Tokyo – A Japanese user has claimed the 20 billionth tweet, as growth of the micro blogging platform continues. It came at 12:44 a.m. Sunday (1544 GMT, 11:44 a.m. EDT Saturday) from user “GGGGGGo_Lets_Go” The users profile has exploded in popularity, so he has updated his bio: “I’m grateful and humbled by those who are [...]
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8 percent of the total world population are now using Facebook. Founder Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced that the social networking site now has 500 million active users. “As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them.” “This [...]
Oxford, England – Wikileaks.org, a site which publishes leaked information, has previously been under a shroud of secrecy. The founder and head of the site, Julian Assange, appeared on TED, a non-profit organization aimed at sharing “Ideas Worth Spreading”. The site has been in the news recently when it released video footage of a U.S. [...]
West Des Moines, Iowa – Ever wonder who scans and approves web content that is flagged? With the rise of social media and crowd-sourced content, there is an influx of questionable images. Someone needs to screen the images. That’s where a company called Caleris comes in. They contract with large social networking sites for that [...]
Every heard of Farmville? It may not seem like much, but it is the flagship product of a wildly successful social media game company called Zynga. Google has reportedly invested $200 Million in the company which continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Zynga passed the $500 Million revenue mark this year, and has publicly [...]
The Chinese government has renewed Google’s licence to operate in China ending a 6 month stand-off between the two. Operating in China requires strict censorship, and any websites or content which the government deems to be objectionable has to be filtered. Google hasn’t been happy with these restrictions and has been making efforts to avoid [...]
Mozilla Corporation has released a new version of Firefox, the next major version of the popular open source Web browser. It’s based on Gecko 2.0 Web platform layout engine. The user interface, particularly in Windows has had a serious overhaul, and looks very nice in Windows 7, with tabs looking very good with the glass [...]
As Twitter continues to spread in popularity, so does the use if link shortening services. Services like tiny.cc and bit.ly are popping up all the time. Sure these sites provide a useful service, but what are the downsides of such services to you the user. Danger The first and most obvious concern about such services [...]
In 2010 Facebook is the dominant player in the social media market. Just about everyone has a Facebook account, but what about the other players? Most people have probably heard about Twitter. It’s a micro networking platform that allows users to share Tweets with their Followers in 140 characters or less. The advantage being that [...]
Google announced yesterday that their new search technology, code-named Caffeine has been activated. Caffeine is a new take on search indexing which, in short, decreases the delay between index releases. In doing so, Google has ensured that the search results we see each day are more relevant, topical and recent. As far as the numbers [...]