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After the launching of “SUBSCRIBE” in Facebook, Some Journalist & Blogger finds a way to communicate with a larger audience of readers by enabling Subscribe option in their Facebook profile.

Facebook also very mush excited with this tremendous features  as Naomi Gleit, Facebook’s director of product, told the Huffington Post. “Our mission is to connect people and help them share. The goal of this new feature really is to give people more control over how they do that,”

So here are Some Must Subscribe Facebook Profiles of Journalists & Bloggers.

To turn on Subscribe, go to https://www.facebook.com/about/subscribe or check this step by step guide to enables Facebook Subscribe https://blogoholic.in/2011/11/15/set-facebook-subscribe/.

• Ann Curry, TODAY Show/NBC News

• Brian Stelter, reporter at The New York Times

• Ayman Mohyeldin, NBC News, Egypt Correspondent

• Elizabeth Spiers, editor of The New York Observer

• Brian Storm, executive producer at MediaStorm

• Craig Kanalley, Huffington Post, senior traffic and trends editor

• Esther Vargas, editor at Peru21

• Pete Cashmore, CEO and founder of Mashable, CNN columnist

• Anthony De Rosa, Social Media Editor at Reuters

• Frank Bruni, The New York Times.

• Liz Gannes, AllThingsD reporter

• Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist

• Robert Scoble, Scobleizer

• Nick Bilton, The New York Times reporter and lead technology writer

• Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media

• Jenna Wortham, New York Times reporter

• Franz Strasser, video journalist at BBC News

• Om Malik, founder of GigaOmniMedia

• Jessica Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal repoter

• Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times South Asia Correspondent

• Mathew Ingram, GigaOm writer

• MG Siegler, writer at TechCrunch

• Ben Parr, Editor at Large at Mashable

• Bilal Randere, Online Producer at Al Jazeera

• Laurie Segall, CNN Money producer

• Daniela Capistrano, Online Producer at “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”

• Mark Milian, reporter at CNN.com

• Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch

• Brian Ries, The Daily Beast social media editor

• Jenn Van Grove, senior reporter at Mashable

• Liz Heron, The New York Times, social media editor

• Jason DeRusha, WCCO reporter/anchor

• Walt Mossberg, AllThingsd columnist

• Amanda Zamora, Washington Post, social media & engagement editor

• Gregory Korte, reporter at USA Today

• Jen Lee Reeves, Interactive Director at KOMU

• Martin Beck, Los Angeles Times engagement editor

• P. Kim Bui, KPCC Social Media Editor

• Alexander B. Howard, Gov. 2.0 Washington Correspondent at O’Reilly Media

• Doug Crets, tech blogger at RWW

• Jeff Sonderman, Poynter writer

• Patrick Witty, international picture editor at TIME

• Tyson Evans, assistant editor of interactive news at The New York Times

• Mark W. Smith, web editor and columnist at Detroit Free Press

• Irina Slutsky, reporter at Age Age

• Dan Ackerman, senior editor at CNET

• Paul Takahashi, multimedia journalist at the Las Vegas Sun

• Rosa Golijan, contributing writer at MSNBC

• Jim MacMillan, journalist in residence for War News Radio at Swarthmore College

• Dan Petty, social media editor at The Denver Post

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Late last night, one of Diaspora‘s four co-founders, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, had passed away. With much sadness, Techcrunch now confirmed this terrible news with the Diaspora team.

Ilya was just 22. To see any member of our community pass is sad, but for one so young to go is absolutely crushing. The cause of death is currently unconfirmed.

Our sincerest condolences to Ilya’s family, friends, and the entire Diaspora team.

As Per Chunch base Diaspora is a project begun by four students at NYU’s Courant Institute. They propose to build an open-source, distributed social network as an alternative to companies such as Facebook.

The team decided to raise $10,000 using Kickstarter by June 1. In light of Facebook’s recent moves concerning privacy, the team has received far more support than expected. With news coverage by Fox on May 11th and a writeup from the New York Times on May 12th exposure took off. The company had raised more than $178,000 by May 21st.

• Websaite name - joindiaspora.com
• Blog - http://blog.joindiaspora.com/

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On October 19 in Hong Kong, Google took the wraps off Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich), the biggest update to the company’s popular mobile operating system since the tablet-optimized Android 3.0 (aka “Honeycomb”) debuted in early 2011.

