We are just in, Facebook is going to hold an event in their Palo Alto Headquarter, California on 3rd of November this Wednesday.This event is called as "Facebook Mobile Event". The name unveils lots of thing that Facebook may revile in their event. Facebook will have some major announcement in this event.

Lots of rumors surfaces on the web indicating that Facebook is going to announce some features regarding to Facebook and Mobile. Others showing that is getting famous about this event that Facebook is going to announce their long rumored Facebook phone that was denied by Facebook, and this won't be like google's Nexus one.

It's also expected that facebook is going to announce their own OS in this event. May be they are going to announce Facebook for iPad or for Windows Phone 7, who knows? There are lots and lots of rumor going on about this event, and no one knows what is going to be happen in this event. Until then we want your suggestions about what is facebook going to announce?

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At a Cafe? Connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network? Now, anyone can gain access to all of your social network login information whenever you connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network. Guess what? Your Twitter or Facebook account can be hacked using a Firefox extension!

ReadWriteWeb points to his new Firefox extension which is called Firesheep and developed by Eric Butler. Here's Bulter explains how it works on his blog:

On an open wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, making these attacks extremely easy

Firesheep opens a sidebar in Firefox that shows everyone who is connected to a certain unsecured WiFi network. With a single click, you can connect to most any social network using that person's user name and password.

For anyone who complains about this, TechCrunch pointed to Force-TLS as a way to protect your information from FireSheep but Bulter answers the following:

Websites have a responsibility to protect the people who depend on their services

They've been ignoring this responsibility for too long, and it's time for everyone to demand a more secure web. My hope is that Firesheep will help the users win.

Facebook is getting funds by Apple? or it's just a romor around. Earlier today Mashable posted a news about Facebook that Apple have offered funding to Facebook but it was just denied by some reports was floating on Twitter this morning caught by TheNextWeb.

iTunes 10 featured ping, and we also know that Facebook is also integrated in Ping with the other products, this might also be as aspect of investment rumor. According to Mashable:

Leading the potential round will be Digital Sky Technologies (an existing investor) and Apple. Yes, Apple. The funding is part of a partnership between the two companies that will eventually result in deep Facebook integration into Apple’s suite of products, including Ping, iTunes, iLife and iWork.

This news was just a Rumor till later. But it was confirmed by the Facebook Director of Corporate Communication "Larry Yu". He tweeted the following:

@Scobleizer — hi. there’s no truth to the rumored “series e” financing round that Mashable wrote about. trying to get them to clarify

This means that Apple is not going to invest in Facebook till now not for ever! [via TNW]

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Skype has just announced a new version for Windows which will help bring you and your friends, family and co-workers together like never before. New Skype has been integrated with Facebook News Feed and Phonebook, which help you to stay connected with people you care about.

Image via RRW

With Facebook integration, you can:

• see your Facebook News Feed in Skype
• post status updates that can be synced with your Skype mood message
• comment and like friends’ updates and wall posts
• call and SMS your Facebook friends on their mobile phones and landlines
• make a free Skype-to-Skype call if your Facebook friend is also a Skype contact

Video calling accounted for approximately 40% of all Skype-to-Skype minutes in the first half of this year, and with the new version of Skype, you’ll receive a free trial of group video calling in beta. We’ve added a dynamic group video calling view, which it easy to follow who’s talking by moving the focus to the person speaking on the call – try it out!

We’ve also continued our drive to further improve call quality, and the new version of Skype introduces automatic call recovery, which helps you reconnect calls that are interrupted due to Internet connection problems. Plus, the call quality manager gauges audio and video quality during calls, helping you to resolve problems and improving the call experience.

Download Skype 5.0 for Windows.

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Yesterday we reported you about the redesigned Facebook which unveiled a bunch of new features. Now we will focus specifically on the Facebook Group. With this new Facebook feature you can share music, videos and photos, in addition you can chat with all group members using a small chat box. now I will show you how to create your new Facebook Group.

