Facebook Launches Facebook Places In The UK

After being launched in the U.S. last month, Facebook Places is now launched in the UK. Facebook Places recently has been launched for Facebook users in the UK. To test this, users can try Facebook Places option on Facebook for iPhone applications or on the Facebook mobile site touch.facebook.com, as quoted by Mashable, Sunday (19/09/2010).

Facebook Places is a simple feature that could mark the places we visit in the real world, and share it online with our friends. The same functions as those offered by Foursquare and Gowalla.

Facebook also stated that control to the privacy of users for this feature will remain intact. "Check-in" are done will only be known by user friends. Facebook Places users are also can delete the check-in which they do from their smart-phone or from the website.

After being launched in the U.S., Japan and the UK, next, Facebook Places will be launched in other European countries. This feature also awaited to be launched in Indonesia.

Nokia To Launch Everyone Connect Social Networking Through New Devices: Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5

Nowadays, we are living in a Social Media Era, where everything, any informations, even life details can be got through a social media. To meet the need for a dependable Social Media, and able to follow the flow of people who have high mobility, Nokia recently announces its Social Media concept where Everyone Connects. A one stop message service Ala (Motoblur, Microsoft kin) that brings all your connectivity into on spot. The Nokia's Social Media will be integrated with Nokia's 3 new devices, the Nokia C3, Nokia E5 and Nokia C6.

In Nokia press release in Espoo, Finland recently, Nokia has announced three new handsets. The Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5 which are designed to put better messaging and social networking tools in the hands of more people around the world, at affordable prices. These new handsets feature full QWERTY keyboards, and enable access to a range of different email accounts, IM communities and social networks.

"Our messaging device range is very successful," said Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s Head of Markets. "Services that provide easy access to the world’s consumer and corporate email and instant messaging are really popular on our QWERTY smartphones such as the Nokia E71 and Nokia E63. People want the best messaging and social networking experience on an affordable device, whether it’s sending a simple text or instant message, an email, or a direct message from their Twitter account. The Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5 are made for just that."

The Nokia C3 is the first device to bring a full QWERTY keyboard to the world’s most popular mobile phone platform – Series 40 – and is the first in the range to enable access to social networks directly on the homescreen. People can view, comment, update their status and share pictures to their favorite social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

The Nokia C3 also comes with Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat, meaning first time users can set up email and chat accounts straight from the device, without the need for a PC. Other notable features are the Wi-Fi connectivity, a two megapixel camera, rich color 2.4 inch screen and support for up to an 8GB memory card. The Nokia C3 is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2010 in a variety of appealing colors, including golden white, slate grey and hot pink.

The Nokia C6 is a Symbian-based smartphone combining the benefits of a 3.2 inch touch screen with a full slide out keyboard. The large screen provides a great Internet experience, as well as offering access to Facebook feeds directly on the homescreen. A full suite of email and social networking capabilities means the Nokia C6 is perfect for people who want to stay up to date while on the go.

The Nokia C6 has an impressive feature set including a high quality five megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, and Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation. In addition, thousands of apps – from games and videos to news aggregators and web services – are available in the Ovi Store.

Rounding off the trio is the latest addition to the Nokia Eseries range, the Nokia E5. Designed for those that want to be productive in both their professional and personal lives, the Symbian-based Nokia E5 follows the successful blueprint of devices such as the Nokia E72 and Nokia E63. The Nokia E5 combines high quality business features with all of the personal networking and entertainment capabilities that a busy professional expects from a smartphone.

The Nokia E5 is perfect for managing busy schedules with a variety of productivity applications available in the Ovi Store. And with direct access to over 90 percent of the world’s corporate email through Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, it’s easy to keep in contact from anywhere.

For more information, visit www.nokia.com/press.

Facebook Unveils Its Safety Center: Ways To Fight The Cyber Predators

In order to combat the activities of a number of "cyber predators" that targeting children and young girls as their victims, Facebook recently has unveiled the Facebook Safety Center. Facebook Safety Center launched with the intention to be a place for users of all stripes to learn about and maximize their security while browsing the popular social networking site.

In Facebook Safety Center available comprehensive information and tips for children, parents, law enforcement officials, and teachers to avoid the trap of the cyberspace criminals. This is a follow up to the formation of Safety Advisory Board in December 2009.

The advisory board made up of five Internet safety organizations from North America and Europe that will act as consultants to Facebook on issues related to online safety. The five organizations are Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI).

"We want to have an approach to improve safety can be done in a simple, easy, and effective," said Elliot Schrage, Facebook executives in a statement to the press, Wednesday (14/4/2010).

The Facebook Safety Center notifies how to deal with cyber predators descriptively. For example, practical tips how to recognize cyber criminals, action should be taken when having a threat, and how to avoid them. There is also a link to report the Facebook user who is indicated as predator.

Facebook To Add Its Staffs Up To 50% This Year

Facebook, the biggest and most popular social networking site beside Twitter and MySpace, reportedly plans to increase the number of its staff by 50 percent this year. In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Mark Zuckerberg Facebook's founder who also a chief executive said, currently the number of staff employed by the site is 900 people.

The company said it had has 250 million users worldwide. In June, Facebook's rival, MySpace, which is managed by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said it would lay off 30 percent of its staffs in the United States and two-thirds of its staffs around the world.

The company was developed with a number of investment by investors from various countries such as Peter Thiel, Accel Partners, Microsoft Corp., and Digital Sky Technologies.

FunPage, Indonesian Micro-Blogging Site

In a recent years there have been a lot of local social networking sites that popping up. One of the reason is nothing else but the emergence of global social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace which then become such a trend all over the world.

The good news is, recently appeared more of a social networking site made by an Indonesian youngster. Its name is "FunPage" with the domain of http://funpage.web.id.

This site exactly not like the Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook with users reached 8.5 million people only in Indonesia. This newest Indonesian Networking Sites more like a combination of Twitter and Plurk, two of the most famous microblogging sites in Indonesia. Therefore, like Twitter, the FunPage has a concept of "follower" that allows its user to join their friends.

FunPage that launched on 64th Independence Day of the Republic of Indonesia, last August 17, is a Microblogging service that provides a personal page for its users. On those personal page then the user are free to express everything, from writes their daily activities, what do they feel, or just to meet their friends online and say hi. Like other social networking sites, in FunPage, users also can search for new friends or just simply looking for inspiration from another users writings.

Although the concept of FunPage following Twitter's concept, Fajareza or used to be called Reza as the admin and founder of FunPage said that he did not intend to compete Twitter. While Twitter "play" in the global market, he can only hope FunPage penetrated the domestic market. Since the targets are local users, Reza said that the site designed to be easy for use.

Because more like Twitter, almost all the features that Twitter has, been adopted in FunPage. By joining FunPage, users also can automatically updating the status of their accounts at Twitter simultaneously.