Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

Google, world’s number one search engine will launch social networking site “Google Me” soon, for that Google unify the networking site Orkut & Buzz.

Analysts believe that the combined number of users in the two websites will reach 40 million which will be able to compete with current 50 million Facebook users.

Google bought “slide” this month, this site is designed applications & hopefully Google will use it to develop their new social networking site.

Kevin Ross wrote on the Twitter  ” It has been discussed. We are going to launch Google Me soon to compete with Facebook “  While Google has not yet responded to it.

Google developing a software to which will make easier to watch television via the internet. Sony Corp, Intel Corp  and Lawjitaka International companies are showing interest in developing this software.

Google in the contact of more than 3000 developers for the development of this software which participate in the conference.

Facebook users has exceeded 50 million mark, It has already beaten all the social networking websites. It means now Facebook connects every 14th man to the world.

Facebook popularity growing as millions of people connect to facebook every month. Every user spend 700 minutes  & record 30 billion photographs uploaded. Facebook set this record in 6 years.

26 year old Mark Jucenberg (CEO) that six years ago when he launched Facebook , he did not expect such a large number of people falling from this website.

Facebook also made several changes to its privacy policy after the criticism which still has not reduced its popularity.

Facebook users use it for delivering interesting information like photograph or video to people.

Facebook launched a new application on the spot of membership record, using it interesting stories will be shared with the members.

Google began Image Search in 2001 with 25 million photos but now more than 10 billion images exist.

Google Increased its ability to 1000 Pictures Per Page For Image Search.

Vice President Marissa Mayer of Google search says ”During the past nine years, Google’s image search is promoted by leaps and bounds . This website is filled with all the features .”

Google also enhance the ability to add new image format which has been renamed Search Aids . Google’s taken the effort to raise revenue as one of several steps being seen.

Now mobile users of 45 countries including India can access Facebook on mobile phones on Reliance & Videocon networks.

Facebook has tied up with Reliance Communications and Videocon telecom operators to make the site available for mobile users with no data charges.

The new site “o.facebook.com” optimised for speed has launched for free access.

On Wednesday, Sid Murlidhar (Programme Manager for Facebook Mobile) wrote in a blog “Today, we are launching … ‘0.facebook.com’. “It, initially, is available through more than 50 mobile operators in 45 countries and territories with zero data charges”.

People will only pay for data charges when they view photos or when they leave 0.facebook.com to browse other mobile sites.

Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s Facebook Fan Page has been shut down. The account became active less than a month ago, but had already attracted nearly 1000 fans to watch posts linking to speeches and recordings of the Islamic extremist.

Osama had a page named “The leader of the Mujahideen, Osama bin Laden” and his address is given as “the mountains of the world”.

Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said “People often attempt to register fake accounts under the name of famous or infamous people, and we have a number of technical measures designed to prevent this behavior”

“Sometimes these fakes do get through, but there is no evidence to suggest that the account in question or the other dozens of people who have tried to present themselves as Osama Bin Laden have any relation to the terrorist. As is our standard practice, we have disabled the account,” he added.

Although it is unclear who started the page, Facebook says they doubt there is any direct link, and the page was likely put up by supporters in the Middle East.

Web18, digital arm of Network18 & India’s most popular online sources for general news and information launched Blaze, A Social Media Platform where reporters of CNN IBN or its other publications/news channels would interact with consumers and also share news stories or videos of their choice.

The application also allows users to follow their favourite anchors updates on Twitter and Facebook and share comments on them.

The website also offers blogs, podcasts and citizen journalism and detailed news on areas of one’s interest through special sections like IBN Politics, IBN Movies, IBN Sports and IBN Trends.

IBNlive.com is claimed to receive 30 million page views a month and offer real time news in a variety of formats including video-on-demand, audio and live-streaming.

Lakshmi Narasimhan, CEO, Web18 said, “IBN News Live is the only complete Indian news-site which offers its viewers a diversity of features like VOD, podcasts, live streaming, blogs, interactives, e-mail, mobile etc. We are extremely interested in knowing our viewers point of view which has led us into the introduction of the new feature – Blaze on IBN Live.com.

Twitter, micro blogging social messaging service site has revamped homepage to make it interesting with lots of information by including a constantly updated section of the “Top Tweets” and a show case of celebrities and public figures linked to the twitter website.

Users will now see a live ticker on top, suggested users on the left and a live top tweet stream in the middle.

Twitters official blog says “With the new design, we’re intentionally featuring more dynamic content on the front page, revealing a sample of who’s here, what folks are tweeting about, and the big topics that they’re discussing. The homepage now features a set of algorithmically-selected top tweets that automatically appear every few seconds. It also highlights a random sampling of suggested sources; hover over any of them to see a profile summary and their latest tweet. Trending topics now scroll across the page, allowing us to present a large set of trends using little page real estate. Hovering over some of these trends will show a description explaining why the keyword is (or has recently been) popular.”

Twitter will need these qualities to keep its users engaged with its own web site.