A new 'Promote' button by Facebook

I found this 'Promote' button today when I was posting update on my personal profile. I was astonished when Facebook asked me to promote my post for $0.30. The promote button is not a brand new conception of Facebook, It was there before for the Facebook pages with 400+ likes. I never thought that Facebook would go ask money from its user for promoting their posts.

The 'Promote' button is an attempt to commercialize the Facebook which might be the result of Facebook's recent IPO fiasco. 

The 'Promote' button will convert your posts into ads with the help of few clicks and a small payment. The posts will appear in your friends' news feeds and the people who have interacted with your post.

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Upgraded Aakash tablet to be launched next month: Sibal

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The cheapest known tablet PC Akash is coming back to the gadget world with enhanced features to attract the masses.

A faster and enhanced version coming up in May 2012 with the ability to manage the large number of customers. “After freezing the technology, we will start manufacturing it. We are calling people from across the world to manufacture it and some people have shown interest,” Mr. Sibal said.

The older version which has some quality and interface issues are known to be fixed in the new version to cope up with Android 2.3 and apps. The new tablet would have a better 3200m AH battery with a three-hour backup, a 700 MHz Cortex A8 processor and a capacitive touch screen which would get over the earlier issues observed in the tablets, Mr. Sibal had said earlier.

Datawind the maker of Aakash and Quad Electronics, the contract manufacturer of Aakash Tablet have been exchanging the charges against each other on payment issues. Overcoming all these issues the Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal assures the launch of Tablet PC in May 2012.

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Galaxy Nexus registration open in India

The much awaited gadget of the year 2011, Galaxy Nexus is finally all set to rule the smartphone market in India this month. Many sources over the web had reported the Galaxy Nexus release on November 2011, but it didn't happen due to market ups and downs.
India is one of the 18 countries selected by Google to launch its upcoming smart phones Galaxy Nexus in the first phase, which commences in this month. The device is the first ever smartphone featuring the latest Android Ice-cream Sandwich OS . Google has already started registration in India for Galaxy Nexus. The search engine giant has launched specific web pages for India and 17 other nations where customers can register for further updates about the various features and the availability of Galaxy Nexus. The new pricing is expected to be around 32-35k.

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Facebook is allowing status messages upto 63,206 characters now!

The social network giant Facebook With roughly 800 million users has raised its character limits on status updates to a rather precise 63,206 characters. 
On 1^st December, Vadim Lavrusik, Facebook Journalist Program Manager has announced that Facebook users can now post Facebook status updates that are more than 60,000 characters in length.

Lavrusik wrote, “For a reference, a novel has roughly 500,000 characters. This could be shared in 9 posts,”  

Facebook has been constantly increasing the character limits for status updates. In the beginning, the social networking site allowed 160 characters and in 2009, this character limit was extended to 420 spaces. 500 characters in July 2011, and 5,000 in September 2011.
 While People can literally blog on Google Plus without worrying about the length of the post content! As it limits its posts to 100,000 characters. At the other end is Twitter, where the maximum limit is 140.

Is it a good idea to post 60000 characters long updates and annoy your friends?

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