Facebook brand pages are extensively used by business to engage with their potential and current consumers to initiate social commerce. On the other hand brands are also using Twitter to build fan following and spread messages and updates around their business to their fans.

Keeping that in mind Facebook has introduced the option to connect your brand page wall posts with your twitter account thus making it easy to update your twitter with current happening on your fan-page. A great mix to keep the content fresh and keep it well aligned with the content strategy.

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Now this calls for a celebration, Apple today announced that more then 10 billion applications have been downloaded from the App store by more then 160 million iPhone, iPod touch & iPad users worldwide.  With this countdown the 10 billionth app downloaded was PaperGlider, which was purchased by Gail Davis who received a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card.

Apple launched the App store on 10th June 2008, so in 2 years n 6 months approximately 10 billions apps got downloaded which is a huge success for Apple. Now with App store offering apps for mac i am sure this number is going to double in no time.

Gmail offers some great features and functionality in terms of managing your emails, do you have multiple email address and spend time checking emails from places could be your office email account or even emails from some of your own domains. Gmail gives you the power to add all you email address to your Gmail account and use that to send / receive & store emails from all your other accounts. Not only that you can also customize signatures for each account.

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So finally it happened, after years of rumours and rumors on Google OS,  its official now. Google is going to hit the market with its own Operating System called Google Chrome OS . It seems like Google is heading backwards, first they developed a browser and now around it they are going to engineer an operating system. read more

YouTube announced the launch of its new channel “The YouTube Reports Center” made to help people become good journalists. People always tend to share videos related to natural disaster, or crime or a political rally on YouTube we have seen allot of them and in one way or another we are journalists sharing stories and our experiences. read more

This is interesting President Obama is taking up live questions from the YouTube community this Wednesday in a special online health care town hall event. Your chance to ask directly from the President.

How to ask questions from the President ?
Simple all you have to do is to log on to YouTube record a 20 – 30 second video with your question for the President, and send it as a reply to the President Video here. Or you can simple use this page to record your video and send it over. read more

Social Media & Social Networking is always taking a new direction and new innovation every day. The famous video sharing site YouTube is working round the clock to come up with innovations and have released YouTube Real time.

What is youTube RealTime ?
YouTube Real time is something closer to Facebook toolbar which was something inspired by Microsoft Windows so we all should give credit to Windows for it. Any how apart from that YouTube Real Time is a toolbar that shows a list of friends currently online, their recent activities and provides notifications when one of your friends posts / comments or rates a video. Quite a familiarity with Facebook but i am trying to avoid the comparison. So according to the blog post by Google the toolbar does lack some of the facebook features like chatting with friends and watching videos at the same time for which i am sure the engineers at Google are working round to add them up.

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“Oracle accquires SUN Microsystems for $7.8 billion”.

The Original Accusation
Sun had been suffering in past and was making every effort to make an accusation happen for it.  The Oracle-Sun deal came more than two weeks after I.B.M. ended its talks with SUN. I.B.M lowered its offer to $9.40 a share from $10 and Oracle bid was $9.50 a share.

MySql Goes to Sun and Sun Goes to Oracle

Oracles’ chief executive, said in a conference call Monday morning that Sun’s Java programming language and its Solaris operating system were the main attractions. But that might not be the case as Oracle was more intersted in MySql then any one else. In 2008 Sun Microsystem annouced a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL the worlds fastest growing open source databases for $1 billion. Which accelerated Sun’s position in enterprise IT to a $15 billion database market. Though many people looked at the accusation with a controversial eye stating that MySql could have had a bigger value then what SUN offered, Google, Yahoo & Microsoft could have paid much more. read more

gMail labs is always cooking up something fun, but this time they pulled out a perfect add-on for gMail. How many times you send and email and immediately reliazed you have send it to the wrong person, or forgot to add some more informaiton or you didn’t want to send that email but accedentaly send it over.  If this happens then gMail got a solution for you. read more

Recording video tutorial never got much easier then this one. Screen Toaster is a free web based screen recorder utility designed to capture screen activity in real-time to create and share tutorials, demos, trainings, lectures and more. Fire up the web page your recording studio is ready to go you can also add audio, embed webcam while you record and once you are finished you can even add subtitles, choose thumbnails, add tags to your video share it with friends over social networks with privacy setting allowing you to control the access to the video you made. You can now also automatically upload HD screen casts directly to YouTube from Screen Toaster also you can download videos in .mov format for editing on your desktop. Their beta API allows you to integrate Screen Toaster into your website thus allowing your users to create / share and distribute video tutorials.

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