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Facebook Social Networking

Facebook Acquires Simple File-sharing Service Drop.io

Simple file-sharing service Drop.io has been acquired by Facebook

“Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve struck a deal with Facebook,” the company said in an announcement on its blog. “What this means is that Facebook has bought most of drop.io’s technology and assets, and Sam Lessin is moving to Facebook.”

Drop.io was led by Sam Lessin, a former consultant for Bain & Company. He attended Harvard University (2001-2005) and even knew Mark Zuckerberg during the early days of Facebook. Now he will take up a new role at the world’s largest social network.

As a result of the acquisition, drop.io will be shutting down; paid accounts will be discontinued on December 15. This is yet another talent acquisition for Facebook; the data on drop.io will be deleted by the end of the year.

We’ve included drop.io’s full announcement below. Let us know what you think of the acquisition in the comments:

“Here at drop.io, we’ve had a great three years helping people privately share pictures, video, audio, documents, andmore. It’s been a thrill to watch the first, thousandth, millionth, and ten-millionth drop be created.

Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve struck a deal with Facebook. What this means is that Facebook has bought most of drop.io’s technology and assets, and Sam Lessin is moving to Facebook.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be winding down the drop.io service. As of this week, people will no longer be able to create new free drops, but you’ll be able to download content from existing drops until Dec. 15. Paid user accounts will still be available through Dec. 15 and paid users will be able to continue using the service normally. After Dec. 15, paid accounts will be discontinued as well.

Please download your information before Dec. 15 – we plan to delete it after that time. No user data or content will be transferred to Facebook, and we’ll send out e-mails to everyone to remind them about the service closing.

Other drop.io services like Presslift, our Yahoo! Mail Application, and our APIs will stay online for a longer period before the company winds down. We’ll announce more details on that soon. However, starting immediately, we’ll no longer be selling new premium accounts for those services.

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Orkut WebSites Wordpress

How To Add Orkut Share Button In WordPress Blogs

As most of you already aware about the thing that now a days Orkut allows a share button feature for websites and blogs. In this feature website owners can extend the functionality of sharing their content with visitor friends using Orkut. It is very easy to add the Orkut share button. Just follow the following simple steps and can add share this post on Orkut button.
Implenting Share Button In WordPress Blog

Step 1. Go to the theme folder of your wordpress blog. It will be like this /public_html/wp-content/themes/

Step 2. There will be a header.php file in your wordpress theme’s folder and you need to paste the following code above </head> tag

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.google.com/jsapi”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
google.load(‘orkut.share’, ‘1’);
google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
var params = {};
params[google.orkut.share.Field.TITLE] = ‘<?php the_title() ?>’;
params[google.orkut.share.Field.DESTINATION_URL] = ‘<?php the_permalink() ?>’;
var connection = new google.orkut.share.Connection(params);
document.getElementById(‘orkut-share’).onclick =
function(e) { connection.send(‘orkut.com’, {}); };
}, true);
</script>

Step 3. Now save the header.php file and go to Single.php file or wherever you want to put this button and paste the following code there.
<span id=”orkut-share” style=”cursor:pointer; border:0px solid black”>
<img src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eEuHGVw5WLg/SwpFfy4rMqI/AAAAAAAAAAk/jdm-zBiDdv8/s320/share.gif” alt=”Share Orkut” />
</span>

Save the file, upload it to your online server and you are done now.

Now whenever you open the post of your wordpress blog you will see the Share Button feature of Orkut.

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Internet Tips Orkut Social Networking

Orkut introduced new feature to manage friends group

Today i logged into my orkut account and i saw a video about new features of it.
This video comes only once and those who missed the cool video of Orkut can view the same video here.

So whats included in the new feature of orkut.

The new feature is easy to use and you can customise your orkut groups in a manner that top 5 groups will show on your Orkut home page here.

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Home

Once you login to your Orkut account you can manage the 5 groups to show on your home page.  The first group name is Everyone and you can add more by clicking on plus image there.

Its good to view all people from a specific group, so enjoy the new feature of Orkut and have fun watching the pretty lady in this Orkut Video.