Tag Archives : Social Networking Sites

When it comes to social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter still rule the top ladder. For many people, these two social networking sites have become almost a part and parcel of their day to day living. Interestingly, Orkut is long forgotten by many . Most of its previous users have deleted their accounts and shifted to Facebook and Twitter. In trying [...]

We are witnessing political protests and uprising in different parts of Middle East. The year 2011 began with an uprising in Tunisia which started with an act of protest of one single man, news of which spread like a wild fire and soon people of Tunisia took to the streets and overthrew the oppressive regime almost overnight. Now the same protests have [...]

There are many link shortening services these days like Bit.ly, TinyURL and many more. It has been found that many have been using these services to shorten the urls and posting it on social networking sites like Twitter which would lead the users to malicious sites. Recently, a security research led by Zscaler Inc, a company that specializes in security [...]

The word unfriend recently garnered the Oxford University Press’ Word of the Year recognition. Adrian Chen of Gawker realized that ‘the Word of the Year is a huge scam.’ He says that the past four winners are ‘all just hacky trend pieces from that year, in lexicographic form.’ To recall, the past four winners for Word of the Year are [...]

With the growth of modern technology, a lot of things have changed over the years. Life has become faster by the minute and there is hardly any time for anything. Internet is one of the best products of modern technology. With the advent of internet, life in the modern world has changed drastically in general. Many internet users prefer e-mails to [...]

The Internet, the network of networks, has revolutionized both human interaction and communication. Today, it is used to share information or to just be connected and stay social. The Internet ‘has drawn more than a billion people online.’ The Internet was conceived as ‘an open source structure not about profit.’ The primordial purpose of the [...]

It isn’t too incomprehensible to naked logic why and how the comfort zone called online world can become hell on earth. After all, the online world has become our virtual parallel universe. One of the most glaring possibilities in the virtual horizon is that your ex becomes your e-stalker, especially after an ugly break up. Your ex-now-stalker can [...]

India has more than 47 million online users, and half of which is very active on social networking sites like Facebook or Orkut. However, so far, Orkut had dominated the market share in India. This may not last for all that long though. The Google owned networking site saw a huge drop in its customer base from 16.95 million in June to 14.7 million in [...]

When it comes to social networking sites, no site has received as much popularity or has come under as much criticism as Facebook. With Facebook being blocked from office computer and even some countries, it seems that anyone would be insulted just for being associated with Facebook in some way. Recently, Facebook users received a nasty shock when it [...]

If you are a blogger, you would know how important widgets are to personalize your page, and also to let people know what you believe in and what your interests are. SealTale is a start up which is participating in TechCrunch50, and aims to tap this growing need for widgets. Bloggers can pick “seals” which allow the user to let the visitors [...]