Top 10 Facebook games for Sep 2010

Facebook, The most preferable social networking platform for many users around the world, but its not just limited the friends circle and other activities but for social gaming also. People love to challenge and play games online with friends.

Coming to the Top games on Facebook, you can refer the following list according the monthly active users.

1. Farmville

2. Texab HoldEm Poker

3. Frontier Ville

4. Mafia Wars

5. Cafe world

6. Treasure Isle

7. Petville

8. Mind Jolt games

9. Pet society

10. Bejewelled Blitz

Zynga’s FarmVille still remains at the top of the table, which sees its first growth in the past few months, gaining 2.2 millions monthly active users.

• Apart from FarmVille, the only other one to see positive numbers is FrontierVille, which moves up to #3 with a gain of over 6 million MAU.
• MindJolt continues to hold at its #8 position, but loses 2,250,282 MAU this month.
• Playfish sees minor losses for its long running Pet Society, appearing at #9 with just over 13.5 million MAU.
• Bejeweled crosses over  12.5 million MAU.

Facebook : No.1 Social Networking choice for Indians

India is now the seventh largest social Networking market in the world, almost 85% of the Indian internet population now accessing social networks.

Twitter, which also saw the highest growth rate of any social network in India, but Orkut was ruling since a long time as the most preferable social networking option for the Indian users, when people started switching to Facebook, I don’t think they could get this type of luxury and interactivity on orkut. As a result, Facebook is now the most popular social network in India, according to the comscore figures show that Facebook has grown by 179% in the past year, and boosted 20.9 million visitors in July. while the orkut saw its users increase by 16% since July 2009.

As far I think, Facebook is most obvious choice since it provides a clean and better User Interface, with the suitable options and regular upgrades of new features, since its a choice of 500 million users across the globe, the thing should be far better than the others.

Do comment on what you think as a the number one choice for social networking.

Facebook Adds New Places Products

Facebook, at an event in Palo Alto, CA, introduces a new product in Facebook, called the new places specially for their check-in's. Foursquare and Gowalla are currently famous for this feature. Facebook is partnering with both check-in's companies.

As expected by most of the Facebook users who usually check-in at different locations using either foursquare or gowalla, Facebook took this initiative which allows the users to publish their check-in's on their wall and also tag the places. Using the Facebook's new places API the data will be published on users Facebook Feed. The Pins and badges from application will also be transferred.

Though the Tag feature is expected to launch soon, Facebook API will be available. apart from Foursquare and Gowalla, Yelp and Booyah are also the launch partners for this new API. Booyah is in process of making a new app called InCrowd build on the Places API.

For iPhone users, the feature will be available from version 3.2, if you find the feature unavailable in your app, try re-downloading the app from the app store. you can see your friends who have recently checked in various places. also the check-in's will be sorted by those friends who are nearby and those who are elsewhere. that means your stream will show places check-in's as well. Still, on the touch.facebook.com version of the site the functionality is working and seems much more obvious.

This Social Network's location based platform will definitely attracts many advertisers, who would like to make most of this feature along with the Facebook Page. Facebook quoted

Once you claim your Place, you’ll be able to advertise it just as you advertise your Facebook Page. To advertise your Place, click “I want to advertise something I have on Facebook” in the ad creation flow and choose your Place from the drop-down menu.

These check-in's stories can generate powerful, organic impression in friend's news feeds, extending the brand's reach to new customers, he added.

lets see how 500 million Facebook users take this feature in to action.

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Social networking now costing U.K billions

Social media is becoming a part of our lives, but did any thought about the loss of productivity ? In view of getting an impact of social media, a British Job site MyJobGroup.co.uk had a poll on social media, this includes media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

The poll shows that many small businesses and British companies are at potential loss in productivity, out of 1,000 British workers polled, 6 percent admitted to spending an hour or more of the work day visiting social media sites.

Our results clearly show that UK workers are spending increased time whilst at work on social media networks, which, left unchecked, could have negative repercussions on the productivity of many companies across the country

said Managing Director of Myjobgroup.co.uk Lee Fayer.

What about the Net Impact? as an estimate Britain could lose up to 14 billion pounds, or equivalent to $22.26 US dollars loss.

Using services such as accessing friend feeds, tweets, posting photos and videos, and uploading comments and pictures to social media sites contributes to productivity loss.

Overdoing such things may also lead to severe loss, there should be a social responsibility towards the organization to which they represent.

Before any strict regulation imposed by organization, people should understand this fact and give the priority to their tasks.

Do write your opinion on what do you think about the social responsibility.

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20 Best wordpress Plugins for better blogging

Plugins adds interactivity to your blog, There are thousands of plugins available. Here's the list of top 20 popular plugins which helps you blog better.

1. WP Super Cache – This plugin helps you make your page load way faster by storing the static versions of your site,  it requires much less CPU processing than using WordPress all by itself. This WordPress plugin is number one on the list for a reason.


2. HeadSpace 2: WordPress SEO Made Simple-   HeadSpace provides you with the features you need to drive your site to the top.  People spend way to much time working on SEO and too little time writing great content.  This plugin let’s you put your focus back where it belongs.  It takes care of all the SEO work that your blog will need.


