Google+ is already the second largest social network in the world

 

When Google launched its social network, called Google+, many said they already have enough social networks or that another was not needed. This was in June of 2011. Currently, in just over a year and a half, Google+ has already passed the milestone of 343 million users, making it the second largest social network on the Internet, obviously leaving behind Facebook, all in accordance with GlobalWebIndex a report.

Of course that Google+ still has a long way to catch up with Facebook. The social network Mark Zuckerberg has more than twice that Google+ users and is currently hovering around the 1,000 million mark, is also one of the most visited in the world. Both Google+ and Facebook are growing rapidly, but that makes it even faster is Twitter, even though this is in fourth place with 288 million users. And who is the third time? As the community's largest video sharing network: YouTube.

Below is a chart showing the number of users of each network in millions:

 

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advertise here 5 reasons to find a job through Facebook Ads

 

Almost as stated in the announcement of Self. Who cares about advertising ? Well, the children's blog advertise our safety net, and us from social networks today as well. And now we're going to talk about how they can benefit from the ads on Facebook to find work. So let's see the 5 minute to find a job through Facebook Ads:

1. There will be attentive to the ads displayed on our pages, because these are interspersed among both those who sell us products or services, such as those that could be the source of labor.
2. In social networks, some advantage to launch and shared these updates, with which we must not lose sight of our wall, it can expected that the work will be there.
3. Keep in mind that social networking companies try to call the public often does not respond in the forums and pages to find regular work, so the offer is often higher.
4. Keep in mind that most of the Facebook Ads are geared towards the target, so click on it which is almost synonymous with that work, at least at first glance, it fits our profile.
5. Often Facebooks Ads announcing work are also a way to meet new companies that can hire, and they concentrate forums and talent in which to find important tips on finding work

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10 Tips for use by Social

Looking for work? Do you love social networking? You can combine this passion to achieve your goal. Many headhunters investigate the candidates via the Internet. In search engines, your social networking profiles will appear in the first rankings, because they are indexed quickly.

If you want to exploit social networks as a tool to get the job you dream, the social media expert, Linda Coles, gives you 10 tips to find a job through Facebook and LinkedIn.

A. - Keep your private profile, if only temporarily: make sure your publications and your personal data can only be seen by your friends. You would not want the compromising photos were seen by your employers.

2. - Use Facebook as a Business Page: used Facebook to show your professional side. The beauty of this network is that it appears in the Google search engine and if your employer seeking information from you through the network, this page will be ranked among the top places, as Facebook is indexed with quickly.

3. - Manage your Facebook page as a blog: your post on Facebook used to publish your views on the industry that you do. For example, if you do the marketing you can post your opinion on the campaign of a particular brand. Remember that your post can add videos, photos and links of interest.

4. - Promote your site through your friends ask your contacts on Facebook that you recommend as a friend of people who may be interested in your job profile and support you to get the job you have searched both.

5. - Consider using Facebook Ads service: for a few dollars you could be featured in the profiles of people who play a key role in your job search. In these areas you can say what you like about yourself and you can "sell" your human talent.

6. - Measure and reorients: advertise on Facebook allows you to get statistics of your campaign. Based on the results can determine whether to redirect the focus of your campaign to get a job.

7. - If you're on LinkedIn believes, is your "professional header" says what you really are? Tests whether the way you present your profile tells the truth about the professional you are. Remember that you have 120 characters to tell the world what you do, for example, "I've been writing advice for people and businesses use social media better." Be creative!

8. - Use your three Hot Links: rather than use the standard "my website" uses "other" and includes a link to your business profile or blog. Think you're doing a job of marketing to promote your personal brand.

9. - Enter your name in the sections of the working group: anyone can advertise their job in any of the groups to which they belong, but why not the other way around? Why not run an ad in the jobs section in the groups you are a member, indicating which is the job you're looking for?

10. - Add URL of Facebook and LinkedIn to your email signature. So you facilitarás to headhunters find you on social networks and know who you are and what you do.

He thinks that the results of these actions will not be immediate, and possibly going to make many mistakes when managing your profiles to give them a more attractive professionally. Do not worry, people learn by trial and error, it is important that you try, no doubt will give good results.

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5 tips to get jobs through social networks

 

Here are some tips to make your social network to become an excellent platform to find the job you are looking for.

1-difference well: It is necessary to differentiate between public and private, so we recommend having two social networking accounts, one for work and one for your personal life.

2 - Upgrade: If you have two accounts on social networks. "The" labor "and" social ", they need to be a day, especially the first. Regularly review your business account at any time since it could fall off a job opportunity.

3 - Cautious: If instead it is better to consider only manage an account, then you should be even more careful what you publish on the wall of your social network. It is important that if you post something on your personal life is very careful style, spelling and words you use.

4 - Avoid complaints: Many people use their social networks as a way to vent "their labor pains", and often the tone is not the most polite and formal to their bosses or colleagues, this could certainly hurt your image to a recruiter.

