Conversationalize

Another Twitter-like service is going to be rolled out on Facebook.

The continuing battle between Facebook and Twitter led the first to imitate another feature from the latter. This time, the use of the ‘@’ sign to tag member friends.

Although it has been an amazing feature for a social networking site to tag friends thus notifying them about an uploaded picture, video or note, the latest with Facebook allows its users to update their statuses at the same time tag their friends on it by using the ‘@’ sign.

Like any of the first tagging features of Facebook that sends notification to tagged friends, tagging individuals on their statuses through ‘@’ sign also sends notification to that particular person. You too can receive notifications once you were tagged on your friends’ updates using the same symbol.

According to Facebook, the immediate advantage of the new service will directly affect brands or businesses who are also engaged into their social networking page in Facebook.

This plan of tagging friends through their updates will be available in the coming weeks.

The world’s most famous social site is facing criticism in Canada. Facebook, being the most successful networking website that provides various features for its users to enjoy such as millions of applications, faces the Canadian Law – the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

The investigation came upon request last year after a group from the University of Ottawa called The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic to look of Facebook’s privacy policies.

Anne-Marie Hayden, spokesperson for Canada’s privacy commission, said that Facebook was doing something to address this concern upon request of the Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart to the company to submit proposal and timeline regarding their policies.

The five-year-old Canadian act affects Facebook’s almost 12 million users from Canada since the company keeps user’s personal information indefinitely, even if they closed their accounts on the said website.

To address the said problems, Stoddart suggested that Facebook should clarify its privacy policies, to make it easier for Canadian users to remove their profiles and to curb the amount of personal information that Facebook collects from its users. Giving the company a 30-day period to implement the suggestions, Facebook said that in order not to face the same liabilities in the future, they will also introduce a number of new features addressing privacy concerns.

Now that Facebook grows larger and larger every day, the world’s most popular social networking site has just gotten even better!

Facebook recently released its virtual store for the developers. From now on, Facebook users can buy not only virtual goodies but also real gifts from the virtual store! This newest innovation in networking sites make it possible to developers to make money out of millions of Facebook users at the same time giving these users the benefit of buying online without the hassle of looking for their items in other real stores.

Facebook says American Greetings Interactive, GreetBeatz, Someecards and Real Gifts are the first four third-party application developers to enter the virtual store. Payments on the Facebook virtual store are made thru credit card, PayPal, Offerpal Media and SuperRewards.

Facebook seems to find out that there’s a need for their site’s search tab to be improved. Yes, the leading social networking site’s search tab is too lousy for it only provides limited options. Though in the beginning, this is not really a subject to be improved on Facebook’s site but as the site’s growing number of users and applications, expansion of its services should also be taken care of.

Last August 10, 2009, Facebook said that they are going to roll out Facebook Search to all of its users. Previously, it was announced that this will be randomly selected to its users for some testing. But now, Facebook explained on its blog that from now on, users can look for their friends and their own status updates, photos, links, videos and notes for the past 30 days. This is also applicable to subjects you wanted to search on your Facebook pages which you’re a fan. For those who decided to provide their contents available to public, users can also access for those. Also, people’s profiles and related Facebook Pages, groups and applications will still be part of the search results.

To continue dominate the world of social networking, Facebook is looking for some areas where they could maintain its stability. This is primary the reason why Facebook tried buying the popular micro-blogging tool Twitter which remarkably becoming their company to compete over MySpace. Unfortunately, Twitter rejected the offer.

But trying their luck with similar tool, FriendFeed agreed to Facebook thus, taking 12 of its employees to join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders to take ‘senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.’

Though Facebook is becoming a Twitter-like recently, both companies who are competing for social site supremacy are still different in many ways.

The Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed will certainly make the first find more stability on its current status as the world’s most used networking site.

Facebook is planning to provide more dollar-earning projects within their own social networking site. Aside from the regular ads users can see on its site, there will be contextually targeted ads. This will be presented to the advertisers.

Of course, Facebook is well-positioned to do these aggressive advertisement. With its millions of users who spend a lot of time in the site, placing contextual ads will be a good step to earn dollars with these users.

Facebook is also concerned with the cookies and other spams that would affect its users that’s why they will continue to test every project before releasing it to everybody.

The targeted market will be based on the member’s profiles themselves. This will be based with the user’s status updates, fan pages and other related pages where advertisers can put their contextual ads.

Good news to all Facebook addicts and Android users! Now, it has come to the tech world news that the two companies – Facebook and Google – are joining together to bring the first Facebook page running in Android!

Yes, you read it right! Though the two companies are yet to confirm in their separate official statements, there are series of leaked screenshots of experiments conducted for Android for its Facebook page availability.

Perhaps, Facebook’s decision to integrate their own Android app is due to the ever growing number of Android phones and the users that are hooked to it. If ever that this will push through and will be officially launched, this will make both companies’s users more comfortable in using the platform rather than exchanging handsets due to incompatibility.