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Facebook Now The King Of Internet, Tops Google In Number Of Visits
In another clear indication of Facebook’s ever-increasing growth in the internet arena, Facebook surpassed Google last week as the most visited site in the United States. According to a report by Hitwise Intelligence, Facebook surpassed Google for the week ending 13th March. According to the report, Facebook last week accounted for 7.07% of the US market share, which [...]
Now Upload Photos To Orkut From Picasa – A Move Towards Killing Orkut?
Google has launched a new feature (which is not a copy of it’s competitor) on their social networking website Orkut by which you can directly upload photos to your Orkut profile and albums right from Picasa – Google’s desktop based photo editing and management tool. Social networks like Orkut are the best place to put [...]
Facebook Really Cares For You: Plans To Provide McAfee Protection From Viruses!
Facebook loves your online social face, they help you make more friends, walk you through effective video promotion for your brand and now they want to help you secure your computer against online (internet) viruses and trojans. According to an official release, Facebook has partnered with Online Security specialists, McAfee in order to help all [...]
Social Networking Craze Affects Productivity @ India Inc
Social networks are turning into time wasters for Indian employees as revealed by a latest survey from Assocham (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry). The report points out how the social media craze is reaching office desktops and in turn affecting the overall productivity of the companies.
Note: The survey was conducted in 13 major cities [...]
Facebook Outshines Orkut In October – Traffic Up by 19%: Vizisense
ViziSense, an online traffic measurement service for Indian markets has released Traffic stats for October. The Data top-lines the growth registered by portals mostly frequented by Indian netizens.
All growth figures are based on M-o-M (Month-on-Month) stats.
Overall reach:
Google has 70 percent reach in the Indian market closely followed by Yahoo at 59%. Orkut [...]
Netizen Toddlers – How Does That Sound?
Two years back when I saw my 9 years old neighbor chatting away on MSN, I was shocked. She also had a profile on Orkut! I didn’t know whether to complaint to her mother or just sigh and think that technology has grown seemingly. I had no clue whether about computers. Well that was then, [...]
New Orkut Launched With Many Facebook-Twitter Like Features – We Review Whats New?
We had reported that Orkut was to ape twitter’s status updates feature and so it has with the launch of the new orkut. Orkut sent me a mailer with an invite to check out the new orkut. They have setup an orkut group for all those folks who want to try out the new orkut [...]
Content Sharing Deal Between Facebook And MySpace – Can They Make It Work?
Just in the morning, we covered as to how Google stopped the migration of email-id’s from Orkut to Facebook by excluding the email-id’s from the CSV file, in order to preserve the privacy of their consumers. All that meant was that Google doesn’t want its users to go away with Orkut completely. As the statistics [...]
Orkut Stops Migration To Facebook – Contradicts Google’s Policies
The mission statement of the Google data liberation front reads as follows:
“Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team’s goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.”
However it seems that all this was nothing in the prospect [...]
Facebook Overtakes Orkut in India!
Orkut and Facebook has been a favourite topic for most of us here. Who’s winning? Who WILL win? What’s the future of social networking in India? Recently, there was a huge furore over Facebook promoting itself in India by urging people to add their Orkut Friends. Then Orkut blocked their nifty little tool, so on [...]
Updated: After Facebook Is Orkut Trying To Ape Twitter Too?
Update: On contacting google we got the following reply - “Our constant endeavor is to provide an enhanced online experience for Orkut users and we will continue to work towards it. However, we have nothing new to announce at this point in time.” GOOGLE SPOKESPERSON
Original Post: Twitter seems to have caught the imagination of one and all. Just [...]
Google Experiments With Social Search – Adds Facebook, LinkedIn Info In Search Results
Google seems to be on a rollout as it has been been launching steady updates to its search engine. It has been trying to make search results more user friendly at the same time giving more filtering options to its searchers.
We recently spotted social media info in Google search results embedded with special formatting. The results are visible only on [...]
Orkut Launches Video Chat Feature – Will This Counter The Facebook Threat?
Now that we have had so many social networks jostling for market shares, it is time to stop and wonder how many of these social networks have introduced features that have actually helped in the core concept – of making social networking easier. In the recent past, we have had Facebook clone Twitter’s tagging functionality [...]
Should Social Media Charge For Content?
Social media monetization is a debate that has now existed forever. With increasing number of people getting on the social networking bandwagon, it becomes extremely important for the companies in social media such as Facebook, Orkut, Twitter and the rest to devise means to monetize this traffic when the time is right.
Monetizing through advertisements is [...]
Yahoo Closes Down SpotM – What Will Yahoo Close Next?
Yet another day and Yahoo decides to close down yet another of its properties. After Yahoo 360, another social network, SpotM – the India specific website that was never out of private beta has now closed.
So, what was exactly happening on the website? Yahoo claims it was just an experiment of their communications product. It [...]