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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 »
Facebook Largest Social Network And Fastest Growing
August 15th, 2008
A 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. Read the rest of this entry »
MySpace And Facebook Yet To Succeed In Japan
August 5th, 2008
The 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. 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 »
UK Teens Misuse Google Earth Technology
June 23rd, 2008
A new craze has caught on among teenagers in U.K. Google Earth, which has high-quality satellite images of most metropolitan areas, is being misused by over-smart teens, to locate houses that have swimming pools and gatecrash to throw pool parties. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Microsoft Buy A Declining Facebook?
May 22nd, 2008
Nielsen Online’s latest survey results have provided some rather unhappy news for Facebook in the U.S. According to the report, Facebook’s popularity fell by about 10% in April 2008, compared to the previous month. The actual number of unique visitors has fallen from 24.9 million in March to 22.4 million in April. Read the rest of this entry »
Sugar Mama Now On Facebook
May 21st, 2008
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. Read the rest of this entry »
CBS + CNet, IAC + Lexico and Comcast + Plaxo
May 19th, 2008
In a coincidence of sorts, 3 different mergers were announced around the same time last week. The popular U.S. based broadcasting company CBS will buy web publisher CNET networks for $1.8 billion. IAC, owners of Ask.com will buy Lexico for $100 million in cash and Comcast will buy Plaxo. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Finally Agrees To Fight Child Pornography In Brazil
April 15th, 2008
In August 2007 the government of Brazil threatened to shut down Google.br after it was found that paedophilia and child pornography was being propagated through the Google-owned social network, Orkut. Read the rest of this entry »
Because We Don’t Have Enough, Facebook Launches Chat
April 8th, 2008
Facebook launched its much anticipated chat client on a few unspecified networks on April 5th. The chat service should shortly be available on other networks. 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 »
Facebook En Francais
March 11th, 2008
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. Read the rest of this entry »
Mobile Video Search Is Here, Courtesy Of JuiceCaster
January 11th, 2008
Juice Wireless Inc. has just launched a brand new service via their JuiceCaster mobile social networking platform that allows users to search for user-posted videos from a handheld device. The new service is called Mobile Video Search (MVS). Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! Plays Catch Up On Social Networks And Mobile
January 10th, 2008
Google’s done it, Facebook’s done it, even Nokia did it so why wouldn’t Yahoo!? Well, now they have come up with yet another social networking idea, this time dubbed Yahoo! Life! and an improved mobile service. Where has the innovation, the spark of ingenuity that once was Yahoo! gone? Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook Ad Platform Launches Amidst Much Criticism
November 9th, 2007
Facebook, the popular social network has announced the launch of its own advertising network, Facebook Ads, which went live yesterday. The advertising platform will provide three products to advertisers: Social Ads, Facebook Pages and Beacon, in addition to market information via Insights. These ads will be featured in addition to the ads currently supplied by Microsoft . Read the rest of this entry »
Google To Launch Social Network Developer Tool On Thursday
October 31st, 2007
TechCrunch today report on Google’s plans to launch a new project called OpenSocial, which will provide developers a set of Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) to build social networking applications that will work on any participating social network. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook News For The Week
October 26th, 2007
5th largest online property, fastest growing social network and most recent battleground between Google and Microsoft are all honours bestowed on Facebook. The website boasts over 50 million registered users and is growing so fast that a weekly news summary is perhaps the best way to keep up with it. Read the rest of this entry »
