The giant has spent twice the time to go from 500 00 to 1 Million just to get the first 500 00 downloads.

Does Facebook Home know some problems of adoption? A month after its publication, he finally reached the symbolic figure of one million downloads, reports our colleague CNET United States, citing the director of mobility as a source.

New target: 5 million. This could take time. It took ten days to reach Facebook Home 500,000 downloads and more than 20 days to double that number. This slowdown and average performance reflects the reception rather critical of Facebook Home.

Bugs and up-to-date

Many quite negative tests have been published since the release of the software, and Facebook Home does not add up to five of the 16 000 and some votes on the Google Play Store more than two stars. Many bugs have especially put off users. Facebook has released an update to day since, but this does not seem enough.

Especially since this one million downloads, it has no idea how many have deleted the application thereafter. Facebook should have an idea - he knows the rate of removal some time after the download, but not beyond.

The online social network Facebook is in talks to acquire Israeli Waze GPS mobile application for an award of up to one billion dollars, said Thursday the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter. These sources describe the serious discussions, but warn that they can still fail.

Founded in 2008 in Israel, Waze is a mobile application that is funded by advertising and associated mapping a social aspect: it advises road routes taking into account information on accidents, road works or traffic jams provided by almost 50 million users. Such a purchase would allow Facebook to improve its offering in the mobile, where he tries to strengthen and put a foot on the market for online mapping.

This would be one of the biggest acquisitions of the group since the last year of application Instagram, for a price originally announced $ 1 billion but eventually reduced to 747 million, Facebook had paid partly with its own shares whose prices had meanwhile fallen.

Social networking is a big thing nowadays, as it gives an easy way to connect with friends in a passive manner. There are many social networks around that provide good options to stay connected with friends. But this also causes a problem as many people use multiple social networks, and it sometimes becomes difficult to keep a tab on all of them.

Here are 5 software to combine Twitter and Facebook account, and check updates on Twitter and Facebook from one place:

Sobees

Sobees is freeware for your desktop that lets you amalgamate your Facebook and Twitter Accounts. This single application interface is useful for users who have daily usage of social networking sites and Twitter accounts. Just install the application in your Pc and add your Facebook and Twitter accounts to the Sobees Lite interface.

Yoono

Yoono is easy to use application that you can download without spending any penny. With this tool, you can combine your social networking web sites and instant messaging services together at one place. This will simplify your life, as you will be able to access all your accounts straight from one single interface and no need to log on to different web sites separately.

Twitgether

Twitgether is free application that is designed to help you to connect with your networking sites like Facebook and Twitter together. The application combines your Twitter account with all the popular social networking sites so that you can access your Twitter account quickly from anywhere. The idea behind the program was to simplify your life when you can tweet along with your mails, chats or just with your networking accounts.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is free software that allows you to connect with all your friends and family across Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and many more. The application is classy and very interesting to use. Downloading the application is free of cost and installation is all the more easy. The application silently rest in your desktop and you can launch the application from your Start menu, Dock, or desktop.

Brizzly

Brizzly is free software that will combine your Facebook and Twitter accounts easily and sync your accounts for easy access. Brizzly lets you update your posts and tweets simultaneously from one application while you can surf though your Facebook and Twitter account easily with this freeware.

A 103-year-old grandmother is believed to be the world's oldest Facebook user. Lillian Lowe, from Tenby in Pembrokeshire, regularly keeps her online friends updated about her life using her iPad, and being signed up to the social network also enables her to keep track of what her seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren are up to.

Mrs Lowe, who is just two months away from her 104th birthday, took the oldest Facebook user title following the death of 104-year-old Ivy Bean in July. Despite some of the Facebook goings on that would shock many her age, Lillian says she isn't fazed by any of her grandchildren's "antics".
She said: "I have seen a few things over the years, so nothing really shocks me these days anyway."

Mrs Lowe, who logs on several times a week, uses her 47-year-old grandson Steve's iPad but is very keen to get her own. The retired hotelier and businesswoman says it's "just lovely" to be able to see all the latest photographs and messages from her large family. She said: "I can recommend it for any grandparents to keep in touch with their family without ringing all the time."

While saying her online habit is "exciting" the cyber centenarian also admitted that it can be a "dreadful waste of time".

She said: "I'm sure there are lots of other things I should be doing rather than playing on a computer."

Recently Skype and Facebook announced a large integration, however that integration appeared to be limited to the Skype desktop application.

Back in September it was reported that “Facebook users will be able to video chat with each other.” While this is theoretically possible via Skype already, it wouldn’t be surprising if those calls could take place directly from within Facebook.

AllFacebook is reporting that a Facebook app developer has discovered the existence of code hinting at Skype integration.

Apparently, Facebook is bucket testing this feature, which will be based on the Skype SDK.

 Tal Alter, the developer who was the first to notice this, wrote in his blog, “The object, which is simply called VideoChat, appears to have everything needed to introduce video chatting functionality.” It is expected that once launched, Skype users will be able to receive and initiate video calls directly from Facebook.

After all, Facebook’s new messaging system is an attempt to make communication more seamless and synchronized across multiple platforms. It may very well be that video chat will be added to the mix or that Facebook is at least considering a Skype integration.

According to Reuters, Facebook paid American Farm Bureau Federation a staggering $8.5 million to acquire FB.com last year. This amount is 42.5 times more than the amount company paid for Facebook.com witch was the last high-profile domain purchase. Fb.com was bought for sole purpose of Facebook’s new messaging platform which CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced back in november last year.