5-Shows good image: Care for your freedom of expression does not let you look bad in a matter of image to go shouting from the rooftops your professional or personal habits. Forget to announce how much you get bored at work, or how little they pay you or anything you feel motivated, those are signs of a negative attitude that no one will close, especially in a workplace.

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Facebook enters the world of gambling with Friendzy Bingo

 

Facebook is venturing into the world of online gaming with the launch of its first application that allows users to play with real money. The game, developed by the London studio Gamesys is called Bingo Friendzy and currently only available to players within the UK aged 18 years or more.
 
The head of games for Europe, says Julien Codorniou betting with real money are popular and well-regulated activity in the UK. For this reason they are allowing their members to submit this game in a controlled and safe manner. Bingo is considered a social experience in our country so it makes sense to offer it in a social network, added Codorniou.

Zuckerberg and the company plans to use technology that recognizes the age of users to prevent young people "vulnerable" to access the app, but gave no details on how exactly they plan to do that. Is also unclear how much money you hope to gain by creating Facebook Gamesys. However, the social network takes normally about 30 percent of other transactions.
Facebook users in the United Kingdom can expect to see other applications of betting, as it is preparing a set of slots and a poker game designed by Zynga, both work with real money.
The online gaming is still a controversial issue in many countries so it is unlikely to see the release of these games or in other parts of the world in the short term.

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Site displays photos of cities in Instagram to show 'real time'

 

a new service uses the Internet photos posted to Instagram to create a "transmission" in real time what is happening in five cities in the world. Called "This Is Now" (this is the time, in free translation), the site (go here) was initially launched in Sao Paulo, New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo.

In each city, the site shows a flow of the latest pictures posted by users of Instagram. Around 12am this Friday (3), for example, to access the stream of St. Paul appeared several pictures of people having lunch and food.

The service uses the geolocation information for users to tell a visual story of the city each time, as the website "Mashable". The moving picture stream from left to right, with the latest image appearing at the top. In the upper right corner of the page you can also see in real time, in English, how many people are accessing the stream at that time.

"The project 'This Is Now' is a visual composition that uses real-time updates of Instagram based on geo-tags from users. The site shows a flow of pictures instantly when they are posted on Instagram and capture the movement of cities, in a fluid story, "says the description of the site.

Users who do not want their photos to appear in the flow can restrict your profile to friends only Instagram. Because the service uses "geo-tags" social network to locate users, not otherwise appear on the site is not to put their location in images.

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Facebook confesses, almost a tenth of the profiles are fake

 

I'm sure this surprises no one who has an account on Facebook or surf the Internet every day: the social network in the world is full of liars, and in fact, 9% of Facebook profiles are fake, it equivalent to approximately more than 80 million fake accounts, which are used for different purposes.
Accounts not only undesirable (such as spammers) are counted as false, but also those dealing profiles companies, organizations or even on pets are considered false accounts. Facebook says that for this type of thing, there is the option to create pages, and only accounts that represent humans are considered "authentic." To the list of types of fake accounts should also be added the duplicate profiles, and so arrive at a total 83 million accounts.
Zuckerberg said in June that Facebook has more than 955 million active users, but obviously the real are around 870 million.

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Another athlete is expelled from the London Olympics after racist tweet

 

The soccer player Michel Morganella, who defended the London Olympics in Switzerland, was sent home after sending a racist message on Twitter. Coach of the Swiss team, Gian Gilli stated that it will use the defender in a match against Mexico on Wednesday, and should not summon him over for selection.

The defender, who plays for Palermo in Italy, would have offended the Koreans to call them "mentally retarded". Morganella would be with a hot head after losing 2-1 to select Asian, last Sunday, and decided to cash in the social network.

Morganella tried to delete the tweet and your account, but a major Swiss newspaper - Le Matin - managed to capture screen images in the messages and said in a report.

He is not the first athlete to be banned from the London Games by posting racist content on Twitter. The triple jump athlete Voula Papachristou was also banished from the Greek team after a tweet that made ​​fun of African immigrants prejudicially .

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Rumor: Apple negotiated investment in Twitter

 

The Apple and Twitter in the last month talked about the possibility of the iPhone maker to invest in order to participate in the social network, but negotiations have cooled in recent months.

According to Reuters , the Apple held talks with Twitter to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in recent months. But now, nothing is being discussed. It is not known at what level the conversation took place, or if companies gave up on a possible deal.

For Apple, the investment in Twitter would enhance the strategic relationship with the microblog, which has more than 140 million active users and has over 3 billion messages sent each week.

For Twitter, however, the agreement may not make much sense. The microblog expects to generate $ 300 million in advertising sales this year and company executives say they do not plan to seek more funding today.

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Facebook's market value fell $ 10 billion

 

Investors have reduced the value of Facebook at $ 10 billion on Friday (27/04), leading the newly listed shares to a new low.

