Despite widespread apprehensions that usage of social networks is putting efficiencies of employees at risk, most businesses continue to allow their employees access to them.
In this context, a new research report assumes significance. The leading security research firm, Sophos, has just released its Security Threat Report. It notes that over the last year malware and [...]

We’ll tell you whom we caught Face-Booking. It’s Yahoo! After giving ‘you’ the power to handle yahoo, they have recently been caught Face-booking too.

Facebook has incorporated the latest changes to the home page & news feed sections as per their recent announcement. The revision will see a revert to the algorithmically chosen top stories, instead of the real time stream and some important changes to feed stories and feed APIs that are crucial to developers.

Facebook has been in the news since July for issues they have been facing with platform ad networks violating their policies. SocialHour and SocialReach were the first of the lot to be banned on account of misleading advertisements within third party applications that allegedly gave out a Facebook user’s data on external landing pages in [...]

MySpace India launched with all the fanfare. And luckily we were spared the irritating Bollywood tunes (and singers) which were replaced by deserving Indian rock bands that ushered the world famed social network. Though I ended up with a hangover and lots of new tunes the next morning, I was impressed with MySpace’s effort to [...]

We recently interviewed Saurav Patnaik from Social Twist. In fact the company is soon going to make waves once they launch the new version of their famed social widget plugin titled Tell-a-Friend at the Ad-Tech conference in San Francisco this month.

It looks like the social networking bug has bit the Femina Miss India winners. iTimes.com, the social networking site of Indiatimes, has profiles of the three Pantaloons Femina Miss India (PFMI) winners with dedicated pages offering trivia and even personal blogs.

A little over a year ago, Flickr flaunted its video uploading capabilities. Although the features were limited, they got off to a pretty good start, and had also made it clear through these limitations that they weren’t competing with Youtube. But now, Flickr has upped their game a little by changing the rules.

Following the major controversy that recently occurred, Facebook has now asked its 175 million users to help out with the way things are run by discussing, reviewing, and voting on the website rules.
While others speculate that this change of heart has come about because Facebook wants to regain their users’ trust, the company says it [...]

Contests have been the forte of Ibibo.com. They have build a whole new ecosystem with varied contests (online and offline) and have created a niche in the social networking segment. In fact their online and offline activities are pertaining to the entertainment industry and it looks like a clever move in this downturn. Recently Ibibo.com [...]

Facebook Connect has been launched and now with the help of the same you can log onto other web siteswith your Facebook ID. The application was first announced way back in May 2008 but has seen the light this month. The bets part is that with Facebook Connect you can even see what your friends [...]

“A child is a curly dimpled lunatic” says Ralph Waldo Emerson, and taming these lunatics can be a big issue. In fact some finicky parents cannot live without advice and tips from mags, blogs or even their neighbours. But now Indian parents can tackle many parenting issues with the help of the Internet. All thanks [...]

It is most likely that your next consumer is navigating the blogsphere to get more information and make their purchase decision. A new study conducted by JupiterResearch, a Forrester Research company and Buzz Logic, a social media marketing and ad targeting company found that blogs are major influencers on consumers purchasing decisions compared to even [...]

Now access MySpace on gPhone via New Application

The makers of BlackBerry, Research In Motion (RIM), have been doing a lot of work these days. BlackBerry’s recent initiatives are aimed at capturing mainstream customers.