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Here is the complete list of Facebook chat emoticons! I know that many people have been in the dark about how to actually insert these smileys into your chats and how to pass them on to your friends – well wait no longer! You also should realise that you don’t need to install or download anything, so if anyone tries to make you then they are probably cheating you! Each one of the Facebook chat emoticons is pictured below, along with a little bit of text describing it! Let us know which of these is your favourite, and remember that we will update this list if there are any new ones! Facebook chat aiya emoticon – >:o This face is a classic for tell people that you can’t believe the situation you’re in! It’s usually their fault too! Aiya! Facebook chat shark emoticon – (^^^) One of the more recent emoticons and definitely one of the coolest. Want to bite someone on your friends list? Then send them a shark to do the job for you! Facebook chat penguin emoticon – ...

An online fan page for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was vandalized with racist images and messages on Monday's national holiday. The Facebook page for the legendary civil rights leader contained photos that used the N-word and depicted African Americans as slaves and monkeys. "Sadly, hate groups have never gone away, and the Internet gives them another way to spread venom," said Steve Klein, the spokesman for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, which owns the page. Klein said the defacing of the fan page was not the first online racial incident to come to the attention of the King Center. "This happens a lot, but I don't think those hateful words or pictures represent a large group of people in the United States," Klein said. "I just wish more people spent Monday remembering Dr. King's dream, not spreading online hate." The racist imagery sent shock waves through the online community. "These devils won't even l...

San Francisco: Facebook has backtracked over a new feature that would have shared users' addresses and mobile phone numbers with developers of applications on the popular social networking site. Facebook announced the change late Monday night just three days after the introduction of the new feature was met with howls of protest from privacy advocates. The new feature appeared whenever users installed a new application. In the past, such actions prompted a menu in which users were asked whether they wished to share personal details such as their name, picture, friends lists and other general information with the application provider. Under the new system, the same menu also asked users to share their contact information, without providing any extra warnings about the possible perils of doing so. Privacy advocates immediately blasted this omission, and to Facebook's credit, the company acted quickly to close the security loophole by disabling the new feature. ...

Nobody much likes bankers nowadays, and I'm no different. I also try to maintain a healthy skepticism about the surging value of social media companies, since the nascent social media market has many characteristics of a bubble. So it feels odd to be sticking up for Goldman Sachs following its Big Fat Facebook Flop. But this fiasco -- however satisfying it may be in terms of schadenfreude -- strikes me as another instance of pointless, counter-productive regulatory intervention. Or rather, non-intervention: it appears that Goldman backed off its plans to help Facebook sell stakes worth as much as $1.5 billion in a private offering following hints that it would run afoul of regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission. No one knows exactly what the lawyers said to the lawyers, behind closed doors, but the gist was that Goldman may have violated SEC rules by vigorously promoting the planned sale earlier this month and attracting media attention. In any event, whatever was s...

Accel Partners, the investment firm that caught fire with its early bet on Facebook, is coming to New York and is ready to spend. The Silicon Valley venture capitalists are setting their sights East, thanks to the boom in the city's tech entrepreneurial scene, it said in a statement yesterday. "The multistage investment opportunities in New York over the next decade or two are very significant," said Jim Breyer, a partner at Accel, noting he has been spending a number of days each month in the Big Apple, adding that it was time to have some more permanent digs. Twenty-eight year old Accel rented an office in Union Square, which will be used for visiting employees, but it has plans to hire permanent staff. "Over the next couple of years we plan to invest tens of millions if not hundreds of millions in New York tech companies," Breyer said. Accel manages more than $6 billion globally and has offices in Bangalore, New Delhi, Shanghai, Beijing, London and ...

Facebook has released a significant update to its mobile client for Android devices, bumping the version to 1.5. Notable improvements in the latest version include support for the same Facebook Chat functionality that is available on the desktop version and iPhone app. To further improve the usability of the chat feature, this update also offers push notifications for incoming messages and other content and offers a background mode for chat that can continue to be used while other applications are still active. The updated Facebook app for Android is already available as a free download from the Android Market.

 Well, now we know why Goldman Sachs was so reluctant to give its millionaire clients any concrete details about the Facebook deal (save that vague appetite-whetting pitch letter that could easily have been mistaken for an entreaty from a Nigerian prince). Leaked copies of a 101-page private placement memo Goldman hand delivered to hand-picked potential investors a little after lunchtime yesterday — probably as they were leaving the Grill Room — reveal closely guarded details about Facebook's actual earnings, its plans for an IPO, and the SEC's investigation of Goldman's attempt to value Facebook at $50 billion. According to the document, Facebook earned $355 million in net income in the first nine months of 2010. Net earnings were a crucial detail left out of another leak, now confirmed by the document, that Facebook earned $1.2 billion in revenue during that same time period. In case you're keeping track, that means that $50 billion valuation is roughly 142 times what...

