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Yahoo! To Shut Down Mash
Hardly 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 »
Posted on September 23rd, 2008 in Social Media.
Facebook To Try Engagement Ads
Facebook 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 »
Posted on September 1st, 2008 in Social Media.
U.S. Presidential Candidates Campaign Online
The current U.S. Presidential hopefuls are certainly moving with the times, and in the process they are changing the way that election campaigns have been held over the years. More »
Posted on August 25th, 2008 in News.
Twitter Stops SMS Updates In UK
Twitter 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 »
Posted on August 14th, 2008 in Mobile, Social Media.
Twitter Once Again Delivers Breaking News First
Twitter has been slowly and surely making its way to becoming a personal news wire of sorts.
Time and again the site has been the first to report some world event or breaking news. The latest example of this quick reporting is the earthquake which occurred around Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. More »
Posted on July 31st, 2008 in Blogs, Social Media, News.
Social Network Stats For June 2008
Nielsen online has released the latest rankings of social networks for the month of June 2008. Two social networks have out-shone the rest. More »
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 in Social Media.
Facebook To Be Redesigned
Last year, social network Facebook opened itself up to third party applications developers. Due to this move, they have been facing a problem - the user profile page, which used to be neat and clean is now very cluttered, and looks similar to that of their competitor, MySpace. More »
Posted on July 14th, 2008 in Social Media.
Facebook Races Ahead Of MySpace
The results of a worldwide survey, conducted by comScore, are out, and they show that for the first time ever, Facebook has raced ahead of MySpace, in the number of unique visitors both sites had in the month of May. More »
Posted on June 27th, 2008 in Social Media.
Sugar Mama Now On Facebook
Virgin Mobile U.S.A. has just extended their Sugar Mama program to the social sphere. The Fund My Phone application has been launched on Facebook, and allows Virgin Mobile USA subscribers to earn points through their friends. More »
Posted on May 21st, 2008 in Mobile, Social Media, Marketing.
Microsoft Opens Messenger Friends To Social Networks
Microsoft announced last week that it has partnered with the most popular social networks including Bebo, Hi5, Facebook, LinkedIn and Tagged to allow its users to easily move contacts in both directions, while protecting the user’s privacy. More »
Posted on April 1st, 2008 in Social Media.
Yahoo! Chooses Sides With Google OpenSocial
Yahoo! announced support for the OpenSocial platform this week and has joined forces with Google and MySpace to form the OpenSocial Foundation. More »
Posted on March 27th, 2008 in Social Media.
Top Social Media Sites In The UK - Jan 2008
Nielsen Online has ranked the most popular and fastest growing social media websites in the U.K., based on studies conducted between Jan 2007 and Jan 2008. Facebook has overtaken Bebo and MySpace to become the most popular social network, but it is not the fastest growing social media site. More »
Posted on March 13th, 2008 in Social Media.
Facebook En Francais
Facebook is truly trying to reach out the World over. After having, very recently, started its German and Spanish versions; they have now gone online in French. More »
Posted on March 11th, 2008 in Multilingual, Social Media.
Googling With A Little Help From My Friends
Google is toying with the idea of social search. Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of search products and user experience first hinted about this in August 2007. This week they have gone and launched a Social Graph API to solidify the possibility that Google might consider social search seriously. More »
Posted on February 6th, 2008 in Social Media, Google.
Facebook Turns Users Into Official Translators
In what has been a long-overdue move, Facebook has finally announced that it will make its services available to non-English speaking users. In true social style, though, the translation will be done by users of the popular social network. More »
Posted on February 5th, 2008 in Social Media.
