According to Wikipedia and its Info page, Facebook was launched exactly six years ago, on February 4, 2004. Back then it was called Thefacebook, and it was originally located at thefacebook.com, but it's definitely the same project.

Facebook has celebrated its sixth anniversary with several new features and a home page redesign. The new features include a "Photos" dashboard that allows users to browse recent photos of all their friends from one page, and a "Chat with Friends" feature that shows which of a user's most popular friends are available to chat. Also, they fixed a privacy issue in the "Applications" dashboard that emerged earlier this week and caused some concern.





The changes are being rolled out to a small number of users initially, before being deployed more widely in the coming months. The changes mean that users will be able to send messages to friends in their social network directly from the Facebook homepage, rather than having to open a separate window, and there is more emphasis on search, with a larger search box appearing on the page.

Facebook has also streamlined the Live Feed and News Feed sections, which enabled users to see what their friends were doing at the moment. Both have been integrated into a single News Feed, with a "Most Recent" tab for live updates, and other highlights filed under the "Top News" tab. Some navigation buttons have also moved from the top and bottom of the homepage to a pallette on the left-hand side of the screen, and videos uploaded to the social-networking site now appear under the Photos section.

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Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, Facebook was originally intended to be a network only for Harvard students, but was later expanded to other universities and finally to everyone. Intelligent design, a lot of smart business decisions and gradual expansion made Facebook what it is today: by far, the biggest social network on the Internet.

When creating a family Web site, one of the first things you may want to do is hold a brainstorming session with the people who will be working on, and appearing in, your site. The purpose of this initial meeting is to think of the stories, images, and other features you may want to include on the Web site, such as photos (old and new), lists of favorite books, awards and schedules of team events, descriptions of other activities, and favorite family anecdotes.

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Ask.com gets many of their search queries in the form of a question - more so than any other search engine. So, it makes sense that their 2009 list features questions rather than keywords. Ask.com stated that among its more than 50 million monthly visitors, users are 3 times as likely to perform a search query in the form of a question than at any other search engine. They announced that their Q&A database has grown from 100 million to more than 300 million Q&A pairs in just a few months. Since 40% of Americans are overweight, the top question was "How much should I weigh?"!

Ask.com's Top Questions of 2009:

1. How much should I weigh?
2. How do I get out of debt fast?
3. How do I get pregnant?
4. What is Twitter?
5. What is Miley Cyrus' phone number?
6. What is the meaning of life?
7. When will the world end?
8. How long does marijuana stay in your system?
9. What are the symptoms of Swine Flu?
10. What time is it?

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What if you aim too low? What if you buy, Windows 7 Home Premium and decide later that you really want Windows 7 Professional? Be of good cheer. Switching versions ain't as tough as you think. Microsoft chose the feature sets assigned to each Windows 7 version with one specific goal in mind: Maximize Microsoft profits. That's why you find plenty of upgrade routes and plenty of opportunity to spend more money in the Windows Anytime Upgrade program.

All it takes is a credit card and a Windows Live ID to upgrade from Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional (or, less commonly, from Home Premium to Ultimate or from Professional to Ultimate). No, you can't downgrade and get a refund. Bonus points for thinking about it, though.

Upgrading is easy and cheap, but not as cheap as buying the version you want the first time. That's also why it's important for your financial health to get the right version from the get-go.

Windows Anytime Upgrades count as pure gravy for Microsoft: Follow the upgrade steps and Windows invites you to log on to the Internet, hand over your credit card number, and upgrade on the spot. You don't get a new box or a new CD. All you get is a new product key and a walk-through that installs the new version from media that's already in your possession. It's
pure profit for the folks in Redmond.

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The number one online marketing tool is an ezine, an electronic magazine, or newsletter. An ezine:

Puts your name in front of your target audience on a regular basis (monthly, weekly, or daily)

Establishes you as an expert in your field

Allows your prospects and customers to choose to receive your special offers and advertising, along with valuable free information

Provides a profitstream through advertising sales and joint ventures

If you make your ezine a valuable resource that your readers look forward to receiving each week, you'll encourage them to remain loyal subscribers. Then, when those loyal subscribers need to purchase what you sell, they'll buy from YOU!

Why?

Because you will have become someone they know and trust! Your ezine is the first step you'll take in creating a relationship with your target audience. That's why publishing an ezine should be the first step you take in online marketing. So, how do you begin?

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