Social Media News
Google Invests In Zynga – Prepares Google Games
22nd July 2010
A post recently published by TechCrunch says that Google recently invested a substantial amount of money in the social gaming site Zynga. More »
YouTube Creates A ‘StumbleUpon’ For Videos
16th July 2010
Selecting and watching a video on the internet can be quite a taxing task, according to the folks at YouTube, because users have to browse and click with the mouse several times to get the video they want in the definition and screen they like. More »
Twitter Confirms Realtime Analytics
9th July 2010
Twitter has just confirmed on their engineering blog that they are using the realtime analytics system Cassandra. More »
Google Me Social Platform Might Be Real
1st July 2010
Rumours about Google’s new social network, called Google Me, might actually be more than just rumours. More »
Facebook Follows Twitter To Location Awareness
23rd June 2010
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that location-based features will be launched on the social network in the near future. More »
Promoted Tweets In Trending Twitter Topics
18th June 2010
After the successful launch of promoted tweets in April, Twitter has now decided to go ahead with a new service that should help them further increase revenues. More »
What Draws Silver Surfers To Facebook?
17th June 2010
The commonly held notion that the social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are frequented only by the young is turning out to be absolutely false. More »
Twitter Launches Places
15th June 2010
Twitter has finally announced that the launch of their long-awaited geolocation service, in the form of a new feature known as Twitter Places. More »
U.S. Mobile Searches Grow 90%
7th June 2010
MobiLens, a service of comScore, has just released a report on the growth of mobile applications and browser content. According to their findings, social networking has seen the largest amount of growth in both mobile as well as browser access. More »
Twitter Bans Third Party Apps
28th May 2010
In a recent blog post, Twitter has announced that they will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline or any service that leverages the Twitter API. More »
StumbleUpon Crosses 10 Million User Mark
21st May 2010
Social discovery network, StumbleUpon, recently crossed the 10 million registered user mark. TechCrunch discovered this via a review posted by one of the site’s employees. More »
Twitter Launching Business Center
12th May 2010
Twitter has confirmed that they have started testing their new services aimed at businesses. The first, known as the Twitter Business Center, is already live and is being tested by a handful of companies. More »
Embedding Tweets Instead Of Pasting Them
5th May 2010
A Twitter employee has built a bit of code that makes it easy for users to embed tweets on a blog. Twitter has announced this development on their media blog. More »
Facebook And StumbleUpon Drive Most Social Traffic
28th April 2010
According to statistics released by analytics firm, StatCounter, Facebook has retained its place as the largest source of traffic from social media to global websites in March 2010. More »
Microsoft and Facebook Launch Docs.com
26th April 2010
Facebook and Microsoft’s partnership is delivering new, innovative applications that few expected to see from the collaboration. The largest social network has been working with the software giant to create a service that will allow users to share their documents online. At the F8 conference held by Facebook on the 21st of April, they announced the launch of Docs.com More »
Facebook As Popular As TV
20th April 2010
It is a known fact that social networks are gaining in popularity. According to the latest reports released by Nielsen Online, 73% of the U.S. population is now engaged in some form of social media activity or the other. More »
Ning Initiates User Exodus From Own Site
19th April 2010
The social networking network, Ning, has just announced that it will no longer provide any free services to users. This will most likely mark the (not too slow) demise of what was an excellent social networking service. More »
Google Enables Twitter Archive Search
15th April 2010
Ever since the introduction of real-time search last December, Google has added content from sites like MySpace, Facebook and Buzz. The data is now available in 40 different languages. Google has also added a links feature to help people find the most relevant information with updates from Twitter. More »
Twitter Ads To Be Via “Promoted Tweets”
14th April 2010
Twitter has just announced that their ad platform will launch with the release of a new service called Promoted Tweets. More »
AOL To Sell Bebo
9th April 2010
AOL bought the social network Bebo in 2008 for $850 million. However, the network has not been doing too well and has been losing ground against its more popular competitors. It is believed that AOL is likely to sell the social network or shut it down. More »
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