Facebook,world's most popular social networking website has turned 5 years old today.Facebook IPO by mid 2011.
Facebook,arguably the biggest(Myspace days are fading out) Social networking website in the world has turned 5 years old today.Exactly 5 years ago,Mark Zuckerberg,a Harvard dropout bagged a domain "TheFacebook.com" and launched his self built social network.Rest of the story is history today.
Following Google,Facebook is certainly the next big internet company that came out of nothing and now raising unrealistic(remember $15 Bn valuation ?) expectations in the tech industry.Facebook has been steadily growing since its launch and has now crosssed a figure of 150m users worldwide.
It is now being speculated that the older social networking giant(Myspace) is slowly lagging behind Facebook,specially when only U.S. audiences are taken into consideration.
During the past five years,Facebook hardly remained out of buzz and kept making news for one reason or the other.From 'Beacon controversy' to 'Facebook Connect'(from 'bad' to 'good'),from Microsoft's partnership(on a skyrocked valuation) to the much popular rumors of Facebook's IPO,every such thing regarding Facebook hit Digg's homepage on a regular basis.
So,what's up with Facebook's IPO ?04
Facebook,world's most popular social networking website has turned 5 years old today.Facebook IPO by mid 2011.
Facebook,arguably the biggest(Myspace days are fading out) Social networking website in the world has turned 5 years old today.Exactly 5 years ago,Mark Zuckerberg,a Harvard dropout bagged a domain "TheFacebook.com" and launched his self built social network.Rest of the story is history today.
Following Google,Facebook is certainly the next big internet company that came out of nothing and now raising unrealistic(remember $15 Bn valuation ?) expectations in the tech industry.Facebook has been steadily growing since its launch and has now crosssed a figure of 150m users worldwide.
It is now being speculated that the older social networking giant(Myspace) is slowly lagging behind Facebook,specially when only U.S. audiences are taken into consideration.
During the past five years,Facebook hardly remained out of buzz and kept making news for one reason or the other.From 'Beacon controversy' to 'Facebook Connect'(from 'bad' to 'good'),from Microsoft's partnership(on a skyrocked valuation) to the much popular rumors of Facebook's IPO,every such thing regarding Facebook hit Digg's homepage on a regular basis.
So,what's up with Facebook's IPO ?
Google earth latest version 5 has been officially released with new features such as Google Ocean,historic imagery and more real-time data.
Here comes the next version of Google Earth(version 5.0) which takes your imagination to another level.With what 
An incident took place with Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington. Find the complete details below.
Michael Arrington
140it lets you shorten your tweets if they are exceeding the 140 character limit in twitter.
There's a newly launched service called 140it(for a change,this time the twitter app isn't "tw........."),that lets you shorten your tweets if they are exceeding the 140 character limit in twitter.They use the usual style of shortening the text,which is commonly used by us while sending an SMS or even a tweet.
For instance,we shorten 'are' with 'r' or 'management' with 'mgmnt' and now the same task can be done with this twitter based app.You just need to "drag 'n' drop" it in your browser toolbar and you're done.If your tweet contains a web link then it will automatically convert it using bit.ly.It also replaces company names for their StockTwits symbols.
TweetShrink and Twonvert are the two apps that have been providing this very same service for a while now but they force you to go to their homepage.140it,on the contrary never lets you come back
Cha-cha is a free mobile answering service which is powered by a QA service. The complete details of it are given below.
It has just raised Series C round of $30 million
In this article we will tell you about faayda indian job search engine. Faayda crawls hundreds of job portals and adds all the jobs listed to its database.
In these troubled days of recession,one online sector that's happily taking the cake away is "Job Portals".Layoffs,shutdowns and every such mishap creates more unemployment which inturn makes people search out for jobs.And the easiest way out is to browse through every Job portal one can possibly find.
Hence,one website that might prove to be a 'utility' these days is "Faayda".It's an Indian Job search engine,that crawls various popular job portals and lists out jobs from all such websites.
Faayda crawls hundreds of job portals as well as career pages and adds all the jobs listed to its database.It then makes it easy for job seekers to find all the jobs listed at different job portals,at one place.
A survey by ON24 projects that there's an expected decline of nearly 40-60% in the year 2009 in physical events
According to a survey by ON24,a San Francisco based virtual events company,Physical events are loosing out against Virtual events.It compiled the results on the basis of responses from its 270 customers (including PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM).
The survey also projects that there's an expected decline of nearly 40-60% in the year 2009 in physical events.Reasons are quite obvious.When companies are drying up with funds and laying off employees in massive numbers,they will try their best to save out of every lavish spending they had been doing earlier.
Big & glossy physical events such as Trade shows and conventions require some heavy investments and in such an economic downturn,enterprises are now relying more on the nearest alternative to physical events,Virtual events.
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