The American Dialect Society, an association that studies the English language announced that late last week that the verb “Google” has been chosen at the top word of the past decade.
Other words up for the Word of the Decade include 9/11, blog, green, wi-fi, text and war on terror but it was search giant’s wide-spread [...]
Hackers were successful in briefly blocking the popular micro-blogging site Twitter early today.
Instead of being able to access the site, users were redirected to a Web site that according to a CNN report, had an image of a green flag and a message that said: “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.”
There [...]
Friends who follow you on Twitter need not go to your Facebook site to see your status updates and other posts – that is when this project pushes through.
According to Malorie Lucich, a Facebook spokeswomen, Facebook has already began testing this week a new feature that will enable posts on the site to automatically be [...]
Its official!
Twitter is set to host “The official developer’s conference” next year to be held in San Francisco.
During the Le Web 09 conference in Paris earlier today, Twitter director of platform Ryan Sarver confirmed the news. Dubbed the “Chirp”, the conference will gather developers that has contributed to the 50,000 applications already registered by Twitter [...]
“Rewritten from the ground up with a fast and powerful new core”, Tweetie has come a long way from its predecessor.
Now, with Version 2.1, developers added support for Twitter’s new retweet, as well as lists and geolocation services.
Version 2.1 also adds support for Twitter’s new spam reporting API, has new video options, option to disable [...]
Today, Microsoft brings in the Xbox Live Fall update which introduces access to social networking sites Twitter and Facebook and internet radio service Last.fm.
With the new Twitter feature, gamers can now post tweets through Xbox Live. Gamers can now also share photos and in-game screenshots , as well as view friends’ updates with the new [...]
If this is not enough proof on the popularity of social networking sites, then I don’t know what is. J
The word “unfriend” was chosen by the New Oxford American Dictionary as the word of the year. It is a verb that means “to remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as [...]
Yes, its confirmed. Microsoft’s newest search engine, Bing, will be bringing real-time search results from Twitter and eventually, Facebook. The announcement was made by search head Qi Lu and senior vice president usuf Mehdi at the Web 2.0 Summit in Francisco held today.
Real time tweets were available in beta from Twitter at Bing.com/twitter starting today. [...]
India’s number one mobile company and the micro-blogging royalty have teamed up to bring “tweets” on India’s mobile phones – even those without wi-fi or data plans.
Announced today, the deal between Twitter and Bharti Airtel will allow users to send tweets at standard SMS rates and receive tweets from their followers for free.
“There are over one [...]
As Facebook continues to grow, MySpace is uhm, doing the opposite, with its share dropping more than half since last year.
According to a report by Experian Hitwise, an Internet monitoring company, Facebook increased its share by more than 190 percent. The No. 1 social network in the U.S. grew from 19 percent in September 2008 [...]
