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Facebook has 500 million users It’s official

There are now half a billion people actively using the social networking site Facebook. With the world population currently more than 6.8 billion, 500 million people using Facebook is a significant achievement for a site that didn’t exist six years ago. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it “an important milestone” for the people who have helped spread Facebook around the world. “Our mission at Facebook is to help make the world more open and connected. Stories like these are examples of that mission and are both humbling and inspiring. I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago,” stated Zuckerberg. To celebrate the achievement, Facebook has launched a new application called Facebook Stories, where users can describe the impact the site has … Read entire article »

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Blog Writing an Alternate Voice of Pakistan

The blogging culture in Pakistan has come a long way. Beginning with less than a dozen blogs with very limited audience and influence, it has effectively exploded in the past two years, when people began to learn how to maintain blogs run them, and how to generate revenues out of them. Since then, things have picked up pace quite rapidly and credit for this goes to multinational companies who grasped the potential in blogging. Thus, we began to hear of terms like bloggers’ meetups, seminars, workshops and competitions on blogging. The youth also took up this new technology enthusiastically not just as a vent to express themselves, but to earn some extra bucks as well. The blogsphere, like other broadcast media, eventually brought fame to a number of faces and voices: people, … Read entire article »

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Facebook tops list of office time Wasters

Before it office time waster king was the MSN, Yahoo Messengers but over the years web applications have been developed that diverted the Internet traffic from these messengers. These days, Twitter, online video games and popular video search engine Youtube are among the top office time wasters, noted Daily Times. But even the bosses know that blocking these web sites would create frustration among the employees as they get a chance to refresh themselves just by checking their account on Facebook for a few minutes. You may consider blocking Facebook, if you are boss and if you feel like a lot of amusement going around with less work in your office. Interestingly, the people contacted for comments, wished not to be named as it could affect the repute of their organizations and they would be … Read entire article »

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Symmetry Announces Digital Marketing Competition for Students

Growing internet users in Pakistan, emergence and then dominance of social networks in our daily life coupled with development of local content has unleashed the opportunity for businesses to market their products over cyberspace. However, it is largely felt that the essence of Digital Media is still unknown to many, particularly at grass root level. We have seen over the time that conventional wisdom of old media was unable to cater the techniques and approaches of new media. For the purpose, Symmetry – a digital media firm from Karachi, has taken this initiative to spread digital media awareness at university level through a competition called “Digital Minds”. Symmetry says that this competition will not only help develop a digital mindset but will also provide the youth with a firsthand experience of the dynamic … Read entire article »

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Wi-tribe Launches Social Media Bar for Easy Browsing

Wi-tribe today launched its social media bar, probably the best available tool bar for internet browsers to ease users’ experience for exploring their favorite websites. wi-tribe Social Media bar offers one click browsing to all major social and bookmarking websites, along with, it offers search results, weather updates, email alerts and that is not it – with wi-tribe social media bar you can add virtually any application through app marketplace. Click here to download: http://witribetoolbar.ourtoolbar.com/ … Read entire article »

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