Facebook, besides being the one step solution to entertainment and social networking, also comes with a multitude of advertising opportunities for big businesses, entrepreneurs and even independent artists and freelancers. If you know the ways to do it, then Facebook with its more than 200 Million (approx.) unique visitors, can become one of the biggest sources to surge up your financial aspects within no time. So here are 11 tips that will help you use Facebook and profit from it.

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LONDON - While most ladies her age prefer to sit quietly, 103-year-old English lady Ivy Bean loves to Twitter, something that has made her the oldest user of the social networking site. Bean, a great grandmother, decided to join Twitter after she got bored of using Facebook, where she had made 4,800 friends. "I'm enjoying Twitter and having my photo taken - and I'm looking forward to Deal Or No Deal," the Sun quoted her as telling her web readers.

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Phoenix-area mother helps bust Ecstasy ring

PHOENIX — Police are crediting a Phoenix-area mother's tip for the dismantling of an drug ring that even had a price list posted on MySpace. The woman's call to the Maricopa County Methamphetamine Task Force last week helped authorities find the dealers' MySpace page. By Tuesday, police say 10 Ecstasy dealers in Phoenix and nearby cities were under arrest. Authorities say they had a combined clientele of nearly 500 high school and college students.

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LONDON - A pub landlady is all set to make a 'Royal' deal by auctioning Camilla's throne - a toilet seat used by the Duchess of Cornwall - on eBay.

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LONDON - Natural 'barcodes' of information, built into human faces for recognition of other people, may also help improve face recognition software, according to a study.Faces convey a vast range of information about people, including their gender, age and mood. For humans, the ability to locate a face is important as this is where we pick up many of our cues for social interactions.While recognising a person's face is a complex process, the first steps to processing visual information in the brain are thought to be more basic and to rely on the orientation of features such as lines.

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A University of Kansas professor is researching details of online relationships forged on social networking sites and determining their significance, depth and potential. Nancy Baym, associate professor of communication studies, became interested early on in how the Internet shapes interpersonal communication and of late has focused her research on social networking sites in particular.

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The wiki software has been one of the outstanding technologies developed in the last decade. It is  essentially a collaborative software that runs any wiki system. The software allows the users to search, read, add and edit content using a common web browser. This improves the content of the wiki. It is an application server that runs on one or more web servers. The original content is stored in a file system and the modified content is stored in the relational database management system. With this web-based application any user is capable to create a comprehensive knowledge base or an interactive website for ny personal, corporate or social platform. It allows the knowledge to be shared with the user's community. Here's my list of top 10 wiki software for you.

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WASHINGTON - Two dozen Indians made it to the Forbes list of 'World's Richest' with four of them among the top 10, as Warren Buffett dethroned Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who held the top slot for 13 straight years.

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CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Sunday inaugurated the third generation (3G) services of the state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), and said the subscribers of the telecom major would be able to make long distance calls for 50 paise per minute from next month under the proposed 'India-Golden 50′ scheme.

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Userful Multiplier has been much talked about for its innovation that could virtually turn 1 ordinary PC into 10. This time the company has joined hands with ThinNetworks to supply 356,800 virtualized desktops to schools in all of Brazil's 5,560 municipalities. It's the largest ever virtual desktop deployment in the world. Computers have grown into   daily lives. This has driven the IT companies to focus on programs and initiatives to spread computer education at school level.  Userful's new efforts are being etched out to enlighten the school students on Computer. Full article (289 words) »