According to Reuters , a drop of 17% of the shares led the market capitalization of Facebook for U.S. $ 48 billion, less than half the value of launching the Initial Public Offering (IPO, in English) of U.S. $ 100 billion, in May.

The latest crash cost the chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, about U.S. $ 2.3 billion, based on their participation in the company.

Social networking revenue beat expectations on Thursday (26/07) in the first announcement of quarterly results as a public company, but the company failed to reassure investors about its future prospects.

Investors worried about the social network will make money with mobile advertising expected the company would give a signal that revenue growth was improving. The stock has fallen nearly 40% of market value since its debut on the stock exchange.

They fell to a record low of U.S. $ 22.28 on the morning of Friday, before recovering to U.S. $ 23.03.

At least four brokerages, including Barclays Capital cut its price target for shares of Facebook, although the majority suggested that the company is worth more than the current trading levels.

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1 billion 'things' are shared daily on Open Graph Facebook

 

Every day, more than a billion things are shared by the Open Graph of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said during an investor conference social network, according to CNET .

The social applications that add things like movies that you watched the timeline of Facebook, were announced in November last year and fell rapidly in the tastes of users. Currently, more than 5000 apps can add this information to your account.

Many of the apps recorded a large increase in usage due to sharing of information with friends. One of them, Socialcam, sold for $ 60 million, and reached because of the integration with the Open Graph.

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'Our own phone would not make sense, "said Mark Zuckerberg

 

Forget the rumors of a telephone Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg assured that the company does not intend to produce a smartphone in its own time, according to CNET.

During the announcement of the stock of the company , Zuckerberg said that the focus of Facebook is to develop a platform and not hardware. "Producing our own phone does not make sense to us," said the creator of the social network.

Zuckerberg said the successful application of Facebook for mobile phones and said the company's goal is to support a system in which other apps are created and integrated into the social network. "That's why we support Apple and work near it," he said.

Rumors of a phone's own Facebook are not new, but gained strength in recent days. Bloomberg said this week that social networking would have closed a partnership with HTC to create the smartphone, which was launched in 2013.

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Facebook launched its smartphone in mid-2013

 

For a long time we've been hearing rumors that Facebook, the largest social network in the world with over 900 million users, is working with HTC to create its own smartphone and apparently the release date would be mid mobile , 2013.
Early rumors indicated that the phone hit the market in late 2012, but HTC is focusing as much on the Android market, it appears that the release date had been delayed.
The technology that would own the equipment and its specifications are things unknown, but apparently the device would use a modified version of the Android operating system, as we know HTC is well adapted and associated with that platform.
Facebook has decided not to open his mouth when asked about this project, although it appears that itself is working on its own smartphone. Also of note is the fact that it has hired some former employees of Apple , which would be part of the team working on the smartphone.

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Facebook announces first results as a public company

 

The Facebook released its first quarter earnings report since it became a public company when it launched its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange technology. The social network claims revenue of $ 1.184 billion, representing an increase of 32% over the same period last year. In total, Facebook had a net loss of $ 157 million, or $ 0.08 per share, in the second quarter due to costs related to its initial public offering.

Most of the revenue came from the area of ​​advertising, which raised $ 992 million in the period and exceeded 28% mark in the same quarter of 2011.

The company also announced that it has 955 million monthly active users and 552 million daily users, in a measurement made in late June. 543 million people access the social networking application on smartphones and tablets.

The trading session on Thursday closed down 8.5% in the roles of the company, mainly driven by the poor results reported by sister company Zynga .

"Our goal is that everyone is connected and that every product can provide a great social experience," said CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the reporting of results. "So we're focused on investing in our priorities in the mobile, platform and social ads so we can help people to access these experiences."

With the closing today, the company's stock fell 29% over the price of $ 38 of its initial public offering in May.

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Facebook Post spy talks and to detect criminals

 

Facebook can now detect suspicious behavior, brand content and determines further action, inform the police. This news comes from a Reuters interview with the Director of Security at Facebook, Joe Sullivan. Reuters The note mentioned the following:
 

'A man of about 30 I was talking about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida and is scheduled to meet with her after school classes. The extensive technology but little discussed Facebook for digitizing publications for criminal activity chats automatically dials the conversation, after notice is given to the police. The officers took control of the computer of the child and arrested the man the next day '.

This software is focused on Facebook conversations between members that have a loose social network. Means is for users who are not friends, are friends recently, they have mutual friends, interact with each other very little, have a significant age difference, and / or are away from each other, then the tool special attention.

The program is responsible for searching certain phrases found previously in the chat logs of criminals, including sexual predators. 'We never wanted to create an environment in which private communications look, what is really important is using technology that has very low false positive rate, "says Sullivan told Reuters. Anyway do not have many details of the tool, but we know that Facebook is working with the police because they have to comply with the law.

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