Features of Facebook-

Well I'm not aware of all the features of facebook,so here are some intresting facts about it I found it on net...

COURTESY : Wikipedia..!!!!!

Over time, Facebook has added several new features to its website. On September 6, 2006, a News Feed announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's friends.Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfaction among Facebook users; some complained it was too cluttered and full of undesired information, while others were concerned it made it too easy for other people to track down individual activities (such as changes in relationship status, events, and conversations with other users).response to this dissatisfaction, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what types of information are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, including profile changes, Wall posts, and newly added friends.

One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where users can upload albums and photos.Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos, compared with other image hosting servicessuch as Photobucket and Flickr, which apply limits to the number of photos that a user is allowed to upload. In the past, all users were limited to 60 photos per album. However, some users report that they are able to create albums with a new limit of 200 photos. It remains unclear why some members have a 200-photo limit while others do not.Privacy settings can be set for individual albums, limiting the groups of users that can see an album. For example, the privacy of an album can be set so that only the user's friends can see the album, while the privacy of another album can be set so that all Facebook users can see it. Another feature of the Photos applications is the ability to "tag", or label users in a photo. For instance, if a photo contains a user's friend, then the user can tag the friend in the photo. This sends a notification to the friend that they have been tagged, and provides them a link to see the photo.

GIFTS :

Facebook launched Gifts on February 8, 2007, which allows users to send virtual gifts to their friends that appear on the recipient's profile. Gifts cost $1.00 each to purchase, and a personalized message can be attached to each gift.On May 14, 2007, Facebook launched Marketplace, which lets users post free classified ads.Marketplace has been compared to Craigslist by CNET, which points out that the major difference between the two is that listings posted by a user on Marketplace are only seen by users that are in the same network as that user, whereas listings posted on Craigslist can be seen by anyone.

iPhone App

The Facebook iPhone website was launched August 2007 and as of July 2008 over 1.5 million people use it regularly.A free application for the iPhone and iPOd Touch named "Facebook for iPhone" was launched July 2008.Version 2.0 of this app was released in September 2008 and featured improved services such as being able to respond to friend requests and notifications. Version 3.0 was released in August 2009 and added features such as events, and uploading video with a iPhone 3GS.

Blog -
Their is a blog feature that you can use. You can even add photos to your blog. If you use the tag feature in the blog to add someone else's Facebook name, your friend will get this blog entry added to their blog too. If you have a blog on another site you can add that blog to your blog by adding the URL of the blog. Then your blog will show up where your blog goes instead of the Facebook blog.

Video Downloads - There is no video database on Facebook to download photos from.

Video Uploads - You can not upload videos to Facebook.

Are There Graphics and Templates Available? - You can not change the way your profile page looks. You can only add information, join groups, add friends and add photos.

Music - You can not add music to your Facebook profile.

Email Accounts - Send and receive messages with other Facebook members. You can also "Poke" them to let them know you are there or thinking about them.

Finance of Facebook....money money money..!!!!!

Given the situation other social networks the web are facing, Facebook is in a good position financially. While it hasn’t managed to get acquired like its rival MySpace (despite some rumors about an $800m deal with Viacom), it’s been quite lucky in most aspects. For its initial funding, it received $500,000 from Peter Theil, co-founder of PayPal. A few months later, it was also able to get $13 million from Accel Partners, who are also investors in 15 other Web 2.0 startups, and $25 million from Greylock Partners, making their overall venture equal to approximately $40 million.

For users, Facebook’s core service is completely free and ad-supported. In fact, in August 2006 Facebook signed a three year deal with Microsoft to provide and sell ads on their site in return for a revenue split. The deal followed an announcement from Facebook’s direct competitor MySpace who signed a similar deal with Google.The youthful demographic that both the services attract is highly prized amongst advertisers and should return a good amount of revenue for both the services to stay alive – and profit.

On July 17, 2007, Zuckerberg said that selling Facebook was unlikely because he wanted to keep it independent, saying "We're not really looking to sell the company... We're not looking to IPO anytime soon. It's just not the core focus of the company."

In September 2007, Microsoft approached Facebook, proposing an investment in return for a 5% stake in the company, offering an estimated $300–500 million. That month, other companies, including Google, expressed interest in buying a portion of Facebook.

