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If there were any more doubts that Facebook is a global phenomenon, you only need to look at the most popular countries on the site, i.e. the ones with most users, to see the clear trend.The US sits at the top, of course, but below it sit several big and mostly understated countries which have tens of millions of Fac... |
23 August 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Although many sites had ‘net problems yesterday, the blackout at Apple’s online store seems to have ended with at least one notable change - social sharing features. So long as you’re accessing store.apple.com on a supported browser (Safari, Firefox, Chrome), the site now offers the ability to shar... |
18 August 2011
03:01 GMT |
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Google+'s (limited) success story is only a small first step for the social network. It's been able to get perhaps 20 million users and 25 million visitors in the first month or so it's been available.But as with any new thing, people are drawn in by curiosity, but some don't stick around after th... |
8 August 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Facebook has introduced an interesting new option to the list of family members, soon-to-be parents can now share their joy with the world with the "Expecting: Child" option. Facebook has quietly added this option which enables users to list family members that haven't been born yet.
This was probably in resp... |
3 August 2011
08:16 GMT |
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Google+ has officially become the fastest website to reach 25 million visitors, according to the latest data from comScore. This happened just before Google+ turned one month old.
What's more, the site continues to grow and people are starting to spend more time on it, likely because more people they know ar... |
3 August 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Among the enhancements that the next flavor of Microsoft's mobile operating system called Windows Phone Mango should bring around, we can count a series of improvements brought to the People Hub, aimed at offering users the possibility to stay close to their friends much easier than before.
As soon as Mango... |
21 July 2011
13:51 GMT |
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When released later during the ongoing year, the next iteration of Windows Phone will include new features aimed at providing users with great new experiences, and the Twitter and LinkedIn integration that just got showcased is one of them.
The company has already made available a beta version of this Windows Ph... |
20 July 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Google+ has certainly generated a lot of hype and interest. This was based mostly on empirical evidence and estimates until CEO Larry Page revealed that the social network had 10 million users in the first two weeks.
Now, a week later, Google+ may be hitting 18 million users, a huge number, but the growth rate is a... |
20 July 2011
05:21 GMT |
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As expected, Apple has approved Google+ for iPhone, a social networking application developed by the Mountain View search giant. As the company behind the world’s most popular search engine puts it, “Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler.” “Hu... |
20 July 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Facebook is enjoying a very solid position as the largest social network in the world and one of the biggest sites online. But it still wants people to spend more on the site and one way it's doing this is by having more and more content inside. We already knew that it's working with media companies, music ... |
16 July 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Mobile phone users who like staying connected with their friends over the increasingly popular social networking site Facebook now have a new application available for their handsets that enables them to do so, the Facebook for Every Phone app.
The new mobile software was released into the wild with support for a... |
13 July 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Norwegian software company Opera Software has just announced a partnership with NK, the top social network in Poland, to offer users the possibility to stay connected with their friends and family over the social destination.
When on holiday this summer, users will be able to stay on top of what is happening on ... |
12 July 2011
07:18 GMT |
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Google+ may still be invite only, but there are quite a few people on the site already and they're pretty active. So the fact Google started sending out many of them, tens of email notifications, in some cases, even to those that had disabled the feature, didn't go unnoticed. People got tens of emails from... |
11 July 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Twitter is loved by those who use it, the service has got a very loyal core user base. It's quite a large one at that, there are some 200 million people using Twitter every month. And the most active users feel part of a very tight group.
The problem is that, everyone else feels excluded and the quirks, habi... |
6 July 2011
05:34 GMT |
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Google+ has raised quite a lot of interest these past couple of days. The initial reactions have been very positive and this may be Google's first competitive social project, so people are at least intrigued.When Google enabled existing users to send invitations to their friends, the surge in activity promptly l... |
30 June 2011
11:31 GMT |
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There are several companies offering a ready-built comments platform for websites, but Facebook entry, or rather re-entry, into the field was significant. However, the initial launch was less impressive than it could have been since several features, which were present during the testing phase, were removed in the fi... |
30 June 2011
09:31 GMT |
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The saga is over, MySpace has been sold to Specific Media, an advertising network, for $35 million a paltry sum by any measure. News Corp. which has owned MySpace for the past six years or so has finally gotten rid of the property which was becoming an increasingly ugly spot on its quarterly financial reports.
