The crowd at the Oprah taping in Chicago did a special flash mob dance to the Black Eyed Peas live performance of the song, “I Gotta Feeling.” The group dance on the Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago was really cool to see from the Tribune Tower’s 14th floor. This is for Oprah’s 24th Season Kickoff [...]
Following is the excerpt from NyTimes recent interview with Andrey Ternovisky, the creater of Chatroulette. We are posting some of the interesting excerpts from the interview. Andrey Ternovskiy, a polite, excited and eager Russian high school student, scoured the Internet trying to find a Web site that allowed random video chats with strangers. When he [...]
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. [...]
According to a poll carried out for the BBC indicated on Monday, more than three-quarters of people across the world believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right. The poll, which questioned more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries, suggested strong support globally for access to the web.
The findings come as efforts [...]
The commentary on social media during the Academy Awards broadcast was often more entertaining than the show itself. Here are 10 of the funniest Oscar tweets. Think of them as notes from the peanut gallery.
-”Shhhh. I’m live tweeting from directly under Sandra Bullocks chair.” – Rainn Wilson (rainnwilson), actor.
-”Charlize Theron would like to thank R. [...]
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 [...]
The Internet brings people from all over the world closer than ever before in history. This is especially apparent with projects such as betterplace.org and kiva.org, which enable small, project-specific donations and micro credits in Africa and Southeast Asia. Contribute ten euros for a village well in Liberia? Or give an Indian farmer 100 euros [...]
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 [...]