Step 1: You have to visit Facebook Group page.

Step 2: Click on "Create Group".

Step 3: Pick a name to your Group, then click "Create".


Step 4: Pick an email address, group icon and control privacy of your group by clicking "Edit Group"


Step 5: Choose an icon to your group.


Step 6: Here you can control privacy of your Group content.


Step 7: Pick an email address to you Group. then click "Choose Email Address" and finally click "Save Changes"






Step 8: Click on "Profile Pictures" at left side, to pick an image to your Group.


Step 9: To share music, videos or photos, you can use the top button in your Group.

You can edit your group information whenever you would like by visiting "Edit Group". By the way, CoveringWeb Group has been created, you can join our chat over there.

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Early this morning, we told you that Facebook is about to introduce major updates for a new Facebook, but not as we thought (the interface). Facebook just added a new features to Facebook and introduced "Groups", so we can say that "Groups" is the new Facebook (that's a fact). Here, we cover the New Groups, all the features & changes in this event with quick videos in action.

New Groups
First thing, you can't just join a group -- another member has to invite you. You can start a new group and a few people (not a lot) to join the group then those people can invite others to join. The group is now closed on the members only. New features include documents, photos and video sharing, also the ability to invite all members of a group to an event. Oh, forgot to say that you can now chat with all group member together using a small chat box (similar to the one with your friends)

Today we’re announcing a completely overhauled, brand new version of Groups. It’s a simple way to stay up to date with small groups of your friends and to share things with only them in a private space. The default setting is Closed, which means only members see what’s going on in a group.

From this space, you can quickly post photos, make plans and keep up with ongoing conversations. You can also group chat with members who are online right now. You can even use each group as an email list to quickly share things when you’re not on Facebook. The net effect is your whole experience is organized around spaces of the people you care most about.

Old Facebook groups still exists and can't be changed to new ones (that's not good). You can only start a whole over new group (there's no way to convert your old group to a new one).

Download My Information
Here's a great feature added to the "New Facebook". Now you can download all your information including photos, messages, posts, notes, comments, friend lists, videos, etc. (not including settings) as a .zip file.

First, we've built an easy way to quickly download to your computer everything you've ever posted on Facebook and all your correspondences with friends: your messages, Wall posts, photos, status updates and profile information.

Application Dashboard
Now, with the new Facebook, you will get all-new application "dashboard" for managing which applications you're connected to and which permissions you have been granted to them. There's also a log of what data has been accessed by each application.

Second, we're launching a new dashboard to give you visibility into how applications use your data to personalize your experience. As you start having more social and personalized experiences across the web, it's important that you can verify exactly how other sites are using your information to make your experience better.

Of course this all-new features are not rolling our for "all" members of Facebook now, but at least some users could get and some are still waiting (including me). We will update the post if we could get our hands on any new features, stay tuned!

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As you’re probably aware by now, Facebook is holding an event at their headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. Facebook intend to surprise us today with a new redesigned website, just like Twitter did a few weeks ago. As noted by TechCrunch that some users are already reporting that they are seeing a new version of chat appear on the Facebook site.

If you are one of the lucky ones who saw the Facebook new look, you will note that the chat has been moved to the left side of the screen, big profile pictures has been added into the chat itself. But the major change in the Facebook redesign is that all profile pages and much of the rest of the site will be revamped to look like the places pages.

In addition you will note that apps will be moved below profile pictures as icons. The profile navigation will also moved to this area. We can say that we will not see the top tabs in profile pages any more. Of cource we will let you now once Facebook applied the new coat of the website. Stay tuned.

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Facebook and Skype integration will be really awesome. AllThingsD has learned citing sources familiar with the situation, that the two giant companies are working on a deal that would integrate Facebook Connect with Skype accounts. By this big move you will be able to SMS, call and video call with your Facebook friends from Skype.

You can see in the below screen-shot the new features in action, you can enjoy the new features in the upcoming Skype 5.0 which expected to goes out within two weeks.

It makes sense to see this integration, as it will be a big move to the both companies. For Facebook, it will enrich its service by enabling new ways to communicate with your Facebook friends, as its chat service are limited compared to Google Talk. For Skype, this integration will allow it to complete access to the largest social network with over 500 million users. [via Mashable]

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Facebook for iPhone 3.2 was released last month to bring Facebook Places feature for mobile iPhones then followed by 3.2.1 to fix some bugs and 3.2.2 to fix login issues on jailbroken devices. Today, Facebook for iPhone 3.2.3 goes live in the app store to bring some improvements and bug fixes. Here's the full change log.

- Improved, more streamlined login experience for developers using the Facebook SDK
- Fixed a crash when receiving push notifications
- Fixed a crash when navigating in Messages
- Fixed inconsistent notification counts in notification bar and application badge
- Fixed a problem where people would appear twice in Here Now on a Place view
- Fixed a problem that could cause the toolbar to not be shown on a Place view

Note: Facebook Places is only available in a limited number of countries. We’re working on making this available in other countries soon.

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This is really big, according to TechCrunch, Facebook is said to be building its own mobile phone  which will run its own operating system. Or precisely, Facebook is building the software for the phone, and working with third party to build the hardware.  It seems likely, Facebook is going to make full integration with contacts list and other core functions, as this integration can be implemented only if it controls the operating system.

According to the source, there is two high level Facebook employees -Joel Hewitt and Matthew Papakipos - work in high secrecy in this project. as both of them have deep operating system experience.

Hewitt helped create the Firefox browser and was working on Parakey before it was acquired by Facebook in 2007. Parakey, which never launched, was described as a “Web-based operating system.” Hewitt also created all of Facebook’s iPhone web apps and then native apps, but finally quit building for the iPhone in disgust late last year. But he knows operating systems and he knows mobile.

Papakipos also has a perfect background for this project. He was leading the Google Chrome OS project until June. He then quit and went to Facebook. Papakipos is considered a rockstar developer, and there are any number of jobs he’d be able to do at Facebook.

We would speculate that Facebook phone will be sold with  low prices as Facebook aims to get into as many hans as possible. Till now we don't have any idea around its announcing date or even its look. but I would imagine that it will be a big milestone in the Facebook history. What do you think?

Update 1: Facebook spokesman has just confirmed to Mashable that Facebook is not building a mobile phone, here's the full statement:

The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate. Facebook is not building a phone. Our approach has always been to make phones and apps more social. Current projects include include everything from an HTML5 version of the site to apps on major platforms to full Connect support with SDKs to deeper integrations with some manufacturers. Our view is that almost all experiences would be better if they were social, so integrating deeply into existing platforms and operating systems is a good way to enable this. For an example, check out Connect for iPhone and the integration we have with contact syncing through our iPhone app. Another example is the INQ1 phone with Facebook integration (the first so-called ‘Facebook Phone’). The people mentioned in the story are working on these projects. The bottom line is that whenever we work on a deep integration, people want to call it a ‘Facebook Phone’ because that’s such an attractive soundbite, but building phones is just not what we do.

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Windows Live Messenger for iPhone and iPod Touch has been updated to version 1.1 to brings support for iOS 4 (fast-switching), Facebook Chat and other new features mentioned below in the full changelog as in iTunes app store.

What's New In Version 1.1
- iOS 4 fast-switching
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- Support for 31 languages

Facebook chat is available in the U.S., UK, France, Brazil, Germany, and Russia, and will expand to other countries over time. If you’re in one of these countries, you can enable this from your profile page.

