Lite - Facebook on a diet

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Within hours of writing about a cleaner, simpler Facebook - it's already here! I'd love to say - I TOLD YOU SO! But I'd be lying. In case you haven't heard, a stripped down version of Facebook is out on the prowl. And we Indians get to test it first. But Facebook Lite isn't a spawn of the Facebook, Friend Feed deal - at least that's what the web says! A chap named Ashok Chogle has been testing it from before the deal was announced. And there's a bunch of others who got special invites to test the new product a while back. Facebook says it's pared down the frills, to make the site load faster on our tortoise-speed internet. My guess is - they want Sweety and Raju from Bhatinda and all their pals from every small town cyber café to log on.....

Prettying up your Facebook

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A few newspapers mentioned it, far fewer TV channels. Facebook, (teeny bopper waste of time / absolutely necessary lifeline, depending on which side of thirty you're on J), just ate up FriendFeed, an obscure networking site even your young nephew in school wouldn't have heard of. So what? Well, once upon a time, the four guys behind Friend Feed, were top stars at Google. Gmail, GMaps and Google Adsense, that advertising program that earns money for Google 24/7--they made them all. Fifty million dollars (that's what Facebook forked out) is small change, for that sort of brain power. But the plot thickens. Twitter's set the world aflutter, with short, crisp messages that let's friends know what you're upto. Till recently, Facebook couldn't match Twitter's fast, uncomplicated style. And Google couldn't search people's Tweets fast enough - often necessary to keep track of what's buzzing online these days. Big....