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Apple is a company that doesn’t often jump bandwagons; they rather have everyone else jump on theirs. It is thus somewhat understandable that they don’t have an official Twitter account yet, except for the one that lists all the new iTunes Trailers.

However, as noticed by Tweetdeck founder Iain Dodsworth, Apple has recently added a couple of iTunes-related Twitter feeds, bringing the total number of their accounts to five. These are:

twitter.com/iTunesMusic
twitter.com/iTunesPodcasts
twitter.com/iTunesTV
twitter.com/iTunesMovies

It’s not much, and we’d still like to see Steve Jobs tweet, but it’s a start.

Celebrities using Twitter is not a new phenomenon — it’s an increasingly common way for celebrities to promote new projects and connect with fans.

But how do celebrities use Twitter ? What’s the following/followers ratio? What is the sentiment for tweets involving celebrities? Brian Solis (FutureWorks) and PeopleBrowsr analyzed this information in his Twitter Celebrity Report for August 2009.

Some highlights:

She may have quit Twitter earlier this month, but actress/singer Miley Cyrus led celebrity Twitter mentions in August 2009, with an impressive 255,938 @mileycyrus mentions

Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) had the most followers in August with 3,778,464 — but The Ellen Show (@theellenshow) wasn’t far behind, with just under 3.5 million.

Gossip Blogger Perez Hilton led total celebrity tweets in August with 1,488.

Britney Spears (@britneyspears) follows the most users with 432,814.

Check out the full study and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Now here is yet another desktop tool Notification 2 which will instantly notify about new Facebook messages, events, friend requests, etc.

You can view summary of notifications right from your taskbar or compose message and or check Facebook page instantly with Facebook notifications 2.

Facebook Notification 2

Download Facebook Notification 2.

Without a doubt, social gaming is on the rise — and big business for some. With the Facebook application platform, game developers have an unprecedented opportunity to tap into existing social connections for both compelling gameplay and viral promotions for their titles. And they’re taking advantage of it in droves. Luckily for Facebook users, many of these games are mighty fun. Take a look at our 10 top picks for getting your Facebook game on.

10. Biotronic

Offering a biotechnological twist on the puzzle game genre, Biotronic features easy mouse controls, exploding combos and artful animations.

9. Restaurant City

From popular casual games developer Playfish Games, Restaurant City continues in the venerable tradition of casual games like Diner Dash. Combining elements of time management games and virtual sims, in Restaurant City you start your own food joint, customize it, and vie against other restaurants to become the talk of the town.

8. MindJolt Games

Actually a collection of various titles, MindJolt Games includes a number of arcade, puzzle, strategy and sports games to play solo or in challenges with friends.

7. Know-It-All Trivia

This one’s for trivia buffs: Know-It-All Trivia pits you against your Facebook friends to test your knowledge and show off the size of that big brain of yours.

6. Zynga Poker

It’s hard to argue with at current count over 18 million active monthly players. If you’re already a Texas HoldEm fan, Zynga Poker is probably a no-brainer. If you’re a card enthusiast looking for something fun to pick up on Facebook, you’re in good company here.

5. Bejeweled Blitz

Insanely addictive on almost any platform, this gem-swapping puzzle title comes from the highly regarded house of PopCap Games.

4. YoVille

Zynga’s YoVille () is a Sims-like virtual world on Facebook. You start off with your own apartment and do virtual “work” to get the money to decorate it. You can visit your friends’ virtual homes and chat with them in real-time.

3. Mafia Wars

Priding itself on being the “#1 Crime game for Facebook,” Mafia Wars has over 25 million Facebook users doing crime jobs for cash, vying for respect and fighting to be the ruling family in fictional New York.

2. Word Challenge

Here’s one for the wordsmiths and language lovers out there. In Word Challenge, you’re given 6 letters and need to generate as many 3-6 letter words from them as quickly as possible. If you like word games like Boggle or Wordle, you’ll love Word Challenge.

1. Farmville

With 11 million daily players and counting, Farmville is a virtual force to be reckoned with. If you like management-type games where you build and monitor assets — or if you just love farm animals — this could be the Facebook game for you.

