Facebook Inc. filed for an initial public offering Wednesday that could value the social network between $75 billion and $100 billion, putting the company on track for one of the biggest U.S. stock-market debuts of all time.

The company hopes to raise as much as $10 billion when it begins selling shares this spring, said people familiar with the matter. Potential buyers got their first look at its financials Wednesday, which showed the company produced a $1 billion profit last year from $3.71 billion in revenues. The company derives 85% of those revenues from advertising, with the rest from social gaming and other fees.

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Managing even just the day-to-day basics of your online life can be a challenge, these days, with work and personal email accounts to monitor, Facebook and Twitter to check, calendars, task lists and more to be monitored.

But if you’re tired of navigating a raft of interfaces just to do essentially the same thing – check for, or send messages – then the free Zimbra Desktop may be able to help, as it integrates many useful services into a single application.

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1. How to Use Online Social Networks for Your Business?

Do you use online social media networks to gain benefit for your business? Do you have Facebook page, group or profile? Maybe Twitter, Linked in or Google+? Many people became masters in using social media networks to meet business partners and clients and to get huge traffic from the followers. Are you one of them?

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Do you want to make your Windows Live Messenger more special and have more animated emoticons integrated into it? If you do, then SweetIM can be a good choice, this funny enchantment tool will make your chatting experience more vivid and lively and will not let you down.

SweetIM works well with Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, Facebook, IE explorer and Firefox. It comes with animated emoticons, winks, sounds and nudges that can make your messaging windows really cute. The software is only 362KB in size and doesn’t occupy much space of your disk, and it takes less than one minute to install. Once you finished the installation, you’ll find the interface is clear and the tool is very easy to use. To those who really love animated winks, this app is what they have been waiting for. And much more, it’s FREE.

SweetIM brings you different online experience when working on chatting tools, Facebook and web browsers.

1. Instant Messenger fun

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Once SweetIM is installed, Re-login your account, a funny bar will appear on the conversation box of your Windows live Messenger (MSN). It contains six options for you to choose: Emoticon, wink, video wink, display picture, special content and animated alphabet keyboard. Each one provides with a large amount of colorful Emoticons which you can pick and send to your friends. When you use these smileys or winks to express your Facial expressions, feeling and what you think, it can be really funny and effective. Read the rest of this entry »

Google introduced a new feature to its search engine. It is a feature that enables users to users to recommend and share search results they like with friends with a simple one-click button.

Google’s 'Plus One' will initially be limited to a mere 2% of Google’s English Language users in America. The tool will be very similar to Facebook’s 'Like' tool which has become universally used by websites outside of Facebook.

The feature will involve a small icon located next to each search result. Those users that are loggin into their g-mail accounts will be able to share links with friends via a host of Google services. Eventually it is hoped to spread onto Twitter and possibly even Facebook allowing users share with contacts.

The results of user recommendations will potentially influence the ranking of sites in Google’s search result listings. It will lead to a more transparent and user based search engine.

Google also announced plans to expand the service to news publishers to ensure popular and relevant news is more visible.

Microsoft recently has released a new version of the Bing browser toolbar, which includes Facebook integration.

The Bing Bar leverages Microsoft’s continuing relationship with Facebook. “People told us that they spend a huge amount of time on Facebook these days, and we are building on our relationship with Facebook to bring a great Web experience to our joint customers,” Joshua Schnoll, a member of the Bing team, wrote on the Bing Community blog.

The notification capabilities on Bing toolbar could help users know their new activity on their Facebook account, according to Schnoll.

In addition, the Bing Bar features Facebook and e-mail alerts, weather advisories, translation alerts for Websites in languages different from users’ browser, and breaking-news updates. The application’s e-mail preview supports Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail.

After weeks of negotiation, the Chicago-based “deal of the day” website Groupon has finally rejeceted the acquisition priced at $6 billion from the search giant, Google.Inc.

The news of the breakup was first reported by the Chicago Tribune’s Breaking Business blog, which has tracked Chicago-based Groupon’s meteoric rise since the company was founded in 2008.

Groupon, led by Andrew Mason is one of the fastest-growing companies. It now has 35 million subscribers; 3,000 employees; and operates in more than 300 cities around the world. It has sold more than 18 million coupons for local merchants since its launch, and is reportedly turning a profit on sales that press reports put as high as $2 billion a year.

The company continued to consider remaining independent and pursuing an IPO in the future, people familiar with the matter have said.

The online market for local business advertising is expected to grow rapidly and is coveted by other large Web companies including Facebook Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

Yahoo also pursued an acquisition of Groupon, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Facebook, the biggest social network in the world is redesigning the profile pages of its users to help then share more details, display photos and highlight friends.

According to the company, the overhaul aims to transform what’s now a jumbled collection of details into a streamlined window into who you are and what you’re up to. A new “bio” space at the top offers a quick overview, and a more-prominent photo section spotlights images users have recently posted and photos of users tagged by their friends.

Users can now feature important friends in their profile, while previously only random selection appeared. And besides listing their job, users can now add the projects they worked on. It’s all a move toward curating a more complete picture of a person, something that will likely appeal to Facebook’s advertisers.

The company did not make any changes to its privacy policy as part of the redesign.

Facebook launched the changes ahead of an appearance on 60 Minutes by CEO Mark Zuckerberg Sunday evening.

“You can see all the things that you have in common with that person,” Zuckerberg said. “And it’s just like, it gives you this amazing connection with that person in a way that the current version of the profile that we have today just doesn’t do.”

A social network service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. A social network service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services.

Facebook, launched in 2004, has since become the largest social networking site in the world. As of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users, which is about one person for every fourteen in the world. But in China,there is another boss of this market——Kaixin001.com.As the latest newcomer to the Facebook clone wars in China, it has been China’s fastest growing social network site and having amassed a staggering 7.5 million users in the first 5 months since it launched in May 2008. Even in 2010, Kaixin001 ranks as the 13th most popular website in China and 67th overall according to Alexa Internet.

Maybe Kaixin001’s success is partly credited to the Great Firewall of China and the cloning of the most successful Facebook applications. But indeed, it is unfair to discribe the factors of success of Kaixin001.com. As we know, who can meet the needs of customers, who may get the prize from customers. kaixin001 is definately not pure clone of facebook, it is a platform which is more friendly for chinese local users to use and play on it. Read the rest of this entry »

In the third quarter, Facebook grabs bigger slice of display ads pie than any other outfit on Amarican web, according to the latest numbers from market-research outfit ComScore.

The sicial networking gaint’s share of display ad impressions held 23.1 percent of all Internet display ads, or 297 billion ad impressions in the past quarter.

The statistic was totaled more than the sum of its nearest four rivals. Yahoo, with 11 percent market share, is ranked second ahead of Microsoft in third of 5 percent, Fox Interactive in fourth with 3.8 percent and Google Sites, currently sitting in fifth place with 2.7 percent.

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