More Social Networks News

• 21 November 2011

• News: Facebook Privacy Tip: How to Disable Sharing in Social Reader Apps

  Facebook's new "seamless sharing" apps, which the company announced at this year's F8 developer conference, are causing a stir as more users are unintentionally subscribing to them and broadcasting their reading habits to their networks.

• News: Social networking use among mobile users grows in Europe

  The number people accessing social networking sites in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. using their mobile phone has grown by 44 percent in the last year, market research company comScore said on Monday.

• 20 November 2011

• News: Facebook Continues to Be Criticized For Over-Sharing

  Facebook is finding that too much sharing upsets some users, especially when it comes to what they read. And if the social network isn't careful, the angst could benefit smaller rival Google+.

• 19 November 2011

• News: Google+ Could Grow Thanks to New Feature, Small Change in Android OS

  Google's social networking service could see bigger growth thanks to a new feature that lets businesses build profiles to promote their brands and a small change in the Internet search leader’s newest mobile operating system, Android 4.0.

• 18 November 2011

• News: Site tracks 'love,' 'hate' of SAP, Oracle and other software vendors

  Enterprise software vendors have been rushing to build or buy "sentiment analysis" technologies that can analyze the tone of what people are saying about companies and brands on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

• 17 November 2011

• News: Aussie SME e-commerce growing, but slowly

  Despite signs that Australian businesses are making use of the online sales channel, retailers continue to lag behind other local industries.

• News: PayPal launches Facebook app for sending money

  PayPal has launched a Facebook application designed to let users of the social networking site send money to each other.

• News: Facebook and Skype deepen integration

  Facebook and Skype have broadened the scope of their technical integration to make it possible for two people to do a video chat -- one using the Skype interface and the other using the Facebook interface.

• 16 November 2011

• News: Facebook porn storm used same tactics as May's Bin Laden spam

  The attacks against Facebook that planted pornography on users' news feeds relied on the same trickery as a campaign last spring that touted the death of Osama Bin Laden, a security researcher said today.

• News: Salman Rushdie forces Facebook climbdown over his name

  Sir Salman Rushdie has won a bizarre battle with Facebook which deactivated his account at the weekend because the world-famous author was not using his legal birth name ‘Ahmed’ to identify himself on the service.

• News: Is Yelp Fair to Businesses?

  Depending on the neighborhood, the fire-engine red "People Love Us on Yelp" sticker outnumbers sedate-looking "Zagat Rated" emblems or fading newspaper reviews on restaurant doors. There's no mistaking the power--and, let's face it, the sheer entertainment value--of candid reviews written by regular diners rather than food-industry elite.

• News: Orange introduces cheap Facebook phones in Europe, Africa

  Orange launched three Alcatel One Touch phones on Wednesday with dedicated Facebook buttons priced below €100 (US$135).

• 15 November 2011

• News: Diaspora social network co-founder dies at age 22

  Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-focused social network Diaspora, has died in San Francisco.

• News: Despite audit, Facebook holds back personal data

  Facebook has reduced the amount of personal data it releases to users as required by European Union law despite an ongoing audit by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner.

• News: Facebook users flooded with adult images in mystery hack

  For the past several days, many Facebook users have been seeing adult images in their news feeds that feature pornography, violence and animal abuse -- the result of what security analysts say is a mystery attack.

• News: Lizzie Mary Cullen to draw live art non-stop for 48 hours

  The illustrator will be drawing for two days solid to create a story based around tweets she receives.

• News: Google+ will gain enterprise social collaboration features

  Google plans to release to customers in the future a version of Google+, already in use internally at the company, that has features designed specifically for workplace collaboration.

• 14 November 2011

• News: Tibco's Spotfire ties in-memory analytics to SharePoint, Tibbr social network

  Tibco is giving its Spotfire BI (business intelligence) and visualization tool an injection of social collaboration through integrations with Microsoft SharePoint and its own Tibbr enterprise social networking product, the company announced Monday.

• 11 November 2011

• News: LinkedIn Tip: How to Find the Right Group for You

  With more than 1.1 million LinkedIn Groups, users are bound to find professionals that share similar interests and goals--LinkedIn has groups for CIOs, IT professionals, social media enthusiasts and more.

• News: Is Google+ or Facebook better for business?

  Ever since Google came out with Google+ Pages for business on Monday, the company has taken heat for not giving enterprises basic tools with this initial offering.

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