Today, when I logged in my Facebook account I saw something strange. As most of you know Facebook is upgrading and rolling out many new features. Today it launched Question. This feature will enable users to ask their friends Questions. This is what Adrian Graham, a project manager of Questions said,

There are a lot of places you can go on the internet to ask questions of people who you don’t know, but there are very few places you can go to get responses from your friends,” said Adrian Graham, a project manager for Questions. “We thought that this is where we should focus.

The version is rolled out to current testers first. It will be automatically be upgraded to their riends once they start asking Questions. Those who are eagerly waiting to use it can enable it directly from here.

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When you ask question, you get an option to create poll and restricted answers. This option enables you to restrict answers to only those you select. It also has an attached comment box so that those who want to say something else can also say.

When your friends answers the question or comments anything, the question automatically gets posted on his or her profile. This way the question gets spread to most Facebook Users. This way you get more response to your Question. As users respond to Question asked, each option’s box gets filled and reflect its popularity. In this way, users see the poll Question and result at same time. It also displays the profile picture of those who respond the Question against each options of poll they have selected.

Well, it’s quite a cool feature. What do you think?
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Facebook Adds Update Question Option is a post from: Extreme Trix

Are you tired of jumping between your browsers’ tab to take a look at your Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, MSN, AIM accounts then here’s a big treat for you. You can have all your account ON just in one page. Yeah, there is one site, which is recently launched named “LiveGO“. This site allows it’s user to use all social networking sites at one place. Now you don’t have to jump between tabs, everything in one Page.

History

This service is not new. This service was launched back in 2006, but with a name “MessengerFX” but up until now, the service was used as an all-in-one messenger for social networks. But now they have launched the revamped version of ‘MessengerFX’ and the name has changed to ‘LiveGo’ and now it allows you to use all the social networks’ activities within a single tab of browser.

About

This site is currently in its beta stage so it is not supporting all networks. The services related to social network are in left hand side panel. If you want to know what’s going on in Twitter, just click on Twitter. It will show all your feeds in the middle of the page. The right hand side panel is dedicated to messengers.

The dashboard is very easy to use. If you want to chat with any of your friend, just click on it, it’ll open a pop-up chat box which have many features from changing the text size to dozens of emoticons and much more. You can also plan your schedule tasks, TODOs and set reminders no to forget. You can also make notes while being connected to social life within LiveGO and save them.
LiveGO is also available as a Google Chrome Extension which can be found in Chrome Web Store.

Now you can access your Hotmail, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail account along with MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk. They will be also adding Foursquare, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Friend feed to this list very soon.
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Scammers are making a lot many income from simple looking Facebook Applications. Now, Facebook is turning into Spambook rather than Facebook. One more spam has been added to this book. This new survey scam is a massive hit on Facebook and many people have been scammed.

This Scam claims to reveal your total Facebook Profile looks like the Orkut which displays recent users which saw your profile. The application will use your Facebook Wall to post spam messages onto user’s profile. This is totally SCAM. There is nothing like this which can actually tell how many times your profile has been viewed.

How this SPAM works:

You will see that your friend’s status update saying that he got to know how many people viewed his profile with the number. It will be like this:

_________________________________

My total facebook views are : 9632

Find out what your total profile views are: http:bit.ly/xxxx

________________________________

If you click on the link give, you will be directed to a Facebook Application where it will ask you to Allow the permissions to access your information. As soon as you click “Allow”, the application will automatically post these kinds of Status Updates on your wall which afterwards will infect your friends’ account. This way the SCAM spreads itself.

After the application post the Status Update, it will redirect you to a web page which claims that it can calculate the number of people who viewed your profile.

What you can do if you are victim of this Scam?

If you are infected with this Scam, firstly remove all the Status Updates which the application have automatically added. Then you have to remove the application to stop it accessing your Facebook profile. For this follow these steps:

• Go to Account > Privacy Settings
• You will see an option saying “Apps and Websites“. Below it there will be a link saying “Edit your settings” Click that link
• New page will be opened, there you can see the Privacy options of Apps, Games and Websites which are connected with your Facebook Account.
• The first option will be “Apps you use“. There will be a button saying “Edit Settings”. Click on it.
• After you click it, you will see a list showing all the application to which your Facebook Account is connected.
• Search the application saying “funnysweb“. Remove it from your Facebook Account.

Now you have successfully removed the spamming application. We hope that this post helped you, do consider sharing this with others to spread the awareness and help infected peoples.

The New Facebook Scam, How to Get it Removed? is a post from: Extreme Trix

Last time while talking about RockMelt on Extreme Trix, Imran Soudagar gave  A Personal Review of RockMelt, now here’s a comparison between RockMelt and Flock by Sameer, which might help you while choosing one of them.
Internet is a vast field and to explore it very quickly and easily we need the best of best browsers. There are varieties of browsers available like the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc., which could do all our task very easily.

But recently the Internet field had been changed. Social Media has been involved as an extensive part in it. Therefore, we bring you with a review of the best of best supporting browsers for social media as well as supporting other features also which normal browsers do – RockMelt and Flock, which would help you choose the better one.

Features

RockMelt is a Chrome-based browser heavily integrated with Facebook and Twitter. While on the other hand, Flock has been around for a while, and this year it moved from being Firefox to Chrome based too, cutting its extensive social features back to Facebook and Twitter.

Browser Design

The simplicity of the white background and crisp font on their website gives it a modern feel, makes Rockmelt an absolute great browser to use. On the other hand, Flock’s website, looks like it was made five years ago. In fact, that’s exactly when the browser was initially released. Thus, I am not really impressed with the browser design of Flock.

Social Media Sharing

Social media sharing is very vital these days and With the click of a button, you can share content easily with friends through Flock. You can do the same thing on RockMelt with the click of about four buttons. This makes Rockmelt sometimes back to Flock.

