It’s a race that social media analysts had an eye on for a long time. Orkut retained its winning crown, until Facebook, just today, proved that slow and steady wins the race. The users constantly cheered for Facebook, which perhaps motivated it to pace ahead of Orkut.
Its payback time, Trollers beware.
Facebook is currently in a soup that is unpalatable.
When Facebook revamped its applications platform to mesh the external and internal social graphs two weeks ago it lead to considerable consternation amongst its users. But on Wednesday it faced a mini scaled crisis when a bug allowed users to access other people’s profile, ongoing chat sessions and pending friend requests.
For leading social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter, Internet ironically is not the lone medium for community building exercise in India and internationally.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
