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 ...

Recently a research has been conducted by TrendStream, who publishes the Global Web Index and the research is based on interviews with 32,000 Internet users in 16 countries including India. The research outputs a visualization that shows the different kind activities performed by online users in major countries across he globe called - Global Map of Social Web Involvement. Interestingly the reports also shows some very positive aspects of India's online activities such as writing blogs, using micr-blogging services, uploading videos and photos where it leads most countries (user volume in ...

India has been identified as Top Global internet market by Google Sites’ in terms of share of time spent on Google owned sites in July 2009 by comScore Inc., a digital marketing intelligence company. In India 28.9 percent of total time spent online was spent on Google owned sites such as Gmail, Orkut, Blogger, Picassa, etc.. India stands just after Brazil which is at top with 29.8% share of time spent on Google sites. Google Sites ranked as the most visited Internet property worldwide with 854 million unique visitors age 15 ...

Dhingana, a social networking portal around musical entertainment has added a Community IM within its portal similar to facebook, visible at bottom. This feature will allow users to chat in real time with their friends on Dhingana. Apparently, its a first Indian social platform to launch the community IM feature in first week of May in partnership with Meebo. Apart from chatting with other users on Dhingana, the Community IM feature also allows users to chat with all their friends from a variety of other networks like Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL, Facebook, ...

If you have been making and maintaining your profiles around social networking sites in India, than you can not deny that people are more interested these days in networking sites which have professional bent and career oriented rather than throwing just chatting words and scraps. In India more and more Professional Networking sites are coming in and not from just small scale start-ups but big brands too such as Times of India Group and Info Edge (company behind 99acres.com, naukri.com). Here are few top Indian based Professional Networking sites that are making ...

Facebook seems to eying Indian social networking arena as the company which is second largest Social networking site in India launched in 5 Indian regional languages - Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Punjabi as Hindi is already available in facebook, making total of 6 Indian languages for Indian online audience. Facebook has got substantial growth in user base in India in short span of time infact largest gaining social network in India in terms of user base in year 2008. The all 6 languages availability would also give boost to facebook apps ...

According to comScore, a leading web analytic firm Social networking is growing strongly in India in year 2008 with 51% growth in social networking crowd with top players being - Orkut, facebook and only Indian networking portal among top 3 is BharatStudents.com. In year of 2008 a load of other social network has saw a incredible growth in traffic in terms of unique visitors top being - Facebook, Hi5 and MySpace sites. However, Orkut remained the favorite in India. The comScore report also predicted that Social Networking in India will continue ...