Facebook World Hacker Cup second anual announced today
Facebook world hacker cup opened today
Facebook world hacker to coders and programming from around the world was opened today to challenge’s prize for $5,000.
Facebook world hacker come back to challenge hackers from around the world to try out their skills on 20 January.
To challenges, Facebook world hacker will be opened with the qualifying round for 72 hours and three rounds, where the hackers will be filtered until left 25 finalists are flown directly to the Facebook headquarters in California on March.
The winner of Facebook world hacker cup, received for $5,000 cash and may also be employed by Facebook, such as Google world hacker last year, Petr Mitrichev from Rusia, that now, he was appeared to wear a badge as Google employees.
It seems that technology-based companies like Facebook or Google’s use of intelligence hackers to find weaknesses in the system of their algorithms. This is to test the system before they release of their products into the market.
The first round Facebook world hackers start for 24 hours on 28 – 29 January and then advanced to second round contestants to select as many as 500 people.
The second session of Facebook world hackers during in the three hours on February 4 for as many as 100 contestants were selected and awarded trophies.
After that, they will be selected again on lap three the remaining of 25 peoples on 11 February. The semi-finalists selected as many as 25 people will be directly flown to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Besides that, the semi-finalists of Facebook world hacker also got the cost of replacing a visa expense to enter the U.S. for $ 100, but Facebook will not reimburse the cost of the passport.
The final season of Facebook world hacker cup will be held on March 17 for grand prize $ 5,000 for the winner, second prize for $ 2,000, third prize for $ 1000, while the fourth prize is only getting $ 100 and T shirts.
So, if you have the qualifications, you can register for Facebook world hacker cup at Facebook.
Posted on January 5, 2012 |
Facebook IPO opens a thousands of jobs
Facebook IPO is now really well prepared.
Facebook, plans to hire thousands of new employees for the purposes of the Facebook IPO.
On Friday, Facebook has announced it will open up a new office in New York on 2012 to support the Facebook IPO plans. It is a first Facebook IPO and Facebook’s office outside the west coast that will support the main post at Palo Alto.
It’s estimated that up for Facebook IPO, the company still needs thousands of talented employees in the technical field of technology information, programmers and others to form a formidable engineering team.
Currently, Facebook as the largest social-networking site has about 3000 employees and about 800 million users worldwide and now going to Facebook IPO.
The COO of Facebook, Sherryl Sandberg at an event in New York, said, Facebook NYC maybe opened in spring 2012 to support the activities of Facebook IPO. At the event was also attended by new york mayor, Michael Bloomberg and Senator Charles E. Schumer.
According to Sherryl Sandberg, smartphone technology has developed rapidly, for that they need additional capital will be achieved through a Facebook IPO. Besides that the income and growth of Facebook users are also growing very rapidly.
Facebook IPO can take the addition of capital to Facebook to compete with Google and Apple.
Meanwhile, New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg was welcomed the plan to Facebook IPO in New York. According to Bloomberg, New York is the No. 1 in the world center for information technology and social media.
To prepare for a Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg, a CEO of Facebook has started to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to recruit potential young engineers.
Facebook IPO valuation for $ 100 billion, this number is very large and require potential employees to manage the results of a Facebook IPO, some analysts said.
In addition beside Facebook’s new office in New York which was prepared for a Facebook IPO, previously Twitter and Yelp also have opened an office in New York.
Posted on December 2, 2011 |
Facebook Timeline a Redesign of Movie & Music to Social Networks
Facebook has a huge improvement and redesigns with Facebook Timeline on Thursday that social networks become the internet central platform for people oriented to share news, music and movies online with their friend.
According to AC Nielsen, Americans spend more time on Facebook with 53 billion minutes at May. Announcement by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he wants to strengthen the capacity of users to remain in captive.
Facebook Timeline has a new feature that will be adopted in the social media platforms, including an ability to video content from Netflix and insert audio content from Spotify.
For now, users can hear and see what their friends listening, just to see or play, and then consume with the same media and without leaving Facebook.
That content on a sparkling new profile page is highlighted, known as “Facebook Timeline”, which attended by all media into one place on the Facebook.
“It’s an important step to your life story to tell”, said Mark Zuckerberg in a speech to launch Apple produced presentations.
Posted on September 23, 2011 |
Battle the new features between Facebook and Google +
The battle features between Facebook and Google + has the feel of an arms race in social networks, with many technological tit-for-tat.
On Thursday, Facebook announced new features with F8 Developers Conference to tack on their new features.
The power of social networks, users with “top”, which deals with the main highlight of friends, Twitter as a news ticker in the right side that provide real time updates and expansion of day changes or larger photos. Facebook has estimates about 250 million its users post photo every day.
The function based on the title to be displayed or the type of news (marriages, births) to share
“We have been experimenting to changes since a long time and think this will cause the user does not lose what they care about,” said Keith Schacht, senior product manager for Facebook’s news feed. “It makes the place more alive.”
It the new look of Facebook is available for all 750 million users in a week or more, says Schacht.
The announcements on Facebook, before a busy day at f8 developer to be, is the latest flyer in the battle with Google + for advertising dollars – millions of consumers – indirectly.
Facebook has expected that the next generation of music and videos for this service.
Facebook has expected to be revenue of $4.27 billion this year – more than double the $2 billion on 2010, according to eMarketer a market research firm.
Google hit the news earlier on Tuesday with a number of new Google + features and Google + is open to all, based on the closed nearly three months of a trial period. The main feature for Google + is the increase of search.
“We are serious about the best service in social networking, and we have no plans to slow down,” said Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president who responsible for Google +.
Vic Gundotra said the 100 changes and features to Google + included since the debut in June, and many changes are planned for next year.
For now, Google + has the members more than 10 million users.
Posted on September 21, 2011 |
Google + only for real name users
Google + only for real name users, so, for people who care about their safety, Google + is optional. No one forces to use it. It’s obvious to people who are at risk when they use their real names, they should not use Google +, according to Eric Schmidt.
Of course, there is no place for anonymity or pseudonyms to use Google +.
Eric Schmidt explained last week in an interview with CNN, where he criticized Facebook’s approach about policy their identity service.
It’s clear that the Internet as a whole is a strong sense of identity, meaning and identity, which I have” So, we spent a lot of time trying to guess where the fraudsters can easily to people spam, and so forth.
Facebook has done a good job to build the disambiguation names, so if you have a John Smith you can use Facebook. You try, and you see pictures of their friends to choose for you want to disambiguate it.
But basically, what Facebook has done is a way for you to find out who this person is lost on the Internet. We have a Google + .. and it’s a different answer”, said Eric Schmidt.
Of course, Google + is not intended to political dissidents and other groups that rely on the anonymity of other social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.
His comments from people mononymic or legally identified by a name who has been removed from Google + is often criticized when they go to the surname.
Google’s tweaking the system for two months in the summer social networks, recently, by choice, Google + users and identity verification system of high-level.
Posted on August 29, 2011 |
