Sync Facebook photos with Apple's Address Book

Back in days - OK, 2007 - there was a po 'of OS X spiffy Facebook app called Sync that pulled down your friends' contact info and added to the Address Book on your Mac This was particularly brilliant, if you are used iChat, screen names because it would be imported so you can chat with most of your friends before there was a Facebook Facebook Chat. Facebook Sync but it proved to be too good to be true when Facebook decided that their terms of service violation. Address Book Sync partially fills the void, allowing you to add your bulk-FB contacts to Address Book - less contact information.

What is good if you can not synchronize screennames and email addresses? Well, you can still synchronize photos and birthdays, and at least you have a Facebook phone book entry for each contact. Also, if you have the photos you have in your Address Book to one of your friends, you can uncheck a box to have Address Book Sync leave alone. If your phone can sync contacts with Address Book, this is also a quick way to get pictures of people displayed when calling. Address Book Sync works brilliantly and does not violate the terms of service. Now if I could understand only one way to add contact information for all these new entries ...

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Facebook, CNN and Obama: The Reunion

What we hoped of the two marks will be more successful mixture of traditional and the social mass media, the Cnn and Facebook are regulated by one second film in view of the success of their association in the effluents of the tension during the presidential inauguration.

At night of Tuesday, the direction of the Congress will be president Obama live streaming of the Cnn, in direct accompanied by updates of Facebook: the direction of Obama discussing with its friendly or to observe all the updates provided by the spectators of Facebook. The users of Facebook picture RSVP for the event here.

This new tendency of Facebook, with continuous flow live through Facebook Facebook to connect itself, is to attack an express: the time of the writing, clips of the candidates can be seen the Oscar with Facebook to chatear (although apparently not the flow of the tension) on the site of Jaman videos.
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Watch The Oscars with Your Facebook Friends

It began with the inauguration of Obama and continued with live char it on the games with famous players of the NBA, but the constant flow of chat live with Live Facebook is an increasing tendency.
During the morning prizes at night, the high Jaman place of video and the cinema will be a Jaman will offer a live stream with Facebook chat: You can live comment on the event just by your friendly, or absolutely. And, by all means, its commentary has been published like an update of Facebook state, thanks to Facebook that is connected.
It is hour to float in the passive consumption of mass media and hello to live interactive the DC?

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Facebook Values Itself at $3.7 Billion (Or Less)

When Microsoft bought a participation of the 1.6 percent in the back part of Facebook in October of 2007, it paid 240 million dollars EE.UU for the preferred stocks, that have done that the company is considered in approximately 15 billions of dollars. A great debate on if Facebook has exploded was really much that it is worth the pain, or 15 million is not a realistic number.

It is that it is, in Facebook is considered in around 3.7 million dollars EE.UU. We know this because Associated Press could remember some details of the transcription of a hearing maintained in June in a legal agreement between ConnectU and Facebook.

Since the AP has done that is interesting in itself, which they have copied and beaten black-of the document in another document. It would surprise to me, but in Mashable once we were also able here to recover information of a similar way, due to the sloppy conversion of a Joost-related Powerpoint presentation to a PDF document.

It is difficult to think that the things happen this way in the subjects of the one of many million dollars, but, obvious, to do. The most interesting point the information of the AP is able to draw its own evaluation of the relative value of Facebook: $ 8.88 by piece, which gives to the company a value of market of around $ 3.7 billions. Facebook This puts in a very uncomfortable situation for several reasons.

First of all, never it is good when the value of its company is perceived like suddenly that the first 4-5 times less. Secondly, although it shares the May preference (but that is debatable and depends on the nature of the action) ordinarier merit, I doubt that Microsoft is pleased in realizing of which pays more serious of its participation in Facebook. And thirdly, the fact that the economic situation is getting worse constantly from June of 2008 it is not to help all the subjects and it would be possible to be said that Facebook is probably much value - from its own samples - that mentioned 3.7 million. That is the danger of an excess of overhyped and, if they appear with tests otherwise, it is possible that soon they discover that they sink much smaller del than it had realistic.


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Stats: Facebook Nearly 20 Percent Bigger Than MySpace in US

Services of the different numbers of pursuit show different when it is the measurement of the social network that is more popular, but at least now has a Facebook, with a remarkable advantage in the United States. They face the competition has updated his data for the month of January and the service now Facebook shows to the 10 million new visitors every complete month of MySpace.

