Facebook officially launched its Messenger for Windows free downloadable desktop client. The client lets you persistently chat, receive notifications, and read your news feed from your desktop.
Facebook Messenger for Windows can be downloaded here for Windows 7.
Facebook, the world's most popular social networking site with an estimated 845 million active subscribers, has turned eight. Since its launch on February 4, 2004 at Harvard University in Mark Zuckerberg's dormitory room, the social networking giant that has changed our lives over the years has witnessed massive growth and is most likely to have one billion users soon. Millions of people will reflect on the impact Facebook has had on their lives, however big or small that impact may be.
We’ve changed our relationship statuses, sometimes more than we can remember. We’ve flipped through our tagged photos, every once in awhile untagging the ones we now deem unfavorable. We’ve seen friends’ last names change, with their marriages followed by offspring. We’ve said goodbye to fellow Facebook users, our friends whose Walls and now Timelines have become digital memorials. We cried. We smiled. We tell our stories.
Here's a timeline of the most notable events of this social networking wonder:
2004-05: Facebook was only for college students.
2006: Facebook unveiled Notes to have a first crack at blogging. Notes ignited content sharing on Facebook so much — and so early on — that media organizations began opening their eyes to the site’s potential to bring more readers to their stories.
2007: Early signs of Facebook trumping MySpace as the go-to social network surfaced. Facebook pounced on this opportunity to dethrone MySpace as social king with a redesign, which involved ditching its trademark “Facebook Guy” logo.
2008: Facebook unleashed its Chat feature, expanded its global reach by adding more languages, and overtook MySpace based on monthly unique visitors. A major redesign then merged user Walls and Mini-Feeds.
2009: Facebook rolled out Usernames allowing users to sign up for custom URLs.
2010: A new Feature called Facebook Messages let users create an @Facebook.com email address. Facebook Messages integrated email, IM and text messages into one inbox.
2011: Facebook Chat gave voice-calling capabilities and Skype-powered video chat. Then, the new Subscribe feature, which allowed anybody to subscribe to personal profiles and see anything others share publicly. And most notably, some of the user profiles evolved into Timelines.
2012: Politicians more than ever are using Facebook and other tools to grab user attention and sway votes.
In its latest move to colonize areas of the web currently outside its orbit, Facebook is planning to roll out a “Subscribe” button for websites allowing users to subscribe websites beyond the social networking site. Facebook began offering the option to subscribe people in September.
Meanwhile, Facebook has started rolling out its much-talked about Timeline feature. The feature is presently rolling out for New Zealand users. The Timeline feature replaces your conventional profile pages with a Facebook history chart, including their recent updates and first friends on the social networking site.
Facebook’s music service, expected to be launched soon, will be the key to the social network’s success moving forward, taking it from a communications platform to a content site with Spotify, MOG and Rdio as three of the company’s launch partners. It will allow users to listen to music from within Facebook.com and to easily share their favorite music, television shows, and movies, effectively turning your profile into an entertainment hub.
Facebook will not directly host or stream any music or media. Instead, it will rely on partners to provide the content. Facebook’s plan is to become a platform for media content in the same way it is a platform for applications and games.
It is a facebooked world and why not! almost the major part of the world is hooked to Facebook after a few years of its inception. It has taken the world of communication by storm and made get-togethers, formal meetings history when in real time now friends, colleagues or any user can interact with their counterpart in real time. And the facebook tsunami is such that the popular joke going around facebook at this time is- Why do we love FACEBOOK but hate to FACE the BOOK.
And for those still scratching their heads, facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004 with around 600 million active users at the beginning of 2011, when the world population stood at roughly 3600 million who were above 13, since facebook didn't permit users below 13 to have accounts and thats roughly 1 in 6 people using the facebook service and if we go a lit more deeply considering the number of 1200 million internet users over 13 then it roughly translates to 1 in 2 internet subscribers using the facebook service.
In all its popularity Facebook also owes a lot to the online farming game Farmville which took the world by storm which was exclusive only to facebook and this game attracted a surge of users with farmville having around 80 million active users by the end of 2010.
So its almost safe to say its a facebooked world. And the domination of facebook also led to obituaries for other social networking services like Orkut, Myspace and Hi5. Facebook also let to rest whatever little was left to the letters and Postal services as sending message through facebook was secure, instant and feedback could be obtained in minutes if not seconds.
You can figure out the popularity of facebook from the fact that everytime the layout of facebook page changes, which is quite frequent, there turns out tout to be a huge uproar all over the world to bring back the last layout back. But it just keeps on re-laying itself.
And the surge of facebook also gave an opportunity for small and big companies as an extra cost cutting measure especially in the marketing and promotion space because in the flash of a second it could reach to millions of users and that too completely free and also getting higher quality feedback from the target group.
