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image thumb99 Essential Tips For Bloggers: 5 Things A Blogger Must Avoid

Experience is the best teacher, I firmly believe that but we have heard an old saying that says a wise person is one who learns from mistakes made by others. I have had trouble in my blogging career, troubles of all sorts. From befriending friends on Twitter, to making a decent Facebook page that engages the right people with the right stuff, all the way to actually writing a post. I just thought I would share what I have learned in this post hoping it helps others and more importantly if others can share tips with us at Startup Meme.

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image thumb98 Update: Facebook App For iPhone Gets v3.2.1, Facebook Places Comes To Those in US

Facebook users with the iPhone have got themselves an update for the Facebook App. The new version 3.2.1 of the app is more about bug fixes and nothing really notable. So if you happen to use Facebook on your iPhone click the update button and let us know if you spot something.

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image thumb96 Israeli Firm Brings The Timeless Rummikub To Facebook

Rummikub is quite popular, at least amongst those in my family and most probably with others around the globe too. Given it sells over 3 million units globally. And I guess with the advent of social games across social networking sites like Facebook have got these timeless classics coming over to the Web. Today, an Israel based firm P-Karma have rolled out Rummikub Application for the Facebook.

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image thumb90 Facebook Launches Location Features, New iPhone App, Check in And Partners With Gowalla, Yelp And FourSquare

We had been hearing about the Facebook event and the coming of Places to the social network. The event is live at the moment and you can watch it right here.

The event started off late and it has already got over 5,000 people watching. The announcements are pretty much and in all honesty they look appealing. Some of the key announcement and products to come:

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image thumb85 Facebook Like Button Revamped: Ensures The Like Remains Liked And Not Unliked

Facebook is making updates, of course other than stripping of employee names from payroll of those who hand over resignation. The current update comes to the Facebook Like button and my first say; it looks more visible.

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image thumb77 Microsoft Makes Windows Live Essential More Social With Facebook Feature

If you can’t beat them, integrate them. That’s how I put in the world of Web. Microsoft today has once again shown how associated it wants to be with Facebook by integrating the Facebook chat and status updates to its popular instant messaging service; the Windows Live Messenger.

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image thumb76 While The Social Network Embraces Fresh Blood, Three Masterminds Wave Goodbye To Facebook!

There is nothing sadder than an employee calling it quits. Especially if it’s not one or two but three and each one being one of the pioneers who have made what the company is right now. Something similar has happened with Facebook as three of its pioneers waved the social network goodbye.

Those quitting moving out of the Mark Zuckerberg’s empire of over 500 million users are:

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image thumb72 Facebook Facts And Figures: Pictures Do Say A Million Words

It is always a pleasure to not write much, especially when you have a quality info-graphic present to do all the explanation. I mean it’s not just easy for me as a blogger but for readers as well, at least some of who get sick of reading words after words. The Website Monitoring today has eased the task by releasing some facts on Facebook;  Facebook: Facts and Figures.

The picture below puts neatly the story of Facebook from its inception back in the dorms of Harvard University all the way to amassing over 500 Million users. I just wonder if anyone back then, even Mark Zuckerberg would have thought of the social network growing this big. Did you?

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image thumb59 Zynga Continues To Get Bigger And Stronger; Hires Former Facebook, MySpace Exec,Owen Van Natta

There has been quite a lot happening at Zynga, the social gaming giant has grown phenomenally, almost as exponentially as Facebook itself. I don’t mean it has got the same number of users but has definitely grabbed attention. From the Russian DST all the way to Google, who might actually partner with it to boost its own social network aka Facebook Killer. Today Zynga got hold of a pretty experienced individual Owen Van Natta; former facebook Chief Revenue Officer and the CEO of MySpace.

He had been the advisor at Zynga and will also be joining the company’s Board of Directors. Other that that his tasks at Zynga will be to manage business operations which include corporate development, marketing and communications. Van Natta enjoys the reputation of being the top guys in the tech industry and has overseen growth of several startups, a reason big enough for Zynga to fish him.

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image thumb24 And Facebook Buys 18 Patents Of Friendster – So The Domination Keeps Getting Absolute?

I was talking about Facebook spending big bucks in my analysis yesterday to expand its business and reach, primarily owing to the high level of advertiser trust the social network has garnered in the last year. Today VentureBeat’s reports make that concrete as the social network acquired patents of Friendster.

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