Social Media News Online

Windows genuine advantage notifications occur when your computer hasn't passed the validation test. The validation test can be failed due to being sold a pirated (non-genuine) copy of XP, or because you have changed your XP product key to a software-generated key, or sometimes it just happens for no reason at all. The failed validation installs three types of notifications on your computer: one on the log in screen, one log in timer, and one balloon. It also stops updates from Microsoft and disables your ability to install IE7 and Windows Media Player 11. This solution can get rid of all three notifications, even though you will still not be able to update through Windows Update. You will not be able to download things from Microsoft that requires a valid license either.

Download

Note: Tool Tested By Admin.

It took a relatively big population to be one of the 10 fastest-growing countries on Facebook during February, based on the numbers from our forthcoming monthly Global Monitor report. Facebook’s growth over the past years has happened sporadically in countries large and small.

And, to be sure, most of the 98 countries we track continued to gain users last month. The thing is that many smaller countries appear to have saturated their potential audiences, typically with between 30% and 50% of the population on the site every month in areas with widespread access to the internet.

From 373 million monthly active users (MAU) at the start of February, we tracked Facebook going to 394 million by the end of the month. That’s an increase of 21 million or so which is around what we saw last month when you factor in that the month of February is short a couple days.

We should also note that we get our data from Facebook’s advertiser tool, which is typically at least several weeks behind. For example, Facebook announced it had 400 million MAU in early February — close to what the service is at by our numbers. This taken into account, our data appears to be accurately reflect what is happening on Facebook.

But take a look at our top 10 list. The United States continues to grow by the largest number of new users, with 4.61 million new people joining in February. The rest of the top countries are some the largest in their particular parts of the world, with a few exceptions. Indonesia and the Philippines come next on our list, with 1.79 and 1.37 million new users apiece. Europe comprises most of the rest of the list, with Germany continuing to be a big growth market; Facebook is only getting popular there now, years, after it became popular in the United Kingdom and other parts of the region.

Mexico and India appear to be growing for the same reason as Germany, and Indonesia and the Philippines, for that matter. Other social networks got popular in all of these countries first, before Facebook’s international expansion really took hold. But now Facebook has entered the market, and is gaining users at double-digit growth rates — and while sometimes locally-established are holding their own, the trend here is going in one direction.

There are still countries in the world where Facebook has not taken hold — Russia is one where local competitors continue to do well, although Facebook grew there this month and is slowly inching towards a million users. China, notably, blocks Facebook completely; we counted 63,000 users there last month, who are apparently tunneling in via some sort of IP routing software. Vietnam, sort of does, too. Both countries posted declines. The other ones to fall, were, as we alluded to earlier, places where Facebook has already saturated the population. While drops were insignificant — in the thousands, mostly — but included Iceland, Singapore, Norway and the United Kingdom.

For all the details, check out our new Global Monitor report. The latest version with all these numbers and more is coming this week.

Google Wave, the real-time communication platform that made a huge splash last year, is looking to bring back some of its original buzz and developer excitement with the launch of v2 of the robots API.

For those who are unfamiliar, developers can create two types of extension for Google Wave ( ): robots and gadgets. Gadgets are apps that can run inside of waves, while robots are automated participants within waves. Developers can create robots to do everything from respond to specific cues to pull in information from outside sources such as Twitter ( ).

The big feature of the new robots API is the Active API, which allows Google Wave extensions to push information into waves without the need for user action or input. This means that waves can automatically update with info such as stock prices, weather updates or tweets without a specific action from users within the wave. It also improves the ability of robots to pick and choose the data they need, to better filter out events and to report errors when they fail to carry out a task.
It’s safe to say that the buzz around Google Wave has died down significantly since its launch last year, but it’s also clear that Google ( ) sees Wave as in integral part of its overall strategy to redefine communication (Google Buzz ( ) is the most recent innovation). The new API should help bring new developers to the platform, which could prove vital if it ever hopes to reach critical mass.

Last month, we reported that Facebook was transitioning from application notifications to e-mail notices. Today, the Facebook Developer blog has added further information about this new method and announced that as of March 1, 2010, app notifications will be discontinued.

For users who hate being bombarded by app notifications in Facebook, this is good news — just don’t expect notifications to disappear altogether.

Instead of using universal notifications, developers can now choose from a number of methods to communicate changes or updates to users. Facebook () recommends using either counters, dashboard news notices or sending users e-mail messages (assuming they have agreed to e-mail opt-ins).

Counters, for all intents and purposes, will be just like notifications as they currently exist, except they will be specific to each individual app. If your app is bookmarked in your Facebook page, a counter indicating the number of notices you have from an app.

Facebook has also created a page of best practices for developers communicating with users.

What do you think about the deprecation of app notifications? Let us know in the comments!