Facebook Shuts Down Apps Without Prior Warning

Over the last few days, Facebook, the phenomenally popular social networking site, has begun to shutdown numerous applications that are available on the site without any warnings to users or the developers of the applications.
The decision to remove the applications came as a part of a “new enforcement system” that Facebook recently put into place to respond to complaints made by users and to reduce spamming on the platform.
A statement made by a Facebook engineer indicated that most of the applications had been disabled because of high negative user feedback or because they had very high mark-as-spam numbers.
According to the blog All Facebook, the shutdown mostly affected smaller applications with tens of thousands of users, but the move also affected some popular blockbusters like Photo Effect, which has 7.5 million registered users, Social Interview, and Good Reads.
However, Good Reads, unlike most other applications repealed the decision and was restored a few days later.
Facebook’s ability to shutdown applications without a warning and without providing a reason to the owners serves as a warning to many developers.
According to Otis Chandler, the CEO of Good Reads, “We didn’t know the reason we were shut down, but audited our app and cleaned up a few things just to be sure, and appealed again…A great reminder of the power Facebook has over all of us developers”.

Is Google+ the new Facebook?

After the lukewarm response to Google Buzz, the search giant is back again - this time with the feature-packed Google+. Touted as the rival to Facebook, the new social networking place has the online forums buzzing. While most people are going gaga over its cool features like Circles and Hangout some are just slamming it as a mere copy of Facebook

While you still make up your mind whether to love or hate Google's latest offering, here's what the experts are saying.
Expert talk
Danny Sullivan, searchengineland.com
The terrible name is a bad start. Google+? Google+! I can't even question or exclaim about the bad name without it looking bad in writing.Pronounced "Google Plus," the product is officially written as Google+ - making placing any punctuation after the name fairly awkward. And Google+ looks like and quacks like Facebook in several ways.
Ben Parr, mashable.com
No matter what Google says, Google+ is the company's response to the rise of Facebook. The two companies are in heated competition for talent, page views and consumers. While Google controls the search market and has a strong presence on mobile with Android, it hasn't been able to crack the social nut. Its most successful social product, YouTube, had to be acquired, and it still ranks as one of the most expensive acquisitions in the company's history
Mark Hachman on PCMAG.COM
Put simply, Google+ is a social network for geeks. But users used to Facebook's minimalist interface may find Google+ jarring. And, sad to say, Google's "field trial" suffered from overcapacity, an issue which may or may not have rippled into our evaluation on Tuesday afternoon. I and other PCMag.com staffers experienced numerous annoyances, which resulted from either poor design decisions, alpha glitches, or the overcapacity issue - I don't know which.
Brian Womack, bloomberg.com
With Google+, users easily share information based on the circle of friends they think would most like to see a photo or read a message, such as immediate family or people who like a certain hobby or sports team.
Ryan Tate .defamer.com
Really! Dump Facebook and tell all your friends about your new, richer social network. It's like Facebook but with much better groups (purportedly), so you can segregate your relatives and friends into different "Circles" that get different streams of information from you. You can name your circles and add whoever you want to each one; the relationships can be one way, so you can receives shares without sharing back. There are some other features, but that's the only one you need to care about. Google is touting Plus as a big improvement over Facebook.
Marshall Kirkpatrick , readwriteweb.com
With Google+, users such as immediate family or people who like a certain hobby or sports team. Once users sign up, they have a profile page with security settings that let them share or hide personal information, such as education or job descriptions. Contacts are suggested based on user e-mail accounts.

Happy birthday vijay!

thanks to cinesalsa.blogspot.com

Sun pics drops vengai

It was a back to back  twist for Sun Pictures which had snapped up Hari's Venghai with Dhanush and Tamannah in the lead have backed off and are no longer associated with the project. But despite this setback, Venghai is still on schedule for a July 7th release and all is in readiness.
The  producer of the movie , Bharathi Reddy will be releasing  and will also take care of the publicity. He is in talks with distributors to finalize things and to ensure that all goes smoothly.
In the meantime, Devi Sri Prasad's music is getting talked about and all signs point to this album becoming a big hit. This is Dhanush's first release after his National award and his fans are eager to see his next offering.


The same of kind of problem has been occured of Bala`s Avan-Ivan.But later it was also released by AGS cinemas.Sources in the Industry says that this problem occurs due to change of ruling parties in Tamil Nadu.

str updates!

sTr is one of the busy man in the Kollywood industry.His recent flick vaanam has been declared a Hit at the Box office.His upcoming Movie Poda Podi is wraaping up on it`s final schedule.Filmy portions have been completed only few songs yet to be taken and it is planned to release this year. 


And much awaited Osthi remake of Hindi blockbuster Daabang will go on floors this year but it has been planned for next year release. And another much awaited Vettaimannan has also been planned for next year.So these are updates for sTr fans.


Talks are on with Dir Aamir and Myskin for a Different story line. And after completing this movie defnitely there will be a Movie with Gautham vasudev Menon which will be a mass entertainer.

Porali shooting spot

Gautham Menon's VTV Hindi remake in Chennai

Gautham Menon's Hindi remake ofVTV, titled Prem Katha, is progressing briskly. Recently, thePrem Kathateam, including Prateik Babbar and Amy Jackson, were in Chennai to shoot some important sequences. The film is jointly produced by IN Entertainment (part of the Hinduja Group) and Gautham Menon's Photon Kathaas. Oscar winning musician A.R. Rahman will compose music for the Hindi version too. Editing is by Anthony; camera is handled by Manoj Paramahamsa; Rajeevan is the art director.




Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa is a romantic musical which has Trisha and Simbu in the lead roles. The film revolves around the love between an aspiring film maker Karthik, who wants to make it big in his profession, and a Christian girl Jessie. The film was also made in Telugu asYemaaya Chesave, starring Naga Chaitanya and Samantha.

The film which also dubbed in Russian Language recently and participated in Russiam Film Festival and have won several Hearts of Russian people`s too.