More Social Networks News

• 10 May 2013

• News: Bing brings more of Facebook to search

  Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site.

• News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• News: Twitter buys Ubalo to speed up its back-end

  Twitter has acquired Ubalo, a company that provides various services aimed at speeding up the coding process, the social network announced Thursday.

• 09 May 2013

• News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• News: Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads

  Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.

• News: Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads

  Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.

• News: Facebook may be driving deal for Waze mobile app

  Facebook reportedly is in talks to buy a popular Israeli-based crowd-sourced mapping and traffic app.

• News: 5 insanely niche social networks to combat Facebook fatigue

  If social networks were ice cream flavors, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter would be hopelessly vanilla.

• 08 May 2013

• News: Facebook to Microsoft: Dump fake Facebook apps from Windows Phone Store

  Facebook has asked Microsoft to remove 41 unofficial and clone 'Facebook' apps from the Windows Phone store as the social network prepares to introduce its official app for the platform.

• News: Manage multiple social media accounts with your Mac

  Keeping up with just one social media account is tough enough. But if you personally hang out on even one or two more services, or are in charge of socializing with your business's customers online, juggling it all starts to feel a lot more like work, and not the fun kind. Here are a few tools and tricks--some for power users, others for business cases, and even a slightly nerdier option--that can help take the drudgery out of managing social media.

• News: Welcome sign for hijackers on 24-7 for 30% of social networkers

  Survey also finds nearly half of netizens need nudge to change passwords

• News: Social and mobile a priority for businesses, but so are traditional outlets: Optus

  There is a lot of industry chatter about using digital means in engaging with customers, but Optus has found that bricks and mortar and call centres are still prevalent in Australia.

• News: Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster

  A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves.

• 07 May 2013

• News: San Francisco adds social networking element to emergency, disaster planning

  If an earthquake struck San Francisco tomorrow, would its residents be prepared for the aftermath?

• 06 May 2013

• News: Yahoo recruiting iOS developers to 'radically improve' Flickr

  Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radically improve" the photo-sharing site's app and attract new users, the company said in a recent job notice.

• News: LinkedIn looks back at 10 years of growth

  LinkedIn celebrates several major milestones this week: Its 10th birthday and 225 million users. Not bad for a site that started with 4500 members and has grown into the world's largest professional social network.

• News: How to lose friends and alienate people on the social Web

  A plate of artfully arranged pasta or decadent pancakes is placed in front of you, and it looks so tasty that you want to share it with the world. Instead of reaching for your fork, you instead pull out your phone and open Instagram.

• News: Facebook blocks rival Path's access to friends features

  It appears that social network Path is the latest app to be blocked from accessing Facebook.

• News: How Facebook aims to reinvent hardware

  Facebook used to be a company just like many others: It would buy servers, racks and other hardware from vendors like HP and Dell and rent out co-location space from vendors like DuPont Fabros and others.

• 05 May 2013

• News: Instagram will let you tag friends in photos

  Instagram is getting a little bit more like its parent company, Facebook, with a new feature that lets you tag your friends in photos.

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