Companies took to designing of their logos, framing catch-lines and advertising through facebook and it got a better response through 1000's of creative minds rather than a few minds of an advertising company which it used to hire earlier and also was a cost-saving exercise.
After Email was introduced in the nineties, facebook changed the communication medium forever.
We’ve changed our relationship statuses, sometimes more than we can remember. We’ve flipped through our tagged photos, every once in awhile untagging the ones we now deem unfavorable. We’ve seen friends’ last names change, with their marriages followed by offspring. We’ve said goodbye to fellow Facebook users, our friends whose Walls and now Timelines have become digital memorials. We cried. We smiled. We tell our stories.
Here's a timeline of the most notable events of this social networking wonder:
2004-05: Facebook was only for college students.
2006: Facebook unveiled Notes to have a first crack at blogging. Notes ignited content sharing on Facebook so much — and so early on — that media organizations began opening their eyes to the site’s potential to bring more readers to their stories.
2007: Early signs of Facebook trumping MySpace as the go-to social network surfaced. Facebook pounced on this opportunity to dethrone MySpace as social king with a redesign, which involved ditching its trademark “Facebook Guy” logo.
2008: Facebook unleashed its Chat feature, expanded its global reach by adding more languages, and overtook MySpace based on monthly unique visitors. A major redesign then merged user Walls and Mini-Feeds.
2009: Facebook rolled out Usernames allowing users to sign up for custom URLs.
2010: A new Feature called Facebook Messages let users create an @Facebook.com email address. Facebook Messages integrated email, IM and text messages into one inbox.
2011: Facebook Chat gave voice-calling capabilities and Skype-powered video chat. Then, the new Subscribe feature, which allowed anybody to subscribe to personal profiles and see anything others share publicly. And most notably, some of the user profiles evolved into Timelines.
2012: Politicians more than ever are using Facebook and other tools to grab user attention and sway votes.
In its latest move to colonize areas of the web currently outside its orbit, Facebook is planning to roll out a “Subscribe” button for websites allowing users to subscribe websites beyond the social networking site. Facebook began offering the option to subscribe people in September.
Meanwhile, Facebook has started rolling out its much-talked about Timeline feature. The feature is presently rolling out for New Zealand users. The Timeline feature replaces your conventional profile pages with a Facebook history chart, including their recent updates and first friends on the social networking site.
Timeline is available for select few now. If you want to get the Timeline mode in your Profile now, read here...
Facebook’s music service, expected to be launched soon, will be the key to the social network’s success moving forward, taking it from a communications platform to a content site with Spotify, MOG and Rdio as three of the company’s launch partners. It will allow users to listen to music from within Facebook.com and to easily share their favorite music, television shows, and movies, effectively turning your profile into an entertainment hub.
Facebook will not directly host or stream any music or media. Instead, it will rely on partners to provide the content. Facebook’s plan is to become a platform for media content in the same way it is a platform for applications and games.
It is a facebooked world and why not! almost the major part of the world is hooked to Facebook after a few years of its inception. It has taken the world of communication by storm and made get-togethers, formal meetings history when in real time now friends, colleagues or any user can interact with their counterpart in real time. And the facebook tsunami is such that the popular joke going around facebook at this time is- Why do we love FACEBOOK but hate to FACE the BOOK.
And for those still scratching their heads, facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004 with around 600 million active users at the beginning of 2011, when the world population stood at roughly 3600 million who were above 13, since facebook didn't permit users below 13 to have accounts and thats roughly 1 in 6 people using the facebook service and if we go a lit more deeply considering the number of 1200 million internet users over 13 then it roughly translates to 1 in 2 internet subscribers using the facebook service.
In all its popularity Facebook also owes a lot to the online farming game Farmville which took the world by storm which was exclusive only to facebook and this game attracted a surge of users with farmville having around 80 million active users by the end of 2010.
So its almost safe to say its a facebooked world. And the domination of facebook also led to obituaries for other social networking services like Orkut, Myspace and Hi5. Facebook also let to rest whatever little was left to the letters and Postal services as sending message through facebook was secure, instant and feedback could be obtained in minutes if not seconds.
You can figure out the popularity of facebook from the fact that everytime the layout of facebook page changes, which is quite frequent, there turns out tout to be a huge uproar all over the world to bring back the last layout back. But it just keeps on re-laying itself.
Facebook was founded by a 20 year old Mark Zuckerberg while attending Harvard as a sophomore who used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person" which attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online and on the way also made him one of the youngest billionaires in the world with personal wealth estimated to be $13.5 billion at the end of 2010.
Companies took to designing of their logos, framing catch-lines and advertising through facebook and it got a better response through 1000's of creative minds rather than a few minds of an advertising company which it used to hire earlier and also was a cost-saving exercise.
After Email was introduced in the nineties, facebook changed the communication medium forever.
