Young People Warned About Social Electroning Footprint
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a stark warning to young people using social networking sites.
The warning issued by the ICO is in response to concerns that millions of those who use social networking sites are posting too many private details about themselves on the internet.
The ICO predicts that over 50% of young people who use social networking […]
Yahoo! to Release Fireeagle for Geotargetting Information
Yahoo! announced that it will launch a service for obtaining geo-location information. This will be released towards the end of November according to Yahoo.
The new service, codenamed “Fireeagle”, will allow individuals to store geo-location information and make it available to other web applications.
Sources close to Yahoo say that the service will allow software developers to use the geo […]
Google in all out Attack on Facebook
Google has joined forces with some the internet’s largest and most popular social networks to launch an all out offensive on the Social networking site Facebook.
The Google planned and let offensive plans to introduce a set of common standards for software developers to write programs for Google’s social networking site Orkut, as well as others social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Friendster.
Google’s […]
Microsoft deal values Facebook at $15 Billion
Microsoft finalised a $240 Million deal to purchase a 1.6% stake in the social networking site Facebook. The deal value Facebook at approximately $15 billion.
Microsoft beat Google who was also bidding for a similar stake in the three year old social networking site.
As part of the agreement, Microsoft secured the right to sell contextual ads on […]
MSNBC Aquires Newsvine
In March 2006, Fox purchased NewRoo.com. Condé Nast gobbled Reddit in October 2006, the trend continues with msnbc’s decision to acquire the social news site, Newsvine.com. The detailes of the deal were undisclosed.
Msnbc.com, a joint venture between MSN and NBC claims 26 million unique users, and is ranked fourth in Nielsen-NetRating’s Top American News Sites for July 2007. The […]
Google Launches Bookmark Sharing - Shared Stuff
Google has launched “Shared Stuff”, a bookmark sharing service.
Much like Yahoo’s del.icio.us, Shared Stuff allows people to share their bookmark links with friends and family.
To share sites with others, users can drag a “share” button onto their computer browser toolbar and proceed to share sites with other computer users.
As well as posting favourite links on the Shared Stuff page, the new […]
Facebook Profiles Become Searchable
Facebook announced that it will now allow search engines such as Google and Yahoo to index the profiles of its millions of members.
This controversial news will come as a disappointment to many Facebook users who value their privacy, however Facebook has offered a choice those concerned to disallow search engines from indexing their profiles.
Facebook’s decision to […]