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Gaming social network Raptr is announcing that it is entering open beta stage, with the aim of testing the service in view of an official launch in early 2009. Raptr, which is now in private beta, should be compatible with thousands of games that have been released across platforms like the PC, the Mac, the... |
5 September 2008
06:41 GMT |
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A survey performed by research company Synovate showed that 58% of the people questioned didn't even know what a social network was. This result is all the more surprising given the fact that, nowadays, social networking is considered, among people with an Internet connection, to be as popular as, say, emai... |
3 September 2008
11:56 GMT |
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Facebook has unofficially announced, via its blog, that the social network has reached 100 million users. “We hit a big milestone today -- 100 million people around the world are now using Facebook. This is a really gratifying moment for us because it means a lot that you have decided that Facebook is a good, t... |
27 August 2008
17:20 GMT |
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When you thought social networking had done it all, covering different areas of interest and meeting everyone's needs, WellNet HealthCare, a U.S. based company, announced the launch of a medical social network, Point to Point Healthcare. By subscribing to the website, people can test the beta launch which is pro... |
16 August 2008
07:37 GMT |
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Socialthing!, a website that promises to offer social networking fans quite a revolutionary experience, announced that it had been acquired by AOL, although the transaction had not yet been completed. Socialthing! is a virtual place where people can stay in touch with their friends who are subscribers to other websit... |
15 August 2008
04:19 GMT |
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Social networks mean a lot of things for many people who check their accounts daily, afraid of losing any of the comments, the photo updates from their friends or other information that allows them to be socially active. In the U.S., Facebook is, by far, the most visited website of this type, with almost 30 million u... |
28 July 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Shaun White Snowboarding is in the final stages of production and Ubisoft is pushing hard to make the game the most interesting snowboard sim that's on offer on the market.Ubisoft is well aware that Shaun White Snowboarding will face stiff opposition, from games like SSX, Amped and 1080, but the developers seem ... |
22 July 2008
14:16 GMT |
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Facebook's popularity makes some take on the recipe without worrying about copyrights, hoping that the benefits will outrun the risks. This did not prove very efficient for StudiVZ, a German social network for students whose "look, feel, features and services" are incredibly similar to Facebook's, as the co... |
19 July 2008
05:58 GMT |
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For those who are no longer thrilled by their social online experience, Google has developed something more exotic. Lively is the name of the new project, a 3D animated world for all of us to enjoy. Although the product is not a pioneer of the genre, its strongest point, at the moment, is that it costs no money. With... |
9 July 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Those of you who are hardcore Halo 3 or GTA IV fans probably don't know too much about the social online game Club Penguin, but it seems that most of the kids in the world do and, even more: they just love it! As solid proof stands the fact that Disney is planning to hire a team to manage the operation of the ga... |
19 June 2008
16:16 GMT |
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You might get a little shocked, like I am, when you hear that Konami's DanceDanceRevolution franchise is already ten years old! And, in order to have a proper celebration for the first decade of quality dancing, the game's developer and publisher decided to launch a new brand and community portal for DanceD... |
18 June 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Scottish school teachers who access the Internet from home are advised to avoid interacting with pupils online through instant messaging applications or social networks, BBC reports today. Because of the growing popularity of social networks and other online communities, teachers are asked not to disclose too much pr... |
27 May 2008
09:06 GMT |
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There is a huge number of social networks and dating websites out there. Their number tends to grow with more and more similar services debuted every day. Since there are so many services available, it's obvious that people are really interested in establishing relationships, meeting new persons and, who knows, ... |
26 May 2008
09:55 GMT |
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While most social networks on the Internet struggle to attract more users of all ages, Faceparty took the decision to ban all the registered members with ages above 36 because of new legislation. At least, this is what the representatives stated but, according to various sources, the new laws don't support the b... |
22 May 2008
16:41 GMT |
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Facebook, the so-popular social networking website, is currently working on a major update which will bring several improvements to the service. One of the most important updates is related to the security of its users because Facebook wants to make the profiles more spam-resistant and reduce the amount of spam messa... |
22 May 2008
04:34 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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The short story so far goes something like this: a 13-year-old girl who met a 16-year-old boy on the social networking service MySpace fell in love with him after chatting on the website. The 49-year-old mom of the boy got involved into the relationship and posed as her son while chatting with the girl. After several... |
16 May 2008
09:37 GMT |
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The social networks out there, no matter if we're talking about Facebook, Bebo, Orkut, MySpace or others, recorded hack/spyware/spam attacks every once in a while, especially due to their increasing popularity. And like this wouldn't be enough, Kaspersky Lab predicts a tough fight for these social networks ... |
