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Last time I wrote a piece on Facebook duplicate ads but this time I am being offered to watch Free Indian movies online. I actually visited this link and it offers the content without any subscription. I am pretty sure the copyright holders of these movies would be pissed off when they hear this.

Facebook is rolling out its redesign to some of its users and they are somewhat like this, claims Om Malik on gigaom.com. Here are some of the screen shots of the new sleek look

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Games.com say

Even though gaming on Facebook has been around for a while, 2009 was the year of the social gaming boom. Mafia Wars was the first game since Scrabulous to get a nod from mainstream media, and by the end of the year, you’d be hard pressed find anyone — even your Mom — who hasn’t at least heard of FarmVille.

Then there’s the fact that these games are basically cash cows, corralling millions of dollars for Zynga, Playdom, Playfish and CrowdStar (and the prediction that social gaming will be a 5 billion dollar industry in a several years), we’d say this whole social gaming thing has officially taken hold, and we can’t wait to see how these games change in 2010.

Out of the 500+ games on Facebook, five in particular held us captive this year. All of the games on this list launched in ‘09 and have 10 million or more monthly active users. It’s equally mind-boggling to sit back and think of how many hours we’ve sunk into these games, not to mention (yup, it’s confession time) how much real-life cash we’ve paid to buy virtual items for these games.

You can read the entire article here. In my opinion, I never played any of these games except Mafia Wars, that too very rare. Farmville and Cafe World are two games that I have started playing in 2010

My Facebook account got surpended today right after I got this PM from Saad Tariq, a friend of mine.

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This story appeared everywhere last week (and it was not an April Fool!) A study carried out at the University of Melbourne discovered that people using the web for personal surfing get more work done than those who do not. The study was carried out by Dr Brent Coker:

People who do surf the internet for fun at work – within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office – are more productive by about 9% than those who don’t.

Dr Coker states that most projects, such as writing a report, consist of mini-tasks e.g. gathering information, entering data, creating a graph, etc. Workers were shown to take small web-surfing “treats” between these mini-tasks. That enabled the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration and increased productivity.

I’m sure this news was printed and put under the nose of bosses all round the world!

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Although I do not have any such kind of restriction at work but I am definitely going to pass it on to my officials

I have recently request FaceBook to add the Vteams (aka NEXTBRIDGE in Lahore, Pakistan) as a network.

To join, you must have an active @nxvt.com email account, just go to

1. Setting -> Account, select network tab.
2. In network name box type “Vteams”, enter email address and click JOIN.
3. Check your email and click on the confirmation link
4. Congratulation, you have joined the Vteams Network

I have recently request FaceBook to add the Virtual University of Pakistan as a network.

To join, you must have an active @vu.edu.pk email account, just go to

1. Setting -> Account, select network tab.
2. In network name box type “Virtual University of Pakistan”, select your degree and graduation year, enter email address and click JOIN.
3. Check your email and click on the confirmation link
4. Congratulation, you have joined the Virtual University of Pakistan Network

Windows Live now supports importing and sending alerts to your FaceBook and LinkedIn buddies and contacts

I feel they have tried to get in the social networking business by creating this. It is not too attractive has BUGs, especially related to security because its for everyone (no opt-outs) and other contacts can see and connect to your contacts (if you dont have the proper privacy options enabled which are turned off by default). It sucks!!

I tried digsby after looking at a Yahoo Ad. It took me half an hour to download, install, run, test and decide to uninstall it. It is really very heavy, takes too many notification icons in the system tray and takes LOTS of resources.

One of the things that I didn’t like was that it shows me more details then I need, e.g. one of my acquaintances got a post on their WALL (in FaceBook), like I care? It does not function like the normal FaceBook.

My experience was not too good so I dont recommend it to anyone. But if you are an enthusiast like me, go ahead and test drive it today

Here are a couple of screenshots of Digsby

I am not a MySpace user but I found this blog post here that says the feature has been copied from FaceBook.

MySpace People You May Know Feature (Image Taken from LA Snark)