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10 Interesting Facts Facebook at Age 10 Years

10 Interesting Facts Facebook at Age 10 Years | Since it was first released on February 4, 2004, today Facebook officially entered the age of 10 years. In the last 10 years, Facebook still has a number of loyal users all over the world. This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

Although predicted to experience the 'apocalypse' in 2017, it shows that Facebook now has 1.23 billion active users each month. Growth in the number of Facebook users are increasing with the proliferation of smart devices adoption.

Now, a decade into the age of the first Facebook status incised 10 draw impressive every year. Here are 10 interesting status that accompanies the existence of Facebook in the social media realm as reported by The Next Web pages.

1. At the very beginning 10 years ago, Facebook claims to successfully connect approximately 201.6 billion virtual friendship.

2. Entering the first year, Facebook posted a 1.23 billion active users per month.

3. Along with the growth of mobile users, Facebook also noted to have around 945 million active users per month are accessing through a mobile device.

4. Known for thumb icons representing 'Like', Facebook recorded more than 6 billion like delivered by consumer within one day.

5. Before the boom of cloud storage services, Facebook has introduced upload and share photos virtually amongst its users. The company is owned by Mark Zuckerberg tertatat has shared photos of up to 400 billion in October 2005.

6. Just like a shopping center, Facebook often complements a variety of new features for its users. Instant messaging is one of the features provided and about 7.8 trillion messages were sent through the Facebook service.

7. Location sharing feature is one of the features that are often used by Facebook users. As of January 2014 recorded 77.2 billion and distributed locations have been marked by a number of users around the world.

8. Although known as a service from the United States, but about 88.1% of active Facebook users a day are from outside the Statue of Liberty and the American continent region.

9. In addition to having individual users, Facebook also introduced a special page for the celebrities to business people. As of November 2013 there were more than 25 million pages of small-scale businesses have a Facebook account to market their products.

10. Facebook fame certainly can not be separated from the role of an active and creative employees. By the end of 2013 Zuckerberg has been known to possess 6,337 employees worldwide.

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On the 10th Anniversary, Facebook Officially Launches Digital Newspaper

On the 10th Anniversary, Facebook Officially Launches Digital Newspaper

On the 10th Anniversary, Facebook Officially Launches Digital Newspaper | On the day of the 10th anniversary, Facebook seems to not want to miss this historic moment. Coinciding with these special moments, which pioneered social networking Mark Zuckerberg officially launched a digital newspaper dubbed Facebook Paper. This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

Starting today users can download iOS device Facebook Paper on the Apple App Store for free. This latest mobile applications mentioned will be the toughest rival Flipboard. It is quoted from Ubergizmo.

With this application users can explore and share their stories to their friends. About the design of the interface, look up Paper has earned high praise from critics. They are excited to launch the application after previously introduced on January 30, 2014.

It looks different from Facebook, radically overhauled and provide a different experience when users view status updates, photos, and videos posted by friends.

This application contains a collection of the News Feed of Facebook account, which the user can select different topics or themes ranging from sports, fashion to culinary from various news sources that have been published.

At the bottom of the screen on every page of icons `Like`, `Comment` and `Share`. The interface looks more simple than Facebook, at least similar to Flipboard.

Users can also shake the screen to look at pictures and enlarge the size of the photo to make it look more obvious. There is also a video player with full-screen display automatically. In fact, each decorated with a cover article interesting.

But unfortunately for the moment Facebook Paper is only available for iOS devices and not inform when it will offer a version for Android. This application also can be downloaded by the rumored new iPhone users in the United States.

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Profit Facebook Reaches $ 1.5 Billion

Profit Facebook Reaches $ 1.5 Billion | Who does not know Facebook? In 10 years, the social networking site was transformed so social media strongest on Earth. The number of users has now broken 1.2 billion. If you created a new state, so Facebook second most populous country after China. This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

So, what has been achieved in the age of Facebook stepping decade?

Closes in 2013, Facebook announced that it has successfully made a profit of U.S. $ 1.5 billion (equivalent to Rp18, 31 trillion).

Facebook revenue stuck in the past three months, which is a social networking site made by Mark Zuckerberg had pocketed U.S. $ 523 million (Rp 6, 38 trillion), skyrocketed U.S. $ 64 million compared to the end of 2012.

Facebook says its financial scintillating as inflated advertising revenues exceeded U.S. $ 2.34 billion (Rp28, 5 billion), up 76 percent compared to the year 2012. Special mobile ad reportedly boosted to 53 percent.

