Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Twitter Announce @Anywhere Platform

Twitter announced on Monday that it is releasing a new platform that will make it a lot easier for websites to integrate Twitter features. (more…)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Google Admits To Buzz Testing Flaw

Google have come clean about the flaws in its testing of Google Buzz before releasing it last week. (more…)

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Google Acquire Aardvark For $50 Million

Google’s crusade into social search appears to have taken another step as it acquires Aardvark for a reported $50 million. (more…)

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Mobile Will Be Key To Google Buzz Success

Google took a big step into the realms of social networking on Tuesday when it announced its new product Google Buzz leading many to talks about it being a potential Twitter killer and a threat to Facebook. (more…)

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Spam Via Social Networking Sites Increases By 70 Precent

Spam and malware on social networking sites has risen by 70% according to a report from IT security and data protection firm Sophos. The report has found that criminals targeting social networking users have risen considerably over the year with 57% of users reporting that they have been spammed and 36% reporting that they have been sent malware. (more…)

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Twitter Adds Local Trending Feature

Twitter has improved the relevancy of its trending topics by adding a new feature that allows you to see local trends. The new feature currently allows you to select geographic regions which include a handful of countries including the UK and Ireland and some major cities including London. Twitter states that they are “working on” increasing the locations on offer so eventually we will get a much more comprehensive list. (more…)

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Twitter To Release Usernames From Neglected Accounts

According to The Next Web, Twitter is planning to release neglected usernames from inactive accounts so that other users can have them. (more…)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Yahoo To Close MyBlogLog In January

According to reports from ReadWriteWeb Yahoo is to close MyBlogLog in January after 5 years.

An innovative social networking tool in its time MyBlogLog allowed users create blogging communities with the blogs they write for and own. Members of MyBlogLog were then able to subscribe to these communities and share bookmarks with other members. (more…)

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