social networking

Download Windows Live Essentials 2011

Do more with Windows on your PC with free programs fromMicrosoft for photos, movies, instant messaging, email, social networking, and more. Get it all in one simple download. Messenger Stay in touch with the people you care about most from your PC, phone, or the web. Share photos and videos as you chat, and see the latest updates [...]

Digsby Beta (build 85)- IM, Email and Social Networks in one easy to use application!

Digsby Beta (build 85) a freeware program looks a great deal like other popular chat programs, such as AIM. With a skinny rectangular box running along the side of your computer, a prompt to add accounts helps you get started. Digsby promises to help keep chat, e-mail, and social networking conversations in one convenient place. Key Features [...]

Facebookers’ profiles capture true personality

Washington, Dec 2 : People use online social networks such as Facebook to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, says a new research. Psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas at Austin said: “I was surprised by the findings because the widely held assumption is that people are using [...]

Facebook sees ad potential bigger than Google search ads

Facebook’s chief operating officer said the social networking company was targeting a bigger ad market than the search ad market that has made Google Inc rich. Sheryl Sandberg also told a group of high-tech specialists on Thursday that revenues were growing so fast at privately held Facebook that it turned cash positive recently, instead of [...]

New UI for Orkut

Orkut, which is by far India’s largest social networking website, has a huge follower base in distant Brazil too. However, in recent times, Facebook has managed to usurp quite a few of Orkut’s dedicated users – thanks to its UI and features. In fact, over the past few months, Orkut has been seeing a dip [...]

Hacker used Twitter to control network of hundreds of infected PCs

Twitter’s been having a rough couple of weeks. A researcher looking into the attacks that knocked Twitter offline last week discovered another, unrelated security problem. At least one criminal was using a Twitter account to control a network of a couple hundred infected personal computers, mostly in Brazil. Networks of infected PCs are referred to [...]

Britney Spears to sell gifts through Facebook

Pop star Britney Spears will now make money from her online fan base as she has launched a range of online gifts through the social networking website Facebook. Spears, who has more than two million fans on her Facebook page, has endorsed a collection of digital presents which users can send to each other, reported [...]

U.S. tests technology to break foreign Web censorship

The U.S. government is covertly testing technology in China andIran that lets residents break through screens set up by their governments to limit access to news on the Internet. The “feed over email” (FOE) system delivers news, podcasts and data via technology that evades web-screening protocols of restrictive regimes, said Ken Berman, head of IT [...]

AT&T Releases Social Net Application

AT & T today announced the availability of AT & T Social Net, a free mobile social networking application that provides access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and customizable news feeds in a single application. A single carousel menu the user can view and manage their social communities, to communicate and track events in real time, [...]

Get back your original Facebook

Facebook has had enough of the whining and all the synonyms attached to the word whining — as a result of which, the developers of the popular social networking website have decided to give the users just what they want. And what do the users want?   You might want to ask that question to [...]