With several gazillion other Facebook game options out there, we’re sure we’ve omitted some of your favorites. Be sure to let us know what you play in the comments, and why others should play it too!

According to ViziSense, an online audience measurement and analytics provider platform, Gmail, Google’s free e-mail service is now India’s largest free e-mail service provider with more than 18 million users. Yahoo Mail, which held the top spot until the previous month has now been relegated to the second spot.

Yahoo Mail boasts of 16.8 million unique users and has seen its usage dip 8 percent since August this year. This, coupled with Gmail’s continued growth which averaged 3 percent since August, has ensured that Gmail surpassed the number of Yahoo users in early October. Microsoft’s Windows Live Mail too is seeing a surge in its userbase with it managing a very impressive 8 percent growth in India since August. Rediff Mail is at number three with 6.25 million users.

However, on the global scale, it might be a while till Gmail usurps the throne from Yahoo to be the world’s largest e-mail provider. Besides, it also has another adversary to counter, Windows Live Mail from Microsoft which is right up there at number 2. As seen in a recent ComScore report, Gmail has been growing pretty fast in U.S. as well– and unless Yahoo and Windows Mail don’t do something drastic, Gmail, in its current form, will eclipse the “traditional” webmail providers in the years to come.

Incidentally, it was just last week that Yahoo carried a full front page ad across leading national dailies in India. Was this an attempt to woo its once loyal users who have started migrating to Gmail?

Early this year we saw Facebook coming up with a translation utility allowing members to translate the widely popular social networking site to their respective languages. Today the site is available in 65 languages.

Starting this October, Facebook has taken that initiative further ahead by making the translation tool available to other websites as well. The tool is named Translations for Facebook Connect.

Now how does this thing work. Basically, Facebook is asking users to submit translations of popular and common phrases and then based on public voting will decide which of them are most accurate and appropriate. So now I could share say a local portal with my friend abroad by just logging into the application using my Facebook ID and password.

It differs from the already existing Google Translate at the very method of translation. While Google’s automated service produces funny (unintentional though) results at times, the Facebook system is expected to do away with that problem. Indeed a human approach always makes more sense. Software based translation may seem accurate enough at phrase level but they tend to fail when it comes to generating full sentences with correct grammar.

Here’s a link to the application.

Most Gmail users are familiar with Google Labs, a nifty set of experimental features which aren’t quite ready to be rolled out to all users, but are good enough for a select subset of users who like to try out new things.

According to Cnet’s Natali DelConte, Twitter is planning a similar feature for the near future. At the FOWA conference in London, Twitter’s user experience and front end engineering lead Britt Selvitelle said that it’s coming “soon”. The idea behind it seems to be a bit different from Google Labs; while Google is using it to test their own ideas, Twitter will let developers create add-ons for the site.

While tech-savvy users can already browse through the hundreds of available third party Twitter apps, various add-ons, plugins and scripts to try out something new, Twitter Labs could help the rest of the user base, who don’t have time to do that much digging.

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Facebook includes an awesome chat feature that lets you instantly start conversations with your Facebook buddies without installing any IM software but the only small issue is that you need to be on the Facebook.com website in order to use Facebook chat.

If you find this a bit inconvenient, here are some good workarounds that will let you chat on Facebook from anywhere without even having to open the Facebook site in your browser.

Facebook Chat Inside the Web Browser

If you have Google Chrome or Prism for Firefox, you can open this address in your browser address bar and then create an application shortcut to Facebook chat on your desktop.

If you an IE user or hate to use Facebook chat from the sidebar, try Gabtastik – this is a minimal desktop client for Facebook that looks exactly like the web version of Facebook chat but will also send you notifications of new messages and chat requests from the system tray.

Meebo, the very awesome web based instant messaging service, now supports Facebook chat as well. You can connect your Facebook account with meebo via the Facebook Connect service (so there’s no need to share your Facebook credentials with anyone) and instantly chat with your online buddies inside the web browser.

