NearbySocial is new Facebook download application via one can track other people using facebook nearby him or her and here 'nearby' means geographical proximity for e.g. in cafeteria, in college library or in office premise. Its actually a software application that uses the ubiquitous Wi-Fi signal and show profiles of interesting nearby Facebook users, apparently in real time. Once you keep Nearby Social running all day and it will also allow you a summary view on people seen in the Nearby Social Facebook Application. In its own term the application can be described as - "bridging online social network plethora with presence to create serendipitous face-to-face encounters". By using the NearbySocial app one can see and get notified of near by Facebook users, get their current location and chat with emoticons. The downloadable app provide full support to Windows XP and Vista clients and moreover also anticipating different smart-phones porting to platforms like iPhone and Windows Mobile. View more presentations from shellylennon.

Facebook seems to eying Indian social networking arena as the company which is second largest Social networking site in India launched in 5 Indian regional languages - Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Punjabi as Hindi is already available in facebook, making total of 6 Indian languages for Indian online audience. Facebook has got substantial growth in user base in India in short span of time infact largest gaining social network in India in terms of user base in year 2008. The all 6 languages availability would also give boost to facebook apps in these languages and also target more rural audience in India.

Zimblee, an Indian Startup from Pune has launched as a tool to create an online ad and promote company or even blog, social networking page, or favorite charitable cause within a social network like Facebook. Zimblee is a web-based self-service ad creator platform and apparently world’s first truly custom online ad creator tool designed for advertisers, agencies, and small business owners. Zimblee has intuitive interface, point and click, drag and drop customization tools enable first-time users as well as experienced marketers to create professional, effective and fully customized display ads for the internet efficiently and affordably. Users can upload logos and images of their choice through built in library. Moreover, the tool has patent pending platform that allows a user to not only create a display ad, but also promote their company, blog, favorite charitable cause, or personal page within a social network. The ability to launch a Zimblee custom ad to a social network provides the marketer with an new medium for advertising. The Zimblee application for social networks is a first of its kind in online advertising. Zimblee is a Yureekah Inc. Company founded by Vishal Sharma and Devaraj Southworth, serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds in media and consulting. The Company recently secured a round of ...

There is hot news among Indian youth at time when Valentine's Day is just few days short and its the online campaign that some Indian young women have started over Facebook and their blog named Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women. What they trying to propagate through this?.. well, see the Facebook group brief - Join Us on February 14, Valentine's Day, the day in which Indian women's virginity and honour will self-destruct unless they marry or tie a rakhi. Walk to the nearest pub and buy a drink. Raise a toast to the Sri Ram Sena. The ladies (Isha, Ratna, Nisha & Karishma) wants and appealing to public to send Pink Chaddi (underwears) to Indian extremist called themselve as "Shri Ram Sena" responsible for inhuman act in Mangalore city and ladies' blog also display their office address to help public to send the gifts at right place. The Facebook Group has managed to get around 22,000 member at time writing this post and over 1200 of comment on just 4 posts of their blog. This is an absurd case of action/reaction though the way these ladies have chosen is non-violent and is one of their own way to react, but my question ...

Corners.in that we have wrote about its launch in February this year, has now launched its social platform aka Engine to infuse apps in major social networking portal namely Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Hi5. The website Corners launched earlier in February with features to act like social networking website, customize content in users profile called 'corners'. The website has now built a social platform to provide content in form of applications to social networking portals having open social platforms. In anticipation of this social engine the website has launched a Facebook App called - Cinemas, where user can get movies related content in their Facebook profiles. Though, we have pointed out in our previous post about Corners.in, that the website is more about movies, photos of Indian Cinema rather than other traits of social networking sites, this has been maintained in App for Facebook too. Interestingly, the plans of company that I perceived through email received from Sanjeev, Founder of Melamesa, the makers of Corners.in, he wrote - Social networking now has two dimensions to it - The social infrastructure on one side, and the content on the other. The biggest social networks today - Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, hi5, have identified this dichotomy and have ...

Facebook, world's most popular social networking site has been under scanner as BBC has reported security flaws that could seriously harm the website users having profiles in it and the weak link through which it could be done is facebook's own asset which made it popular - "Facebook Apps" and number of third party applications residing in it. BBC has made a data mining application - 'Miner' and add it to facebook application to poke into facebook security fences and finally, steal the personal data, indentity of fictious profile (made by BBC team itself) on facebook and accomplish the task of exposing facebook flaw. The reason behind all this is - facebook allows application to run on third party servers which made facebook and apps opaque to each other when it comes to that, what these application are doing with these facebook profiles data. BBC team on other side reported that just launched MySpace Apps are dissimilar to facebook as they won't able create similar threat to MySpace system as that created for facebook. As Mysapce treats its applications differently by putting all apps on its own server, so it can see what they are upto with user data and manually ...