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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, answered all questions in Mandarin to the delight of the Chinese audience. Though the language is one of the challenging subjects to westerners, his Mandarin was well understood. The background of his speech was that Tsinghua University's school of Economics and Business appointed him to the school's advisory board along with Tim Cook. Despite the fact that his social network is completely blocked by the Chinese government, his appearance in one of the top Chinese educational institutions indicates his seeking inroads into the Chinese market and collaboration with the country's IT business. But the question is that how did he acquire his Mandarin skill when considering the fact that his wife speaks Cantonese. Want to learn a new language?  A recent study shows that learning a new language stimulates the same part of your bran as SEX. Researchers from Barcelona's Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and Otto von G...

HTC First, whose another name is Facebook Phone, turned out  so unpopular that AT&T, for one day,  decided to lower its price from $99 to 99 cents. Despite their sacrificing effort, the phone hasn't been sold well due to the fact that Facebook Home isn't user-friendly at all. According to a specialist, Facebook Phone series will be discontinued soon, and unsold boxes of the phone will be returned to the manufacturer. You might also like this post YouTube Slashdot

On July 11th, Facebook announced officially to implement a newly-developed function via which you would know how many friends read your posts; and what is more, you would get a list on which all of your friends's names who read your posts will be added.  Via: Net-lab

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Especially woman and younger SNS users tend to work more on privacy management than others. From Facebook to Twitter and everything in between, we have tremendous numbers of social media services today, and they are replacing our old ways to communicate, even e-mail services.  According a poll conducted in 2011, 63% of social media users, however,  answered that they deleted users from their friends list; of which 67% was women, and 58% was men. The result showed the fact that the trend is growing at a fast pace, when compared with the poll of 2009. Not only did they delete friends from their list, but also they deleted their comments and tags that identify their names on photos.  Of the all SNS users, 58% is hiding their page from the public, and 19% limit their page only on friends' friends. Only 20% use social media openly. Even though the absolute goal of social media is to connect people to people, it somehow concentrates on circumstances at...

Steve Jobs's timeline suddenly appeared on Facebook and surprised people around the world. Since it is an unofficial page, why don't you check it before the page is eliminated by Facebook. But, why this timing? Via: http://ipodtouchlab.com/2012/02/facebook-jobs-timeline.html

The latest distribution of one of the most popular series on iOS, Android, Chrome and Facebook which becomes emblematic of application, will appear on March 22nd. Via: http://www.youtube.com/user/RovioMobile?feature=watch http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/angry-birds-in-spaaaaaaaaaace

The Virtual World Now Turns into the Real. Source(s): http://www.youtube.com/user/KLMRoyalDutchAirline?feature=watch http://designwork-s.com/article/251625073.html

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The world's largest social networking community is on the point of covering the entire planet and will be unprecedentedly bigger than any sphere in human history, which even the Romans and the Mongolians didn't experience. Source(s): http://jp.techcrunch.com/archives/20120130facebook-worth/

Day by day, year by year, our technologies change faster than ever before, as they better our everyday lives. Especially this year, we saw the technologies change our world today. Now that the virtual world have enough power and influence to shape the real. Below are the list of biggest news of technologies. Google highly socialized themselves. Amazon's Kindle Fire Google vs Apple Facebook vs Arabian Ductators Source(s): http://harutomo-ryu.com/archives/2011-08-23/070426.html http://www.next-gen.biz/news/amazon-announces-199-kindle-fire-tablet http://aswitechindia.wordpress.com/category/nexus/

The new parody movie trailer The Social Network 2 features the crazy future in which Facebook is disappeared, and people started to do exactly the same things as they did on the social network in the real world. Source(s): http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/24/social-network-2/

A Facebook team led by Bret Taylor, the company's CTO,  is developing an Android-based Facebook OS, which will be applied into HTC platforms for the first trial; the cord-name is "Buffy." Despite the fact that Facebook's trials to create their own OS-based platforms have been failing so far, the company tries to get beyond their current state as a mobile-platform. The Android-based Facebook-Phone would be equipped with several abilities to suit with Facebook utilities, the details are still veiled in mystery. These days, iOS and Android are steeling spotlights from Facebook, maybe this would be the last chance for the company to appeal their capabilities. However, with the fact that Facebook ranked in top five of the most hated firms in the US dut to the privacy problems, Facebook might have something to improve before making such desperate efforts to compete with Apple and Google. Source(s): http://jp.techcrunch.com/archi...

Mixi - a Japanese original SNS that enjoyed the No.1 position in popularity a few years ago - now suffer from the dramatic decrease of the number of their users. The decreasing percentage hit an all time low with 57% over last month, while Facebook and Twitter remained unchanged. Google+ is about ready to decrease. With this result, what we can learn is the fact that today's trends are mostly generated in the States, along with Facebook, Twitter, iPhone, iPad, Google and so fourth, and they take the world by storm, except for other exceptions in the inclusion of Samsung, Nokia and the like. Source(s): http://www.releasetug.com/release/2011/02/nfcmiximixi.html http://read2ch.com/r/news/1321869268/

With more than seven hundred million users across the globe, Facebook became not only a SNS, but the largest community to share personal pieces of information without national borders; and such is something even Google failed to make it come true. Since the network allow its users, especially those who are capable to understand English, to easily share what is going on in this world globally, politically-cloistered nations has been preventing their people to have a hand in Facebook along with Twitter, Google services and the like. Recently, Myanmar, one of such nations, announced officially to open the internet freely to its people; in other words, Burmese are allowed to connect with the rest of the world via Facebook, Twitter or Google. The nation had been one of the nations practicing regulation of the Internet information in per with four-heavenly-kings, including China, Iran, Cuba and North Korea. How is this Myanmar network revolutio...

A Band of Hackers, Anonymous announced their plan to practice cyber-attacks on Facebook, blocking Facebook from leaking its users' tons of pieces of information to the public, large-sized corporations, governmental organizations and the like. For privacy issues, Facebook was ranked among American's most hated corporations' top 10. The ranking is called, ACSI (The American Customer Satisfaction Index); usually corporations ranked among the worst 10 are public projects or monopoly firms, including water companies, electronic powers and the like, that are crucial to people's everyday lives. While Facebook lets its users connect with their friends as well as even friends half way around the world, it could be a great risk to them in leaking their pieces of personal information, experiencing Net-harassment, and more. Reflecting Facebook-users's opinions, Net-users posted supportive comments on YouTube's commentary b...