More Social Networks Articles

  • 19 October 2011

  • News: Google's Brin initially thought Circles was too complicated

    Sergey Brin initially considered the Circles content-sharing mechanism on Google+ to be too complicated, but after he started using the site he changed his mind and now thoroughly enjoys using the company's social networking site.

  • Opinion: Tips for Reaching Out to Twitter's 50 Million Daily Users

    Web designers, advertising agencies, and people with a firm grip on the online world have known for years that Twitter is indispensable. The trick has always been how to communicate that to the business owners who were their clients.

  • News: Google's Brin initially thought Circles was too complicated

    Sergey Brin initially considered the Circles content-sharing mechanism on Google+ to be too complicated, but after he started using the site he changed his mind and now thoroughly enjoys using the company's social networking site.

  • News: LinkedIn Tip: New Tool Taps into Your Alumni Network

    Professional social network LinkedIn today announced a new feature designed to give you insights into your college or university's alumni and help you connect and network with them.

  • 18 October 2011

  • News: Regulators to Web startups: Prioritize privacy protection

    Internet companies need to build consumer privacy and data controls into their online services to protect their brands, gain trust from their users, avoid civil lawsuits and prevent government probes, according to two regulators from the U.S. and Canada.

  • News: Frequent Facebook Users Not As Worried About Privacy

    Despite Facebook's reputation for raising privacy concerns as it adds new ways to share information online, most users aren't very worried, according to a new poll by USA Today and Gallup.

  • 17 October 2011

  • News: Sean Parker: Google+ unlikely to topple Facebook

    For Google+ to unseat Facebook as social networking leader, Google would have to deliver a steady stream of innovations and Facebook would need to let its site deteriorate, Internet icon and Facebook shareholder Sean Parker said on Monday.

  • 14 October 2011

  • News: Google Buzz Bites the Dust

    Goodbye, Google Buzz. The social messaging platform, which was meant to rival Twitter, is being tossed aside by Google in an effort to slim down.

  • News: Google kills Buzz

    With the launch of its more successful Google+ social networking service, Google on Friday said it plans to shut down Buzz.

  • News: Google+ Search Gets Two New Features

    Taking a page from Twitter, Google's new social network, Google+, is releasing two new features that will help users search posts more easily: real-time search results and improved hashtag support.

  • 12 October 2011

  • Opinion: How to Stop Facebook from Sharing Your Location When You Update Your Status

    Oh, Facebook. Always with the weird, unwanted, hard-to-undo changes. Like a couple weeks ago, I noticed that all of a sudden, every status update I posted included my location!

  • News: Apple releases Find My Friends for iOS

    Can you find me now? Apple on Wednesday released Find My Friends. The app, which requires iOS 5, lets you find your friends by geolocating their iOS devices—presuming your friends have granted you access to that data.

  • 11 October 2011

  • Opinion: Walmart Launches Local Deals Facebook Page

    Walmart is taking advantage of the local deals fad by launching its own Groupon-clone. However, Walmart's service has a few distinguishing traits that set it apart from the throngs of other daily deals services.

  • News: Facebook Launches Mobile App Platform

    Facebook games and apps -- love 'em or hate 'em, they make developers a lot of money thanks to the staggeringly huge potential audience they have. Now, mobile app developers can also take advantage of that huge 350 million-strong audience thanks to the social network's introduction of game notifications, news feed interaction and bookmarks for its mobile experience -- both in the iOS apps and via the mobile web version. This means the previously somewhat limited mobile experience just got a lot closer in functionality to the full desktop incarnation of Facebook.

  • News: Social media revenue to hit $10.3B in 2011

    It's a good year to be a social networking site.

  • News: Facebook finally unveils Apple iPad app

    After months of anticipation, Facebook finally released its first app for the iPad.

  • News: China's Tencent launches English version of Twitter-like service

    Chinese Internet giant Tencent has launched an English language interface to its popular microblogging service, putting the company in closer competition with Twitter.

  • News: Study: After surge, Google+ traffic falls back

    Google+ traffic has deflated after a temporary spike following Google's decision to open up the social networking site to everyone, according to data analytics company Chitika.

  • News: Hands-On With Facebook's New iPad App

    Facebook has finally released its first official iPad app Monday. The free app is currently available for download in the iTunes store, and isn't so much an iPad app as it is a universal version of Facebook's original iPhone app.

  • Facebook iPad app launches

    Facebook today launches an app optimised for iPad, joining other social media websites such as Twitter, Flipboard, and Gowalla. Version 4 of Facebook for iOS is optimised for iPad as well as iPhone.

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