3. Akismet – Akismet is the comment spam fighter that comes built into WordPress and it does a mighty fine job.  Activate this plugin and you won’t need to moderate or captcha your comment submissions.  Akismet does 99% of the work for you.


4. AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button: Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg and many more.


5. Facebook Like : Add the facebook like button for your blog. Change the button layout, use XFBML or iFrame and much more just in one plugin. Added in 3.4 multiple language support and you can change the font.


6. WPtouch iPhone Theme – This plugin allows you to instantly and effortlessly transform your website into a mobile paradise. Whenever a mobile user accesses your blog a pleasant looking lighter version designed specially for mobile devices is presented.  This is a must have for 2010.


7. Backtype Tweetcount – If you’re using the TweetMeMe tweet counter badge on your blog then kill it right now. Nobody wants to authorize another program to access their Twitter account just to share a link to your site.


8. Nofollow Case by Case – This site’s comment links are dofollow.  I’ve stripped out all of the nofollow tags from the comment section of Site Sketch 101. You leave a comment here and Google page rank will chase you all the way back to your site.  This plugin is what makes that happen. So leave a comment here and then install this awesome WordPress Plugin at your blog.


9. WP-DBManager – This little gem is amazing for backing up your website. It actually has quite a few functions that it can perform but perhaps it’s most impressive feature is it’s ability to email the entire WordPress databse to me every day.


10. Find Me On : The Find Me On sidebar widget displays icons for all of your social network profiles. Includes *73* Social Network options, 16px or 32px icon size, and three icon styles, including "sexy-style". Configure all the options on the configuration page. Originally forked from the Social Links plugin.


11. Thank Me Later – This plugin is great.  It sends an email to all first-time visitors.  You can write up the email to remind them about your RSS feed or just to invite them to connect with you personally.  I do both.


12. WP-PageNavi – Those ‘Older Posts’ and ‘Newer Posts’ links are boring.  With WP-PaveNavi you can get page buttons so users can go directly to whichever page they want.  Plus they look a lot better than plain little links.


13. Permalinks Moved Permanently – Last year I moved all of my permalinks to post the page so that they wouldn’t be so long.  This would have meant that all of the links to my posts would generate 404 errors.  This plugin just forwards all the links and PR to the new addresses.


14. GoCodes : Create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your Wordpress Admin. When upgrading, be sure to read the upgrade notes.


15. SEO Slugs – Using your entire post title as the slug for the article can make web addresses long and it can waste the opportunity to focus on using your keywords.  This plugin strips out all the unnecessary words from the permalink for you so that you don’t have to.


16. Post-to-Post Links II: Using a shortcode, easily link to another post, page, or category in your WordPress blog.


17. SEO Smart Links – Do you inter-link your articles?  You should.  Linking within an article to other articles is a great way to build Page Rank throughout your site and it’s a great way to get readers to find your other articles on similar subjects.  This plugin will interlink keywords to your other articles for you.


18. Subscribe to Comments – This plugin took a little bit of work to get it to work right but it’s great because it allows people to subscribe via email to any other comments that show up on a given post.  This helps get readers to keep coming back.


19. Top Commentators Widget – At the bottom of the sidebar here, you can see the top 10 commentators for this month.  This is a great way to provide a dofollow link back to the people who help make your site great.


20. WordPress Related Posts – If a reader enjoys one of your articles then one of the best things that you can do is to put some more articles in front of them to keep them digging through your site.

Facebook to set up their new office in Raheja's Mindspace, hyderabad

Facebook had been granted permission by the government to set up an office in a business incubator at the Raheja Mindspace special economic zone (SEZ). it recently announced that it would be opening an office in hyderabad, india, this office would facilitate round the clock and multilingual support to its ever lasting users and as well as its advertisers.

In addition to this the new office will add to Facebook’s operations in Palo Alto (California), Dublin (Ireland) and a recently opened office in Austin (Texas), According to The Economic Times, an Indian government official also said that Facebook has been allotted about 50,000 sq ft space.

The good news for fresher graduates is Facebook would be recruiting close to 500 people for running its operations. Facebook, which has nearly 8 million users in India and nearly 500 million users across the globe, would reportedly invest $150 million in the initial phases.

This is definitely a great opportunity for many aspirants to be a part of the world's largest social networking company.

Social Networking site Facebook's 2009 revenues of $900m almost double of earlier estimates

Its certainly a milestone for the most popular social networking website 'Facebook' which shows a reports of achieving a revenue of $900m in 2009 surpassing the figure of $500m which was previously estimated by the analysts. This results in investor demanding for flotation of the company.

As per the Facebook comment last September, "Facebook was generating enough income to cover its operating expenses, as well as its capital spending needs thereby resulting in making a net profit of several million dollars".

Facebook has nearly half a billion users. Now the investors will show much keen interest in this company, Facebook has previously insisted that an initial public offering was not a short-term priority, and is also conscious of other social networking websites like Bebo, that have fallen in popularity, leaving investors significantly out of pocket.