Almost half of all Brit web users post photos, videos on the net

September 10th, 2009 Facebook to let users tag friends in status postsNEW YORK — Facebook will soon let users "tag" their friends in their posts, similar to how they already can with photos. Product manager Andrew Huang said the status tags — coming over the next several weeks — are "all about engagement." He said Facebook wants to let users reference their real-world connections in their status posts.

July 23rd, 2009 ESPN bans NY Post reporters from showsNEW YORK — ESPN has banned staffers from the New York Post from appearing on any of its programming after the newspaper ran photos from the video showing sideline reporter Erin Andrews nude in a hotel room. The Post published three images from the blurry video.

July 23rd, 2009 Facebook is probably one of the fatest growing addictions out there. In Facebook, you are always craving to know what your friends are up to.

July 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Facebook is facing a big image problem after it was revealed that third party advertisers were creating advertisements with users' profile photos without permission. And thus users are feverishly forwarding instructions to prevent their images from being used for advertising.

March 31st, 2009 LONDON - A Brit man is facing divorce after his wife spotted his car parked outside another woman's house, via Google's Street View application. His wife saw the Range Rover using the Internet giant's new Street View service, while she was spying on a female friend's home.

February 2nd, 2009 BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO - Academics and armchair explorers were as of Monday offered a unique insight into the world's seas through a new release of Google Earth, which now also features satellite imagery, photos and videos of the planet's oceans. The 5.0 version of the popular downloadable software was launched in San Francisco.

August 13th, 2009 If MySpace can have a Lite View Version why not Facebook?  In a bid to take on its arch-rival, the Social networking giant rolled out a slimmer version of its web site to the test audience. Facebook Lite is the new face of Facebook targeted at narrowband users.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Music lovers who are addicted to watching online videos on Youtube will not be able to do so anymore as Google has blocked viewings after a dispute over licensing. Google had started blocking UK viewers from watching "premium music videos" from the night of March 9.

October 11th, 2009 LONDON - Here's good news for Twitterati - soon the users of the site may get to upload short video clips on their profiles. Founders of the social networking site Twitter are planning to upgrade the site to allow users to paste live videos on their profile from phones, laptops or other devices.

May 21st, 2009 LONDON - A new research has found that many social networking sites, including Facebook, continue to carry photographs of their users even after they have deleted them. Cambridge University researchers put photos on 16 popular websites, noted the web addresses where the images were stored, and then deleted them.

March 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - More than 1.7 million Facebook users have joined a protest against another redesign of the popular social networking site, in one of the biggest consumer revolts seen in the online world. As of midday Monday, the Facebook group called Petition Against the New Facebook had 1,727,394 disgruntled members, while a Facebook-sponsored poll on the redesign had received more than 1.2 million votes, with just 75,000 approving the new look.

September 12th, 2009 LONDON - Social networking site Facebook has launched a slimmed-down version of its site for people with slow or poor Internet connections, and it is currently available only in India and the US. Facebook's Lite site, which will be faster and simpler because it offers fewer services than the main site, had initially been meant to support users in developing countries, where bandwidth constraints make the current version too slow to use.

March 6th, 2009 In my earlier article I'd informed you on the Facebook updates. For all you Facebook users who love to share your whereabouts on social platforms, I have something more.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit teenage girl is said to have allegedly been gang raped so that she could be "s****** and tagged" on Facebook. Jurors were told that three rapists took snaps of the 18-year-old on a mobile and told her: "You are going to be s****** and tagged on Facebook".

May 26th, 2009 HYDERABAD/MUMBAI - Hyderabad=based Indyarocks.com, the leader in Indian Entertainment based social networking today announced the launch of 16 free premium video Channels in partnership with nautanki.tv an online video distribution platform. The premium video channels can be accessed at http://videos.indyarocks.com.