Some people, many among my colleagues have a misconception related to interdependency of tweeting and social networking. How social is a Netizen if he just owns a Twitter account and rarely tweets? There have been many speculations related to Twitter, Some call it as a Super Glue that will Gel up the Internet of Things. [...]
The charity group WeQuit has launched a new program with the social networking giant Facebook to help people quit their smoking habit. The application is directed at compulsive smokers, where people and their friends can challenge each other to give up smoking as well as to create rewards for success and forfeits for failure. This [...]
Microsoft is lying low in Social Media space. Google owns Youtube and Orkut, and it has recently launched Buzz. Yahoo accepted the failure in running the social network, and choose to follow a different path by partnering with Facebook and Twitter. Yahoo has focussed fully on content generation and is using the social networks partnership [...]
You might have heard that Yahoo! announced plans in December to integrate Facebook Connect across a variety of our popular sites and services. Yahoo on Thursday started a slow roll-out of its integration with Facebook Connect by allowing users to import e-mail addresses from the social networking site.
According to the release in their blog Yahoo stated [...]
Facebook has been slowly becoming the Google of social media in all terms whether size , new features or popularity and is riding a continues graph of growth pushing aside its rivals. This fast growing social network, is also growing rapidly in terms of revenue and is just right on track to achieve the set [...]
Facebook will no longer deliver application notifications and will discontinue support for notifications.send.
On the Facebook developers page, it said that in place of notifications, application developers should notify users of actions they should take with counters and tell them using short messages with news in the dashboards, or ask for permission to send users emails.
Kelly Winters, [...]
Whenever I update my facebook status message in Hindi, it’s just another spam notification for all my Non Indian contacts from my friends list in facebook. Similar is the case for my friends in my list who generally update their status in their native language.
People living abroad, who have friends on Facebook from different countries [...]
Since Facebook has brought Friendfeed in last August 2009, the fan following of FriendFeed has decreased by a considerable amount. And now that FriendFeed has gone down completely, for quite a while now, no one seems to be much concerned about it. There have been very less number of tweets mentioning this Outage.
Facebook incorporated some [...]
A week after indexing MySpace user’s update in its search results, Google has now announced that Facebook Fan page updates too will stream in the real-time search results. The announcement that came via Google’s Twitter account said nothing except that the integration had been turned life and the users could now find updates from Facebook [...]
When Twitter boasted of 50 million tweets per day, it was good enough to keep the spilling mouths quite that blabbered about Twitter’s growth getting stagnant. Besides now if we hear about Twitter launching an official advertising platform soon, we may well conclude how Twitter can monetize its swarming twitter stream to reap prolific gains. And [...]