7 May 2008
06:44 GMT |
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Facebook is a phenomenon these days and anybody must admit it since the entire web talks about this social network. And because it's so powerful and popular, Facebook is able to turn a simple man into a huge star over night. This is exactly what happened in Calcutta, India after two brothers created a Facebook g... |
22 April 2008
17:51 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company has just rolled out a developer sandbox for iGoogle in order to let them build more advanced gadgets for Google's personalized homepage using the OpenSocial APIs. This means that iGoogle makes now the first step into the social networking jungle, a special side of the industry in ... |
22 April 2008
02:47 GMT |
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I have to say just from the beginning that I'm not one of those Facebook-addicted fans and I have only created an account for testing purposes. Maybe I'm a little bit subjective, but I can't really understand people's addiction to Facebook, and to social networks in general. OK, Facebook is great,... |
17 April 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Blogs and social networks are two of the most popular technologies nowadays, having an impressive yet continuously growing number of users. People like blogging because they're usually free and because they are able to write their own articles without too much effort. On the other hand, social networks connect c... |
16 April 2008
16:46 GMT |
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A recent study conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, revealed that the Internet is quite a simple way to meet someone to marry, since lots of respondents admitted they having found their sweetheart online. According to the findings of the research, six percent of the married Internet users... |
9 April 2008
16:51 GMT |
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The MI6 Marketing Conference, that takes place in San Francisco and concentrates on the business side of games development, featured a lengthy panel discussion about the MMO business modes and the potential for growth that free-to-play games could have in the near future.The most important speakers were Daniel James ... |
9 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Last week, we told you about the Saudi girl who was killed by her father after having been caught chatting on a social network. Today, another report concerning such ways of communication hits the web: two rival gangs were using these websites to organize fights between their members. According to the Belfast Telegra... |
8 April 2008
05:28 GMT |
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It's a well-known fact that the social networking websites out there, including here MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Bebo and other services, are quite popular among today's Internet users as they record millions of new accounts every day. What's really bad is that an important percentage of the social network... |
4 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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There are lots of people who think that Facebook and all the other social networks on the web have a bad influence over kids and teenagers, but a Saudi father went beyond this. Because her daughter was using Facebook to socialize and to communicate with members of the opposite sex on the Internet, the father has beat... |
31 March 2008
08:14 GMT |
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Some people go to the social networks because they are bored and think that by getting in touch with some of their old friends (or girlfriends) might spice up their life a bit (especially if they have posted pictures). Human nature is petty and cruel and there's no need to feel ashamed in case you ever found you... |
15 February 2008
05:51 GMT |
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The second largest social network in the United Kingdom, Bebo, has just had the rumor veil surrounding its current situation pierced and there is some light going through the hole left. Not much, you know how the M & A talks can go, but just enough to be sure that they're not on their own.Talks about this first ... |
13 February 2008
03:27 GMT |
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Probably for those who live their second lives on MySpace, this gaming site launch is not such a big surprise, but for me it is. Everybody knows that MySpace is the most popular social network site that allows you to do almost anything that it is possible in a virtual world: friends make friends, people gain populari... |
12 February 2008
04:07 GMT |
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If the deal were to go through, it would be one of the best things that could have ever happened to the social network. It would give it the prominence in the mobile world that none has and in return for it there's nothing it would be actually giving up, perhaps some stake for Nokia in Facebook. Ok, ok, that... |
21 January 2008
19:46 GMT |
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Besides time loss, social networking from the office is also an open window to hackers and exploiters who take the opportunity to attack the sites of the companies whose employees enjoy socializing over the Internet.As usual, there are two sides to every story. The one that is condemnable is that by linking in and be... |
21 January 2008
16:26 GMT |
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People always think about learning a second language but barely ever get around to actually do it with lack of time and raised tiredness levels being the main factors for that happening. And in case you were asked at one point in your life "Sprichst du Deutsch" and you weren't even able to answer the saving "Ja,... |
15 January 2008
05:23 GMT |
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MySpace, the 6th website in the Alexa rank, tends to become more popular than traditional TV, a recent survey made by Future Laboratory and commissioned by the social networking website revealed. According to the Financial Times, an important part of the 1,000 people included in the survey admitted that they "would r... |
7 January 2008
15:06 GMT |
