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	<title>Rashid Saeed &#187; FaceBook</title>
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		<title>How to Access Facebook in Pakistan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 11:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rashid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PTA has banned Facebook in Pakistan. This leaves many of Facebook addicts curious on how to access facebook. If you are one of those, read on: You should not be looking for ways to access Facebook in first place. If authorities have blocked it, bear with it! If you still want to access Facebook, you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PTA has banned Facebook in Pakistan. This leaves many of Facebook addicts curious on how to access facebook. If you are one of those, read on:</p>
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<li>You should not be looking for ways to access Facebook in first place. If authorities have blocked it, bear with it!</li>
<li>If you still want to access Facebook, you should travel outside Pakistan so that you can access Facebook.</li>
<li>You could also ask your friend abroad (if any) to check Facebook for you, harvest your crops in Farmville, feed your Fish in Fishville and whatever other important tasks you had.</li>
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<p>If you have any of such cool ways in your mind, do share in comments.</p>
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		<title>Facebook Banned in Pakistan, Finally!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 12:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rashid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of Pakistan ISPs have banned Facebook in Pakistan acting on this morning&#8217;s order by Lahore High Court to temporarily block Facebook in Pakistan. Ban is announced to be valid till May 30, 2010. Ban is due to failure of Facebook to remove controversial fan page promoting &#8220;Draw Muhammad Day&#8221; despite huge number of reports [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of Pakistan ISPs have banned Facebook in Pakistan acting on this morning&#8217;s order by Lahore High Court to temporarily block Facebook in Pakistan. Ban is announced to be valid till May 30, 2010.</p>
<p>Ban is due to failure of Facebook to remove controversial fan page promoting &#8220;Draw Muhammad Day&#8221; despite huge number of reports made for the page to be removed. Citing this proof, it sounds fair to block Facebook temporarily.</p>
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		<title>Farmville Mobile Updates – Zynga to End Facebook Dependence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rashid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey farmers, now your country life obsession could touch new highs. With Farmville mobile updates almost around the corner, you could be in control of your farm even when you&#8217;re away from computer. Zynga, the company behind Farmville, looks committed to end Facebook dependence for its game apps. First, it launched a dedicated website to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey farmers, now your country life obsession could touch new highs. With Farmville mobile updates almost around the corner, you could be in control of your farm even when you&#8217;re away from computer. Zynga, the company behind Farmville, looks committed to end Facebook dependence for its game apps. First, it launched a dedicated website to the popular Farmville game and now it&#8217;s testing to send mobile updates to users who subscribe for the service. To start with, this will be available for Mafia Wars alone, since its text based and creates a good testing place for Zynga to check the user response and see how the service goes by targeting a small set of users. According to Zynga, they will expand the mobile update service from notifications to directing in-game actions with mobile commands. This will enable users to perform different actions on their farms using mobile commands.
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<p>This could also be a potential scam though, as Zynga is not very popular for the way it handles user data and there have been reports for privacy abuse. So, users will be hesitant to give their cell numbers to a company like Zynga. Some addicts will of course do, and it may open doors for new stream of revenues for Zynga provided they don&#8217;t storm users with unsolicited offers as they do on Facebook. They have already been focusing on virtual currency with Zong.
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<p>Then there may be some issues in Farmville becoming a brand outside Facebook. So far, the farming game has been utilizing Facebook&#8217;s huge user base and viral marketing tools. This will go missing in standalone version of Farmville. At current, Farmville.com is open for all through Facebook Connect but it won&#8217;t be much of effort to transfer them to their own network.</p>
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		<title>Facebook application suspended</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rashid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As per my week-long plans I logged into Facebook over the weekend. Before I could accomplish rest of the plans by running into my favorite Facebook apps, I noticed a significant change in my right navbar displaying my opted applications&#8217; list. The app I was looking for wasn&#8217;t there, I went on to display the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As per my week-long plans I logged into Facebook over the weekend. Before I could accomplish rest of the plans by running into my favorite Facebook apps, I noticed a significant change in my right navbar displaying my opted applications&#8217; list. The app I was looking for wasn&#8217;t there, I went on to display the full list of apps yet not found, even made an on-page search in IE but to no use. It was among my favorite Facebook applications and I couldn&#8217;t believe that it wasn&#8217;t there in my apps list. How could it be? A risk of possible account hack ran across my mind. I changed my credentials and went on to applications list to add that application again. I couldn&#8217;t find it even there, then, I chose to go to application by typing in direct URL as <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/*appname*/">http://apps.facebook.com/*appname*/</a>. Soon as I hit &#8220;enter&#8221; following message appeared:</p>
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<p>Never have thought of it as the one violating privacy policies, on contrary I was doubtful of couple of applications which have been adding significant to my email spam. I was disappointed of course but whatever being the reason we&#8217;d probably go with Facebook at that. Modern day social networking websites as Facebook are flooded of extensions and applications adding more value by introducing new features, introducing new ways for users to have fun and make best use of their time-waste activities.</p>
<p>Said application had got an interesting preposition of tagging users with keywords you&#8217;d think will fit on them. It was in a way similar to a famous activity on every other community on Orkut. That of &#8220;What do you think of the person below you&#8221;. It was a fun app as you could imagine however having fun at cost of privacy is not something everyone can afford. It was the first application whose removal I could witness and I am looking forward for few more apps getting removed from famous Social Network&#8217;s extension applications list.</p>
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