Social Network News
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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