Hmm, So, Google is busy cooking something that would make it stand in front of the Giant facebook. Rumours have it that Google is gonna roll out something big this time. A decentralized social networking code named maka-maka is gonna be the next big thing from the GooglePlex.

So what do we mean by decentralized social networking?

To know what that term means, you need to what a centralized social networking is. Well, Centralized social networking refers to the conventional way of online social networking where people register on a website and that website solely hosts the entire network. Everytime you need to login to you network, you need to login to that website. It is exactly what we are doing at the moment through the likes of Orkut.com and Myspace.com and other such sites.

On the other hand, decentralized social networking refers to a network which is not only hosted on the central server but also communicates with the other small third party applications through two way APIs. Two way APIs benefits both the parties, as third party application can mine data through that API and the central server will get some more info. which may include how the data is being used third parties and inturn bu the endusers. Facebook has shown similar kind of model which lets developers to build applications over their platform.

How they are going to implement this thing?

Well, Google has always been tight lipped about their coming projects. But some secrets however are always leaked inspite of those Non Disclosure Agreements aka NDAs. SO how they gonna implement that thing? To me it’s no rocket science to do that. If they interconnect all their services like Feed Reader, Bookmarks, Gtalk, Orkut, iGoogle in a smart way providing open APIs to third party developers and keeping in view the privacy of users, the outcome of that will be a network which itself is nothing but a Decentralized Social Network.

Why Google needs Maka-Maka?

They have many reason to roll out something like that. Firstly, they are out of race in the bid war of facebook. Secondly, they need to take their social Graph to the next level which would help them serve better targetted ads and inturn make them money.

So all in all whoever makes it to the top whether Google or Facebook or Blah Blah. One thing is for sure, we, the end users, have good time ahead.

Sorry for not updating this blog for quite some time, I was really busy with my other projects during past few months. Tricks4fun.com has always brought tips, tweaks and tricks. The blog has mainly talked about social networking sites especially orkut. We talked about tips and tricks related to orkut. Now I think it’s time for us to draw ourselves towards other social media sites too.

But why only Social Networking ?, we could have talked about tech gadgets and other technical tips, tricks. The reason being that social networking sites are for every one, from students to housewives and from rich to poor. Social networking sites have brought people on an even platform where everybody enjoys his own space, privacy and interactions with others.

With six crores registered members. Orkut is doing great in terms of traffic and reveneue, and above all it has helped Google to raise their social graph to the next level. Orkut is very popular in south asian countries, Brazil and Latin America. But it has failed to impress people from United States and UK. The reason could be either the orkut could not become viral in USA and UK as it did in some south asian countries and Brazil. The zones where orkut is popular are denesely populated areas of the world which even helped it in becoming a Viral thing.

With orkut becoming more and more popular. Other social bookmarking sites also came into the picture, with likes of friendster, bebo. MySpace has already a large maket share and it seems to continue occupying that much for atleast another few years.

A large event happened in social networking phase when facebook got world’s attention. Facebook brought forward a complete new idea and made a platform where developers are free to create their own applications which could help them in promoting their own websites and other ventures too. WIth that kinda platform facebook is here to stay for long. With facebook, people keep getting new applications and hence new features unlike in other similar social networking sites.

Now with facebook taking over the internet, we can expect Google to do something to take orkut to the next level or atleast somewhere near to Facebook. And as expected they seem to have taken the path of openness as they will be announcing some open APIs for orkut.com which would let developers to orkut more seriously than ever. More developers means more features, more features means more buzz.

So, Social networking is here to stay. The platforms can change, their marketing strategies can change but their popularity is not gonna go anywhere down.

Facebook has been the buzz word in recent times. Well, almost all the social networking sites are getting world’s attention. We are enjoying this wonderful phase web 2.0 and we keep on trying our hands on cool tips and tricks to enhance our web experience. Here i come with some facebook tips and tricks.

See all your friend’s pictures in a tiles format

Login into Facebook and in your facebook sidebar click on the my friends link you will see a drop down box next to show, now hover or rollover your mouse and then click on one of the dashed lines (–). You will see a page full of al the profile pictures of all your facebook friends. The profile photos will be shown in a tiled format. It really looks cool try it.

See creator’s profile

Creator in a facebook community is the first profile created in your community. Generally you can’t search for his profile. But by using this cool facebook trick you can do it, just follow some simple steps. Goto your profile page and look at your id in the url in the address bar of your web browser. The first few numbers represent your school ID, so if you change the rest of the numbers to zero and the last number to one. It will show you the first person or the first profile created from your school, college or work place. This profile is known as “Creator’s” profile. This trick is not much of use, but just in case.

Give wooden look to facebook

This greasemonkey javascript will give your facebook pages an antiquated and wooden look. So, don’t just get stick to old boring design, keep trying out new ones. Facebook wooden look

Automatic Facebook login

Aren’t you fed up of keep on logging into facebook everytime you want to check new messages. This cool greasemonkey javascript will keep you logged into facebook as long as the password is stored in your firefox web browser. Automatic facebook login

Remove annoying Facebook applications

Clean out all those annoying applications people add. This javascript will remove all those crappy applications from any facebook profile you are viewing. The profile were never so cleaner before Facebook applications cleaner

So, that’s all with facebook tips and tricks for today, just stay tuned, you will see many more tricks and hacks shortly.

I know a huge part of my blog’s audience love social networking sites. And why not, we have every reason to love them. They have made possible those which look quite impossible, like i never thought i would be able to be in contact with my school friends ever. Orkut was the first social networking site that took my attention, well, not only mine but orkut got an overwhelming response throughout the world especially in densely populated areas like brazil and indian subcontinent. This blog has seen ups and down, but kept on getting good day by day. Tricks4fun.com started its journey with general computer and tech tips and tricks, but when orkut came in limelight we talked heavily about it and related orkut tips and tricks.

Now i have realized that people want some change, orkut is good but we all know that its not the best. Today’s buzz word is Facebook, facebook is a social networking utility that connects people with people. With hell lot of unbelievable features and tools facebook is getting all the limelight. There are many thousands of free facebook applications available over the net which makes you experience the true web 2.0 life. So, from now onwards this blog tricks4fun will talk about facebook and its related applications. But don’t worry we still love our own orkut.com and will keep you updated with the latest about that also. Apart from them we will now be talking about other new popular social networking sites also.

So, just stay tuned. We are coming with lots of new tips and tricks.