Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Friday 17 January 2014

facebook rainbow chat generator

This is a rainbow text editor just enter the word u want to enter on the chat box and click on generate and paste the code on the chat box. And its done hope you people enjoy

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Friday 27 December 2013

How to add GIF's to Facebook and Twitter ?

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a moving image of about 3-9 seconds that was  
introduced by CompuServe in 1987. Nowadays its being used widely across the web because they look amazing and sometimes fit the perfect situation. Well the real problem here is social sites like twitter and Facebook do not allow GIF's. But don't worry cause we finally have found a way to share Gif's on Facebook and Twitter !

Facebook has never allowed GIf's the probable reason may be that they don't  want itself  turning into sites like MySpace, which was filled with GIF's and stuff.



You can  post Gif's to Facebook ,Twitter  and Other Social networking sites using Giphy !

Giphy  allows people to post Gif's wherever they want. All you have to do is to copy and paste the URL of the GIF on your Facebook Profile/Page. On Facebook it will appear as a video and you will have to play it, unlike Myspace.

Sunday 15 December 2013

Lil Bub Shows Facebook 'Passion Genome'

We all have unique passions in life. The Passion Genome is an interactive site that lets you explore the most common passion and shared connections on Facebook, much like the human genome project uncovers genetic similarities among people.
Log on to the Passion Genome to create your own portrait and explore the full genome. Facebook has more than 1.2 billion users today, and the average user likes an average of 40 pages, though U.S. Facebook users are more active, liking 70 pages on average. That means there are a lot of likes and connections to explore in the Genome.
passion genome

To demonstrate the site's cool features, we've recruited Lil Bub, whose adorable, tongue-laden portrait is above. A few of her passions include the ASPCA, The Humane Society and The Owlery — her portrait is a mix of her 99 Facebook passions in the social good, food, animal and business categories.
To get your own passion portrait, go to the Passion Genome site, connect your Facebook account and select a photo, and then press "create." The site will craft a portrait that illustrates you and your passions and invite you to explore the Passion Genome.
passion genome people

Within the Passion Genome site, you'll be able to connect with individuals who share your passions. You'll notice a lot of connections, as many of us share the same passions; the Genome uncovers some interesting trends. Some of the most compelling takeaways are:
  • The Simpsons is the most popular TV show in the Genome, with more than 68,492,000 fans
  • Rihanna is the most popular musician, with 80,030,000+ fans, followed by Eminem with 77,330,000+ fans
  • Harry Potter is the most popular movie (66,415,000+ fans), trailed by Avatar with 48,408,000+ fans
  • Texas Hold'em is the most-liked game in the world, with 69,798,000+ likes<.li>
  • Not surprisingly, Facebook is the most popular brand in the world, with 96,345,000+, though many other brands have large, engaged audiences, too

  • Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is the Genome's most popular athlete, with 64,605,00+ likes

  • Walmart is the most-liked page in America, with nearly 32 million likes in the U.S. alone

  • 15% of the Passion Genome is most passionate about local businesses

  • Starbucks is the most popular passion in the food and drink category

  • 1% of the Genome is most passionate about celebrity

  • 1% of the Genome is most passionate about books

  • 16% of the Genome is comprised of business likes

Create your own Passion Portrait and explore the Passion Genome here. If you share your portrait with the hashtag #MyPassionPortrait, you'll be entered for a chance to win a $1,000 Amazon.com gift card. More info here.



passion genome category

Via: Mashable

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Where are teens going instead of Facebook ?

(Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)

Earlier this month Facebook's chief financial officer, David Ebersman confirmed a worrying, but long-suspected trend for the world’s biggest social network: teenagers, perhaps the most important demographic for a modern-day communication tool, were becoming less active on the site.


“We did see a decrease in daily users, partly among younger teens,” Ebersman admitted, referring to usage numbers from the second to third quarters of 2013. Researchers at GlobalWebIndex, a syndicated study on digital consumers in 32 markets, recently confirmed this decline.
Having surveyed teenagers in 30 countries, they revealed that the number of teenagers claiming to be active on Facebook (ie. doing more than just “liking” a separate page on the web) had dropped to 56% in the third quarter of 2013, from 76% in the first.
The biggest decline in active usage (by 52%) was in the Netherlands; there was a 16% fall for American teens.
Where are they going instead? Not surprisingly, it’s mobile chat services like WeChat, and photo-sharing apps like Instagram and Snapchat.
What’s truly startling though, is how quickly global teenagers are taking up the services instead:

A global survey of teenagers shows an eye-popping jump in active users for the mobile messaging app WeChat, Vine and the Flickr mobile app; image via GlobalWebIndex
The latest research from GlobalWebIndex, out Tuesday and with the accompanying graphic above, shows that Chinese messaging platform WeChat has seen the most rapid growth in active users aged between 16 and 19 — by an incredible 1,021% — between the first and second quarters of this year.