Some Facebook stock is worth more than other Facebook stock. Some Facebook stock, we've heard, comes with information rights. Meaning: if you own it, you get to know about Facebook's financials, even though it is a private company. This type of stock is the kind of stock that the biggest Facebook investor you've never heard of likes to acquire for his hedge fund. His name is Chase Coleman, and he runs a hedge fund called Tiger Global – best known for its huge returns and long positions in companies like Apple, Google, and LinkedIn. Chase is 33 or 34, married to a pretty blonde named Stephanie, and very, very rich. The most recent estimate we've seen of his income was $350 million to $400 million per year. He's been running Tiger Global since 2001, so he's likely a paper billionaire. He's got an ornate apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hedge funds don't have to disclose their positions in private companies – and Tiger Global is parti...

How many people have you asked to "HMU" this year? Chances are, there are a few of you. The term, which means "hit me up," was one of the fastest-growing status updates on Facebook this year, a list that also included the iPad, Justin Bieber, the World Cup, and the Chilean miners. For its second annual "memology," Facebook looked at the terms that grew in popularity as compared to 2009. "Natural disasters and human triumphs made their mark in our 2010 list of top trends in status updates, but more than anything else people wanted to spend time with their friends and family," Facebook wrote in a blog post . "The fastest growing trend was the use of a new digital shorthand for people to ask their friends to hang out." The "HMU" acronym barely registered last year, averaging about 20 posts per day in May 2009. By year's end, however, that rose to 1,600 posts per day, and throughout 2010, the phrase increased by ab...

After investing $450 million in the company and giving high-net-worth clientele one week to decide whether to make a minimum $2 million buy into a $1.5 billion “special purpose” vehicle for investing in Facebook shares, some Goldman Sachs employees are still learning how to use the social network. Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman yesterday gave a tutorial to Goldman Sachs’ wealth management department, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which cited an unnamed individual who listened into the presentation at the bank. Goldman Sachs computers continue to block access to Facebook, with browser messages saying that “access to this site is logged and audited” and Internet use on the premises is only for “legitimate business.” Isn’t that ironic? There’s been no indication whether the bankers have a deadline for becoming more familiar with the social network, but Reuters has said that Goldman wants clients to decide by the end of the week whether they want to participate ...

By now you probably know The Social Network isn’t the truest story of Facebook. But CNBC claims it has a more accurate tale to tell. We first posted about the CNBC documentary in October, but tomorrow is the long-awaited debut of the hour-long special report. The network’s Lester Holt talks to some key players who were with Facebook in the beginning, along with some users whose lives were changed forever by the social networking site (and not always for the better). If you can’t wait for tomorrow, there are several preview clips worth checking out. Click here for a sneak peak showing Mark Zuckerberg as a sophomore at Harvard calling Facebook  an ‘online directory’. In this clip, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes talks about how The Social Network was more fiction than fact. Here, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra discuss how they felt one day sitting in their dorm rooms when they found out Zuckerberg launched the site without them. The documentary goes on to talk ...

The attorneys general in 15 states have reached an agreement with Facebook over how state and local governments represent themselves on social network pages. This may prompt a surge in page creation by such entities. The agreement resembles one that Facebook arranged with the U.S. government, clarifying the terms for the way federal agencies present themselves and connect with the public via pages on the social network. A press release put out by the Utah Attorney General’s Office explains how Facebook has modified four provisions of its terms and conditions to meet government needs: •    Striking the indemnity clause except to the extent indemnity is allowed by a state’s constitution or law. •    Striking language requiring legal disputes be handled in California courts and adjudicated under California law. •    Requiring a public agency include language directing consumers to its official website prominently on any Facebook page. •...

While many brands have created successful Facebook communities, it’s a constant challenge to keep fans, increase the engagement rate and protect brand integrity. Traditional Facebook community management platforms rely on keyword or semantic functionality to alert moderators of spam or negative content. Where this approach falls short is in the recognition of the modern “natural” language or word and letter variations. Understanding what your community is saying and participating in the conversation are the two main ingredients of social marketing. But it goes beyond comprehending the well written, correctly spelled post, to awareness of the more than 1,300 chat abbreviations, different alterations and variants of expressions (such as small or capital letters, letter repetition or missing letters, orthographical variations, or non-alpha symbols). Consider the reality that a fan’s emotional state directly contributes to the spelling and grammatical accuracy of his post. The...

Facebook emoticons are invoked by typing their shortcut codes into the chat box. When you type the shortcut and press Enter the code will transform itself into the yellow emoticon face. Emoticons can be inserted in the middle of the text, they don't necessarily have to be alone in the chat sentence. Emoticon shortcuts won't work in Facebook statuses, comments or anywhere else, they can only be used in chat box. If you would like to share emoticons to your friends in the Facebook status it is possible but not with these Facebook emoticon shortcuts, you will need a different approach. Download More Smileys If you would like to download thousands of more smileys click here. You will be asked to download browser toolbar which will allow you to use emoticons on Facebook and many other sites and applications (social network sites, emails, instant messengers, ...). There are currently more than 10,000 emoticons included.