Facebook with the rest of agriculture 14.9% of December to January, the place now reachs 68,5 million people every month, against 58.5 million MySpace. Allocation of competition is the unique service that follows the Deuna exhibition this disparity, although the difference is the limitation of other services of pursuit also. The numbers at the end of the year in the line of Nielsen to put the national traffic of Facebook within the 3 million MySpace, comScore, whereas MySpace still has a remarkable advantage, but tightening.

Meanwhile, the development of Twitter has continued accelerating itself in January. The tool of microblogging has grown 34.7% of the previous month and 812.7% with respect to the year enormous. Still he is very small in comparison with both leaders, nevertheless, arriving at a total of 5.9 million people in January. By all means, that not all the people who connect themselves solely to Twitter with a third party approx Therefore, that is like beginning the year in the social space of the network. What is what we hoped that these final numbers in the 2009? It takes his better estimation, in the commentaries.


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Facebook Overtake Myspace Use The American Social Network

The numbers at the end of the year to Comscore for the public in the United States are outside. First that I see? As the majority of the social networks is doing.

Facebook, that has become the greater social network anywhere in the world in the middle of 2008, still is playing to take in MySpace in the United States. They have 54.5 million monthly unique visitors, according to comScore, in comparison with almost 76 million MySpace. Nevertheless, the rate of growth of Facebook in the United States has been, in average, 3.8% per month during last the twelve months. The rate of growth of MySpace is 0.8% per month. That is nothing than to be shamed, but unless the things change much, Facebook MySpace will surpass to become the greater social network in the United States… in 2010.

For the present rate of growth Facebook MySpace in January of 2010, a year as of today will surpass. That it is the month Facebook will reach 86 million users in the United States, in comparison with 84 million MySpace in January. This prediction is correct? Probably no, but the best estimation of the today data.

It is possible to be gotten to take more time. The rate of growth of Facebook is growing whereas the year has raised, but has dived in December. While near MySpace it can more be more and more difficult to take.

In addition, even if Facebook is now more than 2/3 as large as MySpace in the EE.UU., one to main metric of connection the exhibition more activities for a user of MySpace. MySpace almost has the double of the spent total time (17.5 million against 9.3 million minutes minutes). MySpace generates 40 million pages seen in December 18 billions in Facebook. More data of other social networks are in the table. Ning, from a small one, leads the global rate of increase, to 388% for the year and monthly 14.1%. Also in the class it is growing quickly in the EE.UU and there was 16.6 million monthly unique visitors in December.

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Mobile Payments Getting Traction On Social Networks, But Fees Are Sky High

The users are more and more the election of the payments by movable telephone simple removal of SMS for the micro-operations in the social sites of the applications and the games of network (to fill the emptiness in the hope that the options are more direct), but the transaction tariffs are super high limit development.

The problem is that the mass of transactions - specifically the deceit that give to the users a call tone " gratis" with small letter that is mentioned a monthly position of U.S. $ 20 - they have brought as much money in cash to the carriers who have taken customary 50% or more of the total of the payment of taxes. Reason why the market the transactions are included were legal, those rates must fall dramatically. So that this happens, the social networks need to obtain directly involved in the negotiations of carrier.

Two companies, both have lodging in Europe, they are already indicating that the payments like an objective for movable applications - Mobillcash (the United Kingdom) and Zong (Switzerland).

When you buy rifle of hunting in virtual Mobwars, for example (and she sells a pile to me of them, until a maximum of $ 1 million per month) you must pay the money in cash. You can choose to pay by a series of services (Facebook does not offer a direct payment, nevertheless), including Mobillcash or Zong. If Zong chooses, please díganos its telephone number in the site, to obtain a text message with a code of four digits, fits the code in the ready site and. It is the sensation of much more easy to load a transaction that takes place outside a line of Amazon-that it takes.
What Happens If Carriers Ignore the Opportunity

Chances are the carriers won’t lower their exorbitant payment fees anytime soon. What I’m guessing will happen is that services like Zong and MobillCash, as they add valuable users who like to pay via SMS, will simply offer to move those users to credit card payments. Users still pay by just entering in their phone number and then typing in a 4 digit code they receive via SMS, but the charge would go to their credit card instead of their phone. The difference in fees is so large that customers can be offered a very large incentive to simply store their credit card and use that instead of having the charge go to their phone bill. And checking out is still much, much simpler than typing in your name, address and credit card details.

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