Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

According to Google App Engine Blog, Google has uplifted the registration limit of App Engine usage today. With the base already expanded to 75,000 developers; the move has come to facilitate another 80,000 consumers. “.. we are opening the flood gates–now anyone who wants to use App Engine can give it a try!”, according to Paul McDonald.

With this Google has also announced pricing for applications that are estimated to exceed free quota of of 500 MB of storage and around 5M page views per month. Read More »

According to Javier Olivan, international manager at Facebook, Facebook plans to add language capabilities by manifesting itself in Dutch, Norwegian, Polish and Italian. Future strategy also spans over adding another 20 languages including Chinese.

Finally Facebook is gearing up to take on challenge to resolve cultural diversity through an innovative set of features. For any social networking system, bringing a "home feel" to its users in a manner that is coherent with their culture has always been a major challenge. Although MySpace captures over 80% of market share, we have yet to see the global acceptance of social networking system. A system that addresses diversity across regions in a consistent manner.

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