Signing in and out is much faster and prominent with this new version. Also this new version brings the ability to easily filter to just those friends who are online, your favorites, or in other categories

With this update, it brings support for 30 more languages, Windows Live Messenger is now available in Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

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For first time, Google is losing the war as users spend more time on Facebook. According to fresh data from comScore, users on the web spend more time on Facebook than Google, at the same time, Yahoo has begun to slide from the top to the bottom. As said, "If Google wasn't already scared of Facebook, this ought to do the trick."

At first, Yahoo was the first for lots of months, but this month, the changes are happening. The time spend on site don't mean the traffic, there's a big difference, of course, according to Alexa (some people considering it useless), Google is #1 in the number of users who enter the site, but according to today's chart Google is #2 in the time spent on site for the first time. This referring to how successful is Facebook, companies will try and try to buy Facebook. [via BusinessInsider]

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If this feature extends to Pages, this would be powerful. As AllFacebook mentioned, Facebook fan page could get fans count and subscribers count with this new feature. The screenshots below illustrates how this feature works

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There are currently 44 million monthly active users of the Facebook for iPhone app. We recently changed the definition of mobile active users to exclude those who have only liked or commented on stream stories. Instead we are counting “active” users as people who have taken explicit actions within an application. This practice is more aligned with how we count overall active users for the site.

Well, it still an impressive figure. In my opinion, the 44 Million active monthly users are using iPhone and iPod touch not iPad, as the Facebook app bugs a lot on the iPad.

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Facebook Introduces new Chat with no more interruptions that improves Chat's stability, speed and reliability Facebook engineer Rodrigo Schmidt says that Chat will not be supported on older browsers, particularly on IE6. Whatever, IE6 will be completely disabled by the launch of IE9 beta on September 15th.

Facebook says that Facebook's Chat is now one of the most widely used communication features on the network which was launched two years ago! 

Youtube now is the 3rd most visited website on the Internet! Today, Youtube surpassed Yahoo for the 3rd spot on most visited sites on Alexa. Of course, #1 is Google and #2 is Facebook but now Youtube has a great chance to get from Facebook and take the #2 spot.

If you are interested to know the first 10 most visited sites in the web, you can navigate to this direct link on Alexa which lists the first 20 sites! [via TNW]

Facebook Places was announced last week for U.S. members on Smartphones including iPhone, Android and Blackberry! If you don't have a one or not in U.S. then you can't use Facebook Places, We made a quick guide for people who don't know how to use Facebook Places. help you get up, run and share your location!

Facebook Places enables Facebook users to share their location with their friends. When you use "Check In" Facebook will let you know immediately which of your friends have checked in near you, so you will surprise your friend!

Step 1: At first you need to have Facebook for iPhone official app, latest version can be download from here.
Step 2: Once you installed your Facebook for iPhone app, Launch the app and tap on "Places"

Step 3: After touching on " Places" you will be brought to a page which displays all of your friends latest locations. To share your location touch on the “Check In” button at the top.

Step 4: A list of locations will be displayed, most likely including the place that you are at. Simply click on the correct location. If your location isn’t displayed, try searching for it. If it still doesn’t show up, you can add the place by clicking the plus ”+” sign in the top right.

Step 5: The next page will show the location on a map and prompt you to enter details about what you are doing. Once you’ve entered any information that you want to, just click the “Check In” button.

Step 6: After checking in, you may possibly receive a notification like the one above, telling you about friends who checked in at a nearby location.

Now you can use Facebook Places and you will be notified whenever one of your friends who checked in at a nearby location! [via AllFacebook]

Facebook for iPhone 3.2.2 has just released to fix login issues for jailbroken iPhones, This is the third update this week, as Facebook 3.2 was released to add "Places" feature then Facebook 3.2.1 was released to fix some issues and Today 3.2.2! Here's the full changelog,

What’s New In Version 3.2.2

- Fixes login issues
Note: Places is only available for users in the US at the moment. We’re working on making this available in other countries soon.

Facebook for iPhone 3.2.2 can be downloaded for free from the link below or hit the update button from your iPhone!

Download Facebook for iPhone 3.2.2