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U.S. Presidential Candidates Campaign Online
August 25th, 2008
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter Stops SMS Updates In UK
August 14th, 2008
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Digg Recommendation Engine Drives More Diggs
August 1st, 2008
A 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter Once Again Delivers Breaking News First
July 31st, 2008
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Google - Digg Deal Called Off
July 29th, 2008
Only a few days ago, Google was deep in discussions with Digg, regarding a possible acquisition of the site. It is believed that the term sheet stage had already been cleared. However, sometime last week, Google decided not to go ahead with the deal, and Digg was notified accordingly. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Google Search Look Like Digg Once Users Vote On SERPs?
July 24th, 2008
Google has been bucket testing a new interface on some randomly selected users. Recently a screen shot of the new interface along with a video showing the new search features was screened. This interface has a very Digg-like look and feel. Read the rest of this entry »
Social Network Stats For June 2008
July 22nd, 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. Read the rest of this entry »
YouTube Continues To Lead Online Video Market
July 7th, 2008
A survey run by traffic analysts, Hitwise, reveals that YouTube not only continues to lead the online video market, but has actually increased its market share, from 59.95% last May to 75.43% in May 2008. That is about 26% better than their performance last year. Read the rest of this entry »
Blog Readership In U.K. Growing Faster
June 13th, 2008
That blogs are becoming increasingly popular is obvious enough.
What is not quite so well known, is, how much the viewership for blogs has grown in recent years. Read the rest of this entry »
Social Search Launches On Microsoft Live
June 9th, 2008
Microsoft has just launched a new service called Search Together, which will be a free service allowing groups of people to work on Web searches in conjunction with each other. Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter Banned In Dubai
April 22nd, 2008
Getting banned in the Middle East and China is fast becoming a sign of importance of a website. YouTube’s had it, the BBC has had it, and now up and coming social media site Twitter has had it happen to them. In the words of Ali G. “Respect”! Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter Testing Ads Within Streams?
April 17th, 2008
Users of Twitter have revealed to TechCrunch that they have come across ads displayed within the twitter feeds during this past week, just after some breaks were reported in the continuity of their services. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! Chooses Sides With Google OpenSocial
March 27th, 2008
Yahoo! announced support for the OpenSocial platform this week and has joined forces with Google and MySpace to form the OpenSocial Foundation. Read the rest of this entry »
AOL Buys Social Network Bebo For GBP 420 Million
March 14th, 2008
AOL has announced that it will acquire Bebo, the UK-based social media network, for £422 million in cash. Randy Falco, CEO of AOL, announced this in an email to all AOL employees on 13th March 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
Top Social Media Sites In The UK - Jan 2008
March 13th, 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Buzz Overkill From Yahoo!
February 27th, 2008
Does the world really need yet another Digg clone? Yahoo! seems to think so. They have launched Buzz, yet another social news site where the most popular stories are determined by user votes. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! Open Search Brings New Meaning To Universal Search
February 26th, 2008
Having realised that they cannot compete with Google on the basis of algorithmic quality any more, Yahoo! have adopted a new approach to search - openness. Yahoo! Open Search was officially announced yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! oneConnect Brings Mobile Social Networking To Life
February 18th, 2008
After having been in the limelight for all the wrong reasons - announcing layoffs for a 1,000 people and then receiving an unsolicited take-over offer by Microsoft - Yahoo! is trying to revive its sagging fortunes by introducing a new service which promises to revolutionise the way users will communicate. Read the rest of this entry »
Googling With A Little Help From My Friends
February 6th, 2008
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook Turns Users Into Official Translators
February 5th, 2008
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. Read the rest of this entry »
