On 06.11.10, In social media, by bhupendra
There are many social networks now. Few are generic while many are specialize to certain interest area or geography.
There is a genuine question. Aren’t Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Orkut enough? CEO of MentalHealthSocial (MHS) Colin Spencer Wood feels, its not. He claims that people shy about discussing mental health issues like alcoholism, sleeping disorder, bipolar, [...]
Twitter has moved one step ahead into the business world with the purchase of Smallthoughts Systems, the company who has designed online database called Dabble DB and Web analytics filter tool, Trendly.
Announced in the official blog, Twitter highlights the vision behind this acquisition as its efforts to employ more analytics in its information search and sharing service. [...]
Sharing photos on Facebook was always seamless and nice. But if you talk about the best photo sharing service on the web, Flickr and Picasa would be the top choices of every user. Facebook on the other hand is the king of social networking. So if the two best services combine together , the users [...]
Twittersphere is growing tremendously at a lightening speed and now we have astounding figures to validate that. A recent report from the website monitoring service Pingdom reveals that nearly 2 billion tweets were sent by the Twitter users in the month of May.
It was just back in December when Twitter reached the 1 billion count for [...]
Twitter wants all the links shared on its platform to be safer, clearer and more valuable and this it aims to achieve through its very own URL shortner. As announced by the company few months ago, Twitter is finally testing its new service, t.co to ‘wrap’ and shorten all the links shared on the microblogging [...]
The very famous 140 character microblogging site Twitter is hiring for a new postion of “Government Liason” to serve as a point person in Washington D.C. The first ever D.C.-based employee for Twitter will be wholly liable for providing complete support of government and political use of Twitter, advocate for government and political users [...]
Yahoo! in its efforts to strengthen its foothold in the rising trend of social media is further boosting its relations with the world’s largest social networking site , Facebook. The company will now stream more information and updates from Facebook accounts across Yahoo’s various websites.
The feature known as the “news feed” will allow the users [...]
Better late than never, Twitter is testing a new feature called “You Both Follow” on 10% of its users. As evident from the name itself, it allows people to see list of users that you and the other person whose profile you are visiting follow on Twitter.
Currently under the testing phase, this feature is similar [...]
On 06.02.10, In social media, by venus
Wordpress.com has just received some new features that aim to enhance the user experience on the widely used blog publishing platform. The new options of liking and reblogging the posts inside the wordpress have been added to make blogging more social.
The Reblog feature will make sharing the posts that you like lot more easy. Earlier [...]
Facebook has been amidst controversies most of the times concerning its privacy features. While many angry users have actually deleted their accounts, the addiction to Facebook is keeping the rest still glued to the site. But some of the infuriated users finally decided to part their ways with the famous social networking site celebrating 31st [...]
