The English Blog » Facebook http://www.arabic-b.com/english More than a Blog Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:58:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 60 Million use “Facebook Connect” Monthly! http://www.arabic-b.com/english/2009/12/12/60-million-use-facebook-connect-monthly/ http://www.arabic-b.com/english/2009/12/12/60-million-use-facebook-connect-monthly/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:58:48 +0000 admin http://www.arabic-b.com/english/?p=482 Social networking site “Facebook” said that the service users “Facebook Connect” has reached more than 60 million per month, of whom 70% outside the United States.
Since the launch of the service last December, did it more than 80 thousand sites include, including the one hundred largest U.S. site, according to company statistics, “comScore” specialized in research and Internet markets.
The service also works on some devices such as a phone “iPhone” and the video games, “Xbox”.
The service “Facebook Connect” provides access to various locations with the same user account on the site “Facebook”.

]]> http://www.arabic-b.com/english/2009/12/12/60-million-use-facebook-connect-monthly/feed/ 0 Facebook is the third largest democracy in the world http://www.arabic-b.com/english/2009/10/03/facebook-is-the-third-largest-democracy-in-the-world/ http://www.arabic-b.com/english/2009/10/03/facebook-is-the-third-largest-democracy-in-the-world/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:04:33 +0000 admin http://www.arabic-b.com/english/?p=258 The world was turned upside down when he tried to organizers of the Facebook site of the famous social networking a few days ago that they surreptitiously changing the way they deal with personal data users – where they want their employees to notify its 175 million people that anything they will be published on the Internet Social will be transformed into private property Balves Facebook forever – which has aroused wide reactions confined between feelings of anger and frustration among the masses of users around the world.
In spite of that, wounded officials Facebook severe state of astonishment and disbelief through the submissions received on the background of this difference, and it seemed clear that they have worked to inadvertently dyed the way they manage the site through which the spirit of democracy, which effectively allowed users to have their say and express their views on the nature of policy decisions and operational management of the site.

For his part, Mark Zukrberg – the owner and founder of Facebook -: “We opened Facebook to enable users to participate meaningfully in our policies and our future.” Has brought the unprecedented step after the officials Facebook to change the End User License Agreement (EULA) with the utmost calm, make sure to retain ownership of user data if the users are former users, triggered a wave of anger around the world.

According to what I said a group of experts, the expected changes will mean that the establishment of public forums now to discuss the changes that affect members. If the inclusion of more than seven thousand comment on these forums, the changes will be placed to one of the voting process for membership.

Through the work of a simple percentage calculation, the number of associate members of Facebook after the role played by the respondents to address the initiative of officials of the private network monopoly privacy, it is clear that the site contributed indirectly to show a very significant result may have been absent from the many, namely, that form the third largest entity democracy in the world have shown that democratic voices and presence to accumulated effectively in this arena is hot.

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