The Ice Cream Sandwich release brings a new focus on ease-of-use and aesthetics. While Android 3.0 focused solely on large-screen mobile devices, Android 4.0 improves many of those features and scales them down for use on mobile phones, too. “We tried to create a palette and a language and a sense of being that’s clean and modern and graphic, but isn’t a straightjacket.” Matias Duarte, who head Android’s user experience team, told This Is My Next. “We’ve taken what Honeycomb has done and pumped up the snooty design quotient, and we’ve toned down the geeky nerd quotient. We’ve made it a lot more accessible. But we haven’t taken it in a new direction.”

See the biggest new features Google’s Android 4.0 has to offer (below), then check out Samung’s Galaxy Nexus, the first device built specifically for Ice Cream Sandwich.

• More Camera Features - What’s different about camera functions in Android 4.0? A whole lot, starting with Instagram-esque photo-editing tools and deeper integration with social networks. TechCrunch is gaga over the improvements, lauding the “image stabilization, improved autofocus, and integration with other apps for sending photos or instant upload to Google+. Oh, and who could forget built-in face detection, panorama and time lapse modes, and on-the-fly photo retouching and enhancements.” Like Apple’s new iOS 5, Android users will also be able to access the camera right from the lock screen.

• Sleeker Look - Ice Cream Sandwich’s totally revamped interface places even more emphasis on Google’s search bar and aims at making Android more user-friendly. Among the new features are a new typeface called “Roboto” with more rounded letters, as well as scrollable and re-sizable widgets. The snazzy UI also places more of an emphasis on finger gestures.

• New Security Feature - Android 4.0 users can rest easy, knowing that their devices will feature the nifty Face Unlock, which scans the user’s face before unlocking the gadget.

• Data Management - A data management tool will help the user understand the amount of data their favorite apps use. This tool will also let the user set data limits for herself, and it will send warnings to notify the user when her data use approaches those limits.

• Revamped Browser - Not only will it look sleeker on handsets, Android’s native browser will now place more emphasis on tabs and offline productivity. “Users can keep up to 16 tabs open, view a live preview of each and quickly switch between them,” explains By Genius Report. “Tabs can be closed by flicking them off of the screen much like webOS or RIM’s tablet OS. Google also automatically syncs bookmarks to your Android browser from Chrome, and users can save pages for offline reading.”

• More Robust Gmail - Gmail users, rejoice! Here’s what’s new with Google’s celebrated email app, according to TechCrunch: “Gmail now supports two-line previews, and sports a new context-sensitive action bar at the bottom of the screen. Gesture support allows you to swipe left and right between emails.” Boy Genius Report notes that Gmail will support offline search, too.

• Improved Voice Dictation - Though it’s no Siri, Google has upgraded its hands-free speech recognition feature, which lets users dictate text, send messages, open media files and more. Per PCWorld: “ICS voice command software now has a hands free feature that lets you activate voice actions just by speaking to your phone instead of pressing a button.”
  “play music, search the web, and dictate notes, SMS and email messages.”

• NFC Sharing - Google touts the security of its Android Beam wireless transfer system, which lets users share content between devices equipped with Near-Field Communication (aka NFC) technology. Engadget explains how the system will work:
  Much like HP’s ill-fated Touch-to-share functionality, it will let you simply tap two NFC-enabled devices together to share a piece of information. That will work with a range of apps and services in Android, including YouTube videos, contact information, maps, web pages” and more. While you can transfer content from apps, you can’t transfer the apps themselves, but Engadget notes that Android Beam “links to apps in the Android Market.

• Virtual Buttons - Designed with an eye toward button-free Android handsets, version 4.0 of Google’s operating system relies more on finger gestures and integrates navigation buttons and music controls into the user interface. The feature could lead to a new generation of sleeker devices with fewer hardware buttons.
  But will these virtual buttons get in user’s way? TechCrunch says no: “[T]hey smartly disappear when viewing video or in widescreen mode.”
• Notifications Upgrade - ”The notification window is now slightly translucent with a glowing dot when you pull it downward,”according to This Is My Next. “Notifications can be swiped away one at a time, mirroring webOS 3.0 behavior. You can access your notifications on the lock screen if you’re not using a passcode, and you can jump quickly to your settings through the window shade.”

