One thing that goes in the favor of Facebook is that the previous record of Google in the social networks is really not a very attractive one, you might be aware of the previous social network by Google ‘Orkut’ but it is only famous in some particular countries. For the facilitation of Social Networks Google also brought ‘Google Wave’ and ‘Google Buzz’ but unfortunately both these services failed to come up to the company’s expectations and Google has recently announced the closing of Google Wave.

Now Google is stepping into the world of social networks and it is quite hopeful that it’ll be able to kill the previous status of other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. If you’ll consider the previous reputation of Google in social networks then it can be easily said that Facebook needs not to worry about Google but the being an internet giant Google can bring a blast so lets wait and watch.

Earlier the News of social network by Google was just a rumor but now the information is coming out from some official sources, Matt Brittin, Google’s UK chief executive while talking with Telegraph said that “Facebook is an absolute phenomenon but there are other social networks which are successful too.” And further “It’s a phenomenon that is with us to stay. I think what we’ll see is the internet becoming more of a social place, as well as people being social within the context of social networks.”

Nowadays we know that Facebook is the most famous social network of the world and a huge majority of people have become addicted to this platform and at this time bringing some completely new network is quite a task and the Google’s statements shows that the company is ready to take such a big challenge.

Industry analyst Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence said that “Google does take this social media phenomenon very seriously. For the past four years, it has been adding social, community and collaboration layers to its products” and he also said that “This is an enormous creative challenge”.

This new project of Google is definitely one of the toughest projects the company has ever launched because killing Facebook nowadays is not easy as it has got a place in heart of a huge majority of people worldwide.

This announcement has came from yahoo’s platform and it has been declared that the yahoo users will now be able to view their Facebook updates and News on the own yahoo home page even on the yahoo mail and other sites of yahoo.

It is also reported that some more integration of both these platforms is expected for the future and in a statement yahoo said “to give people one simple, trusted place to share information and connect. We think this offers great benefit to people across the Web, and it’s key to helping Yahoo extend our reach and increase engagement”.

This new collaboration was also liked on the Facebook’s side and in a statement Ethan Beard, director of Facebook Developer Network said that “by integrating with Facebook on a global scale, Yahoo is building upon an already valuable brand to give people easy ways to share the content they enjoy on Yahoo! with their friends on Facebook”.

Thus this new act will bring more ease of sharing information on both these platforms and the yahoo users will now enjoy the vast world of social networking a bit better than before.

The privacy has always being a major concern of all the online social interaction places and the most famous platform among them is Facebook. Previously many bugs were seen regarding the privacy issue of Facebook and the company really worked for sorting out the previous problems and then at a press event the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg notified that their company would simplify the privacy controls that will be starting with a re-designed privacy setting page.

The three main changes that have been brought for Facebook includes: simple controls, keeping the information private and third party privacy. The third party applications were previously one of the major privacy threats for the users and now the company has make it easier for the users to close off the access from third party applications. While discussing about these new changes Zuckerberg said that “If you find these changes helpful, then we plan to keep this privacy framework for a long time. That means you won’t need to worry about changes. (Believe me; we’re probably happier about this than you are.)”. Thus the new changes for the Facebook site will bring more privacy into the hands of users and the users who were earlier angry with Facebook for the weak privacy will get satisfied.

The biggest change in this regard was noticed from the Twitter’s side as the company has banned any kind of third party involvement with their site and thus has pushed all the advertisers to the promoted tweets service. In short form we can say that now only twitter will have the right to put paid tweets into a timeline thus the users have been banned from the most famous services of Ad.ly and Sponsored Tweets.

Coming towards Facebook, the company has recently announced that they are making it pretty easier for the users to block the third party developers from leaking out information regarding them. In a post on Washington post Marc Zukerberg said that “We will give you an easy way to turn off all third-party services. We are working hard to make these changes available as soon as possible…” So now this new approach of both these companies will make their platforms less profitable for the third parties whose major source of income was earlier only Facebook or Twitter.

Just like the previous ‘Like’ button available for the stuff shared on Facebook this new button will be displayed for different web contents and anyone who wants to share any online stuff like audio, video or document will hit the like buttons and that thing will be displayed on his friend’s wall via Facebook Connect. The previous ‘Like’ button was introduced about a year ago and it was basically purposed to give user a facility to directly show his/her liking for the friend’s stuff without even making a comment and the purpose of this new ‘like’ button is almost same to that. With this new facility Facebook has planned some other goodies for its users as well but to know about each of them you have to wait till next month.

These days the competition between the social marketing platforms is rising highly and each of them are bringing some more features to defeat the other. Facebook which is one of most common social networking place, is working very consistently in bringing new features into their platform and among the diversity of its features one thing was always felt to be missing and that is location service. Rumors have been circulating for very long time that facebook is bringing location service for their site and now on the NYT’s Bit blog this news has been shown that Facebook is going to bring the new location service in the April’s F8 conference.

Now one point to think is that, how will this application look like? May be it will be like twitter’s which is attaching location data to user’s status update or the company will go for some totally different way. It has also been heard that the company has tested some location services and the time is not very far when the new application will get its way into the Facebook’s applications list. One interesting thing about the news is that Facebook is not looking to beat any other location service provider like Foursquare or Gowalla but their main target is to beat Google who has provided the location service in Buzz.

Farmville which is just a virtual reality game on farming has captured eyes of so many fans that it has broken the twitter’s record in popularity. The rivalry competition between facebook and twitter is not new news but the end of 2009 has declared that facebook is leading in the race of getting popularity.

Facebook has provided its users with a number of virtual reality games like yoville and Farmville which are developed by zynga. These are one of the most addicting games and they have showed up their fame in terms of their popularity.

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Despite the simple looking game Farmville is actually very fun to play and once you start playing this game you become addicted to it. The overall idea behind the game is to give a glimpse of virtual village life where the players plow plant and harvest them but the beautiful graphics and lust to be at a higher level makes the player addicted to it.

One of the best thing about this game is that it doesn’t require too much of time even a person with a busy routine can play it daily for just 10 mints. The poularity of this game has thus made facebook more popular than twitter which is not less than any award for facebook.

T.G.I. Friday’s restaurants introduce “Woody”

This is really one of a kind of campaign for which everybody seems to be excited. There is a lot on offer from T.G.I. Friday, as is, with their delicious great food and good time guaranteed with your friends. Woody is a food lover and a bringer of great times. He happens to be the ultimate T.G.I. icon, spelling out the real deal that seems to be going with T.G.I. You would love his interesting updates on Facebook and all the fresh buzzes when T.G.I. brings you something special from their brand.

You will also know the right combinations and choices to make, a fair idea of what you are getting and overall good food reviews before heading out to the next T.G.I. Friday restaurant. The character of Woody has been brought up to promote the huge business goal that T.G.I. holds in order to promote its food far and wide. With the high value it has on the market and the great tasting food on offer, there is no doubt that it will be rightfully popular among many.

The entire chain is quite widespread and has some of the best things that can be brought out for a burger, grill and sandwich loving crowd. You and your friends would be tantalized to find the numerous offers at play there. The value for money is also immense. T.G.I. Friday is constantly working to raise their bar and their catering services to a wide customer availability. The new challenge is something great and it is being reckoned that the challenge would be going upscale with time.