Via Facebook Observer - Facebook’s magic has been spear-headed by its rapid developments and features. Keeping abreast with the pace Facebook has come up with two new cool features. Facebook organize and group feature for sorting out friends from group list. This also allows users to control the content visible to their friends.

So this does mean, that we could have two different friends accessing your profile in a limited way. There is another feature with which a single email is sent to all users ofFacebook about he notifications on a daily basis.

• Inside Facebook » “We have 3,000,000 users, now what?”, startup asks
  That’s a good question indeed. What do you do when you have an app called “Booze Mail”, which has 300 000 daily users?
• Second Facebook Application for Sale on eBay - The Unofficial Facebook Blog
  The I Am Hungry Application is put up for sale on eBay, with a starting bid of 5000$. I’m interested to see how high this ends up.
• Google To “Out Open” Facebook On November 5
  Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start with Orkut and iGoogle , and expand from there to include Gmail etc.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced 10 million dollar funding for budding developers for Facebook applications. This shows that Facebook is quite keen to provide support to technologists.

This funding is aimed towards developers as well as organizations. It includes existing and and prospective developers. Essentially the idea has to be killer and innovative enough to receive funding. There is no re-payment involved so this is definitely a good opportunity for developers to try out.

Check out Facebook developers for more information.

The name Facebook was taken from the word paper “face books” of a college. This basically shows the details of the staff members who are the faculty of college students.

As Jeremiah’s friend Kit joined this site first time, there will be many like her who face problems with the poking feature (as till July 2007 the website has over 34million members!)

Poke is a special feature of Facebook having two key features:

> To attract new friends amongst so many users.

> To say Hi, Hello or buzz just like Yahoo messenger.

The main feature of poke is the phrases and the templates which depict your emotions and replies from your friend with whom you are talking too. It contains all kinds of emotions, like: angry, happiness, shouting & so on ………….

Secondly, it also means having fun with your group or friends. Here the poke is exchanged back and forth continuously between friends using poke back feature. Users neglecting to return poke while remaining active, are called as loosers.

There is another feature of poke called “X ME”, or superpoke. Well over here, you can replace poke option for other face book members with words of your choice for your friend..Poke should clearly depict what you want to say to your friend. When you poke someone, a poke icon will appear on his or her home page with an option to “remove poke” or “poke back”.

Once a poke is hidden, it’s gone forever. . I believe hiding a poke enables other person to poke you again, which is always a good thing. As said by Melanie Deitch, Facebook Director of Marketing - “Pokes are one of the social utilities offered by Facebook to spur connections among students”.

I think the social networking platforms like Facebook provide us the different ways to interact with our friends and make new friends over the course of our life.

Let me share some of the most interesting Facebook related articles I’ve read this week:

• Following your money in Facebook
  Did you know there are a lot of Facebook applications that enable you to keep track of your money, inside Facebook? They’re obviously less popular then the “Vampire” game, but a lot more usefull!
• College.com Wants to Be Facebook 1.0
  Will users prefer a 1.0 Social Networking site? College.com is going back to the roots of Facebook.
• Facebook Advertising
  Nick O’Neill gives some suggestions for those aiming to conquer the Facebook advertising space.

” There’s so much you can do with it. It’s the next big thing. Everything else looks so small infront of it. Every one’s talking about it, there’s a buzz about it. Now, is time that you should join it and explore the world inside it. ” - I told my tech junkie buddy.

Politely he asked, “But man, we guys don’t get the time to do all these things, and after all it is just one of those many things available, I mean there is already so much of fuss about social networking. So why should I join? Just for the heck of it? Or is there something else which might ultimately provide value to me per se or more organization or my environment for that matter.

“Most certainly, Yes”, I told him. Essentially that’s why the blogosphere (the users) are going crazy over it as they realize the potential, the power of Facebook. It is your face after all, your face to the rest of the world.

Let us just discover and understand the 2 W’s of facebook. The what and why attached to it.

What? ” Facebook is a “social portal or more so a utility” connecting people with friends, business guys, people with similar interests and everyone else who has a similar line of thought.

Why? People are using facebook to stay in touch buddies, see what they’re doing, learning more stuff about them, see they’re networking with whom, discover facts which they never knew, find long lost school pals, share photographs of themselves in a network, join user-groups and communities, share their expressions and feelings all under on roof.

Facebook, is a terrific mix of social and professional life in the world wide web. It is the fun way of interacting with people.

Come, discover with us the journey in the world of Facebook, where we dig deeper to potentially find out the vast set of benefits it offers to me and you.