Social Media

Facebook Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg Passes 10 Million FB Subscribers

by edumbao December 2, 2011 Social Media
Facebook most subscribed

Facebook co-founder and the social networks curator had made another milestones on his career by surpassing the 10 million subscribers mark. He was the fastest personality to make such an achievement since the company had made a status updates. The 10 million subscribers milestone had been achieved by Mark Zuckerberg with just 11 weeks. As [...]

Jason Zada’s “Take This Lollipop” is World’s Fastest Growing Facebook App

by edumbao November 12, 2011 Social Media
World's Fastest Growing Application

With more than 9.9 million peopled liked the application which gives the application a permission to access your Facebook information, Jason Zada’s “Take This Lollipop” became the world’s fastest growing Facebook Application. The application is an interactive video that was launched two weeks prior to the Halloween celebration but still continues to haunt millions on [...]

Blether Private Twitter Chats Introduced the Beta Version

by edumbao November 3, 2011 Social Media
Blether

Blether Labs, a Boston Technology start-up which was founded by Kevin Bradshaw had introduced on Tuesday a technology that lets you start private Twitter chats. The company  which is also based on Dunfermline, Scotland introduced !blether. Twitter users were limited to a 140-character only which causes public chats and DM’s  on Twitter an annoying experience. [...]

Google Doodle pays tribute to Mendel

by rouminapablo July 20, 2011 Social Media
Google Doodle of peas

Visited Google this Wednesday and found doodles of peas? Search engine giant Google paid tribute to Gregor Johann Mendel, an Augustinian friar and scientist who celebrated his 189th birth anniversary Wednesday. People who visited Google were greeted with doodles of peas referring to Mendel’s experiment on plant hybridization. Mendel is known as the “father of [...]

Facebook launches Skype Video Chat Feature (Demo Included)

by tamlynjoy July 7, 2011 Social Media
Facebook and Skype partnership

Facebook’s integration with Skype was announced on Wednesday as a new way to stay connected with friends. The social networking giant added a video chatting feature so Facebook users better enjoy exchanging conversations one with another. In November of last year, the messages team of Facebook was able to combine the user’s chat, emails and [...]

Google+ Challenged Facebook Through Circles, Sparks and Hangouts

by edumbao July 5, 2011 Social Media
Facebook Challenger Google+

Google once again challenged Facebook on it’s dominance on social networking by introducing Google+. A whole new improvement on it’s quest to topple the world’s biggest social networking site. The site was launched on June 28, 2011. The search giant Google had already try for the past few years to venture into social networks but [...]

Warning: Osama Virus Spreads On Facebook

by edumbao May 4, 2011 Social Media
Osama Virus Spreads on Facebook

Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning Tuesday to exercise caution when opening a link about the death of Osama Bin Laden. Pictures and videos circulating on Facebook and Twitter about the alleged photos of Bin Laden had been confirmed by security experts that contained malicious virus and malware. In an official statement by the [...]

Fading MySpace to Pull Out Employees Again

by tamlynjoy April 9, 2011 News
Facebook over MySpace

Social networking site, MySpace, plans to pull out more staff as such report was brought up by the Wall Street Journal on Friday. This report came from the Wall Street Journal in connection with the plan of selling the site. MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe along with the News Corporation already made negotiations with potential buyers [...]

Google announces ‘+1 Button’

by tagneh April 5, 2011 Social Media
Google+1_button

Google Liked Facebook’s ‘Like’ button and is ready to launch a similar feature, called ‘+1’, on its search engine. The company announced last Wednesday that a ‘+1’ button will soon appear with Google’s search results and it will allow users to recommend a result to their Gmail friends and contacts. The ‘Search Giant’ Google’s latest [...]

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