On October 24, 2007 Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.However, Microsoft bought preferred stock that carried special rights, such as "liquidation preferences" that meant Microsoft would get paid before common stockholders if the company is sold. Microsoft's purchase also included rights to place international ads on Facebook.

In November 2007, Hong Kong billionaire Li-ka shing invested $60 million in Facebook.

In August 2008, BusinessWeek reported that private sales by employees, as well as purchases by venture capital firms, had and were being done at share prices that put the company's total valuation at between $3.75 billion and $5 billion.

hmmmmm...so facebook is making money from everywhere.....!!!!!!!!!

facebook-history every1 knows...!!!!

Originally called thefacebook, Facebook was founded by former-Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (while at Harvard) who ran it as one of his hobby projects with some financial help from Eduardo Saverin. Within months, Facebook and its core idea spread across the dorm rooms of Harvard where it was very well received. Soon enough, it was extended to Stanford and Yale where, like Harvard, it was widely endorsed.

Before he knew it, Mark Zuckerberg was joined by two other fellow Harvard-students – Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes – to help him grow the site to the next level. Only months later when it was officially a national student network phenomenon, Zuckerberg and Moskovitz dropped out of Harvard to pursue their dreams and run Facebook full time. In August 2005, thefacebook was officially called Facebook and the domain facebook.com was purchased for a reported $200,000...!!!!!!!!!!!

STATISTICS :
A large number of surveys and studies have been conducted around Facebook – some with interesting results. For instance, according to an internal September 2005 survey, approximately 85% of the students in the supported colleges had a Facebook account, with 60% of them logging in daily.
A survey conducted by Student Monitor revealed Facebook was the most “in” thing after the iPod and tying with beer, and comScore Media Metrix discovered users spend approximately 20 minutes everyday on Facebook.


Since their launch in February 2004, they’ve been able to obtain over 8 million users in the U.S. alone and expand worldwide to 7 other English-speaking countries, with more to follow. A growing phenomenon, let’s discover Facebook.

Facebook-

Facebook-second largest social networking site after myspace in terma of traffic.....but I believe its the no.1 site in terms of users.Well actually I never knew existence of such a great site before i think year or so when read about facebook in one of the leading newspapers.I already had an account on orkut and had an impression that it is the world famous site and everybody in the world uses that only for networking....neway just fo the sake of timepass I made an account on facebook and till today I just go and take some quiz's and log out....but I really liked the features and looks..Its really different and friendly(some only)...I'm still searching for the way to change my first name...!!!..hehehehe...
Actually I thought to write about history and features but if I'll write everything in 1 blog only then you wont visit other blogs....so history and features in the next....till then enjoy passing drinks and punching friends...!!!!!!!!

beginning of the beginning

I am finally writing blog.....i am "happy" coz first time in my life m spending time on internet not chatting n browsing o downloading..

NOTE : all ma blogs wiil b in sms lang. . cnt help it...and m nt sry for it..

So,who inspired me 2 write blogs.....ma outhouse guide,my project and how can i 4gt ma fnds.....fnds who write blogs here....dy al r vry gud blogger's.....m jst d beginner....


Well ma fnd 'sh' startd hs blog n msgd me 2 view n comment on it...dat ws d first tym i visited a blog site in ma life...it ws vry diff feelng altogether cz usually i've nvr gone byond orkut,facebook ,google o sme downloadng site....he tld me he hs posted a blog n wantd me 2 read n comment....frankly speakng i hd no intention f readng....so i switchd on ma pc n startd 2 surf social sites...aft 2 hrs(i think so)wen i ws abt 2 shut ma pc down,d blog thot came 2 ma mind and just for a change i visited hs blog....i went on readng n guess wat,i ws rong...it ws realy intrestng..i msgd hm immediatly congng(congrajulating)and thnknh hm....n dat ws d moment i dcided 2 hv ma own blog wer i cn share ma views,opinions n ma lyf wid rest f d world....

So here i m,wid ma first blog after creatng acc 4 around 4-5 mths.....hehehehe....
Der's 1 thng m vry 'positive' about....il njy bloggng....(evn f i dn,i hv 2)...hehehehe....on a serius note yes i realy njyd...cya soon.(ma mum thnks m chatng wid sme cheek,so hv 2 go)...

-ARPIT SHAH