'Facebook' News

Facebook has been in favor of openness for quite a while now, which is evident from their Facebook Connect facility. As a further step in that direction they have now joined the group of OpenId relying parties. Read the rest of this entry »

Following the rule of demand and supply, Facebook has started supplying live updates on the recently re-launched home page news feed. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has recently launched a new social web application called Vine that will first be beta tested in Seattle. Critics liken the service to a combination of Twitter and Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

There is a saying that goes, ‘Change is the only constant’, which is quite true, but it is equally true that ‘all change is resisted’ at least initially. The second phrase seems to apply to the case of the social networking site Facebook in France. Read the rest of this entry »

Last month we had reported on a potential Digg toolbar that would compete with StumbleUpon.

Digg has now launched a new product called the ‘DiggBar’, which appears at the top of the browser whenever users click on any story on Digg. The DiggBar is portable to any website, making social news sharing much easier, but ways to exploit it are already cropping up. Read the rest of this entry »

After the launch of Facebook Connect last year, several websites have started using this platform, to enable their users to log in via Facebook and connect and share information with each other at various levels. In an effort to monetise this service, Facebook is planning to create a virtual currency. Read the rest of this entry »

For years, jurors in the U.S. have been expressly forbidden from talking about the case they are hearing outside the courtroom. But now, people seem to be finding a way around this rule, thanks to the availability of technology. Read the rest of this entry »

It has long been felt that people go downstream to Twitter from sites such as Google and Facebook. However, a recent post from analytics firm Hitwise, shows that the reverse is also true. Read the rest of this entry »

According to recent findings from the analytics company Hitwise, Facebook is now sending more traffic to some sites than Google. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo! does seem to be back in the headlines, and not just because of Microsoft’s continued flirtations. In order to attract more users to their search service, Yahoo! has recently started adding fancy Facebook links via SearchMonkey on the search results. Read the rest of this entry »

During a recent interview with Business Week, Facebook’s Director and one of its largest investors, Peter Thiel, publicly confirmed for the first time that Facebook and Twitter had been in serious talks with each other but the deal failed over disagreements regarding price and structure. Read the rest of this entry »

Popular social network, Facebook, has recently come under fire following a series of reports on sex scandals involving minors, phishing and other unscrupulous activities. These reports have removed the illusion most users had of Facebook being a very safe social network. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest rumors doing the rounds are that AOL may be planning to sell Bebo for about $200 million, less than a year after it acquired the social network for $850 million. Read the rest of this entry »

Even as people turned out in millions, braving the weather in Washington, to hear the inaugural speech of  President Barack Obama in person, Facebook and CNN came together to allow users all over the world to witness the event live online. Read the rest of this entry »

Croatian police have arrested members of an opposition party for using the popular social network, Facebook, to comment on and plan against the Prime Minister of the country, Ivo Sanader. Read the rest of this entry »

Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced that they would be making substantial changes to Windows Live. These changes have now been made and it looks as though Windows Live is likely to replace MSN as Microsoft’s mainstay. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook recently announced that they will make it possible for users who have signed in on Facebook to access other sites without having to sign in again. Read the rest of this entry »

After 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. Read the rest of this entry »

An old saying goes, ‘Too much of a good thing is bad’. This saying seems to apply quite well to Facebook in recent times. Read the rest of this entry »

Studies 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. Read the rest of this entry »