'Social-network' News

Following the rule of demand and supply, Facebook has started supplying live updates on the recently re-launched home page news feed. Read the rest of this entry »

According to the results of recent studies conducted by Forrester Research, mobile advertising and social network advertising are set to grow at a phenomenal rate in the USA. Read the rest of this entry »

Soon to be launched movie, Terminator Salvation, has tapped into Twitter with a whole new concept for self promotion. Read the rest of this entry »

There is a saying that goes, ‘Change is the only constant’, which is quite true, but it is equally true that ‘all change is resisted’ at least initially. The second phrase seems to apply to the case of the social networking site Facebook in France. Read the rest of this entry »

Around the same time that Ashton Kutcher managed to collect one million followers on Twitter, Ning has created its one millionth network. Read the rest of this entry »

Google introduced a new system called ‘Portable Contacts’, last month, to make it possible for third party websites to access a user’s friends list without requiring them to disclose their password. Read the rest of this entry »

It has long been felt that people go downstream to Twitter from sites such as Google and Facebook. However, a recent post from analytics firm Hitwise, shows that the reverse is also true. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo! does seem to be back in the headlines, and not just because of Microsoft’s continued flirtations. In order to attract more users to their search service, Yahoo! has recently started adding fancy Facebook links via SearchMonkey on the search results. Read the rest of this entry »

During a recent interview with Business Week, Facebook’s Director and one of its largest investors, Peter Thiel, publicly confirmed for the first time that Facebook and Twitter had been in serious talks with each other but the deal failed over disagreements regarding price and structure. Read the rest of this entry »

Popular social network, Facebook, has recently come under fire following a series of reports on sex scandals involving minors, phishing and other unscrupulous activities. These reports have removed the illusion most users had of Facebook being a very safe social network. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest rumors doing the rounds are that AOL may be planning to sell Bebo for about $200 million, less than a year after it acquired the social network for $850 million. Read the rest of this entry »

Google seems determined to compete with the popular social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. The search giant is now encouraging its users to utilise features added to iGoogle widgets via OpenSocial and share content from iGoogle with their contacts and friends. Read the rest of this entry »

The results of a recent survey conducted by global market information group TNS reveals an interesting pattern, about free time spent online, by users across different countries. Read the rest of this entry »

In a bid to encourage their users to access social networks through their handsets, Virgin Mobile U.S.A. has recently announced two new services.

The two services, named ‘Connect’ and ‘Mobile Lounge’, will be available to users at no extra cost. They will only be required to pay the usual internet access charges. Read the rest of this entry »

Croatian police have arrested members of an opposition party for using the popular social network, Facebook, to comment on and plan against the Prime Minister of the country, Ivo Sanader. Read the rest of this entry »

Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced that they would be making substantial changes to Windows Live. These changes have now been made and it looks as though Windows Live is likely to replace MSN as Microsoft’s mainstay. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook recently announced that they will make it possible for users who have signed in on Facebook to access other sites without having to sign in again. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest technology that Google is about to launch is known as ‘Friend Connect’. Although they have been talking about it since May, it now looks as though it is finally ready to be launched publicly. Read the rest of this entry »

In September 2008, Anderson Analytics conducted a study, on the profiles of LinkedIn users. The results reveal that on an average, users of LinkedIn are richer than the average users of other social sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Read the rest of this entry »

An old saying goes, ‘Too much of a good thing is bad’. This saying seems to apply quite well to Facebook in recent times. Read the rest of this entry »