The ephemeral photo-sharing app Snapchat is also growing strong; GlobalWebIndex only recently began surveying its use, but have already surmised that 10% of teens globally are using the service, making it bigger than Pinterest, Vine, WeChat, Line and LinkedIn\ among that demographic.The other big wins have been for video sharing app Vine, owned by Twitter, and the mobile app for photo-sharing app Flickr. Active teen users for Vine grew by 639% and for Flickr by 254%, according to research group’s estimates.
“There is a very clear story with the big winners being closed messaging and video-and-photo sharing apps,” said Tom Smith, CEO of GlobalWebIndex. “This is something that could be particularly harmful to Facebook because its core value lies in peer-to-peer community, messaging and photo sharing.”
Even Facebook Messenger is seeing more active usage (an 86% increase), than Facebook itself, where teenage active users fell by 17% in the same period, according to the estimates. Instagram saw an 85% increase in active users and messaging tool WhatsApp saw an 81% growth. Tumblr also saw some growth in active users, but by a relatively-low 30%.
“There is a clear, definitive shift to mobile in general,” said Smith, “underlined by a large rise in Facebook’s mobile app,  [up 69%], so the composition of Facebook is changing.”
The teen trend towards mobile chat apps should have less of an impact on Twitter, Smith added, because Twitter plays a greater role in accessing real-time news, interacting with TV or following celebrities. Even Google + seems to be better insulated than Facebook because it is associated with broader networks and content.
Despite the huge growth in active users of WeChat, most teens in the U.S. and Western Europe still aren’t using it, though anecdotally, it is said to be popular among young people in Chinese communities. The real growth for the service is in China, where WeChat is based, and parts of South East Asia. The messaging app, which claims more than 250 million monthly active users, is owned by the Chinese Internet giant Tencent, which claims 800 million active users for its instant messing service for desktops. WeChat is the English-language version of the company’s original Chinese-language chat app, WeiShin.

“We launched different branding and different back-end servers in other locations,” said Tencent President Martin Lau while on stage at the GMIC mobile conference in San Francisco last month, adding that Tencent was customizing WeChat for local audiences in each country. Lau, who was previously one of the key bankers at Goldman Sachs that helped take Tencent public in 2004, said WeChat was targeting Italy, Mexico and Brazil as key areas for expansion, and that the U.S. was “a tough market.”
“But we do have an office here and a team who are trying to think about how we can do [things] differently in the U.S.,” he added.
How is WeChat capitalizing on its popularity with teenage users? One way is by setting up physical vending machines, selling soft drinks. It’s all part of a broader experiment by Tencent to set up a payment mechanism within WeChat. Tencent partner Ubox  recently set up  300 WeChat vending machines in Beijing’s subway stations where WeChat users could get discounted drinks by paying with their chat app.
“Those are experiments at this point,” said Lau, “but over time as the mobile Internet ties in with people’s lives more closely there will be more opportunities.”
Still, Lau doesn’t see mobile messaging platforms like WeChat canabailizing social networks like Facebook in the same way social networks ate through instant messaging. Mobile messaging through platforms like WhatsApp or KakaoTalk involve communicating with a smaller group of people that end users typically already know in real life; they’re privy to their mobile numbers after all.
“They’re both social, but address two very different user cases,” he said. “They can actually coexist.”

Source:Forbes

Thursday 31 October 2013

Facebook Collects Data on cursor movement

The social network is reportedly experimenting with new technology that tracks and collects data about a user's activity on the site, including cursor movements, according to the Wall Street Journal. The technology is being tested now with a small group of users.
Facebook-cursor-imageThe data could be used in a number of different ways, from product development to advertising, Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin told the Journal.
The technology can supposedly determine where a user is hovering his or her cursor on the screen, meaning it could be used to determine the most appropriate places for advertisements. The technology also tracks whether Facebook's mobile users can see their News Feed at any particular time from their smartphone.

Facebook will reportedly decide "within months" whether or not to continue this data collection and analysis. It could be relevant for targeted advertising where Facebook has already seenquarter-over-quarter growth in 2013.
Facebook is set to reports the company's quarterly earnings Wednesday afternoon.
UPDATE, Oct. 30, 8:55 p.m. ET: Facebook responded to our request for comment with the following statement:
"Like most websites, we run numerous tests at any given time to ensure that we're creating the best experience possible for people on Facebook. These experiments look at aggregate trends of how people interact with the site to inform future product decisions. We do not share this information with anyone outside of Facebook and we are not using this information to target ads."

Image: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/GettyImages
Source: Mashable.com

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