There are two advantages here – you can use Facebook chat even if the main Facebook.com site is blocked in your office and two, you can simultaneously connect with friends on other IM networks from the same website.

Facebook Chat Clients for your Desktop

ChitChat – If Facebook were to develop a standalone messenger on the lines of Yahoo! or Google Talk, it might look something like ChitChat.

ChitChat is a Windows-only desktop client for Facebook that provides a tabbed window to make it easy for you to talk to may friends at once. It will also show notifications in the tray when your friends go online or when they have signed out. The application is in RC stage so expect a few bugs.

Digsby – This is again a very useful all-in-one app that helps you stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, LinkedIn and other online accounts.

If you have multiple accounts on Facebook (like you and your spouse), you can associate all of them with your Disgsby messenger and chat with the combined buddy list simultaneously. Facebook doesn’t allow audio or video calls but Digsby indirectly brings that feature to Facebook Chat via tokbox.

There were reports (1,2,3) that Digsby’s installer can add some crapware to your computer but that should not hold you back as there’s an alternate installer (direct link) that will bypass the non-essential stuff.

Adium – If you are on Mac, Adium is probably the best choice for you to chat with Facebook friends from the desktop.

Like Pidgin and Digsby, Adium too supports multiple IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, AOL AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, Twitter and Jabber (XMPP). And it uses the same Facebook Chat plugin that is available for Pidgin users on Google Code.

Pidgin – While Facebook Chat is not officially supported in Pidgin, there’s a free plug-in that lets you connect to the Facebook chat server from Pidgin. And like Digsby, Pidgin too would let you chat with buddies on multiple Facebook accounts from the same interface.

Pidgin vs Digsby – Pidgin is purely for instant messaging while Digsby will also display notifications like when a friends sends you a message using Facebook email or if he or she writes something on your Facebook wall. Some people in the comments say that even Pidgin displays notifications but at least that doesn’t work in Windows 7.

Pidgin will show all your Facebook contacts in one giant list (see update) while Digsby will group contacts under logical “Friends list” just the way you have them on the main facebook.com site. Update: The new version of Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin displays your online friends under groups just like Pidgin.

So actuality is addition micro-blogging account for peoples who adulation absorb beck their activity online, or you can say a new bazaar abode for some guys to get targeted leads . Meme is still beneath action it is not even beta it is alpha version. Registrations accessible on requests yet, and anniversary user can allure 3 friends.

Peoples are adage it is cloned from Twitter, Able-bodied its annihilation like Twitter at all but abundant added like micro-blogging account Tumblr, and it’s a baggy carbon at that. It’s all about micro-sharing, sure, but that’s just about breadth the apologue ends.

What is Meme: A “meme” is frequently accustomed in the web as some affectionate of acceptable that spreads fast and draws everyone’s attention. Meme is alpha out of the oven and just accepting started with what Yahoo! intend to do. However, they acquire a few goals to admonition accrue them on track:

* Things acquire to be quick, simple and simple to do

* User should be able to allocation whatever affectionate of acceptable user advertisement or accretion in the web

* User’s posts should get about afterwards user accepting to be a allocation of any specific agreeable network

* User accrue the acclamation for user’s discoveries and creations

* User should calmly accretion what’s animation anybody else’s attention

Dashboard: afterwards accepting a contour on meme, this is what dashboard attending like. Like all added micro-blogging casework it shows all streams from peoples afterward you.repost this advantage use to re-post any column you like, from your accompany or added users as well. column calculation this is re-post counter, announce how abounding time column is getting posted. Yeah! attending like too abounding Chinese(I acclimated Google to construe their column and absolute this accent is Chinese) humans accepting fun about there.

Profile: and this is how profile page look like. Same thing here like all other micro-blogging services it shows about you and your posts.

Sharing Text (unlimited yet), Photos (from file or URL), Videos (only YouTube and Vimeo yet) and mp3 (direct URL) is also easy.

Ok, so far now that all I have founded from Meme. I will update if I found something more interesting about it, and if you made you mind to join it. Invitations available upon request below (-;