Facebook Offering Scholarships Tweet

CALIFORNIA - Facebook will announce the launch of a new scholarship program. However, this program is limited to computer engineering students across the United States alone.

In addition, these students are also required to work in fields related to social computing and Internet technology lainny. To get the scholarship, students are required to submit a work with the theme "Yeah determined to fight one of the themes offered. To support this program, Facebook itself has launched a new site.

Later students were selected to receive scholarships, Facebook will provide facilities for paying tuition academic year, including tickets and pocket money $ 30 thousand dollars in pocket money, $ 5 thousand to buy a computer, and USD5ribu to pay for travel and conferences.

They will also have the opportunity to be placed as an intern at Facebook's office and paid for next summer. So that was launched by Tech Crunch. Saturday (9/1/2010).

The fifth theme is meant is:

1. Internet Economics: algorithmic theory relevant online advertising auction.
2. Cloud Computing: Storage, database, and optimization for distributed computing on a large scale in the environment.
3. Social Computing: models, models, algorithms and systems in social networks, social media, social search and collaborative environment.
4. Data Mining and Machine Learning: learning algorithms, feature generation, and effective evaluation methods to produce a model of behavior online and offline.
5. Systems: Hardware, operating system, runtime, and language support for fast, scalable, efficient data center.
6. Information Retrieval: the search algorithm, information extraction, answer questions, cross-language and multimedia.
   

This application is submitted later than the date on February 15, 2010, and winners will be announced on March 29.

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Facebook users from Indonesia increased Tweet

San Francisco - Predictions of the analysis that says Facebook users outside the U.S. dominated proved true. But once Americans still listed as users of Facebook with the largest percentage.

Inside Facebook was launched through Wednesday (6/1/2010), approximately 70 percent of Facebook users come from outside the United States. Indonesia is the country's largest Facebook to 3 in the world. Indonesia's position under the United States and Turkey with a total user, in this January 2010, reaching 15.3 million. While Turkey reached 16.9 million users.

Figures in both countries is still very much with Facebook users in the United States that reaches more than 100 millions, exactly 102.6 million. This number increased approximately 5 percent compared with last December, which only reached 98.1 million.

If the growth in America is only 5 percent of their users, in contrast with Facebook users in Turkey is only increased approximately 4 percent compared to users in December, reaching 16.3 million. Facebook users in Indonesia alone grew approximately 10 percent compared to the number in December which reached 13.8 million users, or an additional approximately 1.43 million users.

Overall, the growth of Facebook users continues. At the end of the month ago, Facebook users now have reached 350 million, compared to the previous month that only 337 million. This means that there are adding 13 million users in over a month.

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