Goodness gracious. Can a 16-year-old pop/R&B singer (think: “Like baby, baby, baby, oh”) really trail the president of the United States in terms of influencer power? If you’re Justin Bieber and we’re talking the Twitter world here, then yes. So says San Francisco-based social media analytics company Klout, which, at the tail end of December, published its list of the “Most Influential Topics of 2010.” For all you Bieber haters out there, we hear ya. Seems like the Canadian-born artist is always winning some award or another. He was 2010’s Most Influential Twitter Celebrity, per a December Klout study, and it wouldn’t surprise us if he snagged a few more accolades at the People’s Choice Awards ceremony this Wednesday. Along with B.o.B., Bruno Mars, Ke$ha and Selena Gomez & the Scene, he is currently one of the nominees for this year’s “Favorite Breakout Artist.” But okay, okay. Back to Mr. Bieber and how he managed to come in at a “close second” to President Obama, the ma...

According to J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan, the answer is “yes.” Not only did Facebook just receive a significant monetary boost from one of Wall Street’s major banks, but the social networking site is also quickly catching up to Google in terms of Web traffic. In his latest research report, as noted by marketing trade publication Mediaweek, the analyst notes that Facebook’s slice of the U.S. web audience rose from 48 to 70 percent over the last two years, compared to Google’s, which inched up 2 percentage points to 81 percent during the same time period. Plus, Google, despite its search prominence, isn’t the traffic heavy weight it once was. “In 2009, Google accounted for 20 percent of Amazon.com’s traffic. Last year, that number dipped to 19.6 percent,” writes Mediaweek writer (and one of Media Geek’s former colleagues), Mike Shields, citing Khan’s research. Facebook during that same time period generated a 5.9 percentage point increase in traffic to Amazon. And, the social net...

What’s good for Facebook now will be good for Goldman, Sachs & Co. News of the investment bank’s decision to invest $450 million in the social-networking giant helped send Goldman’s shares up $4.89, or 2.9%, to $173.05 on Monday, amid a broad market rally. That left the stock at its highest level since April 15. What’s significant about that: The shares now have recouped nearly all of what they lost in the aftermath of the Securities and Exchange Commission's civil fraud case against the bank. Goldman’s shares plummeted $23.57, or nearly 13%, to $160.70 on April 16 after the SEC stunned Wall Street by alleging that Goldman in 2007 defrauded investors in marketing what became toxic mortgage securities. The stock continued to slide through the spring and early summer before finally bottoming at $131.08 on July 2. The shares pushed higher from there, but stalled out in mid-December despite the broader market’s continuing advance. Goldman on July 15 agreed to settle the SE...

Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs is hoping to take its newfound friendship with social media wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg all the way to the bank. Goldman is betting that it can parlay its $450 million investment into hundreds of millions in fees it can wring from lucrative equity, debt, and merger and acquisition deals with Facebook. Some analysts say Goldman could ring up fees of as much as $50 million from just leading an initial public offering of Facebook. Goldman is expected to make an announcement of its interest in Facebook, reported late Sunday, as soon as today, sources note. A Goldman spokesman declined to comment. According to reports, Goldman made an investment alongside Russia's Digital Sky Technologies, with plans to offer its shares of Facebook to its clients via a special purpose vehicle. At present, Facebook sees only limited trading on secondary exchange platform SecondMarket, for privately-held companies. Such a move has raised concerns with regulators,...

Facebook is worth $50 billion? Worth 25 times last year’s revenue? If it seems like we have heard such incredulity before its because we have. People have raised doubts about the social-media company’s valuation since its founding in 2004. Remember when Facebook rejected Yahoo’s $1 billion offer in 2006? Or Microsoft’s $250 million investment that valued the firm at $15 billion in 2007? And yet despite the head-shaking about the sky high pricetag, the value of Facebook just keeps going up. Facebook is hardly the only online firm seeing its valuation jump recently, either. Last week the WSJ reported that trading in shares of Twitter and LinkedIn, as well as Facebook, had surged in recent months, with corresponding increases in prices. Below are key points in the Facebook and Twitter’s valuation. January 2011: $50 billion–Facebook raises $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investment firm in a deal that values the company at $50 billion. December 2010: $56 billion–...

Facebook was the most popular Website and most searched term in 2010, according to HitWise. Facebook's connections and the increase in time spent with them are of bigger concern for Google. HitWise delivered another red flag to Internet giant Google when it reported Dec. 29 that Facebook was easily the most visited Website and most searched term overall in 2010. The social network accounted for 8.93 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010, with Google.com notching 7.19 percent of visits. The search term "facebook" also accounted for 2.11 of all search queries made worldwide, while Google only accounted for .63 percent of search terms. It's not Facebook's rank as most popular Website and most searched term that should alarm Internet rival Google. It's the amount of time Facebook's 550 million-plus users are spending on the social network, which will increase thanks to the company's social plug-ins and connections. comScore s...