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 [...]
Andrew Bosworth, or “Boz” as he’s affectionately known, has been a software engineer at Facebook for over four years. He’s built myriad products for the company and was the architect behind the original version of News Feed. Boz now heads up Bootcamp, a six-week program that familiarizes every newly hired engineer with the Facebook code [...]
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 [...]
Facebook was the top destination for Cable TV viewers who turned to the web to view the opening ceremonies of this year’s Winter Olympics. According to the recent reports published by research agency nielsenwire, 13 percent of the Cable TV audience who watched the Olympic opening ceremonies, also simultaneously watched them on the Internet.
The website [...]
