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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 Ad network and as a potential payment gateway.
Effectiveness of Facebook connect as disclosed to SAI :

Publishers using Facebook Connect as an alternative for [...]

by Pranav Agarwal
Facebook vs Orkut. Which one of these do you have an account in? Chances are, both. Orkut was an early entrant into the Indian Social Networking Scenario. Facebook, which arrived much later, however seems to grabbed quite some attention. Though both were launched at the same time, Facebook was initially not very popular in [...]

MTV India has always been very active with its social media activities and we have tracked the same here at WATBlog be it  for MTV roadies or Battleground 2. Now MTV has chosen to integrate facebook in the launch of its new show Connected. This show is about how connected real twins can be. Inorder [...]

By Siddarth Raman

The last few months have seen quite a rise in the Facebook v/s Twitter battle. We recently showed you a few updates that facebook has incorporated to emulate the popular twitter platform - is facebook obsessed with twitter?. The story of Facebook’s failed attempts to buyout Twitter is well known and since then [...]

Facebook Inc. said the number of customers using its automated online-advertising system more than tripled in the past year, according to Bloomberg. The advertising system in question is “Engagement Ads” by Facebook.

The 2009 Iranian presidential elections happened on 12th June this time around. Result: current president incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election with 66% of the votes cast in favour of him and Mir-Hossein Mousavi got 33% of them. Not even 24 hours had passed when the dusk of 13th June saw the biggest unrest in [...]

Popular photo uploading service like Twitpic, successful apps on Facebook and other mashup services tell a very important tale. They have become popular not just because they are convenient and add value to the user’s time on a site; but also because they provide such seamless and smooth integration between our favourite hang out spots [...]

Facebook leads the pack here not in only in terms of number of users active but also with regards to the number of hours spent on the site. The total number of minutes spent on Facebook surged 700 percent year-on-year to 13.9 bn in April this year from 1.7 bn.

By Siddarth Raman

Microsoft seems to be all over the news. We just brought you our analysis of Microsoft Bing but Bing’s not the only thing Microsoft is focusing on. All gaming enthusiasts were eagerly expecting major revelations and sneak previews of Microsoft Xbox’s E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) 2009   conference, and it’s not just the gamers [...]

However, there seems to be hope for a lot of us now. A good 3 months after it initially tested it out, Facebook now seems to be looking at providing vanity URLs to its users. Which means profiles and most like even pages can get vanity URLs - say Facebook.com/Maneesh (I’d like that a lot, though I know eight others who would like to beat me to it). And something tells me this is going to be a fiercely contested and highly spirited affair when Facebook opens it doors - 200 million people is huge and that leaves getting a generic name on Facebook a tricky affair.

A British woman by the name of Avril Gube’s son was abducted 30 years ago by the father, who then fled off to Budapest. But in a miraculous turn of events, the son and mother have been reunited – all thanks to the popular social networking website, Facebook!
3 years old Gavin was abducted by the [...]

Earlier this month, Digg integrated Facebook Connect on the Digg network which enabled existing Facebook users to log in to Digg without creating a new account. And starting today, Digg has put in more changes to the sharing options. Not only have they removed the little used (finally!) Shout social networking feature but they have [...]

Quite a few of us have surely seen the new phishing attack that has been doing rounds of Facebook, well this piece brought an interesting twist to the whole episode. Theodore Karantsalis, a Florida resident deicded that he was not going to take things lying down and decided to sue Facebook for $70.50 for not protecting his account.

Nautanki.tv in association with Facebook, will air the elections news special ‘Singhasan Ka Final’ LIVE on the internet for the first time in India. This will feature 3 days of continuous coverage in Hindi. The news special is in fact produced by Zee news to cover the election results. The show will basically stream the Lok Sabha elections results coverage live on the Internet from May 15 to May 17.

Human being is an impatient species. We can’t get our information fast enough. With the introduction of real time search, Twitter updates are blazing fast, even breaking the news before the other traditional outlets. FriendFeed new interface too updates in real-time. With such information hungry users out there, it was just a matter of time [...]