Namrata Shrestha With Her Boyfriend

Actress Namrata Shrestha had been seeing Prem Ghale for some time and now she has updated her relationship status in her Facebook profile reflecting their close relationship.

  This news however is not new. The affair about the two started in late 2010 and were seen for the first time together in the premier of the movie ‘Acharya’. After that, the couple are usually seen together and Namrata has also been posting their photos in her Facebook profile.

This year, on Valentine day, Namrata posted their photo in Facebook, confirming the intimate relationship.
It seems, the relationship has been pretty stable for a couple of years and it might be the life-long relationship.
Prem Ghale is a businessman running a restaurant and a manpower company. He has stated his profession as Executive Director at Dolphin Overseas Pvt Ltd in his Facebook profile.

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Introducing Miss Bibhuti Adhikary

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Facebook: An Useful Tool

Facebook is a social networking website launched in Feb, 2004 to share and make the world more open and connected. Within the short period of time, facebook is able to make place in everyone’s heart. A survey conducted by London School of Economic shows that it has been so popular that there is one facebook user among every fourteen in the world. Another study made by compete.com shows that Facebook has been ranked as the most used social network by world widely monthly active users. And according to World status till July, 2012, there are 700 million Facebook users all over the world.

           Although being so popular and mostly visited website, Facebook has met with several controversies. It has been banned and blocked in several countries. It has been blocked in several countries including Pakistan, Syria, People’s Republic of China, Vietnam, Iran and North Korea. Recently, Facebook has been banned in Bangladesh for temporary. These days, it also has been banned at many places of work. It has also been banned in various academic institution like college, school and public institution like library. And the main reason behind the block and ban of Facebook is what they call misused pattern.

          The misused of Facebook ranges from publishing sensitive photos, cartoons, videos staring on someone’s faith, belief, posting vulgar status, comments, creating fake account and using it to torture and fool others. Misuse also means excessive use of Facebook forgetting his/her duty, responsibility killing his useful and productive time etc.

         In the context of Nepal, the trend of misusing it is also increasing gradually. Facebook should be used for the purpose of sharing useful information to the wider circle of people. “Be good, do good” is the guiding principal for everything.

52 cool facts and stats about the social media

Here is 52 cool stats and facts about social media like facebook,twitter,linkedin,instagram,pinterest,youtube etc which directly affect our lifestyle.

 1. 85 percent of women are annoyed by their friends (note—I don’t think this is just limited to Facebook!)

2. Links about sex are shared 90 percent more than any other link.
3. More than 350 million users suffer from Facebook Addiction Syndrome.
4. 25 percent of users don’t bother with any kind of privacy control.
5. The average Facebook user has 130 friends.

Statistics from Economist, Social Times, CNN.

Twitter

6. 750 tweets per second are shared on Twitter.
7. The original Twitter beta was launched on the birthday of CEO Evan Williams.
8. If Twitter was a country, it’d be the 12th largest in the world.
9. 30percent of Twitter users have an income of more than $100,000.
10. Twitter handles more search queries per month than Bing and Yahoo combined (24 billion versus 4.1 billion and 9.4 billion respectively).

Statistics from Compete, Twitter Press Centre and BNN News.

LinkedIn

11. Two new members sign up to LinkedIn every second.
12. LinkedIn has 161 million members in more than 200 countries and communities.
13. Members are on track to make more than 5.3 billion searches on the platform in 2012.
14. LinkedIn’s revenue has doubled every quarter for the last two years.
15. There are more than 1 million LinkedIn groups.

Statistics from LinkedIn Press Centre.

YouTube

16. YouTube was founded to share dinner clips of a party due to the files being too large for email.
17. The most watched video is Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” with 470 million views.
18. The most watched non-commercial video is “Charlie Bit My Finger Again,” with more than 458 million views.
19. The average visitor spends 15 minutes per day on YouTube.
20. It originally started life as a dating site and was influenced by the Hot Or Not website.

Statistics: Techzine and YouTube Archives.

Blogging

21. 3 million new blogs come online every month.
22. 60 percent of bloggers are between 25 to 44 years old.
23. 20 percent of bloggers have been blogging for more than six years.
24. Professional bloggers maintain an average of four blogs.
25. 35 percent of corporate bloggers worked in a journalism, media or professional writing role.

