MagnetU: Social Networking comes to Real Street from fake Internet

It has been a high time when technology was to come up with something very new in the field of social networking. facebooking or tweet is enough so it’s time to be realistic. Now when you will be working, shopping in malls, walking through streets, waiting for the bus or waiting for date, suddenly you’re mobile TINGS, and MagnetU device have found someone who is into your area of interest. MagnetU will share your social desires with the world by proximity and will bring you more close to people alike or suitable to you.  Won't it fascinate you? Let see how it will be possible.

What is MagnetU?

Yaron Marodi, a dream-weaver of MagnetU with Dr. Pichas Ziv founded the company to bring Yaron’s dream to reality. First version of MagnetU was available in May 2010. Still the full fledge production and distribution is expected in early months of 2012. MagnetU is a device equal to size of small music player. This device will find people who come under your area of interest in your surroundings. It is very handy small device which you can wear. It will be a bridge between your online social networking and real life. This can prove to be a new dawn for realistic social networking concept. Many people have coined word “Network Society” or “Network Economy” and this will be an important step taking this Tech savvy world towards that.

How MagnetU works?

MagnetU device is mandatory for getting into this new wave. You need to purchase a device which will cost you $24. You will then populate your social desires on www.magnetu.com. You can integrate your facebook and twitter with MagnetU profile. You make you profile based on your interests, hobbies, professional field, business activities and etc. So you can create your image in your profile. Now it will work like proximity sensors, and search for people around you physically with help of MagnetU device. Once you meet the person, you can tap your MagnetU with searched  MagnetU, which will make you best friend forever adding him/her in facebook friend list and following on twitter automatically because you must have configured profile of facebook and twitter  with MagnetU.

What are prospect and Limitation of MagnetU?

People are coming closer round the globe. This will pave the way for converting this society in to Network society. Concept is very innovative in itself, which may turn into a big success for the company and redefine the social network with the essence of reality. This can prove very advantageous from the view point of business development. Again changing trend of the world is not as easy as I mentioned here. Challenges like world wide acceptance considering the fact that it cost $24 per individual. It was very easy and free to get into social network till now. MagnetU will need acceptance in huge numbers because it will be not so useful probably if very less number of people will use it. Marketing of product will be very crucial part in making this concept successful. Technology is ever unstoppable.

Facebook Phone: Now it’s easier for Facebook freaks

It was announced in end of November 2011, that facebook is going to launch a phone. They are in to collaboration with HTC to design and manufacture this phone. It is assumed that this phone will be on Android platform and have extensive support for HTML5. Still facebook have shared very limited details about the project and refused to comment on the news which gets aired as rumours. It is also assumed that phone will be launched in the market not before year and a half.

Having the advantage of reaching around 800 million users, and also getting itself installed on almost every smartphone, facebook has a greater edge over other companies in launching its own phone. Phone from facebook will be very user friendly for tons of facebook freaks. But seeing on the other side of scenario, facebook will have equal challenges to make this product successful. facebook is just an application installed in the smartphones and other than that smartphones have lot of duties to do for its user like mailing, sharing media and other functionalities. facebook phone should also be very user friendly from all this aspects which are basic for any normal smart-phones at least. Otherwise there will be very less number of user who is actually willing to compromise on this functionality for getting betterment on facebook integration and functionalities.

Experts say that facebook has challenges to convince user to switch from their smartphones to facebook phone. Phone by facebook may not be so appealing for users if it is just based on Android. Facebook should come up with either its own operating system or else can get everything done by HTML5. This may save their efforts and money by using existing technologies rather than going for their own operating system. But still, I personally have high expectation from the cellular device we can name as smartphone by facebook.  

Facebook comes with new tools to tighten security

Facebook has become so addictive to the user that day by day its popularity and usage is achieving new heights. There are 800 million active user of on single social networking according to company. Saying with this they also showed concerned over the security issue faced by these active users.

As a Security Enhancement, facebook has come up two new security features.

First is “App password”. This will be an additional layer in the facebook password security. At time of login a text message will be sent to your mobile and by providing unique code one will be able to complete the login procedure. This is two-factor authentication. This can stop hackers who have stolen the passwords but if someone opt for this facility this would be an additional overhead always.

Second is “Trusted Friends”. In case of recovering the password, if user is not able retrieve the password via Email then facebook will keep some preselected group of people from the friend list who can pass on the codes to you.

This is security statistics populated by the facebook. Facebook report says that 4% of shared links are spam. Adding to this they say that only one in two hundred user face the spam in a day. They convey that facebook is too much secured social networking and they are too smartly handling facebook security.

Are you in dilemma? Google+ or Facebook or Twitter, Here you go...

Google+ has marked 20 million+ users in so short time span. Most of users are still in between the both major Social networks that is Facebook or Google+. Technology has solution for most of the problem and we are good at exploiting it. Ha-ha.

An Add-on is now available for Google Chrome. By this now user will be able to consolidate Google+, Facebook and Twitter. This add-on will be soon available for Firefox too. The name of the add-on is “Start Google+”, provided by Zane Klaes. Now this add-on works on the basis of API provided by the Facebook and Twitter. Installing this add-on just takes seconds and you are there. Additionally on User Interface of Start Google+, there is flag box which will keep you notified on receiving of emails on Gmail.

Now all the updates and tweets from the Facebook and Twitter respectively will be visible in the main page of Google+. Now as a drawback identified till now with this add-in is that the filter which a user may have kept for specific friends does not works here. So unlike Facebook if you link your accounts of Facebook and Twitter account to Google+ then you will receive all the updates and tweets without filter. Still Zane says that he is working on to give functionality like this in the add-on also. Stats depict affirmative response from the user as 100 thousand+ users have already adapted this add-on and at least 60% of them are actively using the same. Interestingly, Google+, Facebook as well as Twitter has not yet banned this add-on still so it is expected that it will be a boon to users and day today the add-on will be optimizing for better functionalities.

Ahh!!! Now Facebook, My life dashboard

Hey!!! Do you want to know how many times you have been to Dominos this year? Are you interested knowing, how many times you watched movie? Facebook is coming with the solution. These things will leave everyone so freaky. Social Network site will become now a life analyzer for you assisting you in many ways. Interesting... huh?

 Facebook God

Facebook has got an application, which will present your day to day life in  form of statistical charts. Nick Felton accompanying with Ryan Case have developed an application which they named as ‘Daytum’. These designers are hired by Facebook now, to work on their behalf for bringing this wonderful piece of software to a grand social network platform. This application on Facebook seems to be very useful on the view point of fitness and health care purpose. It can go beyond the imagination for the betterment. Now you can calculate total calories gained from last month dumping junk in to your stomach and total time spent in gymnasium too. ‘Daytum’ tracks personal information which can generally help in health and medical scenarios, sleep schedules and etc.

Still there is no clear platform like how will Facebook present this wonderful piece in front of user? There are still hanging question like how much will be the user intervention regarding feeding and analyzing the data. It is assumed that Mobile Facebook will be important source of personal information. According to Felton and Case researches at time of designing 'Daytum' , "Perception about the own behavior people use to have is different from the actual behavior". As a example, They found that people spend more time watching other programs on TV rather than their favorites.

Except for user's attraction what will Facebook get out of doing so much? Facebook will have bulk of data which can be useful for many Market analyzer and Researcher and Facebook can sell this data. Facebook can fetch good amount of revenue from this application and most importantly continuous usage from the users. One more advantage of having this type of track will help for getting you strong on your social network. In the sense, you will having your behavioral data and this featured information can bring common group of people together. Now in short span, Facebook will be most addicted drug in the world.