Feed Updates

If updating your status from a sidebar is important to you, I’d go with Flock. But If you are less concerned with status updates and want a more integrated web browser, with a sleek, modern-looking website, I’d go with RockMelt.

Iconic Sidebars

Unlike Flock’s sidebar, which displays a running feed of multiple social networks, RockMelt’s sidebar consists of click able icons for each of your accounts.

Above are just some points. It really depends on the end user what kind of features he would like to adopt under different conditions.

RockMelt and Flock attempt to overhaul what they consider the “archaic” web browser, allowing users to share content more easily and stay connected with friends on Facebook and Twitter.

So, which would you choose as your favorite browser? RockMelt or Flock?

RockMelt or Flock? Which Would You Choose? is a post from: Extreme Trix

Which is better Google Search or Bing Search? Some people might say Google and some might Bing? But, which one is better actually you can’t tell exactly, but yes there are be some differences between them that a normal user couldn’t point out.

Mashable, worlds most popular socialized technology blog, whose search was earlier powered by Google Custom Search, is now powered by Bing. Don’t know why they moved from Google to Bing?

Mashable did not release any reports or information why it shifted their search engine from Google to Bing. Is it because it’s better than Google? Or there is any other reason

there is a possibility that Bing has offered some sort of deal to Mashable (sponsorship) to shift from Google to Bing or maybe Adsense earning wasn’t good enough from Google Custom Search.

Who knows? Still the answer of question, which is better can’t be found out.

Keep reading further regarding this hot debate. Until drop down what to you think that why did they move from Google to Bing (may we get the answer)?

Image via Technotip

Who’s better for ‘Mashable’? Google or Bing? is a post from: Extreme Trix

Last time I told you about what updates Twitter did last month? And also about the new Retweet page that they introduced (to only some fortunate users), which is very helpful, especially for all who are using Twitter for business. These days Twitter is up to something different.

They are testing three new features and this time in the search page. They have added three new features called ‘Save this search’, ‘Top Tweet’  and added a search box in sidebar too with up and down uptions.

Save this search

This feature is quite helpful for all who keeps on searching on Twitter for something or another as it gives them an option to save what they have searched and can view it again later on!

Top Tweet

This is not of any use as I think. It just counts the number of Retweets a tweet gets and if crosses 90 or 100 it becomes a top tweet.

Search box

I think yes! It was a needed feature that was missing from Twitter and did a good job by adding it.

What do you think about these features? Drop it down!

Twitter testing new features. is a post from: Extreme Trix

From a long time Orkut was not in news. The last time when I saw an update from Orkut was when they released their new version. The reason behind not doing any new update could that most of the users migrated to Facebook because of its cool features (of course which Orkut does not have and what they have is all copied too). Today while reading a scrap I came across an update from Orkut (at last!).

As you can see in the image that now Orkut has started displaying online status on images only. Well, honestly this is the first update I have seen that Orkut has not copied from Facebook or Twitter. My opinion it’s a great update and will help its users to identify easily that who’s online, busy, or idle.

What do you say? Comment on it!

[News] An update from Orkut! is a post from: Extreme Trix

Yeah! One of the giants telecom company Vodafone has launched a social application, but the bizarre thing about it is, it’s not only for Mobile phones, but also available for desktops!  This application released by Vodafone called ‘The update app’ is an application that allows the users to update their social profiles’ status right from desktop only.

What’s happening right now in Twitter or facebook?? What are your friends sharing/doing? With this application you can easily get all the details all in one application, even you don’t need to visit the sites again and again. It appears as if Vodafone has finally comprehended the overwhelming power of social networking these days.

Now no need for login in your Facebook,  Twitter or MySpace account, all your accounts can be accessed via your desktop only. All updates are available on your desktop only. You can update your status or post tweets using this awesome application and uploading photos to different networks was too never such easy.

Its greatest advantage is, it is fee to download and easy to install. Looks like an awesome app isn’t it?

So what are you waiting for? Go and check out the app at Vodafone!

A ‘Social’ app by Vodafone! is a post from: Extreme Trix

A new facebook scam has started on facebook. It’s a video spam named Candid Camera prank! [HQ] has been circulating. Actually this is not a video and it links to an application which will take you to download a file named vlcplayer.exe (a software to play VIDEO & MP3 files) and running this will post this message on your friends’ wall. So it will keep spreading as the users keep on clicking on the scam link.

Here’s the message it displays on Facebook wall: Name, This is without doubt the sexiest video ever!. The length is shown to be 3:17.

When you click on the link, you will be taken to http://apps.facebook.com/nadq_sdas/, then it will ask to continue and says that your video player is out of date. It then brings to another page to download a file. Don’t click these links when you see these types on posts on your wall on your Friends’ wall. Simply remove these posts from your walls.

I personally tried this so that I can know how it worked, thankfully while downloading the file my anti virus deleted that file because it contained a virus. So now I know it contains virus…So guys stop clicking on such scam links and don’t download such files though precaution is the best policy.

If you have already clicked on the application and allowed access to that application you can go to application settings under your facebook settings and can remove access of that application.

Do share your comments about this dangerous scam….

Credits: TechNnot

[Spam] Facebook gets a new Scam! is a post from: Extreme Trix

Again a small, but good news for Facebook lovers. A man in Britain was united with his long-lost father after 37 years with the help of Facebook. Andy Spiers-Corbett, 39, who had lost contact with his father Graham Corbett when his parents separated, typed his father’s name in search box of Facebook and instantly picked out his photo from a long list of Graham Corbetts.

Seems even oldies are too addicted to Facebook.

Father, son re-united after 37 years via Facebook. is a post from: Extreme Trix