Statistics: Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2011.

Pinterest

26. Pinterest drives more referral traffic than YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn combined.
27. Users spend an average of just fewer than 16 minutes on the site.
28. The most popular age group is 25-34 year olds, accounting for 27.4 percent of the user base.
29. Pinterest receives 1.3 million visitors per day.
30. 97 percent of the fans of Pinterest’s Facebook page are women.

Statistics: Modea

Instagram

31. 25 percent of Instagram users upload more than three pictures.
32. More than 5 million images are uploaded every day.
33. President Obama is on Instagram, having joined in January 2012.
34. Earlybird is the most popular filter, with 12.5 percent users preferring it (zero filters is the most popular way to use Instagram, with more than 47 percent of users going au naturel).
35. There are 575 likes per second.

Statistics: Instagram Press Centre, ReadWriteWeb, Social Media Delivered.

Google+

36. “Student” is the number one occupation of Google+ users.
37. More than 2/3 of its users are male.
38. The Google +1 button is used more than five billion times per day.
39. Google+ is adding 625,000 new users every day.
40. More than 42 percent of Google+ users are single.

Statistics: Google Blog, Techcrunch, Google Investor Reports.

Social media influence platforms

41. Klout has 50 times more traffic than PeerIndex, its closest competitor.
42. Kred tries to measure offline influence by allowing you to add achievements away from your online activities.
43. Klout changed its privacy model to allow opt-out from its service after a negative backlash in 2011.
44. Empire Avenue has users in more than 150 countries.
45. Justin Bieber is the only person with a perfect Klout score of 100 (says it all, then).

Statistics: Social Media Today, The Next Web.

The mobile Web

46. 42 percent of phones in the U.S. are smartphones, with 44 percent of European users using smartphones.
47. More than 110 million smartphone users in the U.S and Europe access social networks and blogs on their phones.
48. Tablets took just two years to reach 40 million users in the U.S. It took smartphones seven years to reach this figure.
49. China is the No. 1 country in the world for smartphone use, with approximately 1 billion users.
50. In the U.K., there are twice as many smartphone users than cigarette smokers.

Via:[Thesocialmediatoday]

 

Facebook, Zuckerberg, Morgan Stanley Sued Over IPO

Shareholders have sued Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the company’s bungled IPO, charging they hid bearish forecasts prior to going public.

The suit, filed Wednesday morning in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan by the Brian Roffe Profit Sharing Plan, Jacob Salzmann and Dannis Palkon, charges that Facebook and its lead underwriter concealed “a severe and pronounced reduction” in Facebook revenue growth forecasts before the company’s shares were offered to the public.

Among the highlights:

“The true facts at the time of the IPO were the Facebook was then experiencing a severe and pronounced reduction in revenue growth due to an increase of users of its Facebook app or website through mobile devices rather than a traditional PC such that the Company told the Underwriter Defendants to materially lower their revenue forecasts for 2012. And, defendants failed to disclose that during the roadshow conducted in connection with the IPO, certain of the Underwriter Defendants reduced their second quarter and full year 2012 performance estimates for Facebook, which revisions were material information which was not shared with all Facebook investors, but rather, was selectively disclosed by defendants to certain preferred investors and omitted from the Registration Statement and/or Prospectus.”

Bangladesh blocks Facebook pages on religious grounds

Bangladesh is blocking access to five Facebook pages and an unidentified Web site for posting blasphemous remarks and cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed, the Koran and other religious subjects.  

According to an AFP report Thursday, a Bangladeshi court ordered telecom regulator Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, home ministry officials, as well as the police to block the pages immediately on religious grounds. 

Tech Industry Scorns Yahoo Over Facebook Patent Suit

When Yahoo threatened to sue Facebook over patent infringement, it didn’t win many friends. Then, when it actuallywent ahead with its lawsuit earlier this week, it promptly made a lot of enemies.

Many in the tech industry have spoken out either in favor of Facebook or about the absurdity of patent law in general. Various observers have called Yahoo’s patent suit everything from “preposterous” to “pathetic and heartbreaking” to (of course) “desperate.”

