News Stories Tagged ‘Social network’

Is Anybody Actually Using Twitter?

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Recent survey has showed that the number of people actually tweeting has declined. Even though the number of avid internet users has been maintained, response to tweets has decreased. On a closer observation, twitters seem to have lost interest in tweets mainly because of the content. They do not spark the interest to be responded [...]

Facebook Sued Again By Winklevoss Twins

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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are filing another lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The twins have successfully sued the social networking site before but feel they were tricked into asking for too little money. They now say that a former acquaintance told them that the company was worth much less than it actually was. The [...]

Facebook Profiles Changed For Better Advertising Reach

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The new Facebook profile platform was released over the weekend. The launch, unsurprisingly, coincided with Mark Zuckerberg’s interview of 60 minutes. The new profile will focus on social relationships, but also introduces significantly higher quantities of advertisements. On Facebook’s Blog, Josh Wiseman explains that the new profile is going to focus on introducing people with [...]

Yelp Expands Check In Program With Discounts

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Yelp has influenced a new trend that is running through the ‘it’ generation across the country. The trend is to ‘check-in’ via your mobile device whenever you enter a location and then rate and revue the location when you leave. Locations vary from local mom-and-pop restaurants, to hair salons, airports and cinemas. Now Yelp has [...]

Ping And Twitter Go Together

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When Steve Jobs, the chief executive of from Apple announced the arrival of Ping, he described it as being “sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes.”. The social networking tool Twitter will combine with Ping which will permit their users to link with Ping and share samples of their favorite songs with all of [...]

Firefox Goes Social With F1

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F1 was launched today by Mozilla messaging group. F1 is a Firefox extension which is intended to improve content sharing in a social web. The idea is to present one way of sharing content with your social network instead of having cluttered web pages with hundreds of “like” buttons. F1 works by providing a single, [...]

Facebook Punishes Rogue App Publishers!

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Facebook has blocked its partner LOLapps as well as several other companies from access to its communications channels as punishment for their breach of faith with Facebook users. Several companies that partner with Facebook to offer games to its users were caught selling information about those members to online data mining companies. These companies in [...]

Facebook Wants To Maintain Leadership In Everything Social!

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The buzz out on the Internet is that Facebook is testing a “Deals” feature. Here’s how it works. You go down to your favorite store, the brick and mortar kind, and you see on the counter an offer from the store to give you something great if you can use your Facebook pull to get [...]

Is The Future Of Daily Deals Self Service?

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Groupon, the Internet coupon/shopping site, is trying to go social with the introduction of a new feature called Groupon Stores.  This feature allows local stores to interact directly with their customers, or fans as they are known on that website. Stores, which is now available on a very limited basis, gives selected merchants a Facebook-like [...]

Big Brother Is Watching You! Or Shall We Say Big Mother?

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Fran Maier, President of TRUSTe, an online privacy services provider has some good advice for parents.  She cautions them to be aware of what their children are doing online.  According to Maier, ” Protecting the privacy of teens on social networks is not easy as they can be technically adept, have strong motivations to connect [...]