FBI to Start Monitor Facebook, Twitter and Social Media Activities

The Federal Bureau of Investigation from U.S.A a.k.a. F.B.I. needs your help to develop and transform a Tool or Program which helps them to monitor and track Social Media and Social Networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. But why FBI needs to monitor Social Media? Because they want to stop the maximum numbers of online crimes and activities which are increasing rapidly. Everyday people like to share everything through social media websites like Facebook and Twitter which allow people to commit a online crime.

According to the recent report from The Guardian because of people's online sharing activity, the FBI is working on a programing tool which will allow FBI to monitor and track websites like Facebook and Twitter more effectively in order to help fight crime. The programing tool on which FBI working and hoping to build doesn�t sound very threatening. It includes requests and activities for automated searches of not only social media but also legitimate news websites like BBC, CNN and Fox News, automated alerting when certain conditions are met, and mapping capability that includes not only terrorist information but also weather, embassy, traffic, and the like.

So if you want to know more about F.B.I's Tracking and Monitoring Tool and wants to help FBI in transforming and building programing tool than you can read all the requirements of the requested system at 12 page Request for Information (RFI).

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Browser Plug-In for Facebook Chat Customization

If you're Facebook addicted and using Facebook Chat feature as your primary chatting tool than you're must aware of some of its conflict issues like you can't hide your offline friends, you can't disable the chat sidebar panel, you can't only display users who are online, you can't check friends profile while chatting etc. etc. and if you're not satisfied and need more features and more control over your Facebook Chat feature than you can do it by installing a Web Browser Plug-In named "ReFaceChat" which provides you total control over your Facebook Chat.

"ReFaceChat" is a browser Plug-In for Facebook Chat available for Mozilla's Firefox, Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari and it contains all the feature which provides you a feel of fully loaded Facebook Chat Messenger. ReFaceChat has following built-in features.

• Ability to Disable Facebook Chat Sidebar.
• Pop-up Notification when friends get connected.
• Create Chat Group according to Friends List.
• Linking to friend's profiles within the conversations.
• Only Display Friends who are Online.
• Speed of reloading Facebook Chat.
• Create your own Online and Offline List.

Click here to Download and Install ReFaceChat Plug-In for Facebook Chat and enjoy chat with your own customization.

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Enter into Facebook's Hacker Cup 2012 and Win $5000 USD

Facebook has officially announed its second annual edition of Facebook's Hacker Cup 2012. If you are a good hacker, coder, programmer, engineer and tech geek than you can become a world champion of hacking world and can proof your talent to the entire world. Facebook has opened the registration for participants to Enter into Facebook's 2012 Hacker Cup. What participants has to do is to solve algorithmic problems to advance through up to five rounds of programming challenges and they will be judged on accuracy and speed, so you have to perfect in all aspect to win the race.

This is your one of a life time opportunity to compete against the world�s best programmers, coders, engineers and hackers to win awesome prizes and the title of World Champion. This contest is one of the biggest contest and competition of Social Networking arena and your big chance to win big prize.

What Facebook�s 2012 Hacker Cup Offering?

• What: An annual algorithmic programming contest open to engineers from around the world.
• Where: Three online rounds with the finals at Facebook's headquarters in California.
• When: Registration opens January 4, 2012 with the three online rounds occurring throughout January 2012. World finals to follow.
• Finals: We'll pay to fly and accommodate the top 25 hackers from the third online round out to our campus.
• Prizes: Of course! $5,000 USD and title as world champion to the top hacker, $2,000 for second place, $1,000 for third, and $100 for fourth through 25th. Awesome t-shirts for the top 100 hackers coming out of the second online round.

How to Enter into Facebook�s 2012 Hacker Cup?

• All registered competitors will participate in a 72-hour qualification round starting January 20 at 4 p.m. Pacific Time, and running through January 23 at 4 p.m. Three problems will be presented for competitors to solve, and all of those who solve at least one correctly will advance to the first online round.
• The first online round will send participants who solve at least one problem correctly on to the next round. If more than 500 people are successful, the top 500 will advance, along with everyone with the same number of correct answers as the contestant in 500th place. The round will begin January 28 at 10 a.m. and end January 29 at 10 a.m.
• The second online round will be held February 4 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The top 100 will advance to the next round and receive official Hacker Cup T-shirts.
• The third and final online round is set for February 11 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and the top 25 will move on to the final round at Facebook�s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
• The final round will be held at the social network�s headquarters March 17, where the 25 finalists will be flown on Facebook�s dime to compete for a grand prize of $5,000, the title of top hacker, and the inscription of their name on the Hacker Cup. The second-place finisher gets $2,000, $1,000 goes to the third-place finisher, and the remaining finalists receive $100 apiece.

So what you guys are waiting for? Just enter into the Facebook�s 2012 Hacker Cup Contest and become a World Champion with $5,000 USD prize. For more details about this click here.

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Google Introduces Schemer.com - Explore, Do and Share

Google has again comes up with its new social networking service called "Schemer". A new way to explore, discover and share things with friends, with schemer people can Explore and Discover new schemes, Find stuff to do and Share them with friends and circles. Schemer provide users to do things which they don�t know and explore new places and stuff from their nearby, whether it�s exploring a new city or town, checking out a friend�s movie recommendation or just finding new activities for your weekends, you can do all things with Google' Schemer.

According to me Schemer is more likely Foursquare and Gowalla exploring websites, but with better user visibility with Google's Account and with Google+ integrated service. You can add your Google+ friends with schemer and share things with them. First user has to select their nearby place or location so that schemer can provide them all near places detail.

Schemer is currently in an invite-only beta period, so only people with invitations from other users can join Schemer and it�s also limited with some cities and places. New user has to submit their e-mail address in their WaitList and has to wait to get personal invitation from Schemer to join it but if you guys dont want to wait further and wants to experience and join Schemer now than Leave your E-Mail Address in comments box, i will send you an invitation to join Google's Schemer.

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