5 best Facebook apps (These apps help you make your networking experience less cumbersome and more fun!)

SCRABBLE
If you want your kids to learn as they network, or
sharpen your own word skills, Scrabble is the game
for you. Originally created as Scrabulous, the app
was pulled off due to a copyright infringement
case and the app later surfaced as Lexulous, which
was also pulled off . As a result of the impending
copyright issues two versions of the game exist; the
SCRABBLE Worldwide (excluding U.S. and Canada)
and the Scrabble Beta by EA (for players from U.S. and
Canada). Play on and beat your friends in this witty
game of words.

BLOOM
If
you have tried uploading multiple pictures on
Facebook with a poor bandwidth, then you know how
frustrating it can be to upload fi ve pictures at a time.
Instead you can use the Bloom photo uploader tool
that enables you to upload your photos and videos
with ease from your desktop to Facebook. You can
even download saved albums and view your friends’
photos without too much of a hassle. The versions are
upgraded periodically to stay in sync with Facebook’s
privacy policies, so that you are not inconvenienced.
download a free version of the tool, visit www.
antaki.ca/bloom. The app is compatible with
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. If you still
can’t get the app to work, you can use the Java Web
Start link from its Facebook page

DOCS
Microsoft Offi ce 2010 and Facebook have come together to come up with a
personalised partner site called Docs for Facebook, which enables you to create
and collaborate on Word, Excel and PowerPoint all online. Moreover, it gives
you a standard set of tools in the Offi ce 2007 ribbon style layout to use the
application better. For details, visit http://docs.com.

TWITTER INTEGRATION
If you have been using Facebook and Twitter in tandem for promoting your
business or venture extensively, or are a social media manager, and need to
ensure that a status on one medium simultaneously updates on the other
as well, you can use the Twitter integration app on Facebook. However, if
you have a diff erent set of friends on both platforms, or need only certain
relevant tweets to appear as your Facebook status message, you can opt for
the selective tweets app. Only tweets suffi xed with a #fb hash-tag will be
displayed on your Facebook profi le. You can customise the app to in a way that
it picks the #fb hash-tag anywhere in your tweets. You can also specify custom
words for the app to recognize as tweets for Facebook.

UNO
If you have ever had trouble fi guring out what exactly
to do with a deck of cards, UNO is a good game to
start with. And if you have enjoyed a lot of fun family
times with the game, and the family now lies scattered
around the world, you can head over to Facebook to
play the game all over again. Using the UNO app, you
can wait in the lobby for your friends to join or you can
you can start a fresh game of UNO, and be assured, no
one can cheat!

USE OF INTERNET...............

Today, people  use the Internet for a plethora of reasons;
shopping, chatting,
learning, earning,
job hunting,
marketing, and
even socializing                       Ever since the IT boom of the 1990s, the
Internet has been revered as a source
of information beyond geographical
boundaries. With the dot-com bubble in the
late 90s and more recently with the social
networking phenomenon, we’re beginning to
tap into more and more of the potential of the
Web medium.
Today, people use the Internet for a plethora
of reasons; shopping, chatting, learning, earning,
job hunting, marketing, and even socializing.
However, the most fascinating fact is that most
people do all of this from a single platform.
When Classmates.com and later Friendster
fi rst surfaced, they were limited to the student
fraternity, that too from select schools. A
decade later, it is not just limited to socializing,
but has also emerged as a strong career and
business propagation option as well. A report
from Experian reveals that the medium has fast
grown into an integral part of online business.
Forecasts estimate that $4.3 billion will be spent
advertising through social networks in 2011, a
29% increase from this year.
A look at the users of social networking
websites reveals that India is the seventh largest
market for these websites, behind only the US,
China, Germany, Russia, Brazil and the UK. The
Experian fi nding further states that the average
session time for a user visiting Facebook is 21
minutes and 39 seconds. A survey by TNS Global
of 50,000 Internet users spanning across 46
countries shows that the developing countries
contribute the most to the social networking
phenomenon.
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FB cancels phone number sharing

Narrowly avoiding yet another uproar over sharing users' private information with third parties, Facebook
has decided to temporarily
roll back a feature that would grant application developers
access to its users' phone numbers and physical
addresses. The capability will be reintroduced when a more
transparent system for opting out can be implemented. Apps
which use this information will be able to target users
and send notifi cations directly to their phones,
possibly including unsolicited advertisements.

Hackers circumvent industrystandard image signatures

Photos taken with
professional Canon cameras
can be embedded with an
ODD signature (Original
Decision Data). This is
designed to ensure that the
photo cannot be altered or
retouched without being
detected. However Dmitry Sklyarov, a safety expert from
ElcomSoft, has now showed how he can forge this signature,
at the CONFidence 2.0 hacker trade fair. The expert read
out and analyzed the fi rmware of his Canon EOS 30D using
a self-built adapter. He then reverse-engineered the secret
encryption code and was thus able to forge ODD signatures
and deceive the offi cial Canon signature reader, known as
the OSKE3 Security Kit. Canon is aware of this shortcoming
but has not commented on it till now. News agencies and
insurance providers have been using ODD for years in order
to be able to check the authenticity of a photo—such as its
recording time and place. Several controversial photo edits
have made the news in the past few years, embarassing the
responsible agencies and leading to allegations of bias or
manipulation of the news.