Posts Tagged facebook
One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece by a Virtually Dead Man
Posted by umair in Social Media on May 23, 2010
Guest post by: Saad Mustafa Warraich – Pakistan
I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of expression” and went on to show extremism – something they always verbally disassociate themselves from. As a response to this lunacy, I thought it best to find out how they respond to others’ right of freedom of expression – I created an Adolf Hitler page right away and it read, “To all those who think they can ridicule Islam in the name of freedom of expression and yet punish those who speak of the genius of Hitler”. The comment on the wall read, “Let’s hit them where it hurts them the most”. Further I added some photos of the Fuhrer, Nazi Party and the Italian Footballer Paolo Di Canio who was banned and fined by FIFA two years ago for performing the “controversial” Roman Salute which according to him gave him a sense of belonging to his people. Within an hour tens of people joined the Hitler page which was named “H | T L E R”. The very next time I tried to log in I found out that my profile had been disabled for ‘violation of Facebook Regulations’.
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Fly By – Pakistani game on Facebook seeks your attention.
Posted by umair in Pakistan, Social Media on February 22, 2010
Long gone are the days when getting marketing momentum and getting people to know about your product was a pain difficult to subside. Today with the power of blogs and social media websites nothing is impossible. Codeweek a website from Pakistan concentrating on Tech and Software industry noted the first Pakistani flash based game for social networks and Facebook. People have been signing on with speed and i think we as Pakistanis need to join it, play it and share it with friends so that Web Sketchers the Pakistani Developers feel supported and go on doing the good work, promoting Pakistan and its software industry as a learned one.
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Backup your facebook, gmail, wordpress, twitter and many other accounts with Backupify for free
Posted by umair in Social Media on February 8, 2010
One of the things that worries most of the people are the security and privacy issues about having their pictures or videos on another site like YouTube,Facebook,or Flicker where they are reliant on another company for their content and if they go away, or change their terms of service all is lost and with the company no matter what happens.
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India’s social networking giant GupShup raises $12 million
Indian Twitter like SMS social networking giant GupShup raised another $12 million in a funding led by venture capitalists and other industry giants. This latest injection has brought the level of funding to some $37 million.
Gupshup is a social network that is mainly accessed and used through SMS in the Indian market. It has been serving about 26 million users within India. The main reason for its sudden growth into such a giant is the high number of mobile users and the factor that is 10 to 1 ratio of mobile to PC users. As people dont have access to computers they are indulging in social networking and twitter like conversations through mobile services.
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PIFD forcing students to pay more or live in a co-hostel.
Posted by umair in Architecture & Design, Pakistan on November 30, 2009
Today, we received an anonymous mail regarding the current problem in PIFD (Pakistan Institute of Fashion Design) Lahore.
It has been addressed to the administration targeting the unreasonable changes in the hostel arrangements.
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Is hell exothermic or endothermic. (Priceless real story)
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid-term. The answer was so “profound” that the Professor shared it with colleagues, and the sharing obviously hasn’t ceased…
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote Proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law, (gas cools off when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:
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Facebook down for some people in Pakistan
Posted by umair in Pakistan, Social Media on October 4, 2009
This is 3rd time in a week that facebook has experienced problems and is down for me and some other people that i asked from. Since the time i woke up its been 2 hours and my browser is replying with a broken link error. At first i thought it was a problem from Wateen but after confirming from my University LAN here at IBA Karachi it has been confirmed that facebook is actually down at least for some of us here.
Recently as already confirmed in one of my Posts facebook has been experiencing some serious problem of viruses and hackers using it for malicious purposes. We hope our favorite social media website doesn’t go down as we all have some very important profile data stored for our future references.
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Viruses, Worms And Malware Spreading through Facebook
Posted by umair in Social Media on September 29, 2009
Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and many other social networking websites are now becoming the hub for most Internet Black hat Hackers, Miscreants, Spammers and all other weirdos. Their target is you and all of us. To save yourself from these Black hats you have to be extra diligent at all times while reading feeds and opening links or even videos which is the favorite past time of many on facebook these days.
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Facebook introduces in text tagging feature similar to Twitter.
Facebook has introduced a new ability in wall posts which allows you to tag other friends while sending updates or writing on their walls. This feature is much like the one already on offer for the users of twitter. It is the same as twitter reply feature and require you to use a name with the @ to tag them and let them know you talked with someone else and discussed them. It will also be useful in creating a meeting or conference like environment where many people can be notified and asked for a reply on a single page or wall. The most benefiting user would be the person who uses Tweetdeck or similar software and has linked his Facebook and twitter updates. If the Facebook name of the tagged person on the twitter update is the same he will get nudged and updated both on Facebook and Twitter.
ok what is visible in the above picture is explaining a lot you just type @ and your friends list comes up to make it easy for you to tag people in your own status updates or wall posts.
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