Social Networking

Facebook has announced that it intends to make further some changes to its privacy policy in order to respond to an audit by the Irish government. This move has been seen as an inadequate attempt to subdue privacy concerns prior to Facebook’s planned initial public offering by privacy advocates. Will there be any major changes? The proposed changes, which the company put out for public comment... Read More »

The passwords of thousands of Twitter users were exposed this week by hackers. Twitter is investigating this data breach, which resulted in the posting of user names and passwords of Twitter account holders on Pastebin, a favorite site for hackers to showcase their ill gotten achievements. What Twitter has to say on this Twitter spokesman Robert Weeks said: “We are currently looking into the situation.... Read More »

The popular social networking platform Facebook has announced the release of its own app store named App Center from where users can browse high-quality games and other useful apps for their Android or Apple’s iOS-based mobile device. Facebook will only host the apps, to download them the user has to go to either Google Play or App Store. Launch of App Center The new App Center, which Facebook... Read More »

Google+ is making the live Hangouts broadcasting feature available for all its users. The feature was till now available to a limited number of professional broadcasters only. With Hangouts on Air, the user can broadcast live video publicly from a Google+ stream, a YouTube channel or embed it on a website. Is this simple video streaming? Hangouts on Air is more than simple video streaming. When... Read More »

It will be possible for you now to know which people have read your messages while group chatting with friends or colleagues via Facebook Messenger. Facebook has updated its Instant Messaging service with the ‘Read Receipt’ feature. How it will benefit users? With this update Facebook Messenger will become more transparent and at the same time it will make it harder for a user to ignore someone’s... Read More »

The social networking platform for professionals LinkedIn is all set to acquire the content-sharing site SlideShare for US $119 million in a move designed to boost the content available to its members. The buyout will enable LinkedIn users to utilize SlideShare’s popular presentations feature. Functionality of SlideShare SlideShare portal allows its users to publicly or privately upload presentations,... Read More »

Popular social networking platform Facebook has added a new feature for organ donors. The new feature makes it easier for users to register themselves as organ donors. Initial response of users The new option was announced on 01st May by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with an objective to boost the number of potential organ donors. By the end of the day, 6,000 people had enrolled through 22 state registries,... Read More »

If you are an ardent fan of Facebook, then you may soon notice a new feature that “could save lives” on your popular place of hangout while in front of a computer. Various media reports indicate the CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is expected to announce this new feature while making his appearance on the network television. It is still a mystery what the tool will be, but Zuckerberg’s schedule... Read More »

If you are using the Twitter app on your iOS or Android-based device then there are some good reasons to cheer. Twitter has updated its mobile app and has introduced a number of features and improvements. A new Discover tab, improved search functionality, and support for push notifications for interactions are some of the key highlights of the latest Twitter mobile update. With the introduction of... Read More »

The social networking giant Facebook has joined hands with security solution providing companies like Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec Corporation to enhance the security of its users. The social networking platform has gained the attention of hackers and malicious code designers due to its massive popularity. As Facebook is planning to go public next month, it has taken this step... Read More »

Do you remember the date you joined Facebook? Have you ever thought about the number of status messages and comments you hold on your profile? If you are a true Facebook freak and have been on the platform for long, then you can easily understand the volume of comments you have accumulated till date. Most of these old comments and status messages are useless and clutter up your profile unnecessarily. Now,... Read More »

Facebook is going great guns and it has grown really big. According to the recent S-1 filing submitted to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), the social networking site presently caters to 901 million active users monthly. Facebook user base rose by 33% in the last one year. Facebook is visited by about 526 million users every day that comes down to 58.3% of the total active users. In addition,... Read More »

A move that can be termed interesting as well as bold, Facebook is experimenting with the implementation of a new social news reader widget named ‘Trending Articles’ on its platform. It will allow the users to access popular trending stories in the form of news feeds. Trending Articles will display around five news stories from different news platforms. Each story will include a small picture,... Read More »

Twitter has announced that it has open sourced some of the numerous tasks it has done to improve MySQL in its production systems. The microblogging and social networking platform is a major user of MySQL database technology – using it for timeline, user data, interest graph and tweet storage – and has been adapting MySQL to store most of the data generated by its users. “MySQL is the persistent... Read More »

There are many success stories on the web and Twitter, the amazing micro-blogging service, is one of them. It is now considered as the lifeblood for over 140 million users around the globe. But even this huge and successful social networking platform is having a tough time due to spamming activities. Many Tweeter users have complained of spam and unsolicited tweets. To tackle these spamming activities,... Read More »

Pinterest has claimed the third spot in the most popular social networks list by beating Google+ in the United States. It is now behind Facebook and Twitter. Pinterest is largely a social photo sharing website that attracts a lot of female visitors. Pinterest members share a lot of interesting stuff related to fashion, food, health, fitness, home décor, and more. Pinterest has reached the third position... Read More »

The Yahoo!-Facebook tussle has finally come a full circle. Few weeks back, Yahoo! sued Facebook for infringing 10 of its patents related to advertising, privacy control, and social networking. Now, Facebook has counterattacked the search engine company and filed a patent lawsuit. Ted Ullyot, general counsel of Facebook, said, “From the outset, we said we would defend ourselves vigorously against... Read More »

Here is some good news for all BlackBerry users. RIM has finally released the Twitter for BlackBerry 3.0 version with brunch of interesting features. The app is now available at the BlackBerry App World. There are a number of noticeable improvements in the latest version, especially BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) integration. This will enable you to link your Twitter account with BBM and share your latest... Read More »

Facebook is certainly going at a rapid pace. Recently, it added the support for high-resolution photos on the platform and now it has come up with an updated app for Apple iOS platform. The biggest plus is that the Facebook app will support the new iPad’s Retina Display. Another interesting feature of the updated Facebook version is that you can now go offline in chat. The app gives you the... Read More »

Scammers always look for opportunities to con you online. Use of lucrative offers on the Internet is also not a new trick but people still fall prey to them. This time, cybercriminals are trying to leverage the popularity of ‘Draw Something’ app through Twitter. The popular app was recently purchased by the social game developer, Zynga. According to security firm Sophos, online scammers are using... Read More »

Google has again made up his mind to go head-to-head with Facebook. According to reports, the search engine company is working on a third-party commenting platform that will directly compete with Facebook’s commenting system. The company is planning to integrate this commenting system into its different services and offerings, especially Google+. The platform will enable the comments made by users... Read More »

Do you regularly Tweet? Have you ever come across a situation when you have been mysteriously unfollowed by some of your followers or fans on Twitter? It is certainly a very upsetting situation. But, have you ever thought about what made your followers to unfollow you? Well, according to some recent developments, it has been made clear that in most of the cases a Twitter bug was responsible for this... Read More »

It came as a shock to the 19 million fan followers of Justin Bieber on Twitter when they saw the tweet “19 million my a** #biebermyb**ls” coming from Bieber’s account. To add to their dismay, many of them saw themselves being unfollowed and blocked by their favorite star. The content of the tweet in question suggests that the person who hacked the account was questioning the follower count... Read More »

The popular microblogging community portal has rolled out an update to its desktop service TweetDeck – covering Chrome, Mac, Windows, and web apps. This update, which adds support for better list management, inline media, and improved retweeting, is an effort by Twitter to increase the user engagement within the community. In December last year, the first Twitter-branded version of TweetDeck... Read More »

To counteract the patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Yahoo!, Facebook has purchased hundreds of patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM). This will help the social networking company to bolster its intellectual property portfolio. It is not clear how much Facebook paid for the IBM patents, but tech companies seeking to build their portfolios have pushed intellectual... Read More »