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Oct
4
2010

The Social Network – Movie of the Year

The film about the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has already raised $ 23 million. The film has taken the lead at the box office in North America. David Fincher has managed to attract thousands of friends with his film about the creation of Facebook.
The film was produced with a budget of $ [...]

Sep
4
2010
Aug
31
2010

Foursquare roads to 3 million users

Despite the recent launch of geolocation functionality for Facebook to United States (Places), the service  foursquare continues to see users increase for  their services. In  Mid-July, the network announced it had passed the bar of two million users since Foursquare would register not less than 180,000 new users every 10 days.
Services ranging places or people [...]

Aug
25
2010

ComScore confirms Facebook is No. 1 in India

The popular social networking site, Facebook is in the top position in India, confirms the research firm, ComScore.  ComScore reports that in July the number of visitors on the social network was 20.9 million.  Facebook has come up beating Orkut and Yahoo.  Orkut retained its top position in India among the social networking site but [...]

Aug
25
2010

Its official: Facebook buys check in service Hot Potato

Within days of announcing Facebook Places, its new geolocation application that lets users to tell their contacts about where they are, Facebook, the most popular social networking site has acquired Hot Potato.  Hot Potato is a check-in service “that lets people use smartphones to let friends know what they are up to at any given [...]

Jul
24
2010

IPv4 not enough

With more and more internet users popping in everyday the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF) estimates that the soon the IPv4 will run out of IP addresses for new rule.

The present IP protocol in use is the IPv4 which provides the users with a 32 bit IP address.  Due to the short length of the current [...]

Jul
18
2010

Facebook at frantic pace now enjoys 500 millions users

Facebook has been growing on a frantic pace with the rate of users ever increasing. Even though the official announcement is not out yet it is expected to be out within a week. . The social networking site announced that it had 400 million users early this year and has now managed to add another [...]

Jul
10
2010

Facebook pulls the shutters on the virtual gift shop

The most popular social networking seems to be in grips of some economical problems. The lack of profits is the reason behind the decision of the site against the existence of the gift shop despite its popularity.
The shop allowed or rather allowed the Facebook users to spend $1 or more on things like a digital [...]

Jul
8
2010

Women in America facing Facebook addiction

According to a recent survey conducted by Light Speed Research for Oxygen Media 39% of American women users of the popular social networking site Facebook are addicted to it.  A total of 1605 women users were polled in the survey out of which a significant number of them admitted that they were totally hooked onto [...]

Jul
4
2010

Lady Gaga to surpass 10m fans on FB

According to a report of Famecount, Lady Gaga is already on top of the popularity on the Web in general and social networks in particular.
Lady GaGa has 9.9 million friends on the social networking site, Facebook. The U.S. president, Barack Obama has 9.4 million.  Lady Gaga and Barack Obama were at war on Facebook. The [...]