• Universal Android OS - Version 4.0 will work on any Android device, be it tablet or smartphone. “Ice Cream Sandwich is the OS that’s supposed to put a damper on all that fragmentation talk,” writes VentureBeat. “[T]he 2.X OS for phones and the 3.X OS for tablets will give way to the 4.X OS for all Android devices.”

• Social Integration - ICS bakes deeper social integration into many apps. Perhaps the most social is the “People” app. BGR writes that this new app “pulls in contact information and photos from social networks for your whole address book. Whenever a contact updates his or her info, it is also automatically updated on your phone.”

• When Will It Be Available? - Though Ice Cream Sandwich officially launched on October 19, many Android phones won’t run the new software immediately. The Galaxy Nexus will ship in November with Ice Cream Sandwich preloaded. But when will it be available for other devices? And for which? Google’s Gabe Cohen offered Engadget some insight into Google’s plans for the OS. “Currently in the process for releasing Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S,” he said, adding that all devices running Android 2.3 (aka “Gingerbread”) should “theoretically” be able to run Android 4.0. However, he didn’t share a timeline.
  Pocket Lint obtained confirmation that ICS will be coming to the newly announced Motorola DROID RAZR “at the start of 2012.”
  HTC phones may not be ICS-ready for some time, though. According to an HTC statement, posted by Engadget, the manufacturer is “currently reviewing its features and functionality to determine [its] upgrade plans.”

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For many, being “unfriended” is a fate worse than death.

But it’s not something you’d know about right away.

In previous versions of Facebook, there was no easy way to see which of your “friends” had decided to sever your relationship on the social network. Sure, you could always go to their profile to check, but that required the effort of remembering who they were.

While “old Facebook” made the online friendship breakup a bit less-in-your-face, the new Facebook Timelinemakes it way easier to see who’s decided to ax your online friendship.

If you’ve already enabled your new profile, you can check it out right now.

Here’s how you can see who’s unfriended you:

First, pick a year from your timeline (any year since you joined will do).

Then, find the “Friends” box for that year. This will tell you how many people you added in this year.

Click on the link that reads something like “Made ___ New Friends.” That link will bring up a new box, showing all the people you were friends with. If an “Add Friend” button appears next to their name, then you are no longer friends.

Granted this goes both ways. The “Add Friend” button will appear next to the people you’ve unfriended, not just the people who have unfriended you. It doesn’t show who ended the relationship.

This feature, however, lies at the core of the new Facebook changes, providing insight into how a person’s life and online relationship change over time. As Mark Zuckerberg said at the f8 keynote, the new profile is really going to give people a chance to put their whole history online.

Whether users regard this as a privacy breach remains to be seen, but it must be noted that these “unfriendings” are only easily available to users looking at their own profiles. If someone else is looking at your “Friends” box from a certain year, they can see that you were friends once, but not the current status of the relationship.

Want to know whats new in Facebook Timeline Click.

Source :- http://www.buzzfeed.com & http://www.huffingtonpost.com

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Could a Facebook competition encourage users to cut their utility usage? Can a mobile communication network help rural farmers share crop tips? Bringing together activists, world leaders and tech influencers, the second annual Social Good Summit seeks to answer these questions and more.

The summit, which kicked off on Monday in New York, aims to find new ways to use new media and technology to make the world a better place.

Presented by Mashable, the UN and New York nonprofit community center 92Y, the summit will host a number of events, including an inaugural “Startups for Good Challenge.” This competition showcases new businesses whose primary goal is to tackle, and solve, domestic and international issues. The organizations will compete for a chance to win a $10,000 cash prize.

The following eight finalists have been selected to pitch their idea at the Social Good Summit:

• Kopernik - For those living in remote areas, a lack of basic necessities may be due to a lack of accessibility. Kopernik aims to solve this problem by providing an online marketplace that offers such simple technology as a rollable water container or a portable filter that removes bacteria. Kopernik connects tech providers and investors to supply these items to NGOs.

• Simple Energy - When you show off your reduced utility bill on Facebook, you may win some rewards, thanks to Simple Energy. The organization encourages users to share their energy-saving ways and compete to see who can take on the most at-home green measures, such as switching to energy-saving lightbulbs, according to TechCrunch.

• Catchafire - Catchafire recruits volunteers with marketing and finance skills and pairs them with the nonprofits that need their help. Volunteers are matched with organizations based on their skills, interests and availability.

