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 [...]
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologizes
The CEO of social networking site Facebook has decided to respond personally to attacks made on the respect for privacy on the site. In an opinion given to the Washington Post , Mark Zuckerberg acknowledges having several errors in the control measures of privacy.
Here are the excerpts which shows his acknowledgment on the [...]
Apr
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Bin Laden closure from Facebook
The social networking site has disabled an account bearing the name of terrorism. Nothing proves its authenticity, but before its deactivation, the profile had many fans. The U.S. television network ABC, quoting the Saudi website Elaph, stated that the Facebook account was opened on March 25 and described bin Laden as the “Prince of the [...]
Feb
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Yahoo signs partnership to integrate Twitter into your pages
Yahoo and Twitter reached an agreement to integrate the contents of the network of microblogging pages and search results on this site.
It is now possible to log in to Twitter via Yahoo products such as homepage, email and content pages, allowing the User update your microblog and monitor the network without leaving [...]
Feb
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Yahoo knocked at Twitter’s door
The internet portal Yahoo and the social networking site Twitter have agreed to share their contents. The deal has been finalized and now users can access their Twitter feeds, update their Twitter status and share their contents on Yahoo’s sites. At the same time, Yahoo search will include the Twitter updates.
Experts believe that [...]
Feb
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Google’s Buzz faces problem, changes made
Google’s Buzz has got very large number of complaints dealing with privacy issues. And that is the reason why within a week of its getting launched the company was forced to make changes on its site.
This is the second time that the search engine giant was forced to make changes in the privacy settings of [...]
Feb
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Buzz brings in changes to ensure privacy
Google, the internet searching giant, is apparently learning fast. Following criticism that its new social networking service, Buzz, is intruding into people’s privacy, it has introduced a set of changes.
The biggest change is about the automatic follow system. Instead of automatically following the people you interact with most on Gmail, Google now offers you a [...]
Feb
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Google inks deal with Aardvark
Aardvark a social networking site has joined hands with the Search Giant. According to the reports the deal was inked for $50 million according to the technology blog TechCrunch.
Aardvark is a site which was formed in 2007, and develops software which is believes in interaction. It asks the users to post questions which are then [...]
Feb
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2010
Facebook celebrates six years
Facebook celebrates six years now. Mark Zuckerberg, the creator, famous because of the triumphant success of the first social networking world.
Six years ago to the day, a young Harvard student had the idea to create a social network, through which his friends may share personal data. Today, Facebook has become the first social network [...]