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30 June 2011
03:33 GMT |
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An all-new effort by Google to revitalize social networking, Google+ aims to attend to the most basic of human needs - to connect with others. The service, currently in beta, is already available as an Android app and, according to the search giant, it’s also coming to the iPhone in the form of a native applica... |
29 June 2011
08:58 GMT |
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The reports of Facebook's death are greatly exaggerated, at least that's what the company seems to be saying, referring to several reports showing that the social network has been losing users by the millions, in the US in particular. The company has challenged the accuracy of those reports, but has not pro... |
14 June 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Two new mobile phones from Sony Ericsson made an official appearance today, following a worldwide competition opened for the company's Facebook followers, namely the Mix Walkman and the txt pro.The former is capable of providing users with a great entertainment experience, the handset vendor claims, adding that... |
9 June 2011
03:45 GMT |
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It's no big surprise that Facebook, even at its size, is still growing at a steady pace. While the latest official numbers, from a few months ago, say that there are 500 million users, the unofficial ones show that it's getting close to 700 million, this while actually losing some users in countries where a... |
30 May 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Over the weekend, some started noticing a new Twitter feature which enables users to see what others see in their feeds. It's a bit voyeuristic, but it's a good way of filling a curiosity and perhaps of also discovering new people to follow. Interestingly enough, it's not exactly a new feature, Twitter... |
30 May 2011
08:00 GMT |
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The rumors about Spotify integration on Facebook are getting a bit more backing, while at the same time Facebook strategy is revealed to be a lot bigger than it was initially believed. It seems that the social network has big plans for music in general, but also other media forms such as TV or movies. Facebook wants ... |
27 May 2011
10:30 GMT |
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Norwegian software company Opera has just unveiled some info on the usage of its Opera Mini mobile browser during the month of April. According to the company, the mobile application enjoyed a number of no less than 107.1 million users, which represents an increase of 4.6 percent when compared to the previous month.... |
25 May 2011
12:41 GMT |
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LinkedIn, the professional social network is finally going public, later today. It's the first social networking IPO, the first big Web 2.0 IPO and the first of a string of very hot initial offers coming, Zynga, Groupon and, of course, Facebook.LinkedIn shares will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under ... |
19 May 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Just like Google dominates search around the world, Facebook dominates social networking. In many countries, in fact, the site is used by the vast majority of the internet population. In the Philippines for example, 93.9 percent of all internet users have a Facebook account. Granted, only 29.7 percent of the populati... |
18 May 2011
12:21 GMT |
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The web is abuzz with a very juicy rumor concerning the hottest internet company of the moment, Facebook, and the hottest online market of the moment, China. According to several Chinese reports, Facebook has negotiated a deal with Baidu to set up a joint-venture social network in China. It wouldn't be the first... |
11 April 2011
10:40 GMT |
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The notorious Koobface social networking worm seems to have stopped spreading on Facebook, much to security researchers' surprise.According to experts from FireEye, which noticed the unusual change in behavior, the last time Koobface was seen spreading on the world's largest social network was on February 1... |
11 April 2011
00:21 GMT |
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Nokia phone users interested in staying connected with their friends easier that before can now do so through the latest flavor of Nokia Social, namely 1.3, which was just released in beta. Through this application, users can have live updates from their favorite social networks pushed straight on the homescreen of ... |
25 March 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Designed by former Apple employee Bill Nguyen, the man behind Lala.com, Color is a new ambitious project that aims to get people to share photos with one another whenever they’re in close proximity running the app. Albeit rather intrusive, the app warns that you share the information at your own risk. “... |
25 March 2011
05:08 GMT |
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LinkedIn has announced a major milestone, it now has 100 million registered users. The eight year old professional social network has been adding new users at a steady rate and says it is growing faster than ever now. The company is looking to go public later this year, though its financial aspects are not as great a... |
22 March 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Social networks and other websites could be facing much tougher privacy laws in the EU. The data protection laws may get an overhaul to make them more relevant to today's world and may especially target social networks and advertising companies.Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner, reiterated her ... |
17 March 2011
12:23 GMT |
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Facebook has introduced a couple of small but interesting tweaks to its comments system. For one, there is no send button anymore, you just have to hit Enter to post a reply. Even more interesting, if you want to delete a comment soon after posting it, perhaps to correct an error you've just spotted, you actuall... |
16 March 2011
13:40 GMT |
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Twitter is celebrating its fifth birthday. Back in 2006, a small number of people got together to make a group SMS service which they dubbed TWTTR. Several days later, on March 21, the first ever tweet was sent. Since then, the service has grown at a huge rate and continues to do so.Twitter provided some interesting ... |
