Everyone who uses FACEBOOK, will know lamebook. Well if you don’t know, just goto lamebook.com. But being so famous (well, because of facebook), now facebook, don’t like them. Facebook disabled all postings, shares, like’ings etc etc that relate to lamebook.com.
To know more about this issue, Read the following story , a story which techcrunch.com reported today!
Just make sure not to do something that might make Facebook angry. Otherwise it might nuke every link to your site, choking off this river of traffic that you’ve worked so hard to build.
That’s the message Facebook sent today with its censorship of links to Lamebook, a humor site that posts lewd conversations spotted on the social network. Facebook has confirmed that it is automatically blocking all links to Lamebook and that it has also removed the company’s ‘Fan’ page. Not because the content was offensive, mind you, but because Facebook doesn’t like Lamebook.
The move was precipitated by a legal battle between the two companies. Lamebook filed for a declaratory judgement earlier this month that would assert that it is not violating Facebook’s trademark (the two parties have apparently been in negotiations over this for some time). Unsurprisingly, Facebook followed that up with a suit alleging that Lamebook violated its trademark.
Okay, so Facebook doesn’t like Lamebook’s name. I don’t agree with Facebook’s stance, but fair enough — it isn’t the first big company that’s overzealous when it comes to protecting its trademark. But by blocking Lamebook’s content, Facebook is crossing a line.
Not only is it currently impossible to share a Lamebook link to your News Feed or a friend’s Facebook Wall — you can’t even include them as part of a direct message or email to friends (you get an error message indicating that it’s “abusive or spammy”, which isn’t even accurate). That’s completely outrageous, and it’s a warning flag that comes only a few days after Facebook announced a new hybrid email/IM/SMS product. Do you really want someone to be censoring your outbound email?
Register reported that Apple will be bringing Apple’s idea of multi-tasking to the iPad and a load of other good stuff to iOS devices.
Register said about the event:
The update was announced at the beginning of September, and beta releases have been knocking around for the more adventuresome Apple fan, but later today will see a general release of the update for which the iPad has been waiting, and which everyone else will appreciate too.
Version 4.2 comes with a load of tweaks, but notable is the universal inbox to bring differing email accounts together, the addition of streaming to a an Apple TV box over Apple’s AirPlay – and, if you’re lucky enough to own one of the handful of supported printers, then AirPrint will give your mobile applications a route to physicality.
venturebeat.com reported that facebook is now starting a push to get users to make it their default homepage. In fact, that’s exactly what they are doing with a new “Make Facebook Home” button that is beginning to appear on the top of user’s profiles.
They reported:
Users logging in may be prompted by several pictures of their friends and a customized sentence reading, “See what’s happening with Stephanie, Kim and the rest of your friends the moment you open your browser.” At the end of the sentence is a large blue button that reads “Make Facebook Home.” Upon clicking (which I didn’t want to do) the user has a choice of either making the page their homepage or adding to their homepage tabs.
One can’t help but wonder if this is an attempt to compete with Google and its seeming dominance as a homepage. While Facebook users may be spending more and more time on the service, I can’t imagine people seeing it as beneficial as Google and it’s powerful search capabilities.
We’ve asked Facebook how widely the new feature is being rolled out and when we get a response we will let you know. The company is probably testing the service now to see the adoption rate and whether people see Facebook as a homepage. My bet, is that they click “cancel.”
Today TechCrunch reported that google is giving it’s users a nifty addition which enables them to record all the voice calls.
TechCrunch Reported:
Earlier this month, there were some initial reports
that Google had improved on this feature with a nifty addition: the ability to record inbound Google Voice calls directly from Gmail. Now it looks like Google is rolling out the feature more broadly — we’ve polled a few people and they’re all seeing it, and there are plenty of reports on Twitter of people noticing it for the first time.
3D was there for a long time. Lots of movies came with this technology, but nothing could make an impact like the blockbuster “Avatar” did. Now 3D got a publicity like even cable providers are starting to launch 3D channel.
In UK region SKY will be the first one to provide a dedicated 3D channel. One of the largest Cbale TV provide SKY has announced that they are launching a dedicated 3D channel SKY 3D in coming April.
“The first 3D live sports event will be a football match between Arsenal and Manchester United. There will be one Sky Sports broadcast completely devoted to the 3D showing, with 8 different 3D camera setups. ”
The Afterdawn Reported.
If you have 3D – HDTV, and you are a SKY HD customer, then you can start watching the SKY 3D from their homes as well starting in April. The programming will be free and current set-top boxes are capable of receiving 3D content.
In their efforts to co-create the brand together with the community, Tata DOCOMO has announced a first of its kind ‘CREATE Music Contest’. The contest is the latest one to be introduced on the Tata DOCOMO CREATE platform. The CREATE platform invites talented individuals across India to play with the brand elements of Tata DOCOMO and create various kinds of brand communications.
The CREATE Music Contest is meant for those who have aspirations in the field of music and especially for those who have a passion for music but never had an opportunity to showcase it. The core idea is to allow participants to re-create the Tata DOCOMO brand signature tune into a 30-60 second long tune, keeping the opening and ending the same as the original brand tune. Thus the participants will have to re-create the ‘in-between’ part by means of re-creating it, remixing, singing or any other creative way. All entries should then be uploaded in an mp3 format on the CREATE Music Contest page.
The philosophy behind the contest is respecting the power of ‘DO’, whereby TATA DOCOMO is felicitating the individual prowess by the way of opening up its brand and asking people to play with it. It is also a massive encouragement for the aspiring musicians in India, who are presented with the opportunity to showcase their talent on a big platform. The winning entries stand to win INR 1,00,000 and also gets a chance to be showcased across all brand communication platforms. The Contest will run from the 14th of January till the 31st of March.
The CREATE Music Contest details can be found at ‘create.tatadocomo.com/createmusic’
To find out how to begin participating in the CREATE Music Contest visit: http://create.tatadocomo.com/music-what-to-do.aspx
To listen to the latest CREATE Music contest entries visit: http://create.tatadocomo.com/hear-the-do.aspx
For the CREATE Music Contest, one winning entry will get a cash award of INR 1,00,000 and 10 shortlisted entries will receive a cash reward if INR 10,000 each!
