Social Network News
Yet Another Unwelcome Facebook Redesign
28th October 2009
Once again, Facebook has redesigned their homepage and though there are no major changes this time, users have protested against the changes in large numbers. More »
Can Social Media Overtake Search Engines?
13th October 2009
It has been noticed of late that more and more people are turning to social media instead of the usual portals or search engines when they want to find out something online. More »
British Consumers Hooked To The Internet
8th October 2009
The image the world has about the stiff upper lip of the British is changing. They have now become very interactive and sociable. According to a report released by uSwitch.com, the average Britisher is now spending almost 30 hours a week online. More »
Social Web Dominated By Women
7th October 2009
Women, today, seem to be taking the lead over men in a lot of technical. Only recently it was found that working moms are the real power users of mobile phones.
The latest statistics, collected by Brian Solis of Google Ad Planner, and published on Information is Beautiful, show that women also dominate the social web. More »
LinkedIn Targets HR With Profile Bookmarking
5th October 2009
Social networking site LinkedIn has been very useful for professionals to interact with each other and also to help companies to recruit staff for a variety of jobs. More »
Nielsen Brings Market Intelligence To Facebook
28th September 2009
Facebook and Nielsen are teaming up to provide a new service to marketers on the popular social networking site. Nielsen will make use of their vast marketing experience to help marketers reach all Facebook users more effectively. More »
Facebook Ads Out Perform Google
23rd September 2009
While it is true that in general that the effect of online ads on social networks is not quite as strong as the effect of online ads on search sites, it has been found that ads on Facebook have definitely begun to show very good results, even surpassing the performance of ads on search giant, Google. More »
Facebook Copying Twitter @Mentions
14th September 2009
It looks as though, Facebook will do all that is required to slow down the growth of Twitter and to retain their own popularity. More »
Ad Impressions On Social Sites Grow
10th September 2009
comScore has revealed that display ads on social networks accounted for more than 20% of the total number of online ad impressions in the USA during the month of June 2009 . More »
Facebook Mobile To Reach 100 Million Users By 2010
8th September 2009
Facebook Mobile is growing very rapidly in popularity. Recently released numbers indicate that the service is now used by more than three times as many people as the number that used it eight months ago. More »
ReTweet Button Growth Disproportionate To Usage
24th August 2009
TweetMeme, a service that monitors the popularity of tweets and links being sent out on Twitter, has itself grown rapidly in the past few months, due to the extremely popular retweet buttons. Usage of the service, though, has not quite kept up with this growth. More »
Can Facebook Justify Acquiring FriendFeed?
19th August 2009
Facebook has been trying hard to offer the latest and most popular new social features to their users. In an attempt to mimic Twitter’s functionality they bought the social media sharing site FriendFeed last week for a tidy sum of $47.5 million. More »
40 Percent Of Twitter Just Pointless Babble
17th August 2009
Marketing analytics company, Pear Analytics, recently conducted a study about the type of Tweets being sent out on Twitter. They found that over 40% of tweets were just “pointless babble” More »
More Twitter Links Than Facebook In Email
5th August 2009
Analysts have begun to realize that there is a strong link between a brand’s presence on social media and the revenue it generates. Research is also showing that Twitter is overtaking Facebook as the medium of choice for building this brand presence. More »
Twitter’s New Homepage
31st July 2009
Twitter has been trying to expand their user base, and as a positive step in that direction, they have changed their homepage. More »
Facebook Dominates US And Worldwide
17th July 2009
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced this week that the site has now overtaken MySpace to become the top social network in the USA. More »
Pay Through Facebook
9th June 2009
Among its many other moves to get ahead on the social network circuit, Facebook has now introduced a scheme by which its users can make payments for their online purchases through Facebook. More »
Facebook Brings Live Updates To News Feed
13th May 2009
Following the rule of demand and supply, Facebook has started supplying live updates on the recently re-launched home page news feed. More »
Mobile And Social Network Advertising Predicted To Grow
30th April 2009
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. More »
The Terminator On Twitter
24th April 2009
Soon to be launched movie, Terminator Salvation, has tapped into Twitter with a whole new concept for self promotion. More »
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