Social Media News
Google’s New Privacy Policy – What’s Wrong With It?
27th January 2012
Google announced this week that they will be discarding 60 of their privacy policies and replacing them with one common privacy policy, covering multiple products and features of Google. While this might seem a good move for users, it’s not quite as innocent a move as it may seem. More »
Social Networks Do Not Influence Shoppers
18th January 2012
While social networks are growing increasingly popular, quite surprisingly, they have not yet started to influence shoppers in a major way. More »
Facebook Launches Always-On Messenger Client
3rd January 2012
Facebook has just started testing a new app called Facebook Messenger for Windows. By using this app, PC users can access Facebook direct from their desktop without going to www.facebook.com More »
The Most Popular Mobile Websites Of 2011
23rd December 2011
Opera Software has recently released their last report for the year 2011, ranking the 10 most popular websites on mobile. More »
Twitter Receives $300 Million Bounty
20th December 2011
Popular microblogging site, Twitter, has received an investment of $300 million from an Arab Prince. More »
StumbleUpon Re-branded & Redesigned
9th December 2011
Over 17 million visitors go to StumbleUpon.com every month. The social media site, which allows users to randomly explore the Web, has just been re-branded and updated with several new features. More »
Can Twitter Forecast The GOP Poll Results?
24th November 2011
While several organisations conduct studies to predict poll results, the latest tool being used to do so is Twitter. More »
Google Music – Hit Or Miss?
18th November 2011
On Wednesday, Google launched an update to a service called ‘Google Music’ that was previously in beta. The service is now available to everyone in the United States and will allow users to upload, purchase, store, share and listen to music in digital form from any device. More »
Google+ Business Pages – Should You Care?
9th November 2011
Google Plus, the social side of Google has recently opened up for business accounts. The new feature, known (unsurprisingly) as Google+ Pages, went live on Monday and the verdict on them is not very encouraging so far. More »
The New Delicious: Tastier Or Just Bland?
28th September 2011
Once popular social bookmarking website, Delicious, was shut down a while ago after Yahoo! sold it to Avos Systems, a company created by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The site is now back, with a new, revamped look. More »
Google Discards Social Failures For +1
9th September 2011
Google recently announced that they will shortly discontinue a number of projects and integrate some with other existing or newly introduced projects. This is being done with a view to “simplify matters for users and to improve the over all Google experience”. More »
Can Social Media Be Blamed For The U.K. Riots?
12th August 2011
The prime minister of the U.K. David Cameron, has issued a statement that the government is considering banning social media sites, due to the current riots in the country. More »
Mobile Apps Being Used To Discover Cities
11th August 2011
The development of mobile apps is now being used to help people discover things about cities. More »
How The Internet Affects The England Riots
10th August 2011
England has been at the centre of a public outcry in the form of riots since the last few days. The effect that the Internet has had on these riots is two-fold. More »
Google Launches Photovine
15th July 2011
For quite some time now, there had been rumours and speculation about a new Google project called Photovine. The project has finally been launched and it is a social image-sharing app for smartphones. More »
Gender Greatly Influences Content Of Tweets
13th June 2011
Until recently, no one had studied how the gender of a user determined the subject of their tweets on the popular social network, Twitter. More »
Teenagers Consume More Mobile & Social Media
10th June 2011
According to a recent report, kids and teenagers today use the various media available to them in a very different way from what other age groups do. More »
Google Launches +1 Button. Webmasters React: “Meh!”
3rd June 2011
Google has once again tried to break into the social market, this time by launching the much talked-about +1 button. Not quite surprisingly, the launch was devoid of the usual fanfare accompanying a Google product launch and the results so far might give a clue why. More »
Twitter Paving The Way For Privacy Law Reform
23rd May 2011
Twitter is once again the source of breaking news in the UK, except this time the story revolves around protecting / invading the privacy of a local footballer. More »
Social Media Ad Spend Set To Explode
3rd May 2011
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