• Roseicollis Technologies - At just $10 a panel, the SunSaluter makes bringing the use of solar energy into the developing world an affordable possibility. The technology increases energy output by 40 percent due to its tilt,according to Dell Social Innovation, requires less maintenance than a motorized panel and has already improved the lives of 1,000 people in Kenya.

• em[POWER] Energy Group - em[POWER] Energy Group makes use out of waste by working with communities that rummage through landfills for food and shelter. It improves the sorting process of recyclables, turns organic and water waste into electricity and creates high quality compost.

• Awaaz.De - Awaaz De means “give voice” and this organization is doing just that. The India-based nonprofit enables people in emerging countries to get expert advice, just by dialing a toll-free number. Ranging from teachers to farmers, users can post, browse and reply to others’ voice messages to learn–and teach–how to best perform their trade.

• Sparked - Busy professionals chained to their desks have no excuse not to volunteer now that Sparked has arrived. Sparked invites do-gooders to contribute to a range of causes, without stepping away from the computer. One volunteer in Jordan, for example, helped the Ronald McDonald House Charities in America with an Arabic translation, according to Mashable.

• Prove My Concept - Prove My Concept is an educational software company whose goal is to inspire and support the next generation of young entrepreneurs. The organization provides a framework for high school students to analyze their business concepts independently, with teacher feedback.

Source :- http://www.huffingtonpost.com

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Online calling service Skype, which Microsoft said earlier this year it would acquire for $8.5 billion, announced its own acquisition on Sunday: according to a blog post from Skype CEO Tony Bates, the company is buying GroupMe, a New York-based startup just over a year old that offers users a way to send group messages from their phones.

Though Skype did not offer details on the purchase price, according to All Things Digital, Skype is paying “around $85 million for the company,” which was valued at $35 million during a $10 million round of funding raised in November of last year. Earlier this month, GroupMe, which has around 20 employees, celebrated its one-year anniversary in New York. Business Insider notes the company has “a few million users” and sends “sends more than 100 million texts per month.”

TechCrunch and the New York Times report that Skype has been in discussions with GroupMe since May, the same month Microsoft’s Skype acquisition was announced.

“The GroupMe team has created an incredibly sticky group messaging experience that works across mobile devices and platforms, making it a perfect addition to our voice, video and text products,” Bates wrote in a statement. “We’re excited about introducing their disruptive product to our global user base.”

Bates offered few details on Skype’s plans for GroupMe, though noted in his blog, “this latest acquisition, coupled with our acquisition of Qik earlier this year, augments our role as an innovator in driving unique mobile user experiences.”

What do you make of Skype’s move? How would you want to see Skype integrate GroupMe’s group messaging features? Let us know in the comments below.

Source:- http://www.huffingtonpost.com

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Google+, Google’s latest attempt at developing a popular social networking service, has users in a tizzy because of its no-negotiation policy regarding what it takes to be fake profile names.

According to ZDNet, “a striking number of Google+ accounts” were deleted over the weekend because of questionable profile authenticity. Limor Fried, ZDNet notes, had her Google account revoked–but later restored–for using the pseudonym “Ladyada” on her profile. The site also notes that another suspended user, a former Google employee nonetheless, named Kirrily “Skud” Robert, was asked to scan a photo of his photo ID to prove it was indeed him. Even William Shatner got axed from Google+: the actor, who played Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek, tweeted on July 18, “My Google+ account was flagged for violating standards. Saying hello to everyone apparently is against the rules maybe I should say goodbye?”

Getting cut from Google+ could mean losing more than just your social networking profile–you might even lose access to all of your Google accounts, including Gmail. As PCWorld reports, “to be clear, the stories we’re hearing so far are of people being suddenly frozen out of EVERYTHING…Given who we early adopters are, even a few more days of this unreasonable behavior could abort the whole G+ effort”.

To be fair, Google+ clearly states in its policy documents that members are prohibited from using professional titles, pseudonyms, and unusual characters in their name. “You can be certain you’re connecting with the right person,” Google says in defense of its stance on profiles. “Google Profiles requires you to use the name that you commonly go by in daily life.”

According to a conversation Robert Scoble said he had with Google Vice President of Social, Vic Gundotra, Gundotra acknowledged that Google had made some mistakes, though said Google is working to address how it requires users to use “common names,” as well as how Google communicates with its users. Scoble wrote, “He says they have made some mistakes while doing the first pass at this and they are learning. He also says the team will change how they communicate with people. IE, let them know what they are doing wrong, etc.”

