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We all know that everybody is jumping into the bandwagon of using the internet all over the globe, be it for fun on social sites like Facebook which by the way grew more than 400million users, or be it for “Googling” information they need.   Below is a remarkable video by Jesse Thomas portraying the state of the internet how sites grew up and where are we headed… JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on READ MORE...

So are are fed up with the over mass of your social media life? Especially on Facebook? Social networking makes you want to end it all? You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website that helps your social identity but with honor using the “anti-social network” Seppukoo. Something similar but totally Anti social unlike Facebook, offering users the ritual end of you VIRTUAL SOCIAL LIFE, giving you a fabulous RIP page as READ MORE...

As people engage within online social media more and more, Facebook is trying to give users more privacy over their data. Facebook is rolling out the changes they announced on December 1st. Now when posting anything before sharing, you can select options that are: “Friends, Friends of Friends, Everyone and Customized.” so that you can control who sees what of your content. Mostly people get confused over where to set privacy filters on READ MORE...

Twitter has really become a phenomena for all of us. Everyone uses it everywhere to update status, promote products or even send messages along loved ones. But would you, on your day of your wedding, before saying the “I do”, tweet out to the world about your present status of standing at the altar and getting married? Well this couple doesn’t mind so, and it’s so unbelievably awesome and romantic that, I believe that really social media READ MORE...

Facebook has been playing with its privacy policy for a little while. Now that facebook has over 350million users worldwide and expanding, many users have different privacy needs. Looking into that you might notice today when you logged into your facebook accounts, a personal letter from the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people READ MORE...

Last month, our favorite social networking site, Facebook, revamped its UI just to get more functionality rolled out as it prepares to take on twitter for live updates search. But it seems like facebook is doing more than what it just did last month to give more power to it’s users. Here are our top 3 observations about the upcoming Facebook homepage redesign, along with screenshots:   1. All menus go on the right hand side 2. Search Comes READ MORE...

Is this really the Google we know? Gmail having problems since the past 7 months, then Google Apps, and now recently the newly announced Google social search to compete with the Microsoft Bing/Facebook/Twitter search deal is also down. Google gave a response with an email to Tech Social news publisher, Mashable: The Google Social Search experiment is temporarily down. We are working on it and expect to restore access sometime Monday or Tuesday I READ MORE...

Microsoft on Monday as part of their ongoing collaboration with Facebook, released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (http://www.microsoft.com/facebooksdk), enabling use of Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in conjunction with the Facebook social platform.       The toolkit is comprised of the following core assemblies:   [caption READ MORE...

  Microsoft’s web portal MSN.com has been given an extensive makeover for the first time in almost ten years. The new, revamped MSN homepage is now live. The new MSN butterfly represents a fresh new approach for MSN and is the cornerstone of the new design.   MSN’s new look based on cleaner lines, a focus on select verticals, and easier user configuration along with a new logo. The new home page provides easier access to powerful Bing READ MORE...

  Well every website/blog owner wants maximum user base to the site content. We all try social awareness via messaging our friends on Facebook and twitter, but clearly that not enough. What if now your website was automatically “Grazed” or you may call it scanned and was submitted to Graze directories and people looking for content get directed to your website without having you to do the hard work. Sounds interesting?   The Technology READ MORE...

Many Facebook users are getting FAKE emails to confirm their Facebook account Password reset, but originally the email is a dangerous piece of malware. The malicious executable is linked to the Bredolab botnet, which has been linked to massive spam runs and identity-theft related attacks. Below is a sample of the Facebook password-reset messages hitting e-mail inboxes this morning:   You might see the “support@facebook.com,” email address, a READ MORE...

  Who doesn’t want world peace and what better way to promote and support it than social networking. peace.Facebook.com is a new incentive started by Facebook today that makes it spread the notion of world peace. This portal ask users to Facebook is proud to play a part in promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other. By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their READ MORE...

Now this is something hot in the tech world. The world largest and by far the most popular social networking site “Facebook” and the social network it took down “MySpace” are sitting down in talks according to The Telgraph, where music and video content published to MySpace could easily be shared on Facebook via Facebook Connect.   I am sure “Mark Zukerberg” must be smiling down under. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg tells The Telegraph READ MORE...

There is a lot of content on the web from blogs to wikis to tweets but organization and search from a single platform is cumbersome. Google has just released an experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search that helps you find more relevant public content from your broader social circle.   Now with Social Search, Google finds relevant public content from your friends and contacts and highlights it for you at the bottom of your search READ MORE...

            Content sharing from sites like the technology cafe was a pain using the old Facebook share widget. But today Facebook has made the sharing experience on Facebook and off even richer by launching the next version of Facebook Share, with a live counter, as well as new ways to measure how content is being shared on Facebook.   Enabling Users to Share Content More Easily Now you can share articles READ MORE...

I being amid blogger and a reader go do different sites everyday, and one of my destinations is www.cnn.com . Today CNN has released its new customized, more modular, more streamlined and call it a more social design website. And the verdict : I Love it. Lets take a look. The news is much more streamlined into proper categories and I really like the section for its segments, that is really merging the web and the TV together. Besides that the site has READ MORE...

  A news surprise from Facebook just came as I logged into my account that the status updates are now turning into News Feeds for You and your friends, that in reality is the part of the new updated homepage by facebook  that makes  ‘Highlights’ section into the News Feed. You now have the Live Feed, that in real-time displays your contact updates, and the News Feed, which keeps most favorite, liked and top content on the feed so READ MORE...

  As we cover the event of Windows 7 launch today, we would like to tell you that, just yesterday Microsoft inked a deal with Twitter and facebook, with its Bing search engine. The deal now incorporates tweets and facebook status updates from public profiles and thus makes the search engine battle more fierce between Google and Microsoft. Today at the  Web 2.0 Bing announced that working with those clever birds over at Twitter, they now have READ MORE...

      Adding Facebook connect to a webpage was so hard for any amateur since Facebook launched it last year. But to expand it’s social presence, but now you can add Facebook connect to your website in just a minute or so using the new Facebook Connect Wizard and Playground. You can now incorporate Facebook Connect into your site in 3 easy steps. The process is simple. First, you enter the name of your site and its URL. Then Facebook READ MORE...