1. Twitter tightens the screw further on its ecosystem: it’s about to announce its own photo-sharing service. 2. eBay-for-vacation-rentals Airbnb is reportedly raising $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. 3. We learned a bunch of incredible things about Google over the week-end.
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Just days after the INQ Cloud Touch, once called the first official Facebook phone, launched in the U.K., the device passes its first United States debut hurdle: the FCC. Rumors are swirling of a United States launch as soon as late summer, 2011. While no official carrier has been announced, the Android Community speculates AT&T will carry [...]
Facebook appears to be testing a new format for friend request notifications sent to people’s email addresses I got a friend request today and it looked like the image above. Some users whose settings enable the site to email notifications about friend requests will now receive messages with a new layout. New additions include information [...]
Despite reports to the contrary, Google will not launch a new social networking platform called Google Circles at SXSW today, further suggesting that the search giant will launch what we have previously referred to as Google Me in May. A report by ReadWriteWeb suggested that Google Circles will offer photo, video and message sharing, with the [...]
A new report from eMarketer finds that most adult Americans with Internet access use Facebook at least once a month, and a full 42.3% of the entire American population was using the site as of this month. As Facebook continues to solidify its role as the world’s top social networking site, eMarketer estimates that more than [...]
What do all of the major social and business networks have in common. The answer. They all allow users the ability to discover or connect. Humans by their nature are both inquisitive and require the need for community. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs highlights this fact. These are the fundamental building blocks of any relationship and [...]
Well it was just a matter of time! Mashable broke the news first that Skype 5.0 for Windows has just been released with a slew of improvements and feature additions, most significant of which is the inclusion of a Facebook Tab that allows users to SMS, chat or call their Facebook friends via Skype right from [...]
According to an Adage story back in may 2010, Facebook was preparing to roll out their location product. The company was granted early access to the location service thanks to a large ad buy. The social-networking site will give users the ability to post their location within a status update. McDonald’s, through digital agency Tribal DDB, [...]
Whilst doing a quick search on our title I scrolled down to the bottom of the search results and happened to notice something different than the usual search results that I was used to. At the bottom was this: I then clicked on the social circle link and was presented with this page
Compared to user activity on social networking sites last year, Facebook and Twitter posted gains of 69% and 45% respectively in the U.S. Globally, the total minutes spent on social networks monthly saw a more than 100% gain over the same time last year, driving the average time per person spent on social networks to [...]
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