Awesome Techs

Now facebook gives its users a  “via” feature that lets repost another user’s shared items, with a “via” link attached for attribution. This feateure is likely to available for everyone. To try it, just go to a friend’s posted item in your news feed, click “share,” and you’ll see a “via [your friend’s name]” with an option to remove it. After sharing the shared item will appear on your profile, with a via link that points to your friend’s profile. Your friends will also see the item in their News Feeds, creating the viral loop just like the twitter retweet.

Currently, the feature only works for posted links. See the below posted Pic for knowing how this works.

The Computer Security Giant McAfee along with the Social Community Networking Giant Facebook are taking a big step to improve the security of normal computer users. Today USAtoday posted anews saying,

Tonight, they announced McAfee will make a complimentary six-month subscription of its Internet Security Suite software available to Facebook’s 350 million users.

After six months, Facebook users will be eligible for a special discounted subscription for the software package, which offers PCs protection from viruses, spyware and other online threats.

All users should join the fan page for McAfee to avail this offer. McAfee Internet Security Suite will initially be available to Facebook users in the U.S., UK, Australia, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.

Recently Google launched its own URL Shortening Service “goo.le” .Now it gives youtube also another URL Shortening Service. The domain is “youtu.be”.

To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” with “http://youtu.be/” to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs Plug that shorter URL into a browser, and you’ll see it redirects to that video.

The shortener is exclusive to YouTube links (no surprise, less spam). Its primary function is to share YouTube videos and channels with friends, mostly through YouTube’s AutoShare feature, which syndicates your activity on YouTube to Twitter (Twitter), Facebook (Facebook), and elsewhere.

Moments after we heard reports of Facebook’s new URL shortener, Google launched its own service, aptly called goo.gl.

People share a lot of links online. This is particularly true as microblogging services such as Twitter have grown in popularity. If you’re not familiar with them, URL shorteners basically squeeze a long URL into fewer characters to make it easier to share with others. With character limits in tweets, status updates and other modes of short form publishing, a shorter URL leaves more room to say what’s on your mind — and that’s why people use them.

Google URL shortener is not a stand-alone service; you can’t use it to shorten links directly. Currently, Google URL Shortener is only available from the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner. If the service proves useful, we may eventually make it available for a wider audience in the future.

Facebook recently began automatically shortening URLs that appear in its mobile interface. So, instead of text link to a Facebook photo appear as http://m.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=35877484&id=1310743&l=a373e8038d, you might see it see as http://fb.me/3Bkj7CW, as Polaris Ventures’ Ryan Spoon noticed (see his screenshot, below).

Fb.me also works as a substitute for any other Facebook page. So if you can write http://fb.me/starbucks instead of http://www.facebook.com/starbucks, as blogger Saad Kamal points out, meaning brands with Pages can more easily do things like share links to Facebook on Twitter.

Of course both Facebook and Google’s venture into this space will threaten bit.ly, the most widely-used URL shortener and default service on Twitter and many Twitter clients. Up until now, bit.ly has moved quickly to become the standard shortener. But the sheer volume of short links which both Facebook and Google can produce could soon overwhelm the number of bit.ly links. It’s the data behind the links, however, which is valuable. Whoever can gather the most unified view of all shortened links will end up winning.

In a blog post facebook said that they reached the 350 million users milestone. Now another news by FB.

In a pree event in UK a Facebook exec pointed out that, there are apparently more active users in the Facebook app FarmVille than on all of Twitter.

Farmville is the most active and the largest facebook application with over 69 million users of its own. Now their daily active players count is now up to 26.5 million.

Anyway twitter haven’t officially said anything about their user stats. But a research from eMarketer, that number will be at around 18 million by the end of 2009. This is a huge difference that Facebook can be proud of.

The Xbox Live is recently added with  Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm. And microsoft is saying this proves to be a major hit. And all are welcoming this feature.

According to Microsoft spokesman David Dennis, the first-week figures show that at least 2 million Xbox Live users have logged into Facebook, and that half a million Last.fm accounts were created in the first 24 hours of availability.

But in fact the users atleast some of them are underwhelmed. Also some of them thinks this implementation, how it is implemented is not the way they expected.

Some users have posted status updates as “First and last post from the xbox”. Well this explains what microsoft says, is actually not happening. This may not be a smashing hit at all. This is a new feature, so everyone will be waiting for trying it. So these numbers are quite normal for the first few weeks, What counts is the users who regularly login to facebook and all using XBOX, but for this we have to wait.

One users comment for the reported news at Downloadsquad.com,

Great features in writing, but very poorly executed.

Until I can access Twitter and Facebook through the Guide button, I have no need for either one on the 360.

And Last.FM? What’s the point of turning on the jet engines and leaving your TV on the whole time, just to get an ad-filled music experience with a poor resolution slideshow going on in the background? No thanks. Again, give me music streaming through the Guide button that can be played while gaming, and I’ll actually use it.

Not hard to believe the stats for the week one, but let’s have a look at week 2 stats.