Search Results for 'Social'

New Twitter Features Encourage More Social Interaction

Twitter introduced some new features that allow users to check who liked their posts and also keep track of the activities of people whom they are following. The new features became available starting in August. On a blog post, the San Fr [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Google+ launches games for social networking site

FACEBOOK, the world’s largest Internet social network has acted to boost its games content. The move came on the same day that Google Inc introduced games on its recently-launched social network Google+. Google launched its social n [...]

Posted On : Aug, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Google and Facebook get personal in battle for social networ...

It is one month since the launch of Google+, a belated attempt at a social networking tool that invites users to follow friends' activities in their news feed and share favourite content by marking it "+1". If this sounds fa [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Social media, new technologies help spread hate messages: ri...

Anti-Semitism has gone digital as social media and new technologies provide an easy way to spread hate messages, according to a 2010 audit conducted by a human rights organization. The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada re [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

New technology, social media sites numb face-to-face communi...

Tumblr, blogs, Twitter: These are only a few of the sites that are quickly becoming our society's way of communicating with one another. The idea that we can communicate with others without having to interact with them in person is m [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft unveiled KIN - The social phone

Microsoft unveiled Monday a new line of phones that use the Windows Mobile operating system. The product, called Kin, was designed for young generation which is more into social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo and Orkut [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Yahoo's free email gets more social

Yahoo has began weaving trendy social-networking features into its popular free email service as it vies to be the preferred launching point for Internet surfers. Yahoo says it is providing tools that let people use its email service to bu [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

Yahoo launches iPhone oneConnect for social networking

Yahoo announced Wednesday oneConnect for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, providing users a way to integrate mobile messaging and bring together contacts from a variety of social networks. The capability is available now for free through [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2008 | Comments : 0

Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web

Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with "Friend Connect" on Monday. TechCrunch speculates that Friend Connect will be a set of "APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information f [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Social networks are still too close...

Speaking at IBM's Business Partner Leadership Conference here, Google CEO Eric Schmidt reiterated his position that social networks are still too closed. "If it's not searchable by Google, it's not open, and open is best for the consum [...]