Facebook, the world leader in social networking sites, won a major patent for the news distribution services in social networks known as ‘feed.’ The award is described as “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network.” With this new patent that was first requested in 2006, Facebook can now run after [...]

Yes, there’s more to Facebook than FarmVille. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn may just be your passport in landing that great job of your dreams. David Grant shares to us some invaluable social media tips in The Christian Science Monitor.
Firstly, get off that Mafia Wars and quit that 15th photo album on the last time you [...]

Surprising common sense and putting it in check survey in 2006, a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that people who use the internet and have a cell phone has a bigger and more diverse social network.
According to the study, the isolation rate of U.S. citizens remains the same in 1985: [...]

The recent economic downturn that has plagued almost every sector of the international economy, hasn’t quite been able to deter start up companies from acquiring venture capital, especially in the field of information and technology.
One of the primary investors of world’s leading websites such as, Facebook and LinkedIn, Greylock Partners has announced that, it has [...]

Your contacts included in social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, or part of your address book from Gmail or Outlook can serve as a means of PeopleMaps to indicate the connections that lead to unknown professional or a large company.
Created by the 7 Degrees, the PeopleMaps requests access to the User Account on Facebook, LinkedIn, [...]

A study released by The Pew Internet consulting for the American Life Project on Thursday (21/10) indicates that 19% of Americans are enrolled in services such as Twitter, which allow readers to post messages that indicate thoughts, emotional states or activities as a result, calls online status.
The number is nearly double the 11% recorded in [...]

The social network LinkedIn focused in professionals announced that now has 50 million users in the world.
In a post in the official blog, CEO Jeff Weiner detached the participation of India as one of the reasons for the ascension of the site. In a small period of time, he says, the country almost [...]

It’s surely the world of social networking. The latest one to join this zone is Radiusly, a new service that launched today at the TechCrunch50. Interestingly, Radiusly wants to merge its service with Twitter and present it in a more professional setting. No doubts that LinkedIn and Facebook are already way too popular but they [...]

Getting a job during the times of recession is difficult for everyone but these times are especially hard upon those individuals who don’t have much prior experience in their fields of choice. Fresh graduates or those attempting to change fields of work would find that it is nigh impossible to get a job.
There are several [...]

There are many avid users of Facebook like me and it looks like the social networking site will soon be more popular than MySpace in the US too. Facebook is hugely popular in the UK and MySpace has held the top position in the US. Facebook saw a surge of 47.5 million US based visitors [...]