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Social network websites enjoy, worldwide, a well-defined and engaged audience. Japan makes no exception to the rule, as over 56 million users were reported to have accessed their personal social network webpage at least once in June. While Mixi, a Japan-based network, recorded the largest audience, of almost 13 milli... |
8 August 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Run by Google, this service provides online social networking and was created by a Google employee. All over the world there are about 60 million Orkut users and a staggering 50% of them are from Brazil. Since illegal material was plentiful on Orkut, the Brazilian legislators and Google had to come to an agreement i... |
7 July 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Similar discussions surfaced in the past so it shouldn't be too surprising that Google disclosed private details concerning a user as part of a police investigation. According to Network World, the Pune police arrested Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid a few days ago under charges of publishing obscene content on the Inte... |
20 May 2008
04:47 GMT |
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Google's orkut has recently received a new upgrade, which comes in the form of a larger storage space for the users' photos. This new upgrade is released eight months after October's latest increase of photo storage space. Back then, Google orkut proudly announced its users that they could upload up to... |
7 May 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Google has always said that users' privacy is extremely important and its efforts to protect it were applauded even by international authorities. However, the Mountain View-based company has just handed over private information about some users to the Brazilian authorities, as part of an investigation supposed t... |
24 April 2008
06:33 GMT |
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Google's social network Orkut is quite popular among the Brazilian Internet users and this is not always a good thing, mainly if the content appearing on the website shouldn't be published on such a page. On Wednesday, Alexandre Hohagen, the man in charge of Google Brazil, said that the Mountain View-based ... |
10 April 2008
04:33 GMT |
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The great Google turned about some shortcomings in the last fiscal quarters, mostly due to not being able to monetize its advertising on the MySpace social network. With an earful of criticism and hurt pride, the Mountain View-based company simply cannot turn away from the segment and admit its defeat.According to a ... |
7 February 2008
16:56 GMT |
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Google's social network Orkut has suffered what seems to be the most dangerous attack these days, as no less than 400,000 accounts have been compromised. Alice Decker of Trend Micro today reported that numerous Orkut registered users received a malicious email informing them that a new Scrapbook entry was added.... |
19 December 2007
13:41 GMT |
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Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers' catchphrase is, I think, the one that best describes where Google is going to. The Mountain View based company is trying to unite its users under one single profile that will link from there to all the services it graces us with. This is coming in, one step at a time, and... |
17 December 2007
05:26 GMT |
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The Mountain View company made what seems to be the smartest move to respond to its rivals' evolution into the social networking battle where the web firms are allying with top players to expand their technologies. Today, Google officially released OpenSocial, a set of APIs which can help the developers design s... |
2 November 2007
04:28 GMT |
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The Brazilian version of Google as well as the local flavor of Orkut might be banned in Brazil if the search giant doesn't agree to disclose private information about some users that were identified as pedophiles. The social networking website Orkut is the most visited website in Brazil and, as AccuraCast report... |
29 August 2007
06:02 GMT |
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