Archive for the 'Social Media' Category
Twitter Rejects Facebook Merger
Monday, December 1st, 2008After several weeks of negotiations, Twitter and Facebook have failed to come to an agreement about a possible acquisition of the micro-blogging service by the social network. (more…)
Twitter On Top Of Mumbai Terrror Attack News
Friday, November 28th, 2008Even as the terrible attacks that are taking place in the financial capital of India, Mumbai (Bombay) started to unfold, users of Twitter in India started using the micro-blogging service to discuss the events as they happened. Other users wasted no time uploading pictures from the scenes of terror to their Flickr accounts. (more…)
Google Friend Connect Getting Ready For Launch
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008The latest technology that Google is about to launch is known as ‘Friend Connect’. Although they have been talking about it since May, it now looks as though it is finally ready to be launched publicly. (more…)
LinkedIn Users Richer, More Influential
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008In September 2008, Anderson Analytics conducted a study, on the profiles of LinkedIn users. The results reveal that on an average, users of LinkedIn are richer than the average users of other social sites such as Facebook and MySpace. (more…)
Is Facebook Growing Too Fast?
Thursday, November 6th, 2008An old saying goes, ‘Too much of a good thing is bad’. This saying seems to apply quite well to Facebook in recent times. (more…)
Twitter Launches Groups In Japan
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Twitter has launched ‘Groups’ in Japan and this service has been named ‘Twicco’. The service is currently available only in Japanese, though other languages may be added later. (more…)
YouTube Trying To Monitor Youth Violence
Friday, October 31st, 2008With violence increasing at an alarming rate all over the world in general, and on YouTube in particular, YouTube has decided to do something about it - they are trying to detect and stop videos portraying youth crime being posted on the site. (more…)
Social Media Activity Costing Businesses
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Studies conducted over the last four years have shown that the usage of social media sites at the workplace has been steadily increasing. Unfortunately the use of these applications has been causing a lot of avoidable expenditure to companies. (more…)
Is Twitter A Handy Tool For Terrorists?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Along with all the advantages using the Internet, such as easy accessibility to information of all types and quick communication, come some disadvantages. If put in the wrong hands, all these technologies can easily be misused and become agents of destruction. (more…)
LinkedIn Launches Service For Advertisers
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008LinkedIn launched a new service called LinkedIn Surveys last month, which will conduct surveys to help advertisers, reach their target audience. The target audience being professionals and decision makers such as executives and IT experts, who are members of this social network. (more…)
Social Profile Leads To Death
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008A woman aged 34, residing in South London, was murdered by her husband earlier this year after he saw her marital status on Facebook change to ’single’. (more…)
Yahoo! Launches New Social Profiles
Monday, October 20th, 2008For almost a year now, Yahoo! has been talking about their new ‘Yahoo! Open Strategy‘. They have finally begun to roll out user profiles, which form the backbone of the social part of their open strategy. (more…)
Microsoft Live Search Now On Facebook
Friday, October 10th, 2008Microsoft made an investment of $240 million in Facebook, almost exactly one year ago. Facebook and Microsoft Live Search have now launched their first joint application. (more…)
Google Blog Search Becomes Content Aggregator
Monday, October 6th, 2008Google Blog Search has a new homepage that makes it look more like a memetracker. Rather than being a pure search page, the service now resembles the Google News page, where search is combined with content aggregation. (more…)
Yahoo! To Shut Down Mash
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Hardly one year after it was launched, Yahoo! Mash will be shutting down. The experimental social network aspired to be a potential competitor to the hugely popular social sites such as Facebook and MySpace, but fell far short of this lofty target. (more…)
Facebook To Try Engagement Ads
Monday, September 1st, 2008Facebook is planning to test a new ad format in U.K. and U.S.A., which would amalgamate well with the already existing features of the network. (more…)
Facebook Largest Social Network And Fastest Growing
Friday, August 15th, 2008A survey of social networks conducted recently by comScore has shown that Facebook is now the largest social network in the world, after having overtaken rival network MySpace. (more…)
Twitter Stops SMS Updates In UK
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Twitter has just announced that they will no longer send SMS updates across the UK. Users in the UK need not panic, however, as they will be able to continue to receive updates from Twitter, on their mobile phones through other means. (more…)
MySpace And Facebook Yet To Succeed In Japan
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008The two largest social networks, MySpace and Facebook, which have become a steady part of youth culture in the West, are yet to make waves in Japan. (more…)
Digg Recommendation Engine Drives More Diggs
Friday, August 1st, 2008A month ago Digg launched the ‘Digg Recommendation Engine’, on a trial basis, and made it available to some of Digg’s registered users. Now they have found that the Recommendation Engine was very successful in driving up user activity and social interaction. (more…)