In terms of number of users of Facebook was still a lot of takers. FB active users daily reached 757 million accounts in December 2013, up 22 percent compared to the same period last year.

"Facebook closes in 2013 with a very satisfying achievement," said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was quoted V3.

"We are ready to welcome the next decade and continue to linking up to the rest of the world," he said.

Seeing the performance of mobile advertising is more sexy, Zuckerberg said the company will focus on the development of the mobile universe surrounding the next few years.

"Overall, the year 2013 was an important year for us. If the year 2012 was a turning point of the main products PC to mobile products, then in 2013 it is time to turn to the mobile business," said Zuckerberg.

"I hope 2014 will be a year where we can start to deliver a new experience to Facebook users to their mobile phones and tablets, like never before," he said.

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Fun Read Article at This New Facebook Application

Fun Read Article at This New Facebook Application | Facebook has just launched a new mobile application that Paper. This application differs from Facebook - radically overhauled and provide a different experience when the user malihat status updates, photos, and videos posted by friends. This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

Paper Facebook allows users to navigate the news one by one with ease and comfort. Yes, this is essentially a specialized application for reading online news and share articles.

This application contains a collection of the News Feed of Facebook account, which the user can select different topics or themes ranging from sports, fashion to culinary from various news sources that have been published.

Interestingly, not just read other people's articles, users can also create their own articles and set display the article before you publish it.

At the bottom of the screen on every page of icons `Like`, `Comment` and `Share`. The interface looks more simple than Facebook, at least similar to Flipboard.

Users can also shake the screen to look at pictures with ease and enlarge the size of the photo to make it look more obvious. There is also a video player with full-screen display automatically. In fact, each decorated with a cover article interesting.

"With this app you invite people to spend a little time to appreciate the content. Almost like when you go to the museum and you spend a little time with interesting things," said Facebook Product Designer Mike Matas, as quoted by The Telegraph.

But unfortunately for the moment Facebook Paper is only available for iOS devices and not inform when it will offer a version for Android. The new app also reportedly available for iPhone users in the United States.

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Survey: "E-mail" More Powerful for Marketing

Survey: "E-mail" More Powerful for Marketing | Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is now being utilized by the company or brand to promote. The hope is to gain more customers and increase business. Is this move really effective? This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

In a survey conducted by McKinsey & Company, was the main weapon for the actors to promote marketing is not social media, but electronic messages or e-mails.

E-mail referred to by McKinsey & Company has a 40 times better efficacy than the combination of two popular social networks, Facebook and Twitter.

Moreover, compared with the social media, people who open the e-mail offer products or services and conduct transactions turns out three times as many.

However, this finding is called will not last long. That is, user behavior will be changed because of the habit of opening the e-mail has dropped 20 percent when compared to the time period of 2008 to 2013.

E-mail is still effective, but the perpetrators are also encouraged to start a marketing campaign through social media to engage consumers and led the transaction.

With so many changes made ​​by social media services marketing to attract actors, then the gap between e-mail and social media will be increasingly depleted.

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Every Day, Facebook Opened 750 Million People

Every Day, Facebook Opened 750 Million People

Every Day, Facebook Opened 750 Million People | The number of "resident" active social networking site Facebook has skyrocketed rising. This further shows the dominance of artificial Mark Zuckerberg's service in the global social networking business. This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

While the release of fourth quarter 2013 financial report, Facebook also revealed the latest update number of active users.

As quoted from The Next Web, recorded in December, the monthly active users Facebook now has surpassed the 1.23 billion account. According to the Facebook claim, the value showed an increase of up to 16 per cent from the same period in 2012.

Most of the monthly active users access Facebook through mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets. Facebook reveals, there are 945 million users who access the social network via mobile. The figures symbolize 39 percent increase from the previous year.

Meanwhile, the average number of daily users, Facebook has reached 757 million accounts. Users who access Facebook every day is no less substantial, amounting to 556 million accounts.

Like ever before, the number of mobile users is still the most important thing for Facebook. Facebook is now a public company must prove to investors that users continue to access Facebook while "moving".

Facebook effort seems to have paid off. During the quarter, it was noted that about 76.83 percent of the account is actively accessing the service each month. Meanwhile, the average daily active users Facebook from mobile devices reached 73.44 percent.

These figures increased from 40 percent in 2011, 50 and 60 percent in 2012, and eventually reached 70 percent in 2013. In 2014 alone, the figure is expected to rise to 80 percent.

From the financial point of view, Facebook managed to get a revenue of 2.59 billion U.S. dollars during the quarter. The value of successfully "beat" analyst predictions that predict Facebook will get a revenue of 2.33 billion U.S. dollars.

