Facebook is soon launching a live stream plugin for all its application, which includes the new as well as the old applications. The Live Stream Plugin allows visitors or application on your site to share the activity and comment in real time. It is most beneficial while live streaming video for concerts, webcasts, speeches, webinars, live web chats or multiplayer games, basically it is helps in running a real time efficiently.

This new plugin allows the post to be seen by the other people in real-time while viewing the Live Stream. “We’re adding the option for users to not share their comments on Facebook. We also now support multiple Live Streams on one website by specifying a via URL, which will link status updates to their respective pages”. Said Namita Gupta, product manager for Platform, in her blog.

Twitter users were yet again attacked by a worm yesterday. The worm posted sexual messages on the user’s account and profiles.  Tweets came with the messages like WTF and generated a link, when the link was clicked it generated a post with a pornographic message.  It is expected that this attack will be less widespread than the last week’s on mouse worm attack that was claimed to be set accidentally by a 17 year Australian boy.

The latest attack is said to have setup an attack page that exploited CSRF (cross-site request forgery) vulnerability.

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Today is going to be a big day for twitter, as it unveils the “promoted Account” in New York at an IAB conference. With their newest release they plan to help the corporation and the major brands to increase their twitter following and give additional visibility. The twitter will suggest its clients. This is not a free service and the business will have to pay to be included in “who to follow” feature.

Looks like face book is on a launch spree after launching gaming application, facebook has yet again launched a new feature- the Facebook page browser.

“If we could create a fun way to browse movies, TV shows and musicians, it would help people more easily express shared interests and keep updated about those interests,” source Facebook blog.”

This new feature will enable people with varied interests to browse and get the desired results on one page. The browser will show the popular pages and the iconic figures in the resident country of the user. It lets you search for the pages of your interest like movies, fashion, politics; favorite shows etc. Facebook has kept the design of the new browser very handy, so that the users do not have any problems using it, if you want to receive the updates in your news feed all you need to do is to roll over the page and click it. You can hide the updates in case you do not need them.

Alexa is quite a useful website to know the traffic rankings of a particular website in its country as well as within the world. Besides the traffic stats, audience demographics and the percentage of site visits from search engines is also evaluated by Alexa.

The stats discussed in the article are related to Indiacube.com

“Indiacube.com has launched a property portal for Gurgaon providing a unique platform where the buyers and sellers can crack deals online without the intervention of property dealers. Unlike the other property portals such as 99acres, magicbricks, propertywala etc. having listings posted by the dealers, Indiacube.com has all the postings directly from the property owners with complete and correct details.”

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Twitter’s business development executive Ross Hoffman has confirmed the reports of the launch of a real-time analytics dashboard. The dashboard is expected to release in the last quarter of this year, announced Hoffmann in a Sport Marketing Summit. It will be available for free and will help its users to understand the way others interact with their tweets.

This is likely to start as a beta release with a phased roll out, just like their previous release of ads and the new UI.

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Facebook outage made the site inaccessible for many a user for almost 2.5 hours again. Many a users were curious to know what went wrong.  Face book’s Software Engineer Director Robert Johnson labels it as the “the worst outage we’ve had in over four years.”

He further gave the technical details behind the problem that occurred. Apparently this outage was different from the one caused by the third party network provider for some users on Wednesday. This recent downtime was caused by “an unfortunate handling of an error condition”. An automated system for verifying configuration ended up in damaging the system rather than fixing it.

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Google New, the newest addition to the Google family & now this is something you would like the most. Looks like Google wants to move on from its search engine image to something bigger therefore, it has been quiet active lately in introducing the newbie’s. Google has been informing its users about its new products through various blogs on the popular sites, but still at times it skips from the users who are technology freaks or someone who likes to keep the tab on the latest inventions and additions. Sometimes they could be the ones that could prove to be most beneficial for you or be of interest. Keeping this in mind Google has launched “Google New”, it can be described as simple dashboard where one can exactly find all new inventions from Google’s laboratory, coupled with 100 plus blogs, eight different areas of interest and search ability through the key products of Google.

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When search giant Google decided to break into the $800 million display advertising market, it has to be big and better. Google has decided to use the most sought out spot for advertising, The Times Square for this space advertising campaign. This is Google’s first major ad campaign, after its declaration of moving on to advertising almost nine months ago. This can be seen as the campaign to push its products to the marketers, media buyers.

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