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With Facebook counting over 325 million users, it's little wonder that many are trying to profit from the social network and not always with the nicest of methods. One company that was selling fans and friends to customers wanting to boost their counts, USocial, was sent a Cease and Desist letter by Facebook for... |
21 November 2009
06:18 GMT |
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Facebook is one of the biggest things in Silicon Valley at the moment and the social media giant is showing no signs of slowing down. It is being valued at several billion dollars, over 10, by previous transactions but since it's a private company, no one can really tell what it’s worth. However, despite t... |
20 November 2009
11:33 GMT |
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A recent estimation published by Frost & Sullivan and Colibria shows that the mobile social networking is expected to register a great increase in Latin America and Africa within the following several years. By 2015, the area should have a number of around 527 million users, marking a ten-fold increase compared to t... |
19 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The rumors that MySpace is acquiring music streaming service iMeem for a bargain-basement price have gotten some more weight behind them and a deal looks pretty much certain at this point. The deal doesn't paint a pretty picture for the music streaming business and it remains to be seen if MySpace has better lu... |
19 November 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Twitter is a great tool for public relations and many companies, celebrities, and public figures have realized this early on. And like any great PR opportunity, you're going to want to let the professionals handle it. US president Barack Obama can credit his win at least partially on making good use of online t... |
16 November 2009
06:03 GMT |
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It looks like social media use is not only going up for individual users, social tools are also becoming a lot more popular in enterprises, this despite social networks being blocked in a large number of them. A new report from Palo Alto Networks, maker of enterprise firewall solutions, found that Twitter use grew t... |
11 November 2009
10:26 GMT |
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Twitter has been on a roll lately when it comes to partnerships. It signed a deal with Bing to provide the search engine with real-time results, and barely a few hours later Google made its own announcement of a similar deal. Now, Twitter and LinkedIn have announced they've reached an agreement and a partnership... |
10 November 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Cisco is well known in some circles for its networking hardware and services, but, lately, it has been acquiring a string of companies in diverse fields showing that it is ready to move into different markets and that it's bound to become one of the big tech giants. Now, it's encroaching further into foreig... |
9 November 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T and Samsung Mobile announced today the upcoming availability of Samsung Mythic, a full touchscreen handset with AT&T Mobile TVSM capabilities, and Samsung Flight, a touchscreen slider with a full keyboard. Both handsets were slated for release on AT&T's network as soon as November 8, the t... |
5 November 2009
11:00 GMT |
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Facebook has won a second huge judgment in a spam-related case, being awarded $711 million in damages by a US court. The judgment is against self-described Spam King Sanford Wallace, a man who has seen his fair share of spam lawsuits and who already owes MySpace $234 million in a similar case. The man used a phishing... |
30 October 2009
11:43 GMT |
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Facebook apps and especially games have become an integral part of the social network's ecosystem but their success has taken even Facebook by surprise. The so-called social games on the site are bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars in yearly revenue and the market is expanding rapidly. But one of the rea... |
29 October 2009
06:31 GMT |
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The social web is influencing more and more sectors online and shopping hasn't been spared. A big number of retailers already has some sort of presence on social websites and their number is growing rapidly. It's not enough to have a good website these days, as a great Facebook page or YouTube channel are e... |
27 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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In a move that wouldn't be completely shocking today as it would have been even a few months back, Facebook and MySpace are apparently in talks for some sort of content partnership. According to The Telegraph, this has been confirmed by high-ranking officials at both companies though the nature of the deal isn&#... |
27 October 2009
09:35 GMT |
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Facebook has finally launched the redesigned homepage it has been testing for a while now and it comes with quite a few significant changes. Information overload is a recurring theme these days and for good reason. Getting information has never been easier, but the sheer volume makes it hard to discern the most impor... |
24 October 2009
04:58 GMT |
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It's been a great day for music with big news from Google, MySpace and now Facebook as well. Hot on the heels of the big splash surrounding Google's unconfirmed upcoming music service, Facebook is announcing that it will start selling music as gifts in the social network's Gift Shop. Interestingly, it ... |
22 October 2009
08:25 GMT |
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MySpace as a social network has pretty much lost the race. In fact the social network's CEO is the first to admit it, though reluctantly, but says that MySpace is now focusing on an entirely different space aiming to become an entertainment hub rather than a place to connect with friends. The social network is n... |
22 October 2009
06:33 GMT |
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Facebook is the biggest social network in the world, by a fair margin, so it's bound to have some very impressive stats regarding usage and the amount of data it processes. Usually the numbers that do come out are from all manner of third-party research firms and the data can be a little unreliable. Speaking at ... |
