Facebook is getting better and better. During Facebook's live press event last January 18, the social media mogul announced its new 60 Open Graph app partners. The new set of partners, ranging from food to fitness and from travel to lifestyle, will be working closely with Facebook in approving new apps for the platform. This should elevate Facebook to a whole new different level. According to Facebook, the new apps will give way for greater expression of activities among its users, needless to say, better collaboration and communication as well.

Last year, Facebook laid down its roadmap for 2012 when CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “The next five years will be defined by the apps and the depth of engagement possible.” If all goes well, marketers and brands will find more opportunities to engage the vast number of Facebook users in the web. Some of the apps available today are Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Gogobot, TripAdvisor and many more.

Finally Microsoft breaks the silence. A few officials from the world's leading software company has shared little details about Photogon - a new file system that, according to previous rumors, will be integrated into the forthcoming Windows 8 OS. A previous blog from Microsoft last Monday entitled "Building Windows 8" has revealed the additional details of the big picture when it announced the name ReFS (Resilient File System) as the official name of the new file system they are tediously working on.

Surendra Verma, Development Manager for the Windows Storage and File System Department, explained that prior to the official release of Windows 8, ReFS will start its life cycle as a storage system for the Windows Server. Then it will become a storage system for Windows clients and eventually a boot volume once Windows 8 arrives. Since one of Microsoft's primary goals in developing ReFS is to maintain a high degree of compatibility with a subset of widely used NTFS features while at the same time minimizing the ones with limited value, Microsoft is planning to stop supporting selected NTFS (New Technology File System) features including short names, compression, file level encryption, user data transactions, object IDs, named streams, hard links, sparse, extended attributes and quotas.

Now you can probably still recall that Microsoft has been using NTFS since Windows NT and Windows XP has been released. While NTFS - in all its complexity - might have worked perfectly in the past, in today's web 2.0 world, simplicity is the key. ReFS, also called Photogon, is architected to supplement Windows 8's drive-extender-style storage space. Surendra Verma said, “Underneath this reused portion (the code responsible for implementing the Windows file system semantics), the NTFS version of the code-base uses a newly architected engine that implements on-disk structures such as the Master File Table (MFT) to represent files and directories. ReFS combines this reused code with a brand-new engine, where a significant portion of the innovation behind ReFS lies.”

Lance Ulanoff, the editor in chief of Mashable, probably said it best when he said that implementing the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) would be like returning to the Dark Ages - back when the World Wide Web hasn't been launched yet and everything for most of us was, well, boring. A few days ago, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that the popular resource site will shut down for 24 hours today, Wednesday, to protest against the SOPA. There is no doubt that Wikipedia has become the world's most beloved resource site in the Internet. To support the cause many other internet giants like Google, reddit, Mozilla, Wordpress, tumblr, Vimeo, flickr, 4chan, Wired, Imgur, Namecheap and thousands more also protested their views by participating in the organized "virtual protest".

Last year, Wikipedia had over 420 Million unique visitors every month with over 20 Million articles across 300 languages online. While today's protest will only affect the English version of the site, it is important to note that Wikipedia accounts for approximately 25 Million visitors daily - an obviously scary situation for every English-speaking Wikipedia fanatic. If you will head over to the site right now, you will be confronted with the compelling line "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge". What follows are a set of instructions that will give you the option to reach out to the U.S. Congress in hopes of melting the phone systems in Washington.

On the other hand, the Wall Street Journal said that a Wikipedia representative has confirmed that the mobile version of the website will continue running online (Check out en.m.wikipedia.org). Other popular sites including Reddit, WordPress, Mozilla and Google are joining in the protest as well. Remember that when this bill passes, YouTube will be kicked out too! And that would also mean goodbye for Twitter and Tumbr as well. It's scary isn't it? Help us in condemning SOPA by visiting Reddit's official website right now.

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There are already developments focusing on controlling computers via voice. If controlling your computer using your eyes seems something possible only in distant future, think again after you watch this technology right now. Tobii Gaze Technology demonstrated in the video below shows how their "Gaze interaction" makes it possible to point and interact in ways that are superior to both touch and mouse. It changes the user interface for regular computers as fundamentally as touch has for handheld devices, Tobii Gaze Technology has been already tested with prototype laptops released and the technology might soon get adapted in mainstream usage after Windows 8 interface goes public.

After giving users Corona - The untethered jailbreak for A4 CPU based Apple device running iOS 5.0.1, pod2g has achieved another milestone by jailbreaking the newer A5 CPU based devices like iPhone 4S and iPad2. For now a video is posted demoing working iPhone 4S jailbreak running iOS 5.0.1, there is no ETA provided for the public release but an release is expected soon.

The new Facebook Timeline feature permits a lot of creative potential thanks to the new covers images, here is an brilliant use of the feature to spread the anti-drug message.

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