Everyone will join Facebook, because everyone else is. You will because all your friends are there on the  social networking platform and brands will because the competitors are jumping in. However there is another way they are making use of the social network’s gaming to make it big. The latest move comes with major players namely; HP, Best Buy, Rossignol and Intel collaborating to bring Go Big a new gaming app for Facebook.

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It was only last week when we reported that Sid Meier’s Civilization, the famed strategy game on PCs was set to step onto the Facebook platform in June. Today, Peter Moore announced the coming of Madden NFL to Facebook. The reason to do so? Well everyone is jumping on the Facebook wagon, why not EA with a few games in its armory?

Madden NFL has been big in the gaming market with over 60 million games sold globally. Now I am not sure as to what exactly did Peter mean when he stated that he wants to give gamers a simpler experience. I personally think by simpler experience he meant a much wider reach of the game utilizing the social network’s platform. Other than this, another question I have in mind is as to who will be doing the game’s development? I am not sure if EA is going to get its team head on with it, and most probably it will head over to some existing leader in game development on Facebook. Playfish is more likely to take the game away given that there were already talks of Playfish having something from EA.

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While Microsoft has really brought the Facebook experience to the desktop in the most complete manner with its Silverlight Client for Facebook, it did miss out one important aspect: Facebook Chat. To be honest that is one of the most wanted yet an equally problematic feature that drastically reduces browsing speed. I was quite surprised as to why Microsoft left this feature out its client.

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There you go, I thought Facebook will be the only one being infected by Zynga. Sadly that is not happening as the lead developer of Facebook Apps, like Farmville and many other Ville has shook hands with MSN Games. The result? Well all those Farmville addicts will now be able to play the game via the Games on MSN. More importantly each of these users will be able to connect to the existing 75 million users with the help of Facebook Connect. Bizarre!

While I might be hating all this and to be honest I am maxed out on hate, what’s worth noting here is the fact that with this partnership, the apps destined for Facebook will now have a channel to spread outside the social network. And those will include almost every brand on the Web, including the likes of Yahoo and perhaps even Google. And that’s just Zynga making the jump and the rest are all eager to follow the bandwagon. All this might very well be the result of Microsoft’s ever increasing love for Facebook and plan to work with it in a much closely knit manner, perhaps that way it could monetize the gaming aspect to its own advantage without burdening Facebook with the worry of monetizing content.

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Time goes by pretty quick, I still remember very clearly that I started my university around the same time when Facebook was launched and Orkut was reigning supreme and so was MySpace. To be honest I always thought that Facebook wouldn’t go ahead. I was so wrong, so very wrong and I regret why I wasn’t the early adopters of the social network.

From starting off as a connecting platform all the way to growing over 350 million users, the social network has been nothing short of sensation, evolving rapidly in the last one year primarily. Pick anything up associated to the network and all you read is a rapid rise in usage. Facebook Connect that connects over 60 million pages at present and over 1.9 billion pages that are currently indexed by  Google. Those are jus a few of the major achievements and numbers, the platform on whole has expanded for the good of everyone around.

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Why doesn’t it surprise me, or does it even surprise anyone around when Hitwise reports of Facebook being the largest platform for reading news? Now it might be following the likes of Google, Yahoo and even MSN at number four, the point why I would consider it even more important is the fact the top three are search engines and they direct traffic back to the source sites. Watch Facebook and it is a bit different.

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I always find it interesting to browse through YouTube for funny videos on anything. Just thought about performing a similar search for Funny Facebook videos, though the results were filled with many useless videos I found the song worth sharing. It might not be very funny or meaningful, but it does gives visuals to the addiction that people have for the social network.

While the rap song had been put up back in 2008, it can still be applied to the present urge users have to keep spending time on the social network. I mean now it is even higher thanks to the countless reasons, from addictive games like Mafia Wars, Farmville to the numerous groups you can be a part of. The addiction is definitely more than what it was yesterday and less then what it will be tomorrow. Let me not stretch the word count here and leave our readers to enjoy the video:

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I seriously don’t want to imagine the world without Internet, primarily because it would cut me off from the entire world and blogging. The second reason being it would make my job as a researcher in my channel a very tiring task. No matter what horror it brings for us all, some find it pretty useful to think over and actually produce segments. I particularly liked the way how it has been put up, especially the Facebook guy. Watch the video below and let us know what your life will be if there was no Internet in comments.

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Success, the only thing that needs to be done to achieve it on Facebook is for anything to go viral. Forget about it being sensible or not, just a few clicks from users who fall prey to it. The most recent is the scam involving Automation Labs and it is fooling people into believe that their accounts are being watched by a few people and they need to be blocked.

There is no truth in this except that its like every other rumor send through a message that has gone viral. Seriously people continue to fall into this pothole despite being informed of such activities all across the social network. Just in case you are one of those who haven’t come across this, know that it will ask you to access your privacy settings and then the Block List and in the field for person simply Enter Automation Labs. Once you do enter this a new window pops up and displays you with a random list of 20 people who according to the message pose threat to your privacy and are spying on your activity. How bad can one get?

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We talked quite in detail about the new PHP that Facebook was set to roll out for its developer’s community. While those were just rumors till yesterday, as today the social network confirmed the release of HipHop for PHP. This isn’t any compiler as I had thought of to be but a source code transformer, which turns your PHP into an optimized C++ and later compiles it in the g++ code.

From the post of Haiping Zhao:

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