22 October 2009
05:47 GMT |
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The chatter is once again picking up around FriendFeed, the real-time social aggregator Facebook acquired a couple of months ago. At the time of the deal many were left wondering about the fate of the service which, despite not becoming as successful as hoped, managed to secure a core of loyal users and to stay ahead... |
20 October 2009
09:59 GMT |
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From a distance Facebook looks like a very conservative site and the look of the social network seems very much unchanged for years. But take a closer look and you'll notice that the company is constantly tweaking and updating the design and features and now it's getting ready for another homepage redesign.... |
20 October 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Facebook is constantly tweaking and redesigning parts of the site it's not satisfied with and the process doesn't look like it's going to reach a stable state anytime soon. After a number of new features over the summer, Facebook Lite and some recent changes to the site, Facebook has now completely red... |
20 October 2009
03:18 GMT |
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Spotify hasn't even launched in the US yet and already there are rumors on what platforms it is going to expand to. The mobile market is an obvious one and Spotify already has an app for most of the big smartphone platforms but it now looks like it wants to conquer the consumer electronics niche as well. Another... |
15 October 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Spam has always been a problem online but as the web evolves so do the means of spreading it. Email spam isn't going anywhere but social networks are increasingly flooded with the problem and the bigger they are, the more likely target they become. Twitter has been battling with the issue and has just launched a... |
15 October 2009
08:49 GMT |
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Social networks haven't exactly lost their image as teen hangouts but these days teenagers are hardly the dominant population on any social network including Facebook or MySpace. And there isn't a greater example of how social networks are going mainstream than LinkedIn, a social network dedicated to profes... |
15 October 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Facebook is the world's largest social network by a large margin. With 300 million users and closing in on 350 million by the year's end, the social network is one of the most visited places online. And because of the nature of the service people tend to stick around for longer navigating the site. Add to t... |
14 October 2009
11:10 GMT |
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Social networking is huge in terms of users but less so in terms of revenue. While the biggest social networks are profitable the income is still well below their potential. One aspect that has proven much more profitable though is social gaming, which has taken off in the past months. With companies like Zynga on pa... |
14 October 2009
10:12 GMT |
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Facebook apps can be fun and sometimes useful. But sometimes they can become extremely annoying especially when they go viral and you start getting flooded with the same one from all of your friends. Of course, you can easily choose to hide all instances of an app never to be bothered by it again, but recently quiz a... |
14 October 2009
05:06 GMT |
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While Twitter may have lost some of its luster, news about the microblogging service is still getting people exited, even if it's not exactly accurate. Over the weekend the news of a new video feature to be introduced by Twitter, despite lacking in details and most people being skeptical about it, made a few rou... |
12 October 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Social networking has been known to get people in trouble with the law from time to time, but most of the times it's for something done outside of the social network itself. MySpace status updates have been known to get people arrested for revealing details related to various illegal acts, and Facebook photos ha... |
10 October 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Facebook is no stranger to lawsuits, some frivolous, others with more weight. It's part of the territory when you get to a certain size and, with Facebook's 300 million users, there's hardly a target larger than it. If you're going to sue someone it might as well be the largest social network in t... |
9 October 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Social media may be an increasing part of our lives but it has no place at work. At least that's what the majority of large companies in the US think, according to a new survey commissioned by consulting firm Robert Half Technology. The survey found that 54 percent of companies completely block access to social ... |
7 October 2009
06:32 GMT |
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For a site with over 300 million users worldwide, Facebook has little customizing options and the users are pretty much stuck with what the site wants them to see. The social network is constantly tweaking and updating the design and the features, of course, but it wasn't until Facebook Lite came out that users ... |
7 October 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Facebook has been on somewhat of a redesign spree lately and it looks like it's not stopping here. The social network is now testing a freshened up News Feed page with a few but important changes. Some users have noticed that the new News Feed does away with the Publisher in its current form replacing it with a ... |
7 October 2009
04:11 GMT |
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While the large social networks are getting all of the attention with Facebook or Twitter constantly in the spotlight it's the developers who create apps for them that are raking in the money. While Facebook is struggling to break even, app developers, especially those creating social games, are making a very ti... |
6 October 2009
09:12 GMT |
