RIP Orkut Google shutting down Orkut social network

Google is shutting down Orkut, here’s how to safely export your data

Orkut launched 10 years ago and was part of Google’s “20 percent project,” which allowed employes to dedicate a fifth of their time towards working on a side project of their choosing. Google will preserve all of the Orkut communities in archive form. The archive will go live September 30th, as well. Google says if you don’t want your name and posts included in this archive, you can remove Orkut integration from your Google account.

Google+ will have 400 mn users by the end of 2012, predicts a Google statistician

 An unofficial Google statistician, Paul Allen, has predicted that Google+ will cross 400 million user base by the end of 2012. The social network already has 62 million users and adds 6,25,000 new users on a daily basis. “It may be the holidays, the TV commercials, the Android 4 signups, celebrity and brand appeal or a combination of all these factors but there is no question that the number of new users signing up for Google+ each day has accelerated markedly in the past several weeks” wrote Paul Allen in his report.

Facebook Is Tracking Your Every Move on the Web; Here’s How to Stop It

Over the weekend, Dave Winer wrote an article at Scripting.com explaining how Facebook keeps track of where you are on the web after logging in without your consent. Nik Cubrilovic dug a little deeper, and discovered that Facebook can still track where you are, even if you log out. Facebook, for its part, has denied the claims. Regardless of who you believe, here's how to protect yourself, and keep your browsing history to yourself.

Get Facebook's New Timeline Right Now

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday announced a complete reconceptualization of profile pages on the popular social network with the introduction of Timeline. As Zuckerberg puts it, Timeline is the story of your life.

Hide Your Email Address from Third Party Facebook Apps

Many Facebook Apps (like Farmville) need permission to send you email before you use them, but many of you might not want to share your email for privacy reasons. If you'd like to keep your email private, you can actually have Facebook create a temporary forwarding email just for apps.

Google+Facebook extension adds Facebook right into Google+

A new extension Google+Facebook adds your Facebook newsfeed right into Google+. As you can see in the screenshot above, a Facebook icon is placed right next to the home icon at the top of the page. While it doesn’t give you all the functionality of Facebook, it’s a nice tool to have to update your status and check out the latest news from your friends that haven’t moved to Google+.

Facebook unveils prettier interface, group chat and Skype video calling

Facebook’s boss Mark Zuckerberg appeared today before the crowd of journalists summoned at the company’s Palo Alto headquarters to reveal new Facebook features designed to tackle the Google+ threat. He began by saying that the industry is quickly approaching an inflexion point where focus will be on apps rather than the number of registered users. Facebook has over 750 million users, he said. Facebook is hoping to zoom past the one billion mark in the near future, he said, predicting that the social networking industry at large will soon measure its user base in billions.

Export Facebook Friends Phone Numbers, Email Address

Export Facebook Friends Phone Numbers, Email Address and Import to Gmail Contacts

You can easily export all your Facebook friends Names, Phone numbers, Websites, Email addresses to a CSV file or directly import them into your Gmail contacts. Merge Facebook friends email address into Gmail contacts. All this can be done using Facebook Friend Exporter extension for chrome.

Social networking made easy

A Poken device that is used as a social business card.

Poken accommodates growing contact details of people

You attend an international conference, network with people from different places, and return home, your pocket full of business cards.

Facebook launch e-mail service

Get your Facebook email id now!

Facebook's e-mail service will be integrated with Microsoft’s recently introduced Office online services, say reports.

Facebook is set to announce a new e-mail feature on Monday that could challenge Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail as the most popular online e-mail services, according to news reports on Friday.
The service by the popular social networking company will for the first time allow the site’s 500 million members to use “@facebook.com” addresses and will also be integrated with Microsoft’s recently introduced Office online services.

How to Permanently Delete a Facebook Account

Facebook makes it pretty easy to deactivate your account which will temporarily hide your information. However, if you want to permanently remove your information, the "permanent delete" option is much harder to find. This article will cover two easy ways to erase your Facebook account so you can Quit Facebook forever.

Steps

Before You Start

1. Remove Facebook Connect logins. Many sites, like Digg.com and Meetup.com, allow signup and login using Facebook Connect -- List of Facebook Connect sites (may not be complete or current.) If you have accounts on such sites, go to each of them, and

• Make sure you have a way to login that does not involve Facebook Connect (you will most likely have to create a username and password on the site if you haven't already.)
• Logout of the account, then log back in using the alternate method (not using Facebook Connect), ensuring that you will be able to access the account after your Facebook account is deleted.

2. Remove all Linked Accounts so that you won't accidentally login to Facebook.

How to Deactivate a Facebook Account

Are you ready to Quit Facebook, but are too chicken to permanently remove your Facebook account? Well "deactivation" allows you to hide all your Facebook information as if you had quit the site, but you will still be able to turn your account back on with all your friends and information if you wish.

Steps

 Log into Facebook. Go to "Account" in the upper right corner. Then click "Account Settings". Scroll down the page to "Deactivate account". Click on the live link.