Facebook has become immense popular these days and the recent privacy issues could not do much harm to the popularity of Facebook. Recently, I read an article which stated that around 33 percent of American woman see their Facebook profile before even washing their face in the morning. So, you all can see how addictive it can be once you get you used to playing with Facebook apps, pokes, games etc. Just like you provide invitation in Gmail or any other social networking sites, you can also invite your friends in ...

In my previous post, I presented some of the problems that Twitter is facing. However, Twitter is moving ahead, now it will soon be using t.co as its URL shortner. Thus a long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delevering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 will be wrapped to http://t.co/DRo0trj . All the t.co based links will be of fixed 20 characters. However, the best part is the link t.co will let you know where the links are going. This is possible because Twitter is including metadata with each tweet. Another positive effect that it will add to Twitter is ...

The world of Twitterosphere is expanding enourmously. It seems that it is becoming very hard for Twitter to manage huge amount of tweets. Two days back when WWDC was on the move, Twitter went down. The only probable reason could be the huge amount of tweets, which the Twitter database could not handle. Again, if we go back to the time when Twitter changed its policy over trending topics, Twitter was not able to handle the response. To cope up with this, Twitter has now nearly doubled its employee list. ...

Clearspring along with Google,Microsoft and LinkedIn introduced an open web sharing protocol - OExchange to establish a common way for services to receive, discover and share content to social media sharing services and how sharing tools can read and set a user's sharing preferences.This open web sharing protocol actually established a interoperability into social web to offer links to sharing services and for sharing services to design their API endpoints. Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon, Postereous and every such social media service has a different integration scheme and providing access to all these ...

Recenty Pakistan banned the Facebook over the Draw A Mohammad Day page controversial issue. It involved an opposition group that invited people to draw Mohammad`s cartoons and play against Muslim`s emotions. The controversial group encouraged the people who could submit their name along with the cartoon and regarded them as brave. This is what Muslim community has to say: We love Peace and Happiness but not at cost of our BELOVED PROPHET MUHAMMAD (SALLALAH-O-ALIHI WASSALAM). Currently if someone in Pakistan tries to access Facebook.com, they encounter a message saying “ The site ...

Twitter finally updates its Trending topics feature to make its users know more about breaking news or instant news, rather than concentrating on most discussed items. As you must have noticed, in the past few months, trending topics were ruled by constant names like Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga and iPad that did not give us any indication of the hot news at that very moment. Here`s what Twitter has to say regarding its new algorithm: “The new algorithm identifies topics that are immediately popular, rather than topics that have been popular for ...

In India, corporate sector employees productivity is Killed by 12.5% in surfing social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut etc. during the office hours says ASSOCHAM's (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry) Social Development Foundation (ASDF) survey. Morever ASSOCHAM survey  in a press release says - Almost each day, an average corporate employee spends an hour, gluing to various social networking sites such as Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, Linkdein etc. for 'romancing' or otherwise drive some satisfaction out of it...with this average corporate employee’s each day working is reduced by an hour from ...