Buy.com Enables Real-Time Social Shopping With DecisionStep Acquisition

Buy.com has acquired DecisionStep, maker of social-shopping application ShopTogether which provides real-time, social interaction to shoppers so they can be part of each other’s web experience and...
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Facebook, Skype To Join Hands – Will It Make Facebook Unbeatable?

We have been talking for some time now about how there may be potential competitors for Facebook and its reign on the top of the social networking world. The main competition could obviously be coming...
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Facebook Looks To Rule The Web With Location, Apps & Credits!

For a while now we have seen Facebook gain on Google in terms of usage statistics, and more recently overtake it as well (in the US atleast). In late 2009, it was named the most popular content sharing...
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Zoho Implements Facebook Connect – Heat For Google Docs?

It seems that everyone nowadays have started to understand the power of Facebook and how use of Facebook can lead to direct profits and hassle free user management. Web- based online office suite provider,...
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Facebook v/s Google – the New Translation Wars?

Though it’s a little early and too presumptuous to term these the “translate” wars, Google andFacebook seem to be at loggerheads. The company whose growth and dominance over the market quite closely...
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The Fight Of Owning The Social Graph Now Goes Regional – Facebook Connect Available In 67 Languages

While Twitter may ask in its internal notes whether they are the Internet, the real topdogs in making their presence felt are really Google and Facebook, with their Connect Platforms. It is, especially...
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Facebook launches Developer Contest in India

Facebook seems to be capitalising on its popularity. There’s always a buzz about Facebook across the Internet. Be it articles on “Is there a possibility of Facebook soon becoming the new...
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Facebook connect gaining wide acceptance, doing wonders for publishers

Facebook connect seems to be doing really well in terms of growth and adaptation. Facebook connect’s success marks the ambitious expansion plans of Facebook to capture new waters in terms of future...
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Facebook Connect Vs Google Friend Connect – Who Should You Connect With?

Both Facebook and Google were working for sometime on their respective connect platforms to brings social networking features and data portability from their platform to any other platform that wants to...
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Facebook Calls it Off With Google. It will not Participate in ‘Friend Connect’ Citing Privacy Concerns

A few days back we wrote about Google’s Friend Connect and how it had partnered with Facebook to create what seemed to be like a happy marriage. Everyone was raving about the Internet becoming more...
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Google Intends to Flip the Meaning of Social – Social Everywhere. But beware.

David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described Friend Connect as plumbing for the rest of the web. Website owners will be able to use the hosted application to allow interactions with visitors...
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Share MySpace, Facebook Data With Other Sites – The Death of the Walled Garden Imminent Soon?

MySpace recently announced the launch of a new service called “Data Availability” which will allows MySpace users to share their public profile data with other Web sites like Yahoo!, Twitter,...
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