Tag Archives: Social Network
Will Google+ Strike Out?
First it was Google Buzz, and last August it was Google Wave and now Google+ (Plus). Google the leader in search holds two-thirds of the U.S. market in search and now it is trying once again to compete with the largest social network – Facebook. Will Google strikeout or is three the charm? What makes [...]
Full StoryeBay No Longer Owns StumbleUpon
eBay was attempting to sell off its stake in StumbleUpon, the website recommendation service it bought for $75 million in 2007. That didn’t happen. Instead, the company has been bought back by its investors and original founders. It emerges once again as an independent startup. The new company is led by co-founder Garrett Camp, who [...]
Full StoryFacebook to Add Chat to Apps
Applications created for the Facebook platform can now feature live chat, a capability the company foresees will not only make programs more appealing but also boost their usage and rate of adoption. Adding Facebook Chat could result in end users interacting more with an application, as well as in making it easier for them to [...]
Full StoryFacebook Reaches Another Milestone
A little more than a month after announcing it had 150 million active users, Facebook has reached 175 million active users–the statistic the social-networking site prefers to use, rather than registered accounts overall. Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s application platform team, announced the milestone Friday evening on his Twitter/FriendFeed. Facebook reached 150 million just more [...]
Full StoryWhy StumbleUpon Makes a Difference
I am sure I share the same views with many of you about StumbleUpon. Here’s a list of my 7 reasons why StumbleUpon makes a difference over many of its competitors. Instant traffic: StumbleUpon can jump start almost any blog. TechJaws.com has seen more than 5000 daily unique visitors in one day that came from [...]
Full StoryEntrecard Owner Flip Flops on Community
Entrecard is up for sale as indicated on the Entrecard blog and sitepoint.com. I remember reading an Entrecard blog where a member posted this question. Guttu Asks – “If Google wants to buy Entrecard will you sell it?” Graham’s response – “Will not sell. My vision for Entrecard is so massive that it will take [...]
Full StorySocial Networking Brings Noise
Building relationships in the blogosphere is important for any blogger. Social networking can really be a savor when it comes to information sharing, back-linking, advertising, discovering a blog post, and making new friends. It’s ideal to consistently stay in touch with those who continually help you. I stay in touch daily with many wonderful people [...]
Full StoryHacker News
Hacker News is a user driven social content site nearly identical to Reddit. Hacker News allows users to share, vote and comment on stories. Hacker News fills a unique spot in the social media arena through its niche content focus and by allowing its users to get advice from the community. Many of its users [...]
Full StoryWhat’s All The Buzz About?
Yahoo Buzz, like Digg is a rating service where you can submit stories and rate other stories. Buzz went live on Tuesday and many bloggers lined up to submit stories of their own. The goal is to get as much positive ratings so you can hit the sweet spot, the ‘front page’. Easier said than [...]
Full StoryPropel Your Blog with Propeller
There are many social networks on the internet that you can get an incredible amount of referral traffic and Propeller has that potential. The heavy hitters are StumbleUpon, Reddit and Digg, but Propeller is gaining popularity and moving up the food chain of social networks. You can join groups and submit your stories to hundreds [...]
Full StoryWuala: Online Storage and Social Network
Do you remember the failure of MediaMax/TheLinkUp? These two startups had an idea of offering online storage with social networking. Wuala is a new service that pairs a similar plan with some unique technologies and capabilities. One reason Wuala is a head of the rest is that it’s based on Java. This gives it some [...]
Full StoryMySpace Get’s Ready for Makeover
MySpace announced that they will have their global redesign ready next week. This is an attempt to broaden its demographics and boost user interaction on the site, the social networking site said on Friday. MySpace said that this will be the largest scale relaunch of a website of its size, MySpace will change its home [...]
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