Google seems to hope that using “common names” will create a closer-knit online community.

Nonetheless, it’s understandable that some users are upset about having to show proof of identification–or having their accounts canceled outright without having the chance to petition the decision ahead of time. Signing up for a social network online shouldn’t feel like going to the DMV to get your license renewed, and it’s certainly not what people expect from an Internet company such as Google.

“Google Plus’s names policy seems to have been scribbled on a napkin at the last minute, rushed into production while still half-baked, and confused even further by their haphazard, scattershot approach,” Jon Evans wrote in a post on TechCrunch. ” It’s too bad that the service has sacrificed a pile of goodwill over the last week by repeatedly publicly shooting themselves in the foot.”

Unless Google+ can find a kinder, more efficient and more accurate way of identifying people, then some users might just decide to abandon the service altogether–and not put in the effort required to return.

Source :- http://www.huffingtonpost.com

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In an effort to “prioritize [its] product efforts,” Google announced in a blog post on Wednesday that it will “wind down” Google Labs, the company’s incubator for experimental features and products.

“While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we’re to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead,” Google said in a blog post.

The post links to notes from Larry Page‘s remarks on last week’s earnings call, where the Google co-founder and new CEO said, “Greater focus has also been another big feature for me this quarter — more wood behind fewer arrows.”

Google describes Labs as a “playground where our more adventurous users can play around with prototypes of some of our wild and crazy ideas and offer feedback directly to the engineers who developed them.”

Labs within Google Maps and Gmail will not be affected, the company said in an afternoon update to its blog post, so those afraid of losing popular Gmail Labs features like Multiple Inboxes and Undo Send need not worry. “We’ll continue to experiment with new features in each of our products,” Google said.

Products like Google Alerts, Google Maps, Google Reader and Google Docs all began in Labs and have, in Google-speak, “graduated” to become mainstream features.

Other products, like Google Listen and Google Squared remain in Labs.

Google said in the announcement that some of the experiments in Labs will end while others will live on in other technologies and products.

Page said last week that Google has “done substantial internal work simplifying and streamlining our product lines,” and TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis writes that closing Labs is “yet another step towards a more focused, streamlined Google.”

Google announced in June that it would close Google PowerMeter and Google Health.

Source :- http://www.huffingtonpost.com

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Entering the working world with a degree and a smile can be a daunting task for many a student, which is why LinkedIn has added new profile sections specifically targeted toward students.

Now, future interns can add a variety of accomplishments to their profile, letting prospective employers know that they have more experience and expertise than “worked as a historical re-enactor.”

New profile sections include: projects, honors and awards, organizations, test scores and courses. Students can add these sections by going to their profiles in edit mode and clicking the “add sections” bar.

Source :- http://mashable.com

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Mark Zuckerberg promised “something awesome” for Wednesday’s conference. What Facebook delivered is a trio of new chat features, including the earlier reported Skype-video chat integration.

The new features include a redesigned chat interface, group chats, and the aforementioned video chat, all explained on Facebook’s blog.

The group chat feature will let users chat with multiple friends at once by selecting “Add Friends to Chat.” According to Facebook, 50 percent of users are using the Groups feature, for things like co-ordinating events. Users can add friends that are not online at the time, and those friends will receive a summary of the chat later on. The feature rolls out today.

The chat redesign takes into account the size of a user’s browser window and adjusts accordingly. Zuckerberg noted that users have found it difficult to start chats with the previous design. A new sidebar appears when the window is large enough and lists your most-messaged friends, even ones who are not online. A simplified chat tab will give users “one-click access” to chatting with friends. The new chat design will also roll out today.

Video chat, which the company collaborated on with Skype, lets users click a video call button at the top of their chat window in order to start the call. Users can also leave video messages for people who aren’t there. Once a user clicks the video chat feature, a plug-in is downloaded to enable the call in “ten to twenty seconds.” The feature will roll out to everyone in the next few weeks, though users can get on earlier if they’re eager by going to Facebook.com/videocalling. It is not yet available on the mobile app.

“We have a very longstanding relationship with Microsoft,” said Zuckerberg, who noted that Facebook had actually been working with Skype prior to Microsoft’s acquisition.

Zuckerberg also revealed that Facebook has hit 750 million worldwide users, with 4 billion pieces of information shared each day.

Source :- http://www.huffingtonpost.com

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