According to venture capitalist Fred Wilson, who calls the suit a “crock of sh-t,” Yahoo crossed an “unspoken line” in suing another web company over patents. There hasn’t been an unique idea in the web space for more than a decade, he says, and Yahoo’s opening itself up to be sued by someone else over “bogus” patents.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who has spoken publicly about reforming patent law in the past, says he would like to see Yahoo destroy Facebook with its lawsuit. It’s not because he believes Yahoo is in the right, but because he thinks a massive verdict — on the order of $50 billion — would make consumers take notice, and perhaps spark the needed reform.

Most interesting was Andy Baio, who wrote in Wired about his experience as a Yahoo employee. Yahoo acquired his company, Upcoming.org, in 2005, and shortly afterward asked him to file patents on his software as part of campaign to stockpile intellectual property. Baio says he was given assurances that Yahoo’s patents would only be used defensively. Now Baio says Yahoo was essentially “weaponizing” his work and its current lawsuit is an “insult” to him and other engineers who filed patents on its behalf.

SEE ALSO: 5 Things Yahoo’s New CEO Must Do Now

Most reactions, while clearly and sometimes virulently anti-Yahoo, aren’t necessarily pro-Facebook. For its part, the social network — which is in an SEC-mandated quiet period as it awaits it hotly anticipated IPO — has only said it’s disappointed and will defend itself “vigorously.”

It’s also notable that no one is talking about whether or not Yahoo actually has a good case as far as the letter of the law is concerned. If history is any indication, it probably does. Almost 10 years ago, Yahoo sued Googleover its pay-per-click patent, which it alleged Google was infringing on with its AdWords service. The two eventually settled.

However, in this case, the 10 patents Yahoo is claiming Facebook is violating apply to many web services. As this summary from paidContent points out, the technologies involved cover everything from having a customized homepage to sharing items only with selected friends to sending an instant message over an email system. If successful in its suit, Yahoo could be emboldened to go after Twitter, Pinterest, Foursquare and a host of other social services.

Patent expert Florian Mueller said on Twitter that he suspects Yahoo “just wants to cash in” with the lawsuit, but it could have trouble doing that for two reasons: 1) The patents are relatively young, with nine out of 10 of them issued between 2007 and 2010, and 2) Facebook can see from recent history that patent lawsuits take time and rarely lead to disaster.

How do you regard Yahoo now that it’s declared a patent war on Facebook? Web pariah, or just a business looking out for itself? Have your say in the comments.

How Facebook Sponsored Stories Can Boost Engagement

Matt Lawson is the vice president of marketing at Marin Software, the largest paid search management provider.In the wake of its $100 billion IPO filing, Facebook is busy bolstering its advertising options. For one, Facebook is hanging its future hopes on “sponsored stories.”

Sponsored stories depart from the typical Facebook ad unit. By incorporating social endorsement prominently into ads, Facebook sponsored stories are more relevant to the average user, and more likely to be clicked on than traditional Facebook ads. When done right, sponsored stories provide a significant boost to click-through and conversion rates, in part because these ad placements appear not only on the sidebar, but also within users’ News Feeds.However, advertisers shouldn’t consider sponsored stories a one-size-fits-all solution. There are actually several different styles, each with its own unique value proposition. Below are four sponsored story options to consider.

1. Domain Story-If your goal is to drive traffic from Facebook to your site, “domain sponsored stories” are the right place to start. Domain stories require a bit of effort to set up, but depending on your Facebook strategy, can offer significant value. Because they allow you to direct users from Facebook to your website, the ads are great tools for performance marketers or ecommerce companies looking to acquire leads from the social network.

How domain sponsored stories work: A visitor comes to your site while logged into Facebook and Likes your site. This action generates a story into News Feed, such as “Jane likes X site.” Sponsoring such stories increases the visibility for these kinds of posts, either in the News Feed or on the sidebar.

Odds are Jane’s friends belong to the same target market as Jane, and ideally find Jane credible. Consequently, domain stories offer advertisers a great way to generate new leads and revenues through word-of-mouth marketing.

2. Page Like Story-“Page Like stories” are very similar to domain stories, with one major difference. Rather than promoting that Jane Likes your website, page Like stories promote when Jane Likes your Facebook page. When users see and click on these posts, they are directed to your Facebook page.

