In today’s fast-paced technology world, we are also looking for trendy and fashionable products that make our offline lives a little better. Once such example is that of Glow products or more appropriately glow sticks.

So what exactly is a Glow Stick?

As Wikipedia says, a glow stick is a single-use translucent plastic tube containing isolated substances which when combined are capable of producing light through a chemical reaction-induced chemoluminescence which does not require an electrical power source.

Where are they used?

Glow-sticks are used for a variety of purposes ranging from security to entertainment.

As an example they have extensive usage in the dancing and entertainment concerts. Then they are also used by the military troops, campers and hikers. In addition, they are also used for activities like night diving. Not to forget that children enjoy these glow sticks as nice toys and enjoy playing around with them during night.

At a global level the concept of glow sticks usage is fast catching up.

Where can you grab them?

A nice starting point to get hold of glow sticks is glowhouse.com. They have a whole range of glow sticks which you can buy according to your needs.
The beauty is that you can buy single pieces or bulk, and the site delivers it on the next day to your doorstep.

If you are just starting out we’d recommend you to try out the 6 Inch individually wrapped deluxe glow sticks. These fine pieces are the most popular glow sticks on the market. They are the brightest glow sticks money can buy and run for around 12 hours and guarantee you light for upto 3 days. The dimensions are approx. 6 inches length with a thickness of 15mm. Needless to say both the glow sticks and the transactions made on the website are more than 100% safe and secure.

So what are you waiting for? Give glow sticks a shot right now

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Skycore LLC has launched a mobile messaging and scheduling application built on Facebook Platform. With the help of this application the Skycore’s Mobile Organizer offers Facebook users free texting (SMS) to friends, an MMS Greeting Card Store to send mobile multimedia greetings, a calendar for scheduling text reminders for birthdays & events and the private exchange and storing of friends’ mobile phone numbers. This makes the users to communicate more easily.

It is really bringing the users on the Facebook more close and therefore making their bond stronger. This is really making the life of the users easy. The combination of multimedia content with the online calendar and messaging tools which enables the Facebook users can use them and enjoy talking to their friends. The MMS Greeting card contains the multimedia greetings for birthdays, holidays, entertainment, love and relationships.

Each greeting can be personalized with text and sent immediately to the phones of friends and loved ones or scheduled for future delivery. They cost $0.99 each and are billed on the sender’s monthly mobile phone bill. Sending the first two mobile greeting cards free for users to try the service and experience that. The app can even help users restore phone numbers to their new phone. Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected and this application is really helping the users to stay connected.

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Image via WikipediaMumbai has been rocked. The world has been shocked by the spate of barbaric terrorist attacks in Mumbai this week.

The Indian Army, NSG, Marcos did a great job to rescue hostages and kill 9 terrorists in a ghastly act. However, many people including Israelis, Australians, Japanese have lost their lives. Hundreds of Indians have died, so have the brave cops.

In this phase of mourning comes lets show our feelings and pray for those who have died by joining the Facebook Group -
Mumbai Terror Attacks: I Condemn It

In addition, there’s an upcoming event on Facebook Group on 10th December. You should change your profile image to the ‘Indian Flag’ to show your support for the martyrs and killed hostages.

Image via WikipediaWe’ve just received information from Moborazzi that they have release a Facebook Application. Moborazzi is a social content sharing platform for the on-the-go mobile generation. Moborazzi provides mobile users with instant over-the-air (OTA) upload and direct-to-mobile broadcasting of mobile content to a personalized network of friends and followers. Snap the picture, post it to Moborazzi and the photo is on the phones of friends and family, posted to the web, and saved to your online Moborazzi account - from anywhere, instantly.

Facebook today announced that Web pioneer and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen has joined its board of directors. Currently co-founder and chairman at Ning, Andreessen is an investor in several Internet startups. A prominent Silicon Valley veteran, Andreessen co-founded Ning as a complementary platform to Facebook that allows people to create their own social network with any design, any feature set, and in any language. He also authored early Web browser Mosaic and was co-founder of Netscape Communications. Andreessen

Image via WikipediaThis release includes the API infrastructure, the FQL parser, the FBML parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags. It also has extensibility points built in so user can add his own functionality, such as the user owns FBML tags, API methods, etc. If the user likes to contribute to Facebook Open Platform, then the user can sign to Contribution Agreement. Facebook Open Platform (except for the FBML parser) is licensed under a Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), which follows the Mozilla Public License (MPL).

It contains the tools necessary to implement Facebook Open Platform including the API, FBML (Facebook Markup Language), FBJS (Facebook JavaScript), and FQL (Facebook Query Language). It also contains libfbml-1.2.0.tar.gz, which contains the essential libraries for parsing and rendering FBML. If the user finds a bug, he is advised to submit it to the Facebook Open Platform product category. The user can thus download it anytime and is easily available in web too. The user can find more information by digging into this link .

The feed feature has been expanded on Facebook to make it friendly for users to publish a social stream of their activity outside of Facebook and publish into their mini-feed. On the facebook profile page, the user can see at the upper right side of the mini-feed and click on the import link and select the services user wants to import. The Facebook mini-feed continued its expansion on Friday, adding YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, Google Reader, and personal blog to the list of sites that can share data to Facebook. The import feature already included Flickr, Picasa, Digg, Yelp and del.icio.us.
By expanding the amount of info in the mini feed, and giving users as much exposure to it as possible, Facebook increases the value of advertising in the mini feed. It is pretty simple and straightforward to use. This is yet another step in facebook’s mission to try to centrally aggregate the activity from other websites. Many users will find this useful as this is yet another way to publish their blog content automatically into their mini-feed. For example the user’s profile will automatically update when the user to upload a video to YouTube or any updates with links it has been linked to. The user will also start to see more of these types of social activity showing up in the News-Feed.

The flood of applications has caused problems in Facebook right from the start. Facebook has repeatedly changed the rules, but always seems one step behind the creative moves by developers to spam their way into gaining new users. Most recently, limits were put in place that limit the number of invitations users could send out. More people who ignore requests from a particular application, the lower the limit for that app. Facebook is now a little tired of beating questionable developer tactics away with a stick. So now they will try the carrot approach as well - by rewarding developers who play by the rules and build useful, popular applications. The new program is being called the Preferred Application Program. It has different rules, like allowing application users to invite more than the normal number of friends per day. But there are an almost unlimited number of other ways that Facebook can promote preferred developers. Preferred apps can show up higher in search, for example. And Facebook can give them a badge or other sign of endorsement that they can add to their application pages. A more subtle, but possibly more powerful benefit, may be to change the rules on how and when user activities through these applications can show up in the News Feed. Finally, new Facebook users could be presented with a set of default third party applications to add when they create an account, perhaps tailored to their stated interests.

Image via WikipediaAmerican Airlines Inc. is hoping to win customers by becoming the first major airline to launch an application for users of the social networking Web site Facebook. American, owned by Fort Worth-based AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR), said its application, called Travel Bag, lets Facebook users share travel experiences with friends, offer and read reviews on restaurants and shops, and create countdowns for upcoming events or trips. In addition, Travel Bag will link to American’s Web site where Facebook users can make reservations, view frequent flier miles and check flight information within their own profile page. For more information log on to www.aa.com & www.facebook.com\