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“After Facebook released v1.1 of their iPhone application, they promised that a bigger, badder v2.0 was in the works for September. They cut it pretty close, but they’ve kept their word. Just a few hours ago, the second major release of the Facebook application hit the App Store, bearing a whole new user interface and [...]

Dinosaurs did Extinct, So can Yahoo!

Posted by: Siwal on: February 2, 2008

Microsoft and Yahoo! have been struggling ,as we all know, to monetize the real estate of the Internet World, i.e the Page Views. Where Microsoft lost about 250M$ in the online business last quarter, Yahoo also suffered a 23% drop in their net earnings in the same quarter. It’s not that these giants don’t [...]

Chirp: Small Idea,Big names?

Posted by: Siwal on: January 24, 2008

Well nothing great about this start up. Remember those days when all you really did on your computer was to download a few cool screen savers,wallpapers and just made sure you dont fall asleep while browsing through clicks after clicks of junk…..
Chirp just add’s the facebook and flicker feeds into your screensavers and hence gives [...]

More Controversy around Facebook

Posted by: Siwal on: January 24, 2008

Facebook is no stranger to the complaints of privacy activists. First, it was the site’s News Feed feature back in 2006. Most recently, the company’s Beacon service drew widespread criticism. This blog post will outline yet another major privacy issue, in which Facebook recklessly exposes user data.
Facebook launched its widely popular application developer program back [...]

Facebook goes International Finally

Posted by: Siwal on: January 24, 2008

As has been long expected, Facebook has begun to work on making its service available in multiple languages as it expands internationally–and it’s doing so by utilizing the power of its millions of users by enlisting them to volunteer a few minutes. The site has spent the past few weeks asking international users to participate [...]

Scrabulous debate may rewrite the rules of the game

Posted by: Siwal on: January 18, 2008

as reported on news.com 
“I’ll go on a hunger strike!”
So said one adamant Facebook user in the wake of the news that game manufacturers Hasbro and Mattel were trying to do something about the wildly popular, unquestionably addictive online game known as Scrabulous.
The game, which rose to fame when its creators turned it into an embeddable [...]

We ‘ve all been reading a lot about the latest in the Social Networking Space(SNS) facebook, myspace etc etc ….But what’s keeping the Chinese busy…. especially when almost every 5th Chinese has access internet, a staggering 200Mill number of internet users……..
Here’s a detailed analysis (post on readwriteweb.com,covering the latest report from China Internet Networking Information [...]

Myspace working on a gaming portal

Posted by: Siwal on: January 15, 2008

Looks like MySpace is working on a gaming portal. The URL for this page is games.myspace.com. This could be a hit if the games are less like the ones you can find on other casual game destinations (Yahoo Games, for example) and more like Facebook app games with a stronger social component to them. Social [...]

MySpace- chilly days ahead…..page views drop(Dec,07)

Posted by: Siwal on: January 15, 2008

MySpace’s growth may have peaked. Annual page views for the social network fell 7 percent from December of 2006 to the same month in 2007, according to the latest site rankings from comScore — the first time the site’s page views have declined year-over-year. And MySpace saw a 9 percent decline in page views [...]

Below is Mark Zuckerberg’s(Mr. Facebook) blog entry on facebook official blog taking full resp of the big mistake facebook made by Launching Beacon as an Opt-out feature……
For all those wondering what apology, Beacon was Facebook’s path to the holy grail i.e. the world of targeted social ad’s and recommendations…….. which went horribly wrong when users [...]