Tag Archives : Social network service

Facebook Facebook’s “Like” button could be integrated with Bing’s search results. Facebook and Microsoft are in talks and the  agreement would significantly expand the search relationship both the Internet giants share. Features expected includes the possibility for Bing’s search service to mine anonymized data from consumer usage of  Facebook’s Like buttons, which [...]

MySpace MySpace had few weeks ago revamped itself and looked more like Facebook, it is now further sucking up to its once bitter rival by allowing  MySpace users to sync their posts to Facebook, which means  that users on Facebook can see their friends’ MySpace items without leaving Facebook. Apart from updates, users can share their links, photos, videos, music and application installations [...]

Facebook A study result  conducted by a  psychologist about  Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults.The current study examines how narcissism and self-esteem are manifested on Facebook. Self-esteem and narcissistic personality self-reports were collected from 100 Facebook users at York University. Participant Web pages were [...]

Myspace MySpace has revamped the homepage the users first seen after logging in, it has given a complete redesign to the user homepage with a renewed focus on content through the stream and other sharing tools. It may be too late to catch up with Facebook but that does not deter the Social Networking site from trying to catch up. MySpace is owned by News Corp. and based in the Los Angeles area [...]

Microsoft Microsoft’s Kin hand held range of social networking devices targeted at teens and young adults was released six weeks ago  in U.S , it will be discontinued by Microsoft due to abysmal sales. Trade reports reported that Microsoft sold  only 500 around Kins, this wasnt denied or confirmed by the Redmond company, but it’s clear that the response has been lukewarm. In an [...]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife One of the liked and used feature of Facebook is the ‘like’ button , since its launch the feature became central to the way people communicate on Facebook.  it is one of the most heavily used features on the site and have proven to be a simple way to discuss posts and show appreciation for the content friends share on Facebook. Facebook has [...]

Twitter has added a new feature called  “You both follow’, this feature lets a twitter user to see any common people that they and another user both follow. This was revealed in a  Tweet posted by Twitter engineer Nick Kallen. “We’re testing the “You both follow” feature (in the profile sidebar). Only 10% of people have it for now.”,he tweeted. This [...]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife TweetDeck, the popular Adobe Air’s Twitter and other SNS (Social Networking Sites) management tool continues to add features at a steady pace that too while its still in Beta  . TweetDeck has released version 0.34.2 which brings the location-based exploration and gaming platform Foursquare  into its fold along Google’s social-networking platform [...]

Image via Wikipedia Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service for mobile devices, which also doubles up as a game and rewards users with virtual badges and mayorships for checking into various establishments has tied up with Dominos Pizza in UK .   Dominos, which promotes itself as the UK’s leading pizza delivery service, will offer free pizzas and discounts to Foursquare [...]

Image via CrunchBase After facing severe negative reactions and criticism from all quarters about the privacy policy  which has gone to the extent of people making their mind to quit Facebook altogether and events like quitfacebook.com gaining momentum Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a damage control exercise. He admitted that his popular social networking tool had moved “too [...]