Nepalese Technology Navigator
Nepal was trending once again in Twitter this afternoon. Because of international media coverage on a small plane crash in Himalayan outskirts (Read: Nepal Plane Crash kills 15 on The Wall Street Journal here) and Nepalese discussing the chaos related with federalism issues must be the reasons for this trend of Nepal in Twitter, the microblogging social site (the first reason accounts for 99% of the trend). [Read more...]
Nepali Social Networking Sites – img by GorkhaCreed
Well, we are convinced by now that nearly the whole of the Internet Population in Nepal uses Facebook, the most popular social networking website (Read: : सामाजिक सञ्जाल फेसबुक र ट्वीटरमा कति नेपाली होलान्?) As of March 3, 2012, there are more than 13 lakh Nepalese in the Facebook. While this large number of netizens are using international social networks, there are more than a dozen Nepalese or Nepal-based Social networks already – most of them are clone of Facebook in one or the other aspect.
Usual features like wall posting, images and videos sharing, group formation and page creation, chating/IM etc. are found in all of these social sites. Sadly, none of these so-called Nepalese Social Networks have user interface in Nepali language itself (except one, find it below) and don’t use Secure version (https). Let’s explore this list of Nepalese social networks.
Nepali youths and netizens are taking about the latest social site in the K-town but are these truly Nepali social networks. Making a new free social media site has become easy using Content Management Systems (CMS) platforms and our publishing houses easy get them covered without understanding the technology used behind. Whatever the situation is, let’s see what are the latest free social sites in our context.
Facebook timeline logo, source: techbend.com
Facebook’s new timeline feature has recently been compulsory for all its users. The new timeline is more designed to be like a life journal – telling your life story with a new kind of profile according to the Facebook. However, many users doesn’t seem to like it, the first reason being – The Facebook timeline requires skills to use initially. So, people started searching ways to disable the Facebook timeline despite the company’s policy to mandate this new feature.
Every popular internet browsers can be modified to disable the new Facebook timeline feature temporarily. Watch the video below prepared by TechSansar.com to disable timeline for 4 different popular internet browsers, namely Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Apple Safari. Facebook Time line is not compatible with older browser versions like Internet Explorer 7, if you live in backward techno world chances are you are still lucky with non-timeline preview of your Facebook profile (your friends still see your Timeline, however). [Read more...]
We were able to add Twitter as a search engine in a list of Search Engines in Firefox previously, but now Twitter has launched an improved app which is more likely to be accepted and used by many users – it is Firefox with Twitter. The world’s most popular browser Firefox is integrating Twitter social network into the browser giving functionalities of Twitter. Firefox with Twitter, though, is not new since it was available onward Firefox 4.
Facebook Messenger Login Screen
Finally after a long wait, Facebook has revealed it’s chat client (currently a trial one) for Windows Operating System. Facebook messenger for Windows is an IM (Instant Messaging) program that let’s you chat with your Facebook friend without logging into the main site. Also Facebook notifications and friends ticker are integrated into this IM client. [Read more...]