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A few days ago, everybody has started talking about a new backdoor that targets the MSN accounts and attempts to steal usernames and passwords stored on an affected system. Today, Roel of Viruslist.com published a closer analysis on the threat, revealing that it was created by someone from Netherlands. "Firstly all t... |
7 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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The social networking market seems to be one of the top attractions these days, as more and more companies get focused on this side of the industry. Today, another social networking service made its debut as Brad Hefta-Gaub, a former executive with RealNetworks and Revenue Science, and Phil Sabin, formerly with Reven... |
4 January 2008
11:34 GMT |
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Birthday Calendar, a newly released Facebook application, has managed to attract almost 2 million users in just one month since it was first released, BitDates Solutions, the developer of the utility, proudly announced today. Users from about 100 countries all over the world added this application to their profiles, ... |
14 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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A new report powered by the Office of Communications revealed that Britons are the consumers who spend more time connected to social networks that any other Europeans. The report compared the United Kingdom with other European countries including France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain. In addition, Japan, Canada an... |
13 December 2007
05:37 GMT |
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We all know how annoying a CAPTCHA is, but we've all understood that they are pretty useful when it comes to our security on the Internet. That's why we accept them even if sometimes we can't read them and type the text correctly. But, what if you are asked to reproduce some unexpected CAPTCHAs like "r... |
13 December 2007
02:49 GMT |
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Security companies from all over the world prepare their predictions for 2008 related to the security threats which are expected to evolve next year. One of the most interesting report comes from Finjan Inc., the company that predicts an avalanche of threats over the Web 2.0 technologies with more powerful and bad-i... |
11 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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We all know that some Internet users are addicted to their favorite web service but this is way too much. Listen to this: a college student from Michigan got banned on Facebook and decided to write to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch to help him receive his account banned. But look what he wrote: "I just can't be... |
14 November 2007
04:38 GMT |
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Louise MacBain from Canada decided to create a service which can easily compete with FaceBook although it targets only a limited segment of users. MyArtInfo is a social networking service which aims to bring artists to the website and allow them to share their creations with other Internet consumers from all over the... |
13 November 2007
15:06 GMT |
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GetSafeOnline.org, an organization which fights for better online security, conducted a new research which revealed that no less than 88 percent of the Internet users installed all kinds of security software such as firewalls, antiviruses, anti-spyware tools and others. But what's more interesting comes from the... |
12 November 2007
16:31 GMT |
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MySpace and Skype will announce a deal today which is meant to help both companies reach new consumers and evolve into different markets. The idea of the agreement is pretty simple: MySpace will promote Skype as the main communication tool on its social networking website, offering the VoIP client to all the register... |
17 October 2007
04:10 GMT |
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Market researcher comScore conducted a new study concerning the social networking websites accessed from several European countries. The research revealed that UK consumers are the most attracted by this kind of services since no less than 24,9 million visitors access Facebook, Bebo or MySpace at least once per mont... |
10 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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MySpace, one of the most popular social network web sites today, has yet again been asked to better protect its users against all kinds of possible illegal activities that might occur on the site. The most recent event concerning this kind of illegal activities has been the commercialization of steroids through the u... |
30 September 2007
16:09 GMT |
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We all know that Google wants to expand its mobile offering with new products or even hardware devices but for now, the Mountain View makes small steps which can support its evolution in the future. Yesterday, when Google actually celebrated its 9th anniversary, the super giant made itself a nice present: the acquisi... |
28 September 2007
03:13 GMT |
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Here are some words: 'social network' and 'Google Earth'. We all know their meaning but what do they have in common? Well, nothing I would say. While a social network is a web service which puts you in touch with other Internet users, Google Earth is a downloadable application that provides detail... |
24 September 2007
03:58 GMT |
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The battle between the web-browsers is about to get a new competitor as the Flock developers have recently introduced some innovative tools which might represent a threat for the Internet giants. Flock is not a very popular browser but it may come with new utilities which can boost its number of users. In fact, the u... |
18 September 2007
04:34 GMT |
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A new UK study conducted by the Internet service provider Pipex revealed that most of the web users with ages over 60 connect to the Internet only with a single goal: to check their email account. The survey was conducted only in the United Kingdom and included 500 Internet users. What's more interesting is that... |
4 September 2007
09:37 GMT |
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