Social Networking

The most common question piping in the minds of thousand of chatters is whether they are safe during their personal communication over the net. Recently, the most renowned social networking site the Facebook has discovered a serious security gap which allows unauthorized access of individual’s private chat messages. As a result the site has dropped down its vast chatting network and is indulged... Read More »

Introduction We can easily count the number of people who do not use Internet in this fast moving world. In today’s world online surfing has become the essential tool for chatting and having relationships with each other, even if two users are miles apart. So, there is no surprise at all if people fall in love online. This is only happening all over the world. Hence social sites like Orkut, Twitter... Read More »

Internet is a great way for disseminating information as you can be sure to get your audience access the information fast. However, some of the information on the Internet is not false. Some Websites may contain information which are half-truths and others total lies, cooked up by unidentified people. There are also many instances of copyrighted material being posted on the Internet without permission.... Read More »

Twitter has become one of the most important and well known social networks on the Internet. Millions of people all over the world are members of the site with thousands of people joining each day. There are various benefits of being a member of a social networking site and as a member, you would also benefit from the number of contacts that you have who are following on Twitter. The benefits of Twitter... Read More »

Social networking has become one of the most important activities that all Internet users do. In fact it is very difficult to find a person not networking when they are free. It has become the coolest activity that a person can do when relaxing. In the previous decades when there was no Internet, people used to hang out in bars and coffee shop. However, these days, people of all age groups like to... Read More »

Web technologies have given a new twist to information delivery in recent years. 21st Century web technologies (web 2.0 technologies) are now a great way to deliver news, announcements and other information faster, easier and more cost effectively. Many companies and individuals are using these web technologies such as Twitter to disseminate information quickly. The Fruit Center Marketplace in East... Read More »

Social networking has come a long way from where it started years ago. The nascent social networking sites that made their way initially, have now become a resounding success with hundreds and thousands of people joining these social networking sites each day. As the networks expand, these social media are not only being used as a network for the people from various forums and countries to meet but... Read More »

Facebook has officially outrunned Orkut and has take over the substantial lead in the race of the most users on a social networking site. It is now just behind Twitter in terms of population. This has led to a tremendous increase in value and its stake is now selling like hot cakes in market. The white and blue simple interface with touch of sophistication was always lacking from other social networking... Read More »

Many of you may be facing the current lag in the Facebook as it is migrating from one platform to another and telling people that updating is in progress and chats are disable for sometime or even that certain pages are not available. Yes, these latest changes have been around lately, so how much can we trust Facebook. It is been recently realized by many users that there information which they want... Read More »

Yes, this is what a principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J, Mr. Anthony Orsini said to the questions asked to him on an interview with a news channel. He very frankly opposed the use of any famous social networking portals like Facebook, MySpace, etc. He asked parents to check on their children and requested them to please avoid their children getting registered on social networking... Read More »

The social networking mammoth plans to become a giant in ad industry as well. It is placing its eyes on those millions of dollars which are rolled out in the Internet advertisement market. Since its inception back in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dormitory, till today when it has become the number one site in the United States in context to page views,Facebook’s main source of income has... Read More »

Facebook has become one of the most visited Websites on the Internet. In earlier days we would go to a coffee shop or a fast food joint to meet and chat with our friends, now we visit Facebook for our social commune. Sharing personal information and literally our lives through Facebook has become such an important part in our routine! Does it ever strike our mind that we are risking our security by... Read More »

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when we hear the word – ‘Facebook’? I would bet that most of us would say ‘Friends’! Facebook is one of the biggest phenomenon in this century to have taken the current generation by storm. Is it socializing with friends, sharing updates, comments, pictures and a whole lot more, including Business? Wait! Did I mention business?!  You’re... Read More »

With the Catholic church’s imaged tarnished with scandals, the number of priests ordained in the French churches is on the decline. This decline in Europe and the United States began well before the sex scandals that rocked the Catholic Church off late. The count of French Priests has dwindled down to 24,000 from 42,000 in 1975. The number of ordainments has declined as well, from 116 in 1999 to... Read More »

Social Networking refers to networking with your friends on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. However, companies like Microsoft, IBM and Socialtext have brought the concept of these networking sites to your work place. So, how would this new concept of social networking work? Would it be sharing your personal information on another website, where you will have your colleagues in... Read More »

It is now official that Twitter has taken over Seattle’s Cloudhopper. However, terms of the deal for instance, financial terms of the cash and stock etc. aren’t pronounced as yet. Twitter uses Cloudhopper’s text messaging infrastructure to directly connect to mobile carrier networks around the globe. Cloudhopper develops software and infrastructure to aid an efficient flow of text messages.... Read More »

Without the slightest doubt, Twitter, a renowned socializing network has developed and stretched to great bounds within the past several years. This socializing website became especially famous amongst a wide range of Singaporean users who use the networking website closely to connect with their friends and relatives. The revelation about the immense popularity of the website is particularly marked... Read More »

Do you remember yourself saying ‘I wish I could just embed this tweet’? Well, your wish just became Twitter’s command. On Tuesday, May 4, Twitter launched their all new feature that enables you to embed tweets that you come across.  A feature very popular and useful in YouTube which lets you embeds videos on YouTube. This feature has proven to be contagious and has caught Twitter too. Twitter... Read More »

While Twitter is conventionally perceived to be a Social Networking Site, there might be much more to it that what it seems. The analysis by group of Korean researchers states that the structure and usage of Twitter is more closely associated to a traditional news media unit. This analysis has given a new dimension to the way Twitter is sought after. You may think of it as easy to publish news site... Read More »

When you think of badges you think of the times when you were in Scouts team or when you were important in school by representing the sport house or the school prefect. When you think of social games you probably think of the ones that are a craze on networking sites. Now merge these two together for social-media marketing and you get an entire new concept in marketing making its ground in the business... Read More »

Facebook users can heave a sigh of relief because the top officials of Facebook have denied all the rumors about charging its users for using this social website. It was earlier reported that Facebook, one of the world’s most popular social websites, would charge all its customers for its usage. But Facebook has strongly denied this rumor saying that they never intend to charge the 350 million Facebook... Read More »

Facebook, being one of the top social networking Website’s, has once again shown its popularity in the world of social networking. It is one of the most popular website among the people across the globe regardless of their age. Facebook has released new Plugins, which has been installed by more than 50,000 websites as a core component of the Facebook’s new Open Graph initiative. Last week, during... Read More »

Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, has recently opened up his very own Twitter account. This is a new avenue that Chavez is using in order to get his words out to the people of Venezuela and to the rest of the world. This is one of the most interesting pieces of technology news to come out of the country. Chavez’s Twitter account, which is available under the “chavezcandanga” handle, is... Read More »

A minimum of three social networking accounts, about 200 to as many as thousand friends altogether, continuous pokes and tweets and diggs. Seems a little too much? There are so many people out there who do think they had enough of social networking. Constant updating and keeping up with everyone has deprived many of their real lives. Many people want nothing but a break from all of it and live their... Read More »

At the recent F8 conference in Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg, has unveiled some bold new products, which will enable IT companies to have a personalized touch of the Internet, through Facebook. Facebook aims to create tools that are user-friendly and enable users to interact on the Internet using their Facebook accounts. According to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook,” We are building toward... Read More »