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People in general are concerned with their happiness. But as much as they are concerned for themselves they are much more interested in other people's happiness. Knowing how your neighbor across the street is doing is one thing but what if you could know how the entire country or even the whole world is feeling?... |
6 October 2009
06:35 GMT |
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The way we use the Internet and relate to web content is constantly changing and so is the way we find new information online. Search engines used to be the center of information discovery but there has been a great shift in recent years towards social media which, while still relatively small as a percentage of the ... |
6 October 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Facebook pretty much dominates the social networking field around the world. With 300 million users there isn't anything even remotely close to it. Still, there are some countries where the social network hasn't fared so well yet and, notably, Brazil and India are big Orkut strongholds and Facebook is very ... |
2 October 2009
05:03 GMT |
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Facebook is now pretty much synonymous with social networking about all over the world. Sure, there are plenty of other social networks, some quite successful like MySpace, but nothing even comes close on the global scale. Still, Facebook isn't completely satisfied until it becomes the biggest social network in ... |
1 October 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Worried that spending too much time on Facebook is affecting other aspects of your life? Now, you can turn this time sink into revenue while also ensuring that your friends spend more on the social network as well. AppBank, a new startup in the crowded world of Facebook app makers, has an interesting plan, one that i... |
29 September 2009
11:31 GMT |
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User generated content is at the heart of yet another controversy, this time a rather tame one that got blown out of proportion, as it usually happens. The fact that the content happened to be on the increasingly popular Facebook only fueled the attention of the media which in turn caught the eye of the US Secret Ser... |
29 September 2009
09:19 GMT |
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Everyone roots for the underdog and with enough hype you start to believe that the little guy can really threaten the established players. But every so often you are reminded that most of the times size does matter and MySpace demonstrated this handily when it unveiled the two-way sync feature with Twitter last week.... |
29 September 2009
06:02 GMT |
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While the demographic difference between MySpace and Facebook is 'apparent' to anyone who has used the two social networks even briefly, now we have the actual data to back up any empirical observations. According to Nielsen, Facebook is much more likely to be used by more affluent people while MySpace appe... |
28 September 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Social networking has been around for some years now with users and time spent growing steadily. However, new numbers from Nielsen show that social networking has grown in a big way in the past year, with users spending almost three times more on social networks. Largely due to the huge increase in user numbers Faceb... |
25 September 2009
11:56 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced yesterday a new QWERTY candybar device that would become available for purchase in the near future on the UK market, the LG GW300. The new device, the company says, is aimed mainly at social networkers, as it comes with enhanced features in this area, as well a... |
25 September 2009
06:41 GMT |
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MySpace has been on somewhat of a downward trend lately but at least it’s starting to get with the times and, for once, it actually beat Facebook to the punch with the new two-way sync feature for Twitter. Users can now send out a tweet from MySpace and also set their status & mood on the social network from Tw... |
22 September 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Facebook's growth has been massive and the social network is now one of the top Internet giants. But, while it now measures 300 million users, its revenue is far smaller than its user base would indicate. There are some legitimate reasons for that – the company has been taking a more cautious approach to a... |
22 September 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Two Frenchmen have been arrested for hacking into ASMALLWORLD, a private social network for VIPs. After the intrusion, the two allegedly attempted to extort $1 million from the website's admins by threatening to disclose sensitive information. ASMALLWORLD is a social-networking service for the social elite. Mem... |
18 September 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Windows Mobile 7, the next-generation operating system Redmond-based Microsoft is expected to push to the mobile phone market sometime next year, seems to be something more than we would've expected. Previous reports already pointed towards the great amount of changes the software giant plans to deliver to its m... |
17 September 2009
10:53 GMT |
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It looks like the two biggest social networks in the US are getting into an open-source war as, just days after Facebook released the Tornado framework, MySpace is releasing its own piece of open software with the Qizmt framework, designed to handle large amounts of unstructured data, which is now powering the &ldquo... |
16 September 2009
11:52 GMT |
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For a site that now serves 300 million users, Facebook still offers a surprisingly unified experience. Users do have an extensive list of privacy settings but not that many when it comes to customizing. But the options are about to become more varied with the launch of Facebook Prototypes, which will house interestin... |
16 September 2009
04:22 GMT |
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It was really just a matter of time, considering how fast it was growing, but Facebook has just announced it has officially passed the 300 million monthly active users mark. While predictable, it's no small feat for the social network launched just five years ago. Facebook reached 250 million users just a month ... |
16 September 2009
03:46 GMT |
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