Blog entries tagged social networking

LinkedIn Groups Now Better Than Ever

Prakash Thulasimani — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:55:33 +0100

LinkedIn has introduced some new features for LinkedIn Groups. Groups helps users create an open forum based on a specific subject or profession and allows users to comment and share information. LinkedIn has updated Groups and the changes are considered to be major. Before you could not find any wall between onsi...

Twitter Update: We're Working On The Problems

Prakash Thulasimani — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:32:00 +0100

If you’ve been on Twitter at all in the month of June it’s no secret the site has had issue after issue after issue. What was Twitter’s reaction to the series of performance issues? Yesterday, Twitter released a blog post, explaining in detail the exact problem that caused the...

Study: Social Media Is Taking Over The Web

Rashmi Sharma — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:27:40 +0100

Social Media is fast becoming popular and is now commanding 22 percent of our time online. According to a survey conducting by Nielsen, the world now spends over 110 billion minutes on social networks and blog sites. Not only has the traffic to these sites increased 24 percent in last one year, but people ar...

Twitter: Oh, The Places You Will Go

Forum Upadhyay — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:07:02 +0100

Twitter announced a new feature called Twitter Places. Now Twitter users can tag their tweets along with their location and also add new places to the list. Users can also select a particular location and view all the tweets coming from there. World Cup Fans will love this new addition. This means...

More Twitter Issues: This Time Incorrect Tweet Counts

jonathon knepper — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:09:58 +0100

We’ve been reporting an awful lot about technical issues with Twitter, we even thought it was all figured out a few days ago. Within the last hour Twitter has placed two reports on Twitter Status. The first issue came just over an hour ago with what has become the normal “bursts of elevated errors” m...

Twitter Woes Continue

Rashmi Sharma — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:10:06 +0100

Yesterday, we reported about continuous Twitter breakdowns and Twitter’s efforts to contain them. However, it looks like the micro-blogging site was not able to fully gauge the enormity of the problem. The site again experienced ‘availability issues’ early this morning. The p...

Twitter’s Multiple Crashes Seem To Be Under Control

Rashmi Sharma — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:02:36 +0100

Twitter recently reached 2 billion tweets per month milestone, but it seems like heavy traffic has taken its toll on the site’s performance. Today has been the first day in a while with no such problems reported. For the better part of the week, Twitter has experienced several incidences o...

World Cup Fans Twitter Has A Page For You

Forum Upadhyay — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:54:37 +0100

This year’s World Cup, which takes place in South Africa, has already begun. To bring you all the latest updates, Twitter announced the launch of their special site which would exclusively cover all the latest happenings of the World Cup. Twitter.com/worldcup will undoubtedly act as a real time source f...

Flickr Updated With Facebook Integration

Prakash Thulasimani — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:15:01 +0100

Following the newest Facebook on Yahoo update, Yahoo-owned Flickr has introduced an interesting new way to link your Flickr photos with your Facebook account. With the help of Facebook News Feed and Yahoo’s updated platform, you can have the thumbnails of your Flickr photos along with title and description appear on your Facebook...

Twitter Grows Analytics Team With Acquisition Of Smallthought Systems

Rashmi Sharma — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:44:15 +0100

Twitter seems to be on a roll. The micro-blogging site recently reached its 2 billion tweets a month milestone. The company has now announced its acquisition of Smallthought Systems. The company will integrate with Twitter’s analytics team and will focus on combining ideas from Trendly (web analytics program developed by Sm...

Twitter Reaches 2 Billion Tweets Per Month

Rashmi Sharma — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:37:38 +0100

Twitter hit 1 billion tweets per month mark in December 2009 (and more recently hit 50 million tweets per day). It took the micro blogging service less than 6 months to add another billion tweets to its monthly traffic. According to Royal Pingdom, Twitter had 64 million tweets a day in May. This roughly translates to 2.7 m...

10 WWDC Terms/Phrases That Trended On The Web (Screenshots)

jonathon knepper — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:59:37 +0100

It was no surprise that the web would erupt during the opening day of this year's WWDC. I'm most certainly not the biggest Apple fanboy, but the buzz was most certainly just. I was fortunate enough to follow all of the event via live blog (gdgt and Engadget were certainly best) as it happened. And wow was my notes doc fu...

Mashable Media Summit 2010 Kicks Off In 15 Minutes

Prakash Thulasimani — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:43:08 +0100

Mashable Media Summit 2010 is a one-day conference that focuses on the social media that rules the present day world. The event sheds light on “the intersection of social and digital media and the lifestyle themes” is co-presented by CNN, produced and hosted by Mashable.The event takes pl...

Facebook On Yahoo: More Connectivity Just Announced

Forum Upadhyay — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:45:10 +0100

Yahoo has once again integrated Facebook features for its users. As we have mentioned earlier Yahoo is leaving no stone unturned to further connect to the social web. Initially it allowed web surfers to update Facebook contact information, and then came the announcement of updating Facebook status and viewing...

Facebook Adds Facebook Privacy Page: Will You Like It?

Rashmi Sharma — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:28:56 +0100

Facebook is working towards easing users’ concerns about information sharing. The social media site has been making update after update. Facebook has mentioned in its blog that “privacy settings themselves have not changed with this update; we've simply added ways to control what yo...

Mark Zuckerberg Responds To Privacy Concerns

Rashmi Sharma — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:54:28 +0100

Controversies and backlashes are nothing new to Facebook. Ever since its inception, Facebook has been under fire for its blatant disregard for users’ privacy concerns. However, Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg tried to placate the concerns and presented his company&rs...

Quit Facebook Day Recap

Prakash Thulasimani — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:06:49 +0100

The world’s largest social networking site Facebook is still going through some tough times on the issue of privacy. Yesterday was the first of two Quit Facebook days that popped up on our radar. In all a little under 35,000 committed to quit. Even without Quit Facebook Days, many users are still expect...

Twitter Help Gets An Update

Forum Upadhyay — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:14:02 +0100

The social networking site, Twitter, has recently improved their online help center. With the ongoing growth of the networking site, there was a need to improve their online customer support area. The new help center broadcasts translations in Spanish, French, Italian and German languages with the Japanese translation in ...

Facebook’s New Privacy Controls Dissected

Prakash Thulasimani — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:53:46 +0100

Following Mark Zuckerberg’s post on new privacy controls, Ana Yang Muller of Facebook has written a blog post on “Understanding Your Privacy Controls on Facebook.” She has promised that Facebook is sure to launch the redesigned privacy settings page to users across the globe within t...

Reshare Option Announced For Google Buzz

Prakash Thulasimani — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:27:33 +0100

Google Buzz has added a new feature that resembles Twitter’s retweet functionality. The Google Buzz feature is called Reshare. With this new option, you can share any interesting news posted on Buzz to your followers. The company made it as a two-click process enabling people to share the post either privately or publicly....