15 March 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Facebook's revamped Comments platform for websites is now available to everyone. Webmasters can embed the Comments Box plugin on their sites to add commenting functionality as well as authentication and comment moderation. The feature has been in testing for several months now, but some of the more advanced func... |
2 March 2011
03:44 GMT |
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To say that Facebook is popular is not much of a statement. But eMarketer is coming out with some numbers showing just how many people are using Facebook right now, in the US at least, and how many it estimates will be using the social network in the next couple of years.At the end of 2010, more than half of internet... |
25 February 2011
11:37 GMT |
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A nice range of new enhancements are now available for the users of HootSuite for BlackBerry, including various performance improvements, as well as bug fixes and new features. According to the development team behind the application has added support for more social networks into the mix, so that users would be abl... |
25 February 2011
09:23 GMT |
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Security researchers have expressed concern about the increasing number of work-at-home scams circulating on social networking websites and tricking users into paying money for useless kits.Work-at-home easy-money scams are nothing new. They've been going around for years in various forms and using different tri... |
25 February 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that spammers have already launched campaigns exploiting people's interest into the upcoming Presidents' Day holiday,Washington's Birthday, also known as Presidents' Day, is one of the eleven annual United States federal holidays and among the most celebrated ones.The hol... |
18 February 2011
11:55 GMT |
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Exclusive information obtained by a Mac-centric blog indicates that Apple has ambitious plans with MobileMe, with the company trying to mash up every location-based service you can think of into one that’s built right into iOS.
Resurrecting a Wall Street Journal report which, earlier this week said Apple was... |
17 February 2011
05:22 GMT |
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Facebook has basically confirmed the move to its new headquarters in Menlo Park, California, a short distance away from its current location. The company has sent out invitations to the press for an event located at the city's municipal buildings. Facebook has been rumored to be interested in the former Sun head... |
6 February 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Since it bridged Windows Live Messenger with Facebook, Microsoft has been witnessing a veritable social explosion for its instant messaging client. According to Piero Sierra, Group Program Manager, Windows Live, Messenger is now responsible for driving in excess of 2.8 billion minutes of Facebook. The volume of Fac... |
3 February 2011
07:16 GMT |
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During its quarterly earnings call, News Corp. has made it clear that it is done with MySpace and that the troubled social network turned media hub will find a better home somewhere else. This is not the first time the company has made indications that MySpace is for sale, but it's the most formal announcement t... |
3 February 2011
06:37 GMT |
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In its latest annual security threat report UK antivirus vendor Sophos warns that social networking threats have been on an upward trend since the beginning of 2009.Being the world's largest social networking site, with over 600 million users as of January 2011, Facebook is one of the primary targets for cybercr... |
19 January 2011
06:34 GMT |
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Facebook doesn't reveal much data about the company or the site, financial or otherwise. But it does provide advertisers with an estimate of the number of users by country and demographics. Analyzing this indirect data you can draw all manner of conclusions, especially when correlating it with other stats. Entru... |
18 January 2011
11:26 GMT |
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There's little doubt that Facebook, despite already being one of the largest sites on the web, is still growing at a torrid pace. But just how much it has been growing lately and how many users it has at this point is harder to pinpoint. Some estimates though indicate that it may have already gotten past another... |
14 January 2011
05:18 GMT |
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Speed has been one of Google's main selling points and its engineers are always looking for ways of squeezing out even better loading times. But Facebook is not doing so bad itself, the social network is the fastest site in the social space. Availability isn't its biggest strength though, YouTube takes the ... |
7 January 2011
09:36 GMT |
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Microsoft has embraced the growing social networking universe, rooting it deep into a range of its offerings, be them software or services. Facebook and Twitter seem to get the most love from the Redmond company, but the software giant is not ignoring smaller players, despite the focus on the two heavyweights. With... |
29 December 2010
09:41 GMT |
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With over 85 million people, LinkedIn has its hands on a veritable treasure trove of data. And it's putting it to good use, uncovering the most over-used buzz words in LinkedIn profiles. The idea is to showcase what words and expressions are used so often they lose all their meaning and may end up driving a pote... |
14 December 2010
11:24 GMT |
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The fact that Facebook is dominating the social networking space worldwide is not really up for dispute. There are markets where Facebook isn't the top social network, yet, but their number is getting smaller. In the past six months, Facebook has risen to the top in several key markets, particularly important be... |
11 December 2010
05:52 GMT |
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