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It has become essential to get your Facebook page verified especially if you are public figure or a popular brand. Getting your Facebook page verified helps you to portray an authentic image to your page followers.  Facebook has been verifying several categories of pages including those of celebrities, journalists, government officials, popular brands and businesses among others. While Facebook itself strives to get popular pages from above categories verified, it’s really easy to be missed out. So what can you do from your own part to get your Facebook page verified? I have listed two easy ways in this post that can assist in getting your page verified. A bit of disclaimer before we get started – (Both these methods are from my experience of getting Facebook pages verified, they are NOT any official solution from Facebook. Facebook on its help page rather suggests that you can’t request to have your profile or Page verified ). A. First Facebook Verification Method: This Facebook v...

Recently, Sell Hack, a browser plugin for the Google Chrome browser made quite a noise in the social networking arena. The email addresses of LinkedIn users was easily exposed via this web browser add-on tool. Made available as free extension for the Chrome browser, all one had to do was to download the plugin and install it on his/her machine and click “Hack In” button, popping up on LinkedIn profiles. And, with the click of a button, one could view the email address associated with the account, even if the account’s not a connected one. The plugin, thus exposed email addresses of all the LinkedIn users, leading to the issues of emails being flooded with spams. LikedIn intended to take legal action over the plug-in and also advised the users to uninstall the plugin. The Sell Hack team however was trying to maintain integrity all the while. They defended themselves saying the tool was created for marketing professionals and argued that all the data pulled for making email addresses wer...

We’ve got hundreds of friends and followers on social networks like Facebook and Twitter ? We can share our thoughts to so many people at the click of a button. It looks like we’ve got a plenty of folks who care about us. But do they truly care about us? There have been several research findings which suggest that the social networks are making us lonely, in reality. But none of them have beautifully executed the thought as done by the following animated clip titled “The Innovation of Loneliness”. This video, with the use of excellent visual graphics and motion design, illustrates how the social networks are affecting us negatively , i.e. they’re making us lonely. The video was created by motion designer Shimi Cohen as his final project at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design and draws inspiration from Sherry Turkle ’s book Alone Together. The major points from the video are: The maximum number for a group of monkeys to function well and maintain the social order is 50. For ...

The world wide web turned 25 years old recently. But it is getting younger and younger day after day. How’s that?  Well, we aren’t saying the web is getting younger through things like reverse aging. What we mean to say is that the internet is being used by younger people more so than ever. The internet is being accessed by a much younger age group than the age group that used to access it in the early years of the web. The beautiful infographics below, created by webfx highlights the key stats about how the web is getting younger day by day. The infographics suggests several figures which justify the fact that the web is getting younger than ever at the present time. The key stats from the above infographics are as follows: In 2000, web was accessible to 40% people, now the access has reached to 82%. 93% people of both 18-29 and 30-49 age group own cell phone. 18-29 age group is the most active age group on social media at 88%. 36% of the teens wish they could go back to the tim...

In a recent TED ideas conference Google’s CEO Larry Page talks to Charlie Rose on the theme of where’s Google heading next.  Starting with Google’s mission, Larry went on to talk about several things that matter for Google and him at the company. Watch the full video below from the TED conference. Here are the main highlights I have pointed out from the video.  Organising world’s information and making it useful and universally accessible (Google’s Mission). Changing the world with technology. Making Internet accessible to the entire planet with projects like Loon. Concern on security and online privacy of Internet users. Saving lives and making lives better with self-driving cars. Increasing use of bikes and finding innovative ways to use them. Embracing Technology and doing innovative things. What’s your main highlight from the video? Share the video if it inspires you.

Social media giant Facebook has just released ‘HACK’. Thinking “Wow, Great!”? But don’t get carried away, it has nothing to do with hacking and cracking.  Facebook releases HACK a new open-source programming language, developed for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), Facebook’s PHP runtime environment, released in 2012. This new language, released on March 20, 2014, assimilates with the evergreen PHP language and is believed to allow their engineers and other programmers to increase their speed in writing codes as well as evade usual errors in programming. When started ten years ago, Facebook was initially coded in PHP by Mark Zuckerberg and his team. However, as the company grew, with the existing programming platform with PHP, it became difficult to manage and maintain the system free of bugs. As a result, the programming language HACK has been developed and Facebook releases HACK now so as to combine elements of static programming languages such as C and C++, which...

The world has seen enough of social networking websites and apps like Facebook , Twitter , Google Plus , Instagram, Whatsapp, Foursquare and a lot of others. Basically, all these apps, what they do is connect people living around the globe, forming their virtual network online.  In some ways, these services have been of great help to mankind while in some cases, we wish they’d rather not be present at all . There are many cases in our life when we’re trying get work done, but end up wasting all the valuable time on things like Facebook and Twitter. This is probably the downside of these platforms, about which even the most avid users agree. All the apps we’ve known till now basically promote social interaction. But have there been any service which can be dubbed as ‘anti-social’? Well, it’s just about the case with a new service called ‘Cloak’. It’s a new direction social media is heading to and we bet, we’ll have plenty of such anti-social apps in the future. Being anti-social me...