Page Like stories are particularly useful for brand advertisers seeking to grow the popularity of their Facebook pages – my friend Jane Likes X page, so I might like it, too. More importantly, because the ad unit is well integrated into the News Feed, your brand’s image occupies a valuable space in the social activity.

3. Page Post Story-Facebook Likes are great. Positive comments on your Facebook page are even better. That’s where “page post sponsored stories” come in.Say Jane visits your Facebook page and leaves a glowing review of your product or service. Page post stories allow you to turn this endorsement into an ad.With page post stories, marketers can take their most favorable feedback from genuine customers and broadcast it. As a result, page post stories can be useful to build your brand or generate leads, depending on the comment and campaign. And not to worry — advertisers select which comments become page post stories, so there’s no risk of accidentally promoting a negative comment.

4. Check-In Story-Facebook mobile adds a new layer to the social context with “check-in stories.” Users can check-in when physically at a store location; this action posts to Facebook.Then, advertisers can choose to highlight this brand interaction. For example, sponsoring an ad unit when Jane checks-in at your store ensures that Jane’s friends see the action. Realizing that Jane is out shopping, they may decide to join her or make later trips of their own to your store.Promoting check-ins creates yet another engagement opportunity for retail marketers, especially those with strong local presences. Measuring the value of a check-in story is difficult, however, as any purchases are likely to occur offline.

Sponsored stories allow advertisers to participate in and influence the social context of Facebook. Advertisers that leverage sponsored stories typically see a boost in click-through and conversion rates. What types of results have you had with sponsored stories?

Facebook Now Has 3,000 Timeline Apps, Adds The Onion and Vevo

Since Facebook‘s Open Graph became available just two months ago to Timeline apps, the social network has added nearly 3,000 of such apps, the company announced Monday at SXSW.

Facebook added a slew of new apps today as well, including Foursquare, The Onion, Vevo, Nike and more.Timeline apps let users share a variety of actions with their Facebook friends — like where they’re running or what they’re cooking — creating a dynamic Timeline profile. The feature initially launched with 60 apps (Mashable‘s own social reading app launched in February).

Facebook project manager Austin Haugen said Monday at an app showcase at SXSW that now there are nearly 3,000 Timeline apps available and companies have seen increased engagement and growth because of them. He cited Pinterest as one of such Timeline app success stories. It grew its daily active Facebook user base by 60%. Another startup, Goodreads, was able to increase its daily traffic by 77%.

Facebook Makes It Harder to Post From Google Blogger

Want to share a post from your blog on Facebook? If it’s aBlogger site, that just got harder.Facebook just added a Captcha check — a dialog box that asks you to type in hard-to-read text presented as a graphic — for any post shared from Blogger. Captcha tests are designed to filter out spam, since the bots that try to post spam links generally can’t read the words (and sometimeshumans have trouble, too).

The change does not appear to affect all Blogger sites. If you try posting from, say, the Official Google Mobile Blog, for example, there is no Captcha. However, if you want to post something from a lesser-known site, likethis blog about a cat named Abbie, then there is one. It appears that if your blog is popular enough, the Captcha is lifted.

Of course, this isn’t the first service for which Facebook has used a Captcha to prevent spam, If you try posting from a Tumblr site, chances are you’ll get the same treatment. However, Facebook lets you post from most other major blogging services — LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad and Squarespace — Captcha-free.

SEE ALSO: Facebook Captcha: What You DON’T Need to Type

Blogger, of course, is owned by Google and uses the blogspot.com domain. Facebook and Google have been fighting something of a digital cold war the last few years — both services making it difficult to share contact lists with the other, to name just one example. The war arguably turned hot last year when Google directly invaded Facebook’s market by launching its own social network, Google+.

More recently, when Google changed its search engine to include social-media links, it gave Google+ preferential treatment over Facebook, even though the latter is much more popular. Engineers from Facebook and other social sites responded with a tool (pointedly named Don’t Be Evil, a Google tagline) that supposedly “corrects” the search results with social links from other services.

Reps for Facebook and Google didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

What do you think of Facebook’s change to how it treats Blogger links? Just housekeeping to address spam, or another skirmish in its platform war with Google? Share your opinion in the comments.