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Facebook To Allow Location Sharing

15th March 2010

The New York Times reports that Facebook is getting ready to allow location sharing between friends. More »

Mobile Social Networking Favoured By Women

4th March 2010

The results of a study conducted recently by the Nielsen group, show that women use mobiles for social networking much more than men do. More »

Insurance Premiums May Go Up For Social Media Users

23rd February 2010

While social media sites continue to grow, there is a sector of the service industry that is not too happy about it. A possible hike in home insurance premiums is the unexpected but likely fallout of this. More »

Facebook Zero For Mobile

19th February 2010

Facebook will shortly launch a new version of the social network, called ‘Facebook Zero’ for mobile Web users. More »

Peer Power Of Social Media Declines

17th February 2010

The recent exponential growth of social networks has led marketers to focus largely on this sector, as it is widely believed that users will trust the opinions of their friends easily. While this did actually happen, to begin with, a recent study by Edelman’s Trust Barometer, shows that things are now changing. More »

Google Buzz Makes Gmail More Social

16th February 2010

As social networks and other forms of online communications continue to expand, Google has launched a new service to try and do their bit to help users enjoy and share their online experiences better. More »

Facebook & Bing Update Relationship

15th February 2010

Microsoft and Facebook have worked together for a while now, and they have now decided to expand the scope of their working relationship. More »

Facebook Dominates UK Mobile Web

12th February 2010

A recent survey by the GSMA shows that Facebook now dominates the mobile internet traffic in the U.K. More »

Social Media More Popular With Teens Than Blogs

8th February 2010

A study conducted by the Pew Research Center, has shown that the once popular blogs are now unsurprisingly taking a backseat, while social networks like Facebook are taking centre stage on the Internet. More »

How Social Is Google Social Search?

1st February 2010

Google has now released Social Search in beta for all users. While this could mark the start of an exciting new era in organic search engine optimisation, there is one severe limitation to this feature. More »

Social Networks More Popular Than Search In Australia

28th January 2010

Data released by Hitwise has shown that over the last few weeks, social networking sites have become more popular than search engines in Australia. More »

Facebook Privacy Stance Raises Federal Eyebrows

27th January 2010

Facebook changed user privacy settings on their site late last year, classifying a lot of user data by default as “publicly available information”. The FTC has been alerted and are now probing the matter. More »

Twitter Might Mimic Facebook Connect

21st January 2010

Following reports that the growth of Twitter has tapered off considerably and the fact that they are no longer considered a significant threat to Facebook, new rumours have surfaced indicating that Twitter might be all set to launch a service that could challenge Facebook’s popularity outside its own domain. More »

Facebook Allows Comments Via Email

13th January 2010

Facebook has made it possible for users to send in comments or replies to posts via email. They started testing this feature last month, and it has now been launched for general use. More »

Escaped Prisoner Taunts Police On Facebook

5th January 2010

About 3 months ago, Craig ‘Lazie’ Lynch escaped from a prison near Suffolk in England, where he was being held on charges of burglary with a weapon. Since then, he has been using his Facebook profile page to taunt the police regularly. More »

Facebook Earned $1 Billion Revenue

18th December 2009

Facebook looks all set to cross the $1 billion mark with their annual revenue for 2009. This figure is close to double the $550 million that was predicted to be their annual revenue for the year. More »

Google Friend Connect Integrates With Twitter

7th December 2009

Google has recently announced that they are integrating their service Friend Connect with Twitter. More »

Yahoo! To Integrate With Facebook

3rd December 2009

Yahoo! has announced that by the first half of 2010, they will integrate all their properties with Facebook via Facebook Connect. More »

Innovative Facebook Campaign Success For Ikea

1st December 2009

The Swedish chain of furniture stores, Ikea, is creating a buzz on Facebook, for all the right reasons. More »

GeoCities Closed For Good

29th October 2009

Yahoo! has permanently closed down their property, GeoCities, as of the 26th of October 2009. More »

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