Yahoo is changing it’s strategy in an attempt to woo users to it’s online properties. The Associated Press is reporting that the Sunnyvale-based company has been looking at allowing more content from other Web sites.
Yahoo plans to open up more with the first major redesign of its home page since May os 2006. The changes [...]
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Facebook touches the 100 million mark
Facebook’s blog has made an official announcement, a posting by Zuckerberg himself, about reaching their big milestone of 100 million Facebook users worldwide.
We spend all our time here trying to build the best possible product that enables you to share and stay connected, so the fact that we’re growing so quickly all over the world [...]
Social Networks exploding world-wide
comScore today released a study of worldwide usage of social networking sites. Growth of social networks in North America is slowing down while seeing strong growth in other regions of the world.
During the past year, the total North American audience of social networkers has grown 9 percent compared to a much larger 25 percent growth [...]
What to do when you see “FBI vs Facebook”?
The phrase “FBI vs Facebook” has an enticing tone to it and this is why it is likely you are going to receive an email with “FBI vs Facebook” as the subject line. As you can imagine, it is a spam mail and this time FBI has warned public of the worm associated with this [...]
July 31st, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedFacebook to put Live Search on their pages
Microsoft and Facebook today announced plans to have Live Search on facebook pages at Facebook’s F8 Developer conference in San Francisco. Microsoft will provide search functionality and search advertising on Facebook and this ads to the existing relationship betweem the two companies. In 2006 the two signed an ad partnership for third-party ads to be [...]
July 24th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
FriendMobilizer - finaly a Facebook app for windows mobile
FriendMobilizer has just released a Facebook app for windows mobile and PocketPc devices. So far, users of Windows Mobile devices have been stuck with using the browser to access Facebook. No more, FriendMobilizer now has a native app for complete Facebook connectivity.
Windows smartphone owners can go to Faceofmobile.com and register their phones for downloading the [...]
Netscape co-founder Andreessen joins Facebook board
Facebook has announced that Marc Andreessen has joined its board of directors. Currently co-founder and chairman at Ning, Andreessen is an investor in several Internet startups.
“Marc is an industry leader, and we’re fortunate to have him join our board,” said Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “He has experience that is relevant to Facebook in [...]
Facebook open sources their platform - fbOpen
Facebook just open sourced their Facebook Open Platform (fbOpen), a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs the Facebook Platform. It includes the API infrastructure, the FQL parser, the FBML parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags.
According to the release - We hope this release is a starting point to [...]
Facebook blocks Google’s Friend Connect
In a surprise move, Facebook decided to block Google’s Friend Connect service announced just a few days ago. Google’s Friend connect came on the heels of Facebook Connect announced on May 9, 2008. This is a major blow to Google’s Friend connect initiative that is attempting to provide an common social API to the [...]
May 16th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Plaxo acquired by Comcast
Comcast Corp. said Wednesday that it will acquire Plaxo Inc., capping off a “redemption story” for backers of the early social networking site. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Plaxo, backed by more than $20 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Harbinger Venture Management, Cisco Systems Inc. and Ram Shiram, offers [...]
May 15th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Hot new trend - Social Gaming
After facebook, myspace , LinkedIn and a myriad of other social networks raking in rich valuations for their large user bases, it’s now a hot new trend that is emerging - Social Gaming.
While social networks such as Facebook have drawn attention for their ability to rapidly attract users, the gaming applications that run on them [...]
US and UK lead in mobile social networks
The Nielsen group reports that a growing number of mobile users are using social networks on their mobile devices. The move to on-the-go social networking is providing companies opportunities to tap the mobile advertising market - Ads on SMS, Ads on mobile browser pages are beginning to flourish. Google recently announced integrating AdSense, AdMob and [...]
May 8th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Facebook hires another Google Exec
Techcrunch reports that another executive has defected from Google to Facebook. Elliot Schrage, VP of global communications and public affairs will be joining Facebook in a similar role.
Recent jumpship’s from Google include COO, Sheryl Sandberg and CFO Gideon Yu. The recent pattern of hiring seasoned veterans from Google to staff it’s CFO and COO roles [...]