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Opera Mobile Store Packed With 100 Million People

Opera Mobile Store Packed With 100 Million People | Opera Mobile Store, the fifth largest mobile application store in the world, today announced the achievement of a number of downloaders visits 105 million visitors per month, per quarter as of the end of 2013. This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

As a cross-platform application store in the world, the Opera Mobile Store is experiencing rapid growth in the last 12 months, which is 172 per cent since the end of 2012.

Today, the Opera Mobile Store offers more than 200,000 mobile applications and games cross-platform, including Android, Java, BlackBerry, Symbian, and iOS.

Interestingly, of the three largest state by using Opera Mobile Store in the world, including Indonesia, was third after India and the United States.

Figures visit the page and download the Opera Mobile Store in each reportedly grew 250 percent in a year. Opera 1.7-fold gain new users in 2013 from the previous year.

In addition, the ratio of visits compared to the download (visit-to-free ratio) also increased by 20 percent, which means that users spend more time to search and download more content.

While Android users grew significantly in 2013, with a download rate is almost equivalent to the number of Java users. Android application download now reached 42.7 percent, an increase of 16.8 percent in a year.

"Mobile Store launched September 2011, based on technology acquired Handster Opera. Only in the period of about two years, the Opera Mobile Store has shown significant growth, from 18 million user visits per month to 100 million and has experienced growth in the number of applications offered up to five fold, "said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software, in a statement.

"Compression technology in the Opera browser, supported by various types of applications in the Opera Mobile Store that cater for a variety of platforms successfully increases the popularity of the stores around the world," said Boilesen.

The users can access the Opera Mobile Store via Opera Mini mobile browser, Mobile Classic, and Opera for Android. This application stores into one mobile platform to distribute content in some countries which are the largest mobile market in the world such as India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa.

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LinkedIn Users Can Connect With WeChat

LinkedIn Users Can Connect With WeChat | Social media professional site LinkedIn has several strategies to increase the number of users. One is to integrate the service with WeChat chat application.

This latest update allows users to connect with a LinkedIn account WeChat account. It is called to raise the profile of LinkedIn users WeChat among users, especially in China. As reported by The Next Web pages. This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

As is known in his native country, WeChat has an estimated 500 million active users. This number does not include 270 million active users around the world, outside of China.

The founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman has previously acknowledged the importance of the Android ecosystem in China. It seemed to be a marker for LinkedIn to focus work on the market in one of the most populous countries in the world.

LinkedIn fame as one of the social media sites is increasing. In a recent report released in the third quarter of 2013, LinkedIn has recorded more than 259 million monthly active users.

This makes LinkedIn more superior than Twitter, which until the end of the third quarter of 2013 only has 230 million active users.

In a separate report, LinkedIn and even lets teens have a new account, to make it more preferable than Facebook and Twitter.

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Google Commemorating 200 Years of Birth Architects Statue of Liberty

Google Commemorating 200 Years of Birth Architects Statue of Liberty | Google re-create a doodle to commemorate a figure that contribute to the world. The figure was none other than Eugne Viollet-le-Duc, an architect and leading minds from France who was born 200 years ago, on January 27, 1814.

Eugne Viollet-le-Duc is an architect hired to design the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty, which is used as a gift from France to the United States. But unfortunately, he had died before the project was completed. This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

The man who was born in the city of Paris is popular because it is considered as a pioneer of Gothic revival architecture. Eugne full name Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, he was well-known through his artwork that is 'restoration' of medieval buildings.

Viollet-le-Duc also a philosophical, republican, clerical, and rebels. He participated in the Revolutionary barricades joined in July 1830 and refused to join the ... cole des Beaux-Arts.

The works of Viollet-le-Duc average restorative to design buildings that have stood independently. It is contrary to the trend of Beaux-Arts architecture prevailing at that time. Therefore, he is often derided by the people of his day.

Viollet-le-Duc completed his education in Italy in 1835 and was immediately given the task of restoring a number of monasteries and castles during the Second French Empire, including the crown of thorns at Notre Dame de Paris.

Then in 1874, Viollet-le-Duc resign as diocesan architect of Paris and was replaced by Paul Abadie.

In his old age, Viollet-le-Duc settled in Lausanne, Switzerland. In this city he used to build a resting place villa lived up to the age cap on 17 September 1879, at the age of 65 years.

Google Doodle by Google was first installed in 1998, which was then displays the Burning Man festival, which was attended by the two inventors of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google Doodle is now a common feature for celebrating special moments with unique illustrations on the main page of the site this search.

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