Well, I had a tough time convincing some of my Indian friends that Facebook has far more users than Google's Orkut.  Although Orkut and Facebook was launched almost at the same time, way back in the first quarter of 2004, the later has earned  of popularity beating the giant social network like MySpace. With over 230 million active users Facebook has been dominating the social networking sphere world-wide. While Orkut's dominance remains restricted to Brazil and India. Since July Facebook has started accelerating its coverage in both Brazil and India. In May alone Facebook has doubled its users in Brazil. A similar trend was seen in India where Orkut reigns with 13 million monthly active users. Facebook users doubled from 1.6 million to 3.2 million during May and June. Facebook is fast gobbling up Orkut's strongholds. The element of concern is that the buz on Orkut is losing steam. Whatever be the reason we are hear to discuss 10 ways Orkut can compete with Facebook.

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The most popular social networking site on a global scale, Facebook is trying to welcome developers by keeping some of the core floodgates open so that they get familiar with the system in a better way. If you remember well, most of the recent changes in Facebook has brought about agitation from the Facebook crowd. Be it the designs or the disclaimer statements, Facebook hasn't been too comfortable in announcing them. Now this may just be the chance to allure developers ->  thereby making more apps -> pulling more crowd in with more faciltiies. Quite a similarity to iPhone app market model, no? Full article (169 words) »

So is this the start of collaborative social networking? Adobe has joined hands with one of the most popular social networking sites, Facebook in order to build an application that will use Adobe's Flash platform and the new ActionScript 3 Client Library for Facebook the two companies developed together. So what it basically means you will see Facebook's API built on Adobe Flash with lot for you to develop and use. Though writing Facebook applications in Flash is not new. In fact, 12 of top 20 apps on Facebook use Flash. However, the new tools should make it easier for developers in the future. Considering Adobe's effectiveness and Facebook's popularity we can surely see something positive coming outta this. Full article (326 words) »

Facebook is the most popular choice of social networking around the world. Amongst hundred of other such sites jostling neck to neck, Facebook has quietly emerged to the top and remained there for a long time now. Like Twitter and iPhone, Facebook apps have created a niche and own set of followers for them. Its been long since we have talked about Facebook. So we decided to take a tour of thousands of new apps and bring out the best for you so that you don't lag behind anyone in the new year.

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After all the serious Facebook articles, let's talk about some fun. Today I will discuss 10 popular fun apps from Facebook.

1. iLike

iLike lets you add music and videos to your profile, dedicate songs to your friends, and see who’s going to what concerts. Bonus: get free mp3s matching your tastes, and beat your friends at the Music Challenge.
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We are not done with Facebook yet. Our quest for having a better and more user- friendly Facebook helped us this time to find and eliminate bogus adds and distracting accessories with these following tools. So without further ado, let's talk about them.

1. BBC Ad Remover

This script specifically removes ads from the BBC news website. Along with ads, this script also removes social bookmarks, RSS feeds, print and email to a friend sections. The script is well documented too so if you need any one the above stuff just comment out the related code.

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Keeping in mind Facebook's ever growing popularity, we have decided to come out with more and more of facebook related articles. So continuing the trend that had started from 10 ways to connect facebook and 9 Facebook Hacks for You!, here is our next article on Facebook apps that can help you have a better experience in Facebook.

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