile phone.

What happen to Social Media every 60 seconds?

Social media is something familiar to us today, but sometimes we had to think where the social media coming from. In simple way, we can say that social media can become an instrument of social communication. In this term, social media will be a website that not only provide information, but also interact with us when we provide that information. These interactions such as comments, like, share, or to recommend the info to our friends.

On the other hand, social media is a facility that gives us the ability to communicate well. This interaction occurs in social media such as Pinterest, Foursquare, Flickr, Tagged, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.