Google Brazil to Remove Underage Adult Material from Orkut
	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 in order to put a stop to this. The agreement, which is the first of its kind internationally, states Google will se ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia Buys Plazes to Extend Its Service Offering
	Nokia has just announced that it has reached an agreement with Plazes, a German social-activity service provider, according to which, the Finnish company will buy Plazes and its assets. Headquartered in Berlin, Plazes is currently a privately-owned company (with only 13 employees) that offers a context-aware service that allows users to better organize their social activities by planning, recording and sharing them. Wi ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Flock 2.0B Shows the Miracles of the Latest Firefox 3 Technology
	Social web browsing is a common practice nowadays. Due to the increasing popularity of the social networking concept, various extensions for the common used web browsers have been developed to help users connect and share information easier; even new "social" web browsers have been created. Providing a unique browsing experience, Flock is a social web browser that shares the same source code with Mozilla Firefox and ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 11:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Adds More Sites for Mini Feed
	Facebook, one of the biggest social networking websites, has recently received a new feature - that enhances one of its already released features, namely Mini-Feed. The fellows at Facebook worked out a way to make its users import stories from other sites directly in their Mini-Feed. This new ability was ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace Photos Reason for Trial
	The social networking site MySpace is indirectly involved in a trial against a Wisconsin teenager. Alex Phillips, a user of MySpace, faces jail after he was caught posting indecent photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. It appears that this was a vengeful act on behalf of the teenager, prompted by the girl breaking up with him. The Wisconsin teenager faces serious charges and might actually be sentenced ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Videos Presentation Alternatives
	Video clips are maybe the most searched Internet resource because they contain information having a high degree of accessibility as compared to classic static images or text. If you want to include and display video content in web pages, various alternatives are available. There is the possibility to embed in HTML web pages your own video files or others having sharing rights over the Internet. Many of video sharing or socia ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 13:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook CEO Wants to Talk to Google
	Last week, Google released their Google Friend Connect product, which has been said to make non-social websites offer social networking capabilities. The new product has also been advertised to increase the traffic level of a particular website, thus enabling it to generate a higher revenue. It appears that new product made Facebook, the social networking site, block Google access, citing privacy concerns as the main reason in do ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Enables Social Networking
	Yesterday, Google has announced the launch of a new service that is said to increase the traffic level of any website using it. It appears that site owners will have the most advantages, as they will be able to provide their visitors with social features, even if the site isn't part of a social network. According to the press release, a preview of Google Friend Connect has been displayed at Campfire One at the Googleplex. ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Says Yes to Child Safety
	Social networking websites, like Facebook, MySpace, hi5 are a common place for children. Under 18 users who have profiles on the above mentioned sites are susceptible to abuse from adults pretending to be minors. This problem has been reported in the US for quite some time now and legal measures against it have been required by the general public. Regarding this particular issue, Facebook is reported to have reached an agreeme ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 11:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's orkut Gets a Major Storage Upgrade
	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 100 Photos in their orkut photo album. Many of the orkut users thought the new upgrade was not that much of a d ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Press Releases Tuning With Web 2.0 Style
	Press releases are very important for news companies as well as general public audience. The editors take the subject of a press release and create articles based on the respective subject. As a consequence, there are significant differences between a press release and a news article. A press release must reach a maximum audience level through various promotion and presentation methods. The newswire services have the role to ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 10:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Simultaneous Copying and Saving Data with Control+C
	There are many situations when you need to save the data contained in your clipboard but, for various reasons, you forget. That means you can loose important information that maybe you cannot find subsequently, because they could have a temporary character, such as any type of random generated content. Even if you are using a clipboard manager compatible with your own operating system, sensitive data could be lost due to a ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 11:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Playyoo Launches Its Free Mobile Gaming Platform
	Playyoo Limited, a UK-based company, officially announced the release of its public beta website, Playyoo, that works as a social networking platform, allowing users all over the world to create, share and download casual mobile games. The website offers mobile users fre ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 11:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Get Money Rewards from Ximmy
	In the present days anyone could open a community based reviews website. For example, there are many free or open source scripts like Pligg, which provides ready made solutions those who need to deploy a website like Digg or Reddit. But the only problem could appear is the level of website popularity and the present concurrence on the Internet market in the field of community based reviews websites. Practically, the content o ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 11:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bluepulse Social Messenger Enhanced with New Features
	Bluepulse announced that its free mobile social messenger platform has been enhanced with new features. The additions are private and public groups, and an auto-login feature. Bluepulse is a combination between social networking and instant messaging. With Bluepu ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 10:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Goes Crying to Its Live Mommy
	Microsoft is right on track with the evolution of Windows Live. The Redmond company recently introduced the Windows Live unified installer along with a collection of new betas for ... [read more >>]
	12 September 2007, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“Mosh” Mobile Social Networking from Nokia
	It looks like Nokia has yet to bring some surprises for its users. The company has launched some while ago a social networking site, for bringing its brand even closer to people. The "Mosh" website has been launched at first as a social network which could be accessed only from inside the Yahoo offices. At the time, it was considered very likely to replace the Yahoo 360 social network services. That offered it a grea ... [read more >>]
	10 August 2007, 08:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oxy Systems Unveils the Latest Version of phling!
	Oxy Systems has unveiled the latest version of phling!, the popular mobile music and social networking service for teen and young adult mobile phone subscribers. The newest version of the service includes the phling! Mobile Music Promotion Program, a free an ... [read more >>]
	29 March 2007, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GotZapp - a New Mobile Social Networking Platform
	Trivantis Corporation has unveiled a new mobile social networking platform called GotZapp that allows users to create and send a dynamic combination of text, photos and music to Internet-enabled mobile phones in a